Ladybugs & Stinkbugs

Annie has an upcoming ballet recital she is preparing for, so her teacher let me go to her class (classes are usually closed curtain) to video their routine so she could practice. She is doing so well! She seems to have natural form and posture, and she just loves it.



There are a couple of other videos of her ballet practice here if you want to check them out.

Mom was sick on Andrew's birthday. She was very disappointed that she didn't get to make it to his party. She also missed Maddi's birthday, so she decided to have a special "Granny" party for both of them.

They had a BAWL. They got to jump in a Jumpolene, play Pin the Nose on the Clown, and just in general made lots of noise! =)







See all of them, and the Opening of the Presents, Here.

A helicopter was flying around above Seattle when an electrical malfunction disabled all of the aircraft's electronic navigation and communications equipment.

Due to the clouds and haze, the pilot could not determine the helicopter's position. The pilot saw a tall building, flew toward it, circled, and held up a handwritten sign that said "WHERE AM I?" in large letters. People in the tall building quickly responded to the aircraft, drew a large sign, and held it in a building window. Their sign said "YOU ARE IN A HELICOPTER."

The pilot smiled, waved, looked at his map, determined the course to steer to SEATAC airport, and landed safely. After they were on the ground, the copilot asked the pilot how he had done it.

"I knew it had to be the Microsoft Building, because they gave me a technically correct but completely useless answer."

I'm no longer sick!!! Yeah!! I know because I can swallow without feeling like I'm swallowing needles. Strep throat is NOT fun.

On a (somewhat) better note as well, Mom is improving. She has spent the week in bed with Strep, Pneumonia AND bronchitis! Not a fun way to spend your time, trust me. But she's doing better today - actually made it down the stairs and made coffee! Of course, that was it for the rest of the day, but that's an improvement.

We are getting ready for two performances at church: Children's Musical "Livin' Inside Out in an Upside Down World" and our adult Spring musical "Lift Up Your Eyes". Both are a lot of work, but also a lot of fun (so far). We'll perform the adult musical at three venues: our church, the prison, and the Salvation Army. The children will NOT go to the prison...lol. =) They will perform for our church. Matthew's very excited because this is the first musical he gets to be in (the WHOLE THING), and he has one acting part. Annie's choir class will perform the first song with us. Hopefully I'll be able to upload some video. =)

I'm sick, and don't feel like writing a whole lot, but I wanted to get pictures of Andrew's birthday up.





(Incidentally, these collages were done with an awesome photo editing product I have downloaed: Paint.net - bonus: it's free!)

Here's the rest of the pictures.