Brag Time

I just want to brag on my husband right now! I don't know how I got so lucky, but I am married to one amazing guy! :D

Yesterday he watched Tianna while I got my hair colored and when I got home he had gone to the store and bought me GORGEOUS flowers since it was closing night.

They are so beautiful and they look so spring-like! Now even though it snowed AGAIN outside today, I at least get to have spring inside.

Then last night Luke came to my show for the 4th time and stayed afterward while we had to strike the set, clean up, and put away all of the costumes. He even helped (practically did) my job for me! Several people commented to me how nice my husband is and how cute!! I totally agree!!

Then today, since I was completely exhausted from the play and staying late for the cast party etc. he let me take a good long nap and when I woke up HE HAD MADE ME CUPCAKES!!! At this present moment he is outside barbecuing some dinner for us on the snow covered grill.

How did I get so lucky to have such an amazing and wonderful husband and such a delightful daughter who makes everyone around her laugh? A quick update on her-- she LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVED watching the play. Twice Luke couldn't watch her so I brought her with me the theater and she sat with friends or someone we knew and watched the play without a parent. She was so great to sit still the 6 times she saw it. In fact, all day today she's asked me when we get to go watch "Mommy's play?...Watch Mommy's Joseph again?" She knows the songs and loves to sing them with me. I 'm pretty sure we have a future actress on our hands!

I'm including a picture of the cast gift we gave our directors. It was pretty cool and so i thought I'd share!

A little tid-bit of interesting info too (I'm sure you are all sick of hearing about this play.. but too bad :D hahah) At our last Saturday matinee THE ONE and ONLY casting director for all LDS church films was in attendance. She has heard about the Old Barn Community Theater and when she found out we were doing "Joseph" she contacted our directors to see if they would help her gather information about the cast members to put in her database for upcoming films. She requested that they secretly be really hard on us to see our reactions and how we were on and off stage. Any day now she'll be sending them packets to give to some of us to fill out. It will be interesting to see if any of us end up in some church movies!

In fact, apparently just as they were starting to film a movie their 32 year old Joseph Smith quit and she talked to one of the "brothers" in the Joseph cast about it. Had he been several years older he would be playing Joseph Smith in a movie THIS WEEK!

Then on top of that, last night the casting directors for the church's theater productions came to see the show. Luckily it was our very best performance and we got a standing ovation from the entire audience. It was such a thrill!! I'm so grateful to have been a part of this production. It will be my last play for quite some time........... and what a great show to end on!

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!