Baptism, Grandkid game night, Valentines and more

Lady got baptized on Saturday!  It was awesome.  “Monsoon” performed the baptism, Wayne confirmed her.  (When you type Monson in a program, it almost always changes it to monsoon..so that’s what the program said.) Poppy, Lady, Tayla, Elsie, and I sang the Rainbow Baptism song.  Alfie on piano, Sophia on Saxophone, and Andrew on Cello played A Child’s Prayer.  It was really beautiful.  Bre gave a talk on baptism.  We gathered at Lady’s home afterwards for soup, and it was great.  Lexi’s mom and sister came to town for this event.   Lady was so excited that everyone was there for her.

Tayla had her Shrek Jr.show this weekend.  She was darling as teenage Fiona and sang really strongly. She was in many of the group numbers, including the tap dance number. She loves performing, but at age 10, she is experiencing such foot pain and plantar fasciitis.  We loved watching her and seeing Drew Call as the Donkey in the same show. ( Jordan Call’s son) Megan Call does a great job with this age group as the director– she must have sooo much patience. 

It's hard to tell what's happening in the above picture.... but Poppy showed up with a request, after Addison tried to explain what was happening to many immigrants in our country.  She wanted us all to go outside and shout , “Immigrants deserve better!”  So we did just that with red, white and blue lights flashing on our house.  She’s a sweetheart who has great empathy.

Grand Kid Game Nightfor February!

George ran to the top of the mound, dropped his flashlight and did a He-Man pose. Then the kids all followed him.

We had Alfie, Geo, Tayla, Lady and Elsie for the first 2 hours, then at 7:30 Poppy showed up (since her mom went home sick and didn’t stay for the cast party)  We did our flashlight walk to Arctic Circle and Maverick for ice creams and slushies and playing at the Arctic Circle play place.  We love dark, cold flashlight walks. We sang a version of Follow the Prophet all the way home at the top of our lungs.  “Follow the Lady, Follow the Poppy…” or “Follow the Alfie, Follow the meemaw….”  We played dominoes and cards and drew very colorful valentines…and of course chicken nuggets and tater tots.  We love these nuggets( our grands)  so much!   NO Sophia and Andrew because they were in St.George visiting their grandparents.

 We had our annual Sidetracked band dinner. It’s great to do it on Valentine's.  We all get a free meal and a rose – all paid for by the Oborns to tell us thanks for being in the band.  Not very romantic, but very practical and nice to be with our band friends and their spouses.  We did it at Roosters in Layton this year in a private room.   I wore a red velvet pant suit that I picked up at the DI for $10.00.  It fit great and I can wear it for Christmas and Valentine's,-- then it goes back in the closet. 

Bre and Poppy finished up their HCT Frozen run! They performed in 70 shows…  the run was from Nov. 18- Feb 14th– so a lot of Let It Go!  Bre has been well, no sickness the entire run until this last week.  She got knocked down with a bad cold.  She had to call in sick for Thursday night's performance.  (So many friends and relatives were there to see her that night- so that was sad) She did not feel good, but she decided to power through Friday 4:00 performance for the under-3 crowd, which really did her in. She missed the cast party and went home and went straight to bed instead. Now with one show left- Saturday night – she woke up Saturday morning with no voice.  She felt horrible. She was sooooo sad!  She did all the things to try to get better –  cold meds, throat lozenges, steroid shots, honey, mucinex, steam room–  Trying to get this cold out of her body. She called her under study and had her on standby for the closing show.  Bre felt so sick.  Addison and the boys had closing night tix– so they thought they would just go and see Poppy and be sad that Bre couldn’t perform. Saturday at noon, Wayne and Addison gave Bre a blessing of health and recovery… and by 6:00 that night she felt like she could do it…and she did!  She was a powerhouse!  She was a walking miracle!  She finished out her show strong, and she and Poppy were so happy! Miracles happen.