Wicked, the musical

Saturday afternoon I was lucky enough to go and see the broadway musical WICKED. I just love the name. :) This is the best way I can describe the musical, it is the untold story of the wicked witch of the west and Glinda the good witch. Definitely a fun musical. It's bright, bold, colorful, and full of great music. Since we went to a matinee showing, they had 2 of the understudies performing, but they were fantastic, makes me wonder how good the original cast memeber would have been. Honestly, my favorite character to watch was Glinda the good witch. She was hilarious. Now you may be wondering how I got tickets?! I've been hearing from friends that they were really hard to come by in this city. Well, I'm lucky enough that my mom still gets her season tickets to the musicals at Capitol Theatre. AND my mom didn't get back from her honeymoon in St Lucia in time to go see it herself. So, she called me a couple weeks before and asked if I wanted 2 tickets. I've always wanted to see this musical, so how could I refuse? :) The book, Wicked, by Gregory Maguire, in comparison is COMPLETELY different. I read the book a few years ago and it's a very interesting tale of the Wicked Witch, Elphaba. Probably not my favorite book, but if you liked the musical and want to know what his story is really about, then you should at least try to read it. Just as a warning, the musical is a very feel good, happy play in comparison to the book. :) They are similar at some points, but sooo much of the story is untold, and I think more interesting.

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince Trailer

I'm not sure how long this trailer has been out, but I just watched it this morning. Almost makes me want to read the book again, but I know if I do read the book right before I watch the movie, then I'll HATE the movie. So I'm going to wait until after I watch the movie to reread the book. I tend to actually enjoy the Harry Potter movies as long as I wait to reread the books until after. Anyway, here's the trailer for all that want to see it.

Easter Day

Easter Day! I wish my girls would learn and appreciate the meaning of sleeping in on weekends. Oh well, we woke up and the girls put on their pretty Easter dresses that their Aunt Lisa made them. Didn't they turn out ADORABLE! These are by far my favorite so far. Lisa makes Easter dresses every year for my girls and I love it! Thank you for the beautiful dresses Lisa!

We hid little Easter baskets in the house, and then had an egg hunt in the front yard. I think I went a little overboard on the plastic eggs this year. =) The grass was covered, but the girls were so excited! When they finally came inside, they couldn't wait to open the eggs to see what surprise was waiting inside.

After a MUCH needed nap for my little one, I went on a long walk with my girls. I've been walking a lot in the last month with my neighbor Heather. If you're familiar with the area I live in, then you'll have an idea of what I'm talking about. We walk to the gas station for icees, or Smiths for a few groceries before we stop at a park to let our kids play. Anyway, I needed to return some redbox movies by Smiths, so I took the girls on a walk....kind of a long round-a-bout way to the park I wanted to go to. And guess what I found!! My little ones purple shoe that I lost last week from another walk. I lost this shoe the day after I bought it. Anyway, I was really excited and felt lucky. =) Here are my girls going down the slide at a little park. I love this park. It's perfect for small kids and it has swings! In my neighborhood we have a lot of parks, but only a handful have swings. The next best part of this walk was when I got home my husband had already grilled the yummy rosemary garlic pork. I had a lot of fun making food for Easter. I made Amy's yummy bow tie pasta with craisins and Brianna's poppy seed dressing, layered jell-o for the girls, and my husbands favorite cheesy potatoes. Lots of left-overs!To end a nice Easter Sunday we went to Baskin Robbins for ice cream. =) Definitely a fun filled family weekend. The next few weeks will hopefully slow down.

Easter Weekend

Wow it's been a busy week and a fun weekend. When I went to visit Amy Friday afternoon, I was finally able to hold Alice!! New babies are so cute and tiny. No I'm not baby hungry. I'm enjoying this stage of loving and holding babies, but in the end handing them back to their mom. =) I love the name Alice (she did not get the name from Twilight, it's actually a family name). Did I mention that my cousin Anna was able to watch the c-section?? she's in nursing school and got the OK to watch the whole thing. I thought that was really neat, but I don't know if I could stomach it. Anyway...Amy and Alice are home and doing well!

Here's a picture of me and Alice Lynn.

I HAD to share this picture. =) My husband brought home a surprise treat Friday night. This is a little slice of heaven. Raspberry Almond Torte from Market Street. soooo yummmy. He tells me that I got for putting up with his stressful week at work.

Then Friday night we colored eggs with the girls! They had a lot of fun. Both girls helped in coloring! and only a few egg casualties from prodding fingers.

Saturday morning we jumped in the car and headed North to a place called Kangaroo Zoo to meet my dad and his little family. This place is filled with the fun animal themed inflatables. My oldest LOVED it, and it took my baby about an hour to understand what was going on and then she was running all over the place. All but a handful of the pictures I took were fuzzy. Here's a picture of the alligator that the little kids were nervous about at first when my husband pulled down on the teeth and it looked like the alligator was chomping down on them. hahaha. It was funny until someone cried.

Here's a picture of my dad and my oldest. They usually don't advise adults to go on the inflatables, but I think all of us did anyway. =) All the adults had fun chasing the little kids up and down the inflatables. Thanks for a great afternoon dad!

Amy has another little girl!

Amy went into labor a day early!

Alice was born Wednesday April 8, 2009.

She was 7lbs 10oz.

Alice is sooo stinkin cute! I was only able to see her through the nursery window this morning, but hopefully tomorrow I will be able to hold her. :) Amy is exhausted, but doing really well! She's up and moving and I wouldn't be surprised if she went home earlier than the recommended time to stay in the hospital. Amy's older kids, Braden and Mylee, already LOVE their little sister Alice and always want to check on her in the nursery. I HAD to add this pictures. It's one of my favorites of Braden :). My kids and Amy's kids are checking on little Alice through the nursery glass. You can kinda see Alice through their reflections. :)

Congratulations Amy and Randy!

My Mom's Wedding

Tonight my mom married Howard Childs. April 7th is the 5 yr anniversary from when they first met. My mom had a small wedding at her home in Sandy. I think more people showed up than she was counting on, but that's a good feeling. =) The wedding was nice, and my mom looked gorgeous like always. Unfortunately I didn't take many pictures, but here's what I have (and borrowed from Amy!).

My mom and her twins. =)

Here's her beautiful wedding cake.

This is Amy putting up with me and my need to take a picture with her =) It's fun! and it'll be the last time I see her before she has her beautiful baby. Wouldn't that have been funny if her water broke before or during the wedding?? but the baby has her own schedule (or until the csection Thursday night).

good luck Aim!

*I had to add this. hehehe. Lisa had this as her facebook status and it made me laugh, but an interesting fact. Here's what she had as her status:

Did I mention my mom got married yesterday? Ya. I now have 2 sisters, 3 half siblings and 5 step-siblings. It's like a chia-family. Just add wedding, water and watch it grow

Celebrity Twins

This started when my husband came home and asked if I knew if a certain celebrity was a twin. I had no idea, but it got me curious, so I looked online. You may not be interested, but I wanted to share some of the celebrities that I found out were in fact twins (identical or fraternal). I did not include famous celebrity twins like the Olsen twins, or the Sprouse twins from Disney. I wanted to find twins that were not well known. I know their are more, but these are the ones that I am familiar with. (this is NOT an April Fools Joke)

Alanis Morrissete has a twin brother Wade

Ashton Kutcher has a fraternal brother Michael.

Elvis Presley had a twin brother, Jesse,

who died at birth.

Supermodel Gisele Bundachen has a fraternal

twin sister Patricia.

John Heder from Napolean Dynamite has an

identical twin Daniel.

Joseph Fiennes has a fraternal twin brother Jacob.

Justin Timberlake had a twin sister,

but she died at birth.

Kiefer Sutherland has a twin sister Rachel.

Linda Hamilton has an identical twin sister Leslie.

Nicholas Brendon, from Buffy, has an

identical brother Kelly Donovan.

Scarlett Johansson has a twin brother Hunter.

Vin Diesel has a fraternal brother Jacob.