Cinderella and Harley

Cinderella opens next week! I'M FREAKING OUT! But if anyone is interested, the show runs May 2nd- May 24th, every Monday, Friday, and Saturday. On May 10th & May 17th there are matinees at 2:30. You can reserve tickets by calling 435-458-BARN (2276). I would love for anyone to come that wishes to..... and we would love even more to have visitors! :)

Now on to what we've been up to:

Luke is busily trying to finish everything for the semester to end and I think I can speak freely when I say he is SOOOOOOOO ready to be done! At least this semester has been significantly easier than last, and hopefully all will go well and he can get accepted into the electrical engineering program! We're keeping our fingers crossed.

Tianna and I got to make a quickie trip down to Price last week to meet our LOVELY new niece, Harley Elle Hopes. What a babe! (No pun intended) She really is adorable and I'm so glad she was born during a week where I could run down for a visit. It was wonderful to see her and Jana and I'm happy to report both are doing great!

Here she is all stretched out and then bundled up for her first outing.
Here is a happy auntie holding her niece for the first time... well I kind of monopolized her since I could only stay for a day, so maybe this wasn't the FIRST time I held her! hehehe...

Baby Animal Dayz

Finally, WARM WEATHER!! And so of course we had to take advantage of the sunshine on Saturday by taking Tianna to see some baby animals.
We were expecting a few pens with some farm animals....... but what we didn't realize is that Baby Animals Days is actually a HUGE festival and I'm pretty sure everyone in the Cache Valley was there. We went on a wagon ride, got a sunburn, ate homemade donuts, saw a pioneer village and yes, saw tons of baby animals.
Tianna quickly warmed up to the idea of petting the animals and loved the pony ride. She however, was not too keen on the reptiles...hahaha... a girl after my own heart!

"I just can't hold my head up anymore..."

Future Fashionista

What a hottie! First we are sporting the pink shirt with girlie camo over-alls... then we have her mom's black high heels. Topping off the look is her new bicycle helmet which she insisted on wearing half of the day. Watch out Tyra, we have America's New Top Model!

Out of Order

Chronologically, this post should be before General Conference weekend... but the pictures were on the camera Luke totes around so I didn't have them handy.

This is from the fun filled weekend of Luke's family coming up to see Beauty and the Beast.... (or so they say... mostly it was to see Tianna!)
Either way, it was FABULOUS having them visit! They were able to see the closing show and watch Tianna for us the night before. (one less night of babysitters! Whooo hooo!)




You can tell Tianna sure loves her Grandparents! And of course, her aunts too. We are so happy that they get to move back to Castle Dale from Rock Springs, Wyoming.

Short Trip or Not... it was HOME

It feels like an eternity since we have been down to our home lands of the Castle Valley. Finally we got out of Logan and down to visit our families and boy did it feel good! I weaseled my way out of Cinderella rehearsal for Saturday so at 11:30 pm we left Logan on Friday night after Luke got out of work and we got to Castle Dale at 3 am.

We went to Castle Dale and stayed with Luke's sister, Monica, and her husband and son. We were also able to visit his grandparents and see the new baby horse.

Our nephew, Aden has sure grown up! What a cute little boy! He and Tianna had a great time pestering each other and riding in the wagon.

Sunday morning we went to Scofield to visit Mary's side of the family. We got to hold our adorable niece, Jocelyn, and witness yet another niece (number 9 to be exact) brewing in Jana's belly.



Of course we couldn't fail to mention that amidst all the visiting and reuniting of family... we did listen to that wonderful General Conference and were able to stand and raise our hand to the square to sustain President Monson as our dear prophet.

If we had stayed home to watch at our house we probably would have been able to listen a little more carefully... but really, isn't the main message of Conference about strengthening family anyway? (I'm just glad we will be able to read the messages in the Ensign next month)

All in all, it was a great trip. We got home around midnight Sunday night making it a 48 hour trip.

March Mayhem

What a busy busy month! A few weeks ago I posted about how boring our life was... since then it's been nuts! The play is going really really well. We have had 11 performances and Friday and Saturday will be our very last. It will be bitter sweet. I will really miss all of the neat people I have being "playing" with but I'm tired of being in two shows at once. Cinderella rehearsals started at the beginning of this month too... so I've been gone a lot. Luke will be happy to have his wife back a little more often!

Especially on the 2 Saturdays when I had Cinderella rehearsal in the morning, then a matinée and a night performance for Beauty and the Beast. Basically I was gone from 9 am to 11 pm.

But... do to B&the Beast we have had the luxury of having many friends and family come visit us!! It has been WONDERFUL! The first weekend our friends Shannon and Richard Anderson came up as well as Blake Merrell. Then the next weekend Luke's Grandma Peacock and his aunt Tammy Allred and her daughter, Taryn came. That Saturday my mom and dad and Garth, Tori, and their girls came up. They weren't able to stay very long, but my dad realizing how sad I was about it, ended up staying an extra day.




(Momentary Tangent) So...I just want to say how much it meant to me that my dad would decide to do that! He's not one to do that sort of thing, especially without my mom. So thank you daddy!)

Anyway-- to clarify why my mom didn't stay-- she was staying with James and Val because Vittoria had had a pretty rough back surgery the Monday before and she was still assisting them for a few more days. She did end up making a slight detour on her route home and came to visit us for 2 days. That was also very much appreciated!
She was here during my ward Relief Society Birthday party that I was involved with quite a bit so it was really fun to have her in on it! And Tianna LOVED having Grandma around!!!!
The RS bday party was fun too-- It was about the PURSEonal relationship of a Relief Society Sister and so we did a purse themed party. I quite enjoy purses!!





And then.... Easter weekend. It was really weird not being able to go camping or to the desert or anything, but thankfully we did have some company. Ed and Janelle Robinson came up to see the show Friday night and stayed until Saturday. The Easter bunny stopped in Sat. morning and Tianna had a blast looking for the eggs. Plus, she got puzzles and a new dress. Two of her most favorite things. Sunday wasn't too out of the ordinary but we did get over to visit Luke's Uncle Mike and Aunt Toni who live nearby. It's nice having some family close.






Well, I'll stop boring you...just want to thank everyone who was able to come see us.
If you weren't able to we still want you to know we love and appreciate you and hope that some day you can!
PS-- Happy Late Easter

"Deezus" (Jesus)

Last Monday night for Family Home Evening we decided to teach Tianna to recognize Jesus. I have a stack of mini Greg Olsen pictures and we went through those and let her point out where Jesus was in each picture. After singing some primary songs about Jesus we walked through our house and pointed out all of the pictures/statues etc. of Christ. We even hung up a little Jesus calendar next to her changing table. It has been so cute and awesome to watch her this week as she points at it every time she's getting changed and says "Deezus." She does that whenever she walks by any of the pictures in our house now.
Tonight Luke and I were reading the March Ensign together and without even pointing them out to her, she would point at Jesus' pictures and say His name. How amazing! And such a testimony builder to Luke and I.

The most impressive part of this whole thing is how clearly she says His name. Most of the things she says aren't very clear even though we know what she means anyway. What is very frustrating about this is that she says "Deezus", "Dadda", "T.", "Baby," "Puppy," "Belbu" (Belly button) quite consistently, but ........ still NO MAMA!!! She completely refuses to say my name. This morning, just to add salt to the wound, she chased after Luke calling him mama. Then she turns around and completely ignores us whenever we tell her to say "mama." What a twerp. But a sweet one..... who already knows her Savior. I guess we can't ask for much more than that!