Wicked!

Last year, I played the Wicked soundtrack on a trip with the girl scouts and one of the girls fell in love with it. We found out that Wicked was coming to Birmingham, so we thought it would be fun to take our few girl scouts to the musical. We had a fun day! We left early enough to get lunch before the show. The girls loved the musical..as did I. Beth says it was awesome. Unfortunately, Beth didn't look too good at intermission and she complained that she had a sore throat. (She had told me that morning that her throat hurt but I just thought it was drainage from the night before. (Bad Mommy)) For the rest of the play, she snuggled up to me. We made it home and made sure that she had medicine to feel a little better until we could get her to a doctor today. Of course she has strep throat. I am grateful...we have gone almost an entire year without a strep infection for her! I do feel terrible about all the people that she could have infected. :(

Easter

We had a fun Easter celebration this year. When we are in town, we go to Mickey's Aunt Ann's house. There is an abundance of food and fun. The kids have a great time at the Easter egg hunt. We had a fantastic time!

On Sunday, we headed to church where I sang with the ward choir and heard some wonderful talks/testimonies about the life of Christ and His resurrection. How grateful I am for this time of year! We love this time to remember what our Savior has done for us. He has made it possible for us to return to live with our Heavenly Father one day. It is important to us that the kids know the real meaning of Easter. I don't know why but I am always amazed at their gospel knowledge. As we were quizzing them at dinner, they rattled off what Easter meant to them. Oh they make me so proud! I hope you all had a wonderful Easter.

After church.

Crazy Weather Day

On Friday we had some exciting weather in the South. I had gone to visit my friend at the hospital. I knew that there was some bad weather coming but the kids didn't have an early dismissal from school so I thought it would be okay. As I got closer to the school, I realized I just needed to get home and pick up the kids when the storm passed. Emma and I got home during the first hail storm. It was amazing. I didn't take a picture of the hail but we had about quarter sized hail. We had about 4 sessions of hail and watched it pile on the trampoline. My friend called to make sure that all was well out here and just as we were talking, I saw the trampoline fly up towards the house. I quickly got Emma in the closet and prepared for whatever was going on outside. A little more hail and the storm passed. I went outside to find the trampoline and couldn't find it. I thought it was on the roof or in the front yard but it was no where to be found. I packed Emma in the car to pick up the older kids and finally found the trampoline. It had flown over the house, across the street and landed atop a fence at the back of the neighbor's property line. I am grateful that no one was injured and that it avoided anyone's property. I definitely feel blessed. Of course the kids are sad that the trampoline is ruined...I don't know if I feel the same way. :)

Jacob's Opening Day

Jacob chose to play baseball again this year. I hope for a fun season for him this year. We went to the Opening Day festivities and got to cheer Jacob at the exhibition game. (We were rained out last year.)

Beth's Piano Solo

Beth amazes me. Her 4th grade from school was assigned to sing at the PTO meeting. The music teacher asked for volunteers to sing a solo or play an instrumental solo. She tried out for a piano solo and got accepted. She wanted to play her piece called Largo from the New World Symphony. Mickey and I were so proud of her. I think she get her nerves of steel from her dad!
As a warning, she started before I was ready, but I only missed a few notes.