Funny Boy

Mack is watching TV and Ni Hoa, Kai-lan was on.  He began to freak out and said, "Ah!  I don't want to watch Kai-lan.  This bugs me!"  First time he's used that phrase.  He is also into using the phrase, "Dang it!"  It's especially funny when he uses it out of context.

This picture is of his new fake frown.  I love it!

No One Mourns the Wicked? Then they haven't seen it!

Our wonderful friends, Elle and Devin Woolsey, bought us tickets to see Wicked on tour in Salt Lake.  It was so fun to see it with them.  Elle and I fell in love with the sound track and vowed we would see it together.  My word, it was good!  Chad and I saw it in LA last year, and I have to say that this cast was just as good, if not better, than the LA cast.  Elle and I both cried, because we were so excited to be there.  We took some more pictures, but I'll have to post them later.  

The Mack Behind the Mask

He found this mask and wanted to pose for me.  He just makes me laugh!

Catching up...

In Washington, I was able to catch up with some long, lost friends.  This is my good friend Amber.  We were in middle school together, but when I became a freshman, she went off to Washington State School for the Deaf.  We would write occasionally, but lost contact for a couple of years.  Then one year, Chad and I decided to stop by her house in Quincy (that's where Chad is from, too) and she there!  We emailed for a while, then I completely lost her, again.  I stopped by again, and luckily, she was there.  Apparently, she doesn't have internet anymore.  I was amazed at how much sign language I forgot!  I need to practice up on it before I visit her again!

Amber is the sweetest girl I have ever met!!!  She would never say or do anything mean to anybody.  She is always happy and excited about life.  

This next picture is of my friend, Rene's little girl, Aniston and Mack.  She is sitting in her doll's high chair.  I love how they are looking at each other.  Rene and I have known each other since kindergarten.  We became really good friends in high school.  It was so good to see her, again!  She was one of my closest friends and helped me through some extremely difficult times.  Rene has always known how to make me laugh.  We can talk forever and still have more to chat about.

Washington

Our trip started with a 12 hour car ride that turned out to be more like 14 hours.  Driving against the wind does not make for an efficient trip!  Once we were there, though, we had a pretty great time!

Wednesday, we were able to watch the Moses Lake Stake production of Beauty and the Beast.  I was amazed at the amount of talent in such a small community!  Especially for being a church production.  The costuming and set were awesome and, of course, the thespians were wonderful.  My brother, Kyle, played as Gaston.  It was really good to see him on the stage, again.  We used to be in plays growing up, but neither one of us have been in a production since high school.  He did a great job, which moved us to tears (you know, funny ones). 

That night we stayed at my dad's house.  We were able to ride around with him for a little while the next day.  

Mack didn't like the horses, but...

he loved the cows.  He even asked if he could ride on them.

Nota Wholeata

Nothing really exciting has gone on in the past two weeks.  But we have a lot to come in the  next month.  Next weekend is General Conference and Chad's parents will be visiting in Utah.  Also, our best friends Elle and Devin will be here!  The following weekend is Easter and the weekend after, Mack and I are going to Washington to watch my brother, Kyle, play Gaston in Beauty and the Beast.  So, until then, I hope you enjoy this post.

 

Mack is still doing great with his potty training and has had few accidents.  He loves that he is a "big boy."  I've noticed lately that he is a very friendly kid.  Anybody who talks to me (cashier at grocery store, friends, random strangers), Mack introduces himself to them.  Most of the time they don't realize he is talking to them and he will repeat, "Hi. I'm Mack!" until they finally acknowledge him.  Then he usually narrates whatever he is doing at the moment.  

 

I had a clogging competition yesterday in St. George (which our team did very well at (wahoo!!!)).  We decided to make the trip in one day and since the competition went until around 1 a.m. we didn't get home until 5 a.m.  A couple of the girls stayed at our house, since they would have had to call family to pick them up so early.  Apparently at one point, McCall and Rachel woke up at the same time and noticed Mack cuddled up asleep next to Rachel on the air bed.  When we asked him why he didn't come to our room he said, "I cuddle with Rachel."  They both thought it was so cute and went back to sleep for a few more hours.  

Speaking of my clogging friends, I just have to say how much I love all of them!  We have such a blast when we are together.  What I think is so amazing is how we have such a large range of ages on Premiere (I think it's 15 to 33) and we are all such good friends.  BTW Rachel, my abs are SO sore from laughing yesterday!  It hindered any laughter coming from me today.  So, Rebecca... How was competing with Premiere?  Was it as scary as you thought it would be?  Love you guys!

Such Proud Parents!

The past couple of weeks have been very exciting for Mack.  We are so proud of him and can't believe how fast he is growing.  The other day in the car he told me that when he is a "man" he wants "to go on a mission and tell people about Jesus Christ."  When we see missionaries out and about, I explain to him who they are and what they do, but I've never asked him if he wants to go.  I was quite shocked when he told me that's what he wants to do.   So proud...

For the past 2 weeks he has been wearing real underwear and has only had 2 accidents, none of which were last week.  He loves telling people about them and I love not changing diapers!  I think he might be close to night time training, too.  Sometimes he wakes up completely dry and asking to use the potty.  So proud...

Last weekend he did his freestyle at his first clogging competition.  It was held at Thanksgiving Point in the red barn and I had been working the previous weekend for the dance portion.  He was there for maybe 5 minutes and wanted to dance on the stage before the competition started.  It was really hard getting him off there, so I told he he could go back the following week and dance with Garrett (his little buddy).  Everyday he talked about getting to dance with Garrett on stage.  When the time finally came, he was so excited!  He performed really well and wasn't even nervous or scared.  Of course, they both won 1st places.  So proud...

Thursday, I received a phone call from Utah Valley Magazine and, would you believe, Mack won a photo contest!  I entered a couple of pictures I took of him for fun, but didn't expect to win.  Obviously, being Mack's mom, I think he's a cute kid.  It's just that there are a lot of cute kids in the valley.  Anyway, he will be in the May issue of the magazine and he won a $100 gift certificate to a kid's boutique in Highland.  So proud...

I can't remember which photos I sent in, but I know one of them was the picture at the top of this post.  I'm  hoping this was the other.

As you can see, we've had some very exciting events take place around here.  Hopefully I'll have fun things to blog about next time.