Bye Bye Birdie

The school's musical production of Bye Bye Birdie was a rollercoaster. For those unfamiliar with the show it is a satire inspired by Elvis Presley's draft notice. I was cast as one of the leads, Kim MacAfee. The lucky girl who is chosen to be kissed by Conrad Birdie. I was really paranoid about the show this year. As most of you know I broke my foot back in January. It was very devastating for me. Luckily my director refused to recast me, to the dismay of many of my peers ;P. My biggest worry was not being able to learn all the choreography in time. I think Idrove mom crazywill my constant worrying and mood-swings. She and Ry were troopers for putting up with me and helping me while I was imobile. In the end it all truned out fine. The show was a success despite all the little bumps along the way.

Heres some pictures fron the show and rehearsals
The MacAfee Family

Leads Albert and Rosie

Pledging our love to Conrad Birdie

I'm supposed to be in shock over the fact that I get to kiss Conrad but it

looks like I'm praying

I had to get dressed on stage for one of my numbers, it was kind

of tricky

this picture came out really blurry but it looks almost like a painting

Fainting over Conrad Birdie

This number was one of my favorites, even though the director changed the

choreography for it two days before we opened.

It was fun, but I'm glad its over. And thanks to those of you who were able to come and see me. I really appreciate it.

-Sierra

Poor Sierra

Poor Sierra, last Saturday she went to work at McDonalds. They have them park in the lot next door. She was rushing through the drive thru lanes and slipped and fell. She broke her right ankle. This is the same foot she fractured in Junior High, only in a different spot. She has been very sad because she has a lead in the musical the second week of March. They've decided to keep her in the play and if everything goes ok she'll get her cast off five days before the play starts. She's worried about learning all the dance steps, but I'm sure she can do it.

Ryan went on a scout camp out this weekend. There was about a foot and a half of snow and they did some cross country skiing. He said it was the funnest campout so far. He even managed to stay warm this time.

Christmas 2010

Yes, it's only the day after Christmas and I am already blogging! Miracles do still happen! It was a quiet, but lovely Christmas and everyone was happy.

This is at Ryan's school, after his choir program. I took a couple of videos, but they didn't turn out very well. He did a good job though.

We managed to get a couple of great pictures of Grandma Medellin smiling! Good photography Tanae. That fast camera is paying off! We were so glad to have Grandma stay with us for a couple of days.

On Christmas Eve, we had a lovely dinner, then played the White Elephant game and opened the presents that Tina brought over. Sorry, we didn't end up with any pictures of Tina on Christmas Eve.

Christmas Morning was a big hit! Ryan woke up about 4a.m. but had instructions not to call me till 7:30. I finally took pitty on him and got up at 7:15. The happy smile below is seeing that we had in fact received a Wii from Santa.

I had a friend of mine paint a canvas of the Star Wars Death Star for Ryan's wall. He loves it, however he spotted a snow rover in space, oops my bad.

Sierra got a guitar, so she can take lessons and learn to accompany herself.

Tanae is ready for the snow in Rexburg!

I am a sleepy mess, but happy with my fun gifts!

Even Jenny got to celebrate Christmas and was very excited to immediately go out and bury them!

We are so thankful for the many blessings we have this Christmas Season, especially for the spirit of service and love the birth of our Savior brings at this time of year. I'm very thankful for all of my family, I love and appreciate you more than you will ever know!

November's a little late

The second week of Nov. was a beautiful 70 degrees. Ryan and I dejunked his room so I could paint it. He'd been wanting to have a lemonade stand, so I told him if he sold the old toys he'd outgrown he could keep the money. That got him excited and by 1:00 on Saturday he had things sorted and ready to sell. He went down the street and set up his stand where I could see him through the window while I was painting. The poor kid sat there for 3 hours without a sale. I walked over and bought a soda from him and asked if he wanted to give up? He said he'd try another hour. Soon, he made a couple of sales, then some neighborhood friends came by. Ryan offered this cute little guy a dollar if he'd hold up the sign and dance around as cars went by! In that last hour he made $30.00. Donald Trump may have some competition!

Yea, we finally got the Thanksgiving pictures up so we'll be able to move on to Christmas. No one actually got pictures of the Thanksgiving feast, but these were some pretty good leftovers!

We had a snowy, but fun Thanksgiving. It was great to have Nick & Janine's family, Tiff & Cody's family, Grandma, Tina, Tanae, & Paul (Janine's brother) join us.

Tea can't believe mommy let her have a turkey cupcake:)

Joel deciding whether he likes Uncle Ryan.

The kids painted some great pictures.

The best part of vacation for Tanae and Sierra is always a nap!

Tea knows she loves uncle Ryan.

Danica modeling her new hat.

Reid always gives great hugs!!

Joel is so squeezeable!

The kids were so happy to play with their cousins!

Thanks for all the fun guys. Sorry the roads were such a mess this year. We really missed everyone who couldn't make it!

Halloween 2010

I thought I had been taking a lot of pictures lately, but when we looked for pictures to update our blog, I mostly had preschool pictures. I'll try to do better.

I luckily had a few of our Halloween pictures. Sierra and Ryan carved some cute Ghost and Spider pumpkins. We had a fun Trunk or Treat and dinner at our Park on Saturday. Then Ryan and a friend went around the neighborhoods for a couple of hours. It's the first time in over 35 years that I didn't have to take a child out Trick or Treating, WOW! I have to say, I really enjoyed staying home and giving candy to all the cute kids in their costumes.