Willy Wonka Pictures

The Chatterbox brought home the c.d.'s with the images from the play last night so I thought I would get a few on here. I did not take these and I'm not sure who to credit them to, sorry. This was probably one of my favorite parts of the play, the choreography for this was very well done and the kids really knew what they were doing in the dark to put this giant spider together.

The chorus line.
The Chatterbox's singing solo!!
Veruca Salt and the squirrels
Here's The Chatterbox again!

The Chatterbox as part of the spider, she played many parts in this play, a squirrel, part of the river,a Candy Kid, and a spider leg.

Willy Wonka

I was able to go see the play that The Chatterbox is in, both Thursday and Friday nights. It was an awesome production. The kids really do a great job and you can tell the ones who truly love what they are doing. The Chatterbox was a Candy Kid, part of a spider, a chocolate river, a chef, and a squirrel. The little squirrel costumes were so cute, I will try to get a picture of her in it tomorrow. I was so proud of her as she had a small singing solo and a little bit of a tongue twister line. I wasn't able to get any pictures at the production, but they will be sending home a c.d. of images from the dress rehearsals and practices so I will try to get a few up here as soon as I can.

Little Buddy is 3

We had Little Buddy's Birthday Party last Sunday at Bryan's Parents house. Bryan and his Dad were in charge of the grill, so we had BBQ Ribs, shrimp-n-bacon, pepper poppers, grilled onions, and mushrooms. I decided to make his cake this year, so we didn't run the risk of an allergic reaction on at his party. As I was finishing up decorating the cake I accidentally dropped it and had to spend another hour "fixing" it. It doesn't look to bad in the pictures but I can tell where I had to fix it. The top or racetrack area actually splint in two and I had to Dr. it up as best as I could, with a ton of frosting. Ace of cakes I am not!!

He loved his pinata which was suppose to open up by pulling on the strings but all but one string fell out so we let them beat it with a bat. Badger Boy ended up breaking it open.

Happy Birthday Bry!

My sweet hubby's birthday is today and I will be off shooting a wedding, the so the girls and I got together to wish him a happy birthday this morning before he went to work. We filled his car with balloons and left messages written on his windows. I did take some pictures but didn't have enough time to get them on here, I'll try to do that another day.

Happy Birthday Mr. Crabby Bucket!

Isn't it about time for school to start?

When your 14 year old asks how to spell "rockstar" it is definitely time to go back to school!

Henry

Look at those lashes, chubby cheeks, blue eyes, and curls, you can plainly see why Mr. Henry (Bryan's cousin Kathy's son) needed a blog post all of his own. Lucky for him he lives over 6 hours away because if he didn't I would be bothering him with my camera all the time.

Fairy Mouse

Just a cute image that I was playing around with from my session with Jeff and Jaci.

AlleyCat's One!

I can't belive Miss AlleyCat is already one! She really got into eating her First Birthday cake, loved every bit of it!

She even did her signature, messy hands through her hair, when she was all done.

Pimp My Cast

I took Miss Brainy to Lincoln to get her gortex cast put on before her vacation with her Dad's family. She wanted to do some graffiti on it so I found some cool graffiti fonts online and put her name on it. We added a few other graphics, hope you can see them on the image below, click it to enlarge.

Good Lookin Group!

A quick collage I put together of some of the images from our Branson trip. Most of these images were taken by The Boss, she's not a half bad little paparazzi! Unfortunately some people are missing, they must of hid from the camera.

At the Pool

The kids spent most of our Branson Vacation in the hotel pool. Bryan said "We didn't drive all the way down here for a pool!", but the kids sure thought that was what vacation was for!

It was a pretty small pool but the perfect size for a bunch of cousins to play in. The first day we were only at the pool for a short time before it decided to rain on us, and everyone had to run to the bottom of the big hill in a downpour.

Grandpa and Bertus taking in an afternoon siesta

M
Badger Boy
Little Buddy aka "Captain Goggles"

Bean Pole

Mouse
Big Cousins
Little Cousins

10 candles

She is only an "e" away from being a teen! Get it? Ten, Teen, "e"!?! LOL!! That was on her card she got from us, and according to the older girls it's not funny, but I thought it was cute!

What 10th birthday would be complete without the relighting candles? Only thing is she has a bit of a temper and was not at all happy about it. We thought it was hilarious though!

Broken.....again!

Miss Brainy is destined to be in a cast and on crutches all summer. She broke her ankle again, in a different spot, on 4th of July. We went to see the specialist today and he wants her to be in her walking boot for 4-6 weeks or get a cast next week. She has plans to go with her dad's family rafting and boating next week so the Dr. suggested a gortex cast. I will call to see what that is exactly and maybe get one put on so that she can swim on their trip. Poor girl was only out of the boot for 2 weeks. The dr. said that being in the cast before made her bones weak and she was probably walking different than normal when she stepped off a curb which caused the break. I asked again if he thought she had brittle bones or needed more calcium and he said her bones looked fine, but I think she will be taking a supplement (as will her sisters) just to be cautious.

We leave on wed. to go to Branson for a little R&R with Bryan's family. His family from Arkansas is coming up to meet up there, so it should be a good time. Plenty of cousins for the kids to play with!

It's a Bird. It's a Plane. No it's...

Not so Super Bryan! I did not tilt this image at all, it is of Bryan jumping on the trampoline and then falling down. He is such a goof!

Father/Son Silhouette

I finally got the chance to get a silhouette of Bryan and Little Buddy yesterday on Father's Day (how fitting)! I took some of Bertus and AlleyCat also, but I think they might go on my new website so I will wait to share them.

Fireworks

Homestead Days Fireworks weren't nearly as exciting as previous years, but Little Buddy really liked them. Normally they are held at Chautauqua Park, but this year due to flooding they held them at the fair grounds. This sounded like a great place to have it, but there were races going on at the same time. So instead of being able to sit on blankets and in lawn chairs and watch them in complete darkness, we sat with behind power lines and sheds in front of us, and street lights shining right next to us, while everyone in the race stands was able to sit in complete darkness and see them perfectly. Oh well there is always next year!

Fu Panda... is fa weet

Yep you read that right no typo there! We are heading out to see Kung Fu Panda (aka:Fu Panda in Little Buddy language) tonight with the fam! Upon hearing this Sawyer announced very loudly "Fa Weet", or Sweet in Little Buddy-ese! What do I get out of these deal? A clean van!

Gone Baby Gone

Miss Brainy got her cast off this past week. She is now in the boot for 3 weeks, she is suppose to put weight on it slowly and by the end of the three weeks she should be walking on it with her crutches. The Dr. will re-xray it and hopefully she will be back to normal, or as normal as she gets!

The nurse asked if she wanted to keep the cast and we both agreed that we didn't want that stinking thing anymore. I could not believe how bad it smelled, YUCK!
Miss Brainy requested that I not share the details of the funk and hair she had grown inside that nasty thing, and since I am such a nice mom I choose not to. OOPS!

P.S. I love you

I had been hearing so much about this movie and how great it was I decided to buy the book on Wednesday while shopping with Miss Brainy. I came home and started reading it at bedtime (Bryan had control of the t.v. watching a cubs game). I didn't put it down until 3 a.m. when I finally finished. I love this book, it may not be the best written book I ever read (the author was only 21 when she wrote it) but man did it suck me in and make me cry! Bryan acted slightly surprised when I cuddled up to him at 3 a.m. and bawled like a baby, but by now he knows how much of a sap I can be. Well yesterday I decided that I had to go rent the movie, but the stinkin rental place was out of copies. So I told Bryan that I was just going to buy it since I knew it had to be a good movie since the book was so great. I even went on to say that even if it had horrible actors it would still be good. Bryan said, "Well what if it had a horrible director that didn't follow the