Mom's Letters: 11.12

Friday, November 16, 2012

Ashley's 1st Play

We found a really fun drama class here through the community for Ashley. Last night she starred in her first play, "Snow White". She was a lady in waiting, Lady Margot - a daughter of the wicked Queen. Ashley did a great job memorizing her lines and loved getting dressed up in costume and on set in front of a live audience. We were proud of her! She had a lot of support with Grandma, Shelly, Ali and Paige coming down to watch her in addition to our big family. Good Job, ASHLEY!

Chiquita Banana Commercial

Did I tell you all our family was asked to do a commercial for Chiquita banana while we were on the beach? Here's how it went:

Not really! But in our yellow surrey and yellow shirts, throw a banana in our hands and we could have! ;) Cheesy, but on this trip I dressed us in the same colors so we could find each other easily. It worked great (except for the time we left Claire eating at the churro shack for a minute...). This day happened to be yellow and we happened to land ourselves a yellow bike. What a bright, happy, sunny day it was!

Disneyland

Lego Land

Mom's Favorite Quotes

I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbors children. I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden. I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived." — Marjorie Pay Hinckley

"The biggest mistake I made [as a parent] is the one that most of us make....I did not live in the moment enough. This is particularly clear now that the moment is gone, captured only in photographs. There is one picture of [my three children] sitting in the grass on a quilt in the shadow of the swing set on a summer day, ages six, four, and one. And I wish I could remember what we ate, and what we talked about, and how they sounded, and how they looked when they slept that night. I wish I had not been in such a hurry to get on to the next thing: dinner, bath, book, bed. I wish I had treasured the doing a little more and the getting it done a little less."

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Friday, November 16, 2012

Ashley's 1st Play

Chiquita Banana Commercial

Disneyland

Lego Land