3rd Installment of Hotel Peacock

As promised, I am now posting pictures from last weekend when we were privileged to have the Casey and Jana Hopes family visit us.
We had a wonderful time with you guys! My only regret-- I was gone most of the time. :P That's the problem with having people come see the plays I am in.... I feel like I never get to see them because I'm at the theatre so much. But thank you for coming all the way up and spending the weekend with us. We loved it! PS- Thanks for emailing me all of the pictures, Jana! My battery was so low that all my pics turned out blurry. Way to save the day!

Some of the highlights--
First we have Tianna's salon tactics on Payton. Too bad Jana had just fixed her hair... thus needing to REFIX her hair when Tia was done :D



They made it to the neighborhood park to enjoy some sunshine before lunch.

Oh.. you were probably expecting pictures of the kids. Right...




Then they attended the matinee performance and had some fun waiting in line (and here's a glimpse of our oh so fancy theater! The old building is a historic building next to the barn.. i believe it use to be an old hotel. Now it's just someone's house.


During intermission the kids had fun posing inside of the jail.


Sunday we went to church and had fun "hanging out" before they had to leave.

Rambings of a March Whirlwind. Or rather, Whirlwind March

10 "Joseph" performances down, 3 weekends in a row of company down, (which I'm sad to see over) and a lot of season changes-- let's face it, I'm being really lazy today to recoup! This month has been so fun and it's flying by very quickly. Yet, at the same time, so much has happened that if feels like its been March for a long time.
Like my last post showed, my parents came up for the opening weekend of the play. The next week was super busy. Not to mention the array of seasons we've had!
Very last minute I was asked to sing 3 songs for the Relief Society birthday party on the 12th. The theme was "Errand of Angels" so we sang songs associated with angels and we had only 4 days to learn them. It turned out great and the whole program, food, and everything was awesome!
By Thursday I had just enough time to get ready for round two of guests at Hotel Peacock.

Luke's family came up the weekend of the 13th. We had quite the houseful! His mom, Courtney and Dale, and Chris, Monica, and Aden all came! We had so much fun with them!! So much fun that i forgot to take out the danged camera!!! I feel really bad about that! It makes me feel a little better knowing Monica didn't get hers out either (although if she had, we'd have pictures to prove they were at our house!) I had 3 performances while the Binghams were with us so I didn't even get to spend a lot of time with them. Luckily Luke and Tianna did though.
They left Sunday but Belinda and Courtney and Dale stayed until Tuesday. We were so glad they could stay longer!
We ate really good food (spent too much $ eating out of course) stayed up so late playing games that we were slightly delusional, and we even got to go to the temple together. That part was especially nice! I'd say that was the best way to celebrate St. Patty's day!

I did manage to get the camera out a couple of times after the weekend was over, but unfortunately, none of those times were with Luke's sweet mom. (Happy late birthday last week by the way.)
So here's some of Tianna and the Flink's!


After they departed, I decided to bury my sorrows in a craft that Belinda and I bought the makings for. I should have taken pictures of it when I made it... because when I took the pic today it had already been through quite a lot.


The wind Saturday night did nothing for the cute wreathe. I'm pretty sure at least one chick blew away and the bow may never look the same. It probably shouldn't be an outside decoration... oh well.
The last hazard to hit my poor little chickies and one of the eggs came in the form of a Harley. (my sisters 11 month old) I brought the poor wreathe in out of wind and stupidly left it on the floor. The next morning I witnessed Harley decapitate at least 3 of the baby chicks. hahahahah... it was soooo funny! I think with mild surgery they can be restored.

As earlier noted, we've had a lot of seasons packed into the last few weeks. We've had highs near 70, with sun shining, birds chirping... then watched as 13 inches of snow piled up THE NEXT DAY.. (wish I had a picture of that! Let's just say, pregnant women trying to shovel off 13 inches of wet, heavy snow must of been a funny sight because two kind neighbors came to my rescue.) ANYWAY... then, it got warm and sunny again...melting away all of that snow and then some. It got really warm last weekend where everyone was donning sandals and capris and loving every minute of it.
Then the wind blew in Saturday night and then yesterday it started out warm and rainy, then it quickly went to cold and rainy... and today it's just been snowing all this gloomy day.

