Little Delinquents

Be aware--- this is a very BITTER post!!

Okay....... so first off, I LOVE flowers and tulips use to be my favorite when I was a kid. (probably because they were the only ones I could draw... but that is besides the point) the Point is, I always wanted tulips but we never had them growing up. When we moved into this house I just knew I wanted a row of gorgeous tulips. So I planted them... and with having to remove a stupid rock every inch and a half, it took me about 3 hours to do.

Then I waited...... until one glorious late February day, I saw a few little heads peeping out of the frozen ground. Everyday we'd check to see how many more were sticking out of the ground. We even removed snow off of some of them so they could come out and see the world.

Then we waited. Slowly, ever so slowly they grew. Everyone else around us seemed to have their tulips out already but ours were being very slow.

Finally, on May 2nd one blossomed! (I found it a good omen for Cinderella since that was opening night)
Saturday about 3 more bloomed and then by yesterday there was a the whole right half of the row bloomed. On the way home from church I told Luke I wanted to take pictures of our family in front of them in a few days when the rest of the row was bloomed.
Well..........

About an hour later I went outside to find that EVERY LAST flower that had bloomed was gone. All 15 were cut off! I was sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo mad! And I had a very good idea as to who had done it.

So we walked past the neighbors 3 houses down and guess what we found. A whole pile of them in their stroller. These neighbor kids run around all the time and are constantly on our sidewalk riding their bikes. They even rode their bikes OVER my baby tulips a few weeks ago. So I moved our security system sign into the way where they rode through........ and they STOLE MY STUPID SIGN! I didn't know it was them for sure until a few days later I was driving past their house when one of the little kids was playing with our sign in her driveway. I slammed on my breaks and jumped out to say "That's mine!!!".......... the best part is that I had just come from taking those pictures for the Cinderella poster, so they thought a princess was taking her sign back..

Needless to say, these little girls about ages 2-7 blamed it on their cousin. Then last night when I found the pile of tulips, I told their dad who was on the porch that those were all our flowers and we didn't appreciate them being stolen. Again, the girl blamed it on her littlest sister (after she had told us she didn't know anything about it) What a little liar. Then, not to be racist or anything, but they are Hispanic so they were speaking in Spanish to each other so who knows what was actually said...

AnywayI was furious. And am still furious! And heatbroken!!!! More than half of our row of tulips are cut and won't bloom again until next year. So much for having my perfect row of tulips lining the entire fence line. *sigh* Why? Honestly, WHY?!

I wish I had taken a before picture.... that whole row was in full gorgeous bloom yesterday.

Poster

This is what the poster for Cinderella looks like. The girl that designed it did a GREAT job... and spent so much time on it. She had to cut the staircase out, even between each rail. She said it took her about 6 hours just to do that part. I think it turned out really nice, but I must say...
It's quite embarrassing having a poster-sized picture of me hanging all over the Cache Valley... especially with my FOOT sticking out!

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.