Drum Line

On April 9, I followed Rhiannon's drum line bus down to Palmdale for a competition.  Rhiannon spent a couple hours every week the past few months with this group and had a really great experience with it.  Here's a video of their performance that day.  I thoroughly enjoyed it, though the kids sure were hard on themselves afterwards.  I guess it's true that we are our own worst critic.  We're proud of Rhiannon for joining this extracurricular group and happy that she had such a fun time doing it!

This makes my heart sing.

Boys.  On their way to last night's General Conference priesthood session (Wade's first time).

They enjoyed it and got Jack-in-the-Box for dinner afterwards.

About an hour later, I got a text from a friend about Wade.  We are happy parents!

Fun on a Friday night, plus fun random pictures from the last week

Hard to believe that 3 months have already gone by in 2016!!!

It's been a fun April Fool's Day!  Rhiannon has been the champion--she put stuff in Wade's shoes, colored the milk in the fridge blue, put salt in our water glasses, and faked injuries at school.  She has enjoyed every minute of it, haha!  Wade hid some of Rhiannon's books.  Jason tried to trick me into thinking he was drunk, hanging out with co-workers after work today, and I tricked Wade pretty great at 5:50 am when I told him that his teacher had emailed me and said he didn't have to do a large class project because his grade was so high...I felt a little guilty about that one!

Right now both kids have friends over.  Wade is playing video games with Tucker in one room, and Rhiannon and Sierra are watching Napoleon Dynamite in another.  It's fun to listen to them all laughing!

Tomorrow Rhiannon will be gone most of the day to a drum line competition, and the rest of us don't have much going on besides watching General Conference (which I am really looking forward to!).

Here are some other random pictures of goings-on the last couple weeks:

Rhiannon took a bunch of funny pictures on my phone--loved it!

Easter Sunday!

  

On Tuesday (after a VERY windy Monday) I joined friend Megan Hall and her son Daniel up at the new walking path up to the college.  We had a blast and got over 4 miles in!

Wade had a local band festival on Wednesday night.  He did a great job and had fun with it!

Rhiannon had SOOO much fun with the high school's Spirit Days this week.  Her favorite was the Comic-Con day!  Here she is with her friend Katie Johnson, who was a Dr. Who weeping angel!

We love The Flash!

  

Without pre-planning, Rhiannon and one of her really good buddies (friends since kindergarten!) Jacob Kelley both represented Flash that day.  Too funny!

The Insectasaurus hat is still around.  She wore this and a bunch of other crazy stuff for "What in the World?" Day!



Finally, here are some videos from Wade's band festival!  He's in the back, towards the right, playing on the mallets.