MORE SUMMER RECAPPING...

Cousin Libby (aka Bo's best buddie) and Cole Man.



Greg Adams and I were prom dates in 1995. We are trying to show what our prom picture looks like...



Porter had to sneak in our pic.

RE CAP OF SUMMER 2010

We had a pretty lazy summer once workshop ended in June. We are looking foward to our "real" vacation to California soon. Here's some pictures of what we've been up to all summer.



Our trip to Utah to see Audra McDonald and Bailee of course, "110 in the Shade", and to celebrate 8 years of marriage! On our way to church here in this pic.


We had our anniversary dinner at Rodizio Grill. WOW. Amazing food.



Happy 8 years to us!!

These cupcakes are to die for. From Sweet Tooth Fairy. They are named after Stephanie Nielson. VaNIElla cupcakes. WOW. http://nieniedialogues.blogspot.com/

Here we are after the show. It was incredible. Max Eddington, Bailee, Me, Will Swenson, Audra Mcdonald, and Ty.

Lots of dress up days!



Lots of trips to Peter Piper Pizza, especially because they now have ice cream!



Cole was so excited to get new school clothes!


We had a great summer, but we are ready to move on! Yea for the 2010-2011 school year!

BLOG POPULAR

Ok so I am quite inexperienced with how to REALLY be a blogger. But true confession, I really want to be "blog popular". Ok not like I need 1000 followers or 30 comments per post or annonymous people sending me packages or money in the mail, BUT I would like people to know that I have a blog so that it actually gets looked at by more than just my sister and my mom and my husband. ( no offense guys). SOOO my dear friend Allyson Van Patten ( ok now would be the place to put a link to her great blog, but I don't know how to do that ) was telling me that I have got to post more often, I guess once a month isn't cutting it, and that the way for people to get to know your blog is by commenting. So here I go. We'll see if this works.

Finally blogging again.. here's what we've been up to...

So every summer from May till the end of June, Ty and I live and breathe WORKSHOP. MCC summer music theater workshops. The hardest but best thing we do each year. Great money and so much work! But really, we love it.

This year, for workshop 3, "the littles" I had Cole come and do it. He's actually a year too young, but I figured he'd love it and do well, and hello, he's my child, and I'm kinda the boss, so he's in!

He gave me HECK about going "on the big stage, its gonna be too loud... " etc etc...( I kept saying to him, "Cole, do you know who you are? This stuff is in your BLOOD my friend!!") But once we finally got going he was LOVIN' every second of it.

Here are some pics of him after the show with Ty's fam that came and watched. I do have some video of him in his songs, but haven't figured out how to upload them to my blog yet... coming soon hopefully.

Here's Cole with his Proud Papa.


This is Cole with Uncle Nic and Grandma Joyce in the background.



I didn't get a chance to get a picture with Cole Man till I got home from the other show. Here's the proud mama and the rock star....

Of course Bo wanted a picture too!

The time flew and Bo turned two...

Sweet Bo Boy, where did the time go? How did you get to be 2 already! Bo turned two years old April 17th. He has been such a joy! Here he is eating his catapiller, or worm cake that Grandma Dar made him...



Here he is getting ready to open presents...

Here he is not too excited about presents... but mom is!


Bowen Troy, we are so glad you came to live with us 2 years ago. You're big blue eyes, and sweet smile just warm hearts everywhere you go. Its so fun to watch you learn and grow each day and we are so lucky to be part of your family! Love, Mommy, Daddy and Cole Man.

Easter Pageant

This year, Cole got to see his Dad in the Easter Pageant. It was so great to watch Cole watch the pageant. He was so proud and retained so much of the program. In fact now, every night before bed, he turns out the lights in his room, gets the flashlight for a spot light, puts a pretend beard on Ty, and we do the whole Easter Pageant there in his room. He plays the part of the angel, John the Baptist, the dead boy ( in the pageant its really the "dead girl" but oh well ), the crippled boy, etc etc. Its so sweet to hear him sing "I Know He Lives" at the end each night. Here is a picture of us after the first night Cole got to see it.

It was time...

So if you know our Cole at all, you know that he has been LOVING guitars since he was about 2 years old. The Christmas after my dad died, my mom got a Wii and he has been hooked ever since. He'll play anything and call it a guitar. He has broom guitars, sword guitars, shovel guitars etc etc. He can REALLY rock out too. Its pretty cool. So, we finally broke down and got him a wii. Grandma Dar got him the Wii and we got him the guitar hero part. What fun!

Here is Cole at age two with his "blow up guitar"...





Here he is performing "Slow Ride" at the Clifford family Thanksgiving Talent Show in 2008.


At the Arizona Museum for Youth last year...


Playing Guitar Hero at Peter Piper Pizza. Usually there are about 5 people behind him watching him in amazement. Especially when we tell them that we didn't even have the game at home. In fact, just today, at Cole's school, an older child said to Cole, " I've seen you at Peter Piper, playing Guitar hero. You are awesome!" So yah, our kid is famous. HA!


And here he is, now 5 years old, with his Wii. Finally! It did feel "time" tho. I've definately been holding off for a while now. So its so fun for him to have finally gotten one! Rock on Cole!