Since this post has ended up being really really long as mine usually do, I'll post this past weekends events in a few days. Ta ta for now! And thanks for everyone who's visited and also for those who have attended the play. It's always more fun performing for people I know! :D

Gramma Bunny and Crampa Meal

This past weekend we were so blessed to have my mom and dad come and stay with us. (In case the title throws you off- their names are Bonnie and Neil)
The play opened Friday so they came up for that, but stayed until Sunday. We had so much fun with them. Thank you for coming!!!!

It took Tianna about 2 1/2 minutes after they arrived to drag my dad up to see her bedroom and read her a story. It was priceless!!

Tianna sure loves her Grandparents (BOTH SETS) She's a lucky girl to have so many people who love her so much!

We are looking forward to the Peacock side to come visit this weekend! YAY FOR THE PLAY because it gets us visitors!!!!

A weekend in the Peacock home

The show is opening this weekend! YAYA! The best part is that I won't have rehearsal's Tue-Saturday anymore! I'm grateful they don't hold them on Monday's, but the whole Friday night and Saturday thing has been pretty stinky! I'm really looking forward to all of our fabulous company that's coming to see the show! My mom and dad are coming Friday!!!

Saturday I took some fun photo's of the group. Don't mind the evil eyes-- most of the pics were taken in complete darkness, therefore resulting in major RED-EYE.

We awesome wives getting ready in the dressing room!


What do ya know? My purse and my costume are identical colors!


Aren't our outfits TO DIE FOR?! ha


Joseph, and 3 bodacious babes
Poor Devry-- we took about 6 pictures and her eyes were shut in every one.


GO-GO-GO Joseph costumes! Oh, if I could just fit into one of the actual Go-Go girl costumes. That darn belly just wouldn't have it! hahahah Actually, I really like my dress, it just isn't the best picture of it!


Now, for the real STAR of our life--Tianna!!

She was going to her very first friend birthday party last Friday. She was so excited and had a ton of fun. She is quite the little social-bug!

Luke and I had a pretty good scare the other night. We saw the most frightening movie EVER!
It was:

I actually loved the movie... but it was a scary glimpse into the life of Tianna Mary Peacock in 20 years! Rabecca Bloomwood reminded us both of our daughter! We have daily battles with her about what she's going to wear because she always wants to wear her nice dresses and she's so picky about EVERY article that goes onto her body. We walk through a clothing store and her eyes get huge and she runs from rack to rack looking at everything, saying "oh that's budiful!!!" I swear, Luke and I both said the exact same thing after the movie. "Tianna is going to be just like her!"

(hopefully without all of the lying and debt) but definately with a love of fashion and clothes!

One last picture thing to add to my incredibly long post: We took these last night-- She does the funniest things sometimes.


And a closer look:

Talk about a bed fit for a princess!

Better choose my words wisely Next Time

In my post about Valentines/President's weekend I made a mistake. Underneath the picture of me holding a big gun and looking angry I put something about not shooting the "Bazooka" and Luke quickly informed me that gun is NOT a BAZOOKA- it's practically a pea-shooter. Now, since those words are written in bold, they stand out, causing him to shake his head whenever he looks at the blog. So. Next time I'll have to consult the man of da house before hand.

Anyway---
In further news, "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" opens on March 6th. Since I posted about it when we auditioned IN OCTOBER, most of you have no idea that I've been in a play the past 5 months.. ... really, a long time.
But I must say, it's been a good experience and it's greatly helped me get through long months of winter and pregnancy. I do need to make a shout-out to Luke for his support and for taking care of Tianna when I have rehearsals. With his schedule this semester it hasn't been easy and I really appreciate him!!!

The show is at the Old Barn Community Theatre and it runs from March 6-28th, every Fri, Sat, and Monday at 7:30 and on the 14th and 21st there are matinee's at 2:00.

It's going to be a great show and the "Barn" is a very family friendly environment so anyone in the Logan area (or whoever else is interested) it's a GREAT FAMILY ACTIVITY and it's quite cheap. If you want to come, you'll need to reserve tickets SOON... by calling 435-458-BARN (2276). For more info- check out www.oldbarn.org

Picture Tag

I don't often do tags, but this picture one is fun. Go to your 6th file and pull the 6th pic.

This is Tianna in Rock Springs visiting her G-Ma and G-Pa in October 2007. It was one of the first "piggie-hair" days. I miss those days..... ya know the ones- when they don't have enough hair to really fix but you sure try. Then by the time they do have enough to fix...and fix it cute... they won't leave it in. Yeah.. we're totally there. So my little ragged-muffin walks around most days brushing her bangs out of her eyes. *sigh*

Don't forget to check out my last post. Now that it doesn't show on your blog rolls you might not have seen it.

I tag... Jana, Monica, Tori, Courtney, Joy, Shannon, Bethany... um... ANYONE who wants to!

Happy Snowride, Valentines Day, and President's Day

What a great weekend! I loved that all three of these events happened at the same time-which made for a nice long weekend with our families. We miss them so much but it's really hard for us to make it down for visits when it's just a regular weekend. So tack on an extra day, and oh baby, we're there!!

We started off with the annual Scofield Snowride which the Frandsen family attends faithfully. This year was interesting though- so many of us that usually go on the ride couldn't because we've got buns in the ovens or had little babies to take care of. I think less people went on the ride than stayed home-- but we met up for the lunch in the middle of the ride. But BRRRRRRRRRRRR it was cold!! We still managed to have a little fun though : )

I didn't get a picture of Luke from the ride because my frozen hands put the camera away before his group arrived at the lunch. Here is a picture of him and Tianna at our ward Klondike Derby we attended the weekend before this. There's also a picture of he and the other Elders during an event that they made look so easy-- my group had much less success! hahaha

Anyway, back to the weekend and on to our Valentine's Day. As you know from my last post, I quite enjoy this holiday....and here's why! Flowers and other cutesy things!!!! Sad to say though- we didn't have any sugar cookies, which everyone knows is a Valentine's Day staple!

Tianna and I did get these BEAUTIFUL tulip and daisy bouquet's from our wonderful Dad and Husband. He gives me a bouquet each V-Day and the past two years has gotten a mini version of mine for Tianna. This year she REAAAAALLLY loved them! He handed them to her and she just melted. He had to run upstairs right after she got them and so she turned to me and said "Oh thank you, Mommy." I explained that I didn't get them for her and she needed to tell Daddy thank you. About 5 minutes later (which is a long time for a 2 year old) she saw him and said "Daddy!!! Thank you for the fowers!!!" It was priceless!
Sadly, we had to leave our gorgeous (combined) bouquet right after we got them because we left for Scofield. She did however talk about her flowers all the way down there.

The "Smoochies" were my gift to Luke. It looks like a cereal box that I found in the card section and it has funny little kissy facts all over it. I put his gift inside which was chocolate and a CD from me and the movie "Herculese" from Tianna. Fitting movie for our HUNK! Anyway... interestingly enough, Luke got Tianna the movie, "Cars" and me a CD. Go David Archuleta! We were definately on the same wave length this year with our gift ideas!

As for how we celebrated.... well, since my whole family was together at the cabin on the 14th we decided to have a special dinner. I've recently come upon CAFE RIO recipes and so we made them. It was quite labor intensive, but the other all report was that it was a huge hit. So... it may end up being like Thanksgiving dinner-- a once a year or so thing--- but I'll be making this food again!

Next we headed down to visit the Peacock bunch. We enjoyed a nice family dinner at Grandma Peacock's house and then spent Sunday night laughing it up as we played games until way late. Yesterday we were kinda lazy but we played some more games and went shooting at a gun range.

And no I did not shoot that BAZOOKA. I just held it to make myself look tough.

A cute little story though-- Luke's dad puts on a complete facade as being a tough guy but his grandchildren melt him like a popcicle. (my dad's the same way) But I'm sure something my dad would never attempt was to take two 2 year olds to Price by himself to do some shopping and errands.... and get this-- go to McDonalds and actually go INSIDE. Before he even had a chance to ask them what they wanted to eat they were off in the playland!!! He couldn't get Tianna and Aden out to save his life... so he had to crawl up into the tubes to get them out himself! I wish I had seen that one with my own eyes!! But, needless to say, Bert easily won Tianna over. Here he is reading them stories.