Hold on to your butts

This morning I was driving the kids to school and as usual we were crossing our busy street and I hollered out "Hold on to your butts!" (yes, I say this quite often when we cross our street. It's from 'Jurassic Park', for those of you that wanted to know). Pretty soon Izzy piped up in the back:

I: "I held on to my butts, mom!"
M: "Your butts?"
I: "Yep! All two of them!"

Later on I was sorting the laundry and she saw the toliet plunger and wanted to play with it.

I: "Can I play with that and pop things?"
M: "Um... no, we don't play with the toliet plunger. That's gross."
I: "Well, I'll just have to get my own at the store and then I can pop things."

'Wicked' was... Wicked!

Last week I got to go to "Wicked" with Wade! It was so awesome and I was planning on blogging about it the very next day, but had to wait until SOMEONE (who shall remain nameless) downloaded the pictures from his phone onto the computer. Sorry, that's the only camera we had with us so the pics are probably not all that great. Nonetheless, I intend to share with you. :)

Wade surprised me at Christmas with tickets (Aack! How great is that?) that he'd gotten from his cousin Rob (THANKS ROB!!). When we found our seats we were SIXTEEN rows from the stage!! SIXTEEN!! I think the closest I've ever sat to the stage at Capitol Theatre is WAY up in the balcony somewhere. It was incredible! I can't go on enough about how amazing the show was, and if you get me started, you'll be sorry. :P So I'll give you the highlights- Glinda (Galinda- with a 'Ga' haha) was incredible. She had so much energy and was ping-ponging all over the stage. I've made it a goal to be that energetic in the next character I play. I came out with a whole new respect for the song "Popular"- I've played it at a million auditions and heard it sung by countless teenagers and had gotten tired of the song. Watching it actually being performed was amazing. Fiyero (the male lead; handsome prince if you will) was dashing and swanky and everyone fell in love with him immediately. Until he sang. OH MY LANDS!! His tenor notes literally had me melting in my seat. WOW. But the best part was when Elphaba (the 'wicked' witch) walked out onto the stage and the audience went nutz. I got a big lump in my throat and started to cry- I was so excited that I was finally there! The music was incredible, the costumes and special effects were fabulous and the story itself was so touching- I of course was crying at the end. Wade was like 'sheesh, can't take you anywhere without you crying at the end' Hahaha :) All in all, a wonderful, music-filled night that re-inspired me and energized me to keep doing shows. What a great experience! Thanks for a fun night Wader! Love ya!

Escaping bird and exploding dough

Today was one of those days. Lol I was on the computer this morning and heard the flapping of wings. Not a big surprise, since we have two parakeets. The surprise was that the flapping noise was coming from the hallway. No, I don't keep the birds in the hallway, silly. I walked into the hallway and there on the floor sat my yellow parakeet, Sparkle. Recently she has become our little Houdini. Fortunately she's very tame and I was able to pick her up and get her back home. :)

Later on in the day I was fixing dinner and wanted to make some crescent rolls. No, I do not make them from scratch. Dough scares me and so I totally get them out of the can. I'm ok with this and Wade has learned to live with it. I had unwrapped the thing (can? canister? tube?) and was banging it against the counter to get it to open. Clearly there was too much pressure cuz it exploded and dough went shooting everywhere! Across the kitchen, all over the counter and floor, even in my hair. Sadly, no crescent rolls for dinner. :}

We wrapped up the day by playing outside and having Family Home Evening on the trampoline. I even jumped for about an hour with the kids without peeing my pants! Quite the accomplishment, wouldn't you say?

Easter eggstravaganza

The age-old process of Family Home Evening Fun involving coloring Easter eggs. Izzy's pretty much done, don't ya think?

The Easter bunny hid egg-shaped gumballs all over the family room. I didn't know kids could get so excited over gum. Lol

This is the annual Easter egg hunt on the Page side, usually held at Wade's sister's house in Paradise, Utah. This is most of the cousins. I think we were missing nine kids.

Izzy getting help from cousin Maicee. :)

Now you can see why we do this at Cathy's. Look at that gorgeous view!

Ethan's hat hair. Nice. :)

Easter Sunday finery and goofing-off apparently. Don't they look fab?

Egg hunt at Great-grandma Rosie's with my sister's little boy Brock. What a beautiful day for an egg hunt!

Salt Lake fun

The last couple of days of Spring Break Wade took off of work and we went to Salt Lake and played a little. We went to the Clark Planetarium and saw the 3D "Under the Sea" movie, and bought season passes. Now we can head down and see any IMAX movie or Laser Show in the Dome for free (Laser Pink Floyd and U2! I'm so there!)! How awesome is that? We walked around Gateway, rode Trax and played at the Church Museum (my kids seriously love it there!). We went on a tour to Mrs. Cavanaugh's chocolates and got free samples, :) and had lunch one day at the Harmon's in Brickyard Plaza (not really a highlight). We visited with some friends that Wade knew on his mission in the Philippines, the kids made new friends, and we toured just about every bathroom on the Wasatch Front! All in all, it was a fun weekend. Here's a couple of pics to share. :)



Waiting for the trax train. I'm not really sure what Ethan is doing. Lol



Wearing 3D glasses and getting ready for the "Under the Sea" adventure!

My kids on the moon and on Mars (they felt right at home! :P). I didn't know balloons would float on Mars, but I've never actually been there.

Visiting with Roque (pronounced Rocky) and Amalia Lumacad. They lived in the Philippines when Wade was there on his mission and Roque was the branch president. Wade baptized Roque's brother. Roque and Amalia have 13 children, one of which lives Utah, all the rest live in the Philippines. She has three children and is waiting for her husband to obtain his visa so he can move here too! The kids were so cute together- they were total strangers and yet within minutes were running around laughing and playing. What a great family!

Bicycle!

Sacrament meeting in church with Isabelle is a kicker every week. Today was no different. She and I were quietly looking at a book (I was being quiet. The people sitting in front of us may beg to differ whether or not she was quiet) and it was an abc/first picture dictionary book. I pointed to a picture of a bicycle and said "Bicycle starts with B". Isabelle decided that repeating what I had said was not enough for her and started SINGING in her not quiet enough for sacrament meeting voice, "I want to ride my bicycle, I want to ride my bike.... I want to ride my Bi-CYcle, I want to ride it; BI-cycle, BI-cyle!!" (a song by Queen, yes.) To Tara and Preston who were sitting in front of us, I sincerely apologize. :)

Wild and crazy!

Oh my lands what a crazy couple of weeks it's been! I thought I'd just update a little all the stuff that's been going on!

Ethan was inducted into Scouts! I became a true mom when I gallantly sewed his patches on his Scout Uniform. Please don't look too closely- the sewing machine got away from me a little. :) Just admire from a far.

On Sunday (the 29th) Ethan turned the big 8!! (where does the time go??) It snowed all day on his birthday and so we blamed it on him cuz it snowed all day the day he was born. Hehe :) His favorite present by far was the Darth Vadar's ship Lego set. Mainly cuz he picked it out at the store. Yes, I had to force myself not to help him put the whole thing together.

Monday morning San Francisco 49er's football player Alex Smith came to the kid's school for an assembly. Lots of excitement and I'm sure nothing got done in any of the classrooms for the whole day. Some of the kids got to ask questions during the assembly and Abby was one of them! She asked him "What's your favorite book?" Haha- of course, only MY kid would ask a question like that! He gave her a t-shirt and she got him to sign it! The great part about it is, I think it'll even fit me! HAHA

Monday night all the kids were in bed (supposedly), I was running on the treadmill, and Wade was upstairs working on something or another. Suddenly I hear kids yelling "MOM! MOM!" over Rascal Flatts blasting in my ears. Apparently instead of being in bed, Abby and Ethan were both in the bathroom pulling out VERY loose teeth!! The kicker was that they were the same exact tooth- just on opposite sides!

Sometime during the week Wade caught this on camera. Yes, that's my three-year-old Isabelle in a doll-bed.

And to top it all off- yesterday in class I learned how to take radial pulses and blood pressures, along with a myriad of other vitals. They even gave me my first stethoscope! I'm sure that means that I can save someone's life now. Or at least look like I can. :)