My WICKED Cool Weekend!

Halloween was nearly 6 months ago! That's the day we got our Wicked tickets and it seemed like it would never get here! But it finally did and it was a terrific day!!

When I heard Wicked was coming to Salt Lake City I knew I wanted to try to go! I had seen it in New York with Tyler in September of 2006. At that time I had barely listened to the music and didn't know much about it but loved it sooo much! Once we got home I listened to the music - alot - and therefore my kids did too and they began to love it also! So during UEA of 2007 I took Morgan to L.A., with a good friend and her daughter, and we saw it again! This time we had amazing seats and I knew every single word to every single song! I Love Loved it! And now the chance was here to see it again and I couldn't think of anything more fun than going with all of the girls in my family! Once I called and invited everyone we ended up getting 24 tickets! A lot of the seats weren't together but we were so excited that we actually got all 24. So we had sisters, sister-in-laws, nieces, cousins, and somehow a brother, brother-in-law, nephew, and cousin-in-law! (We really missed my mom, who was sick and didn't feel like traveling, and Ang, who got a Big No from her Dr./Dad cuz she's in danger of early labor, and Amy who decided not to drive alone from Idaho!)

We left St. George at 7 a.m. and picked up a few girls in Cedar! The car ride was up so much fun! I laughed harder than I'd laughed in a while...I was crying at points and my face was actually sore the next day!

Me with my 2 beautiful nieces Bree and Jennica!

My Sister Shauna and Sister-in-law Beverly

Lunch at CPK

Jennica and Sheryl - we enjoyed a post lunch treat from Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory

We had lunch at California Pizza Kitchen at Gateway and then walked to Capitol Theater from there for the 2:00 matinee! It was AMAZING! I don't know what else to say, I could see this play 100 times and enjoy it every time! Its so hard for me not to sing along!! The two lead girls were amazing and I got so emotional about 3 times! Other times I was laughing so hard because they were just so funny and full of personality! I was the only one in my group who had seen it and many of them were like me my first time and didn't know much about it! But everyone seemed to LOVE it.

A Group of us right before the show!

Brent and Rhonda being "Funny?"

Bree and I...so excited!!!

It's Showtime!!

We drove straight home after it was over. I love my family and had such a good time spending time with my "Sisters."



And another Awesome part of my Wicked Cool weekend was getting Tyler's parents home from their mission! We got to go to their house on Sunday night and be there when they drove home! We all had dinner with them at their house and that was so much fun! Our kids, especially, are so excited to have Grandma and Grandpa home!

Easter Weekend!

We started out the weekend with our annual neighborhood Easter Egg Hunt. My friends and I had done a lot of shopping and preparing to have this hunt ready for 150 kids! When we met on Saturday morning to set it up it was raining pretty hard. We decided noone would melt and we'd just have to make it work! We used our brand new neighborhood park this year and it was awesome!

After setting up I ran home to grab my kids with ten minutes to spare before the hunt started. We made it back just in time! Morgan and Lainee did great on their own! Cam had gone to Kami's earlier that morning and walked down to the park from her house and honestly I didn't see him the whole time - He said he had fun! I stayed with Linc during the hunt and he just walked around and picked up suckers. Once he had 4, 2 for each hand, he was happy!

Notice his wet little bumm! He fell a few times, he's not used to wearing shoes! It looks like his little girlfriend Maddi was happy with a sucker too!

Lainee is happy with her loot! Even on the car ride home Linc's still having the best day ever with is 4 suckers! (No! I don't usually let him sit on Morgan's lap, the park is just around the corner from home)

Easter Morning!


The Easter Bunny didn't forget our house! Phew! As you can see Lincoln found the hidden chocolate before he started opening his presents! Each kid got a new church outfit and a new swimming suit or 2!

We couldn't get Lincoln to cooperate in a picture with all of the kids so we took a cute one of just the girls! Our attempts at cute boy picture were no good! As you can see Linc didn't want anything to do with it. We finally gave him his binky and a ball! Don't the boys look cute in their matching shirts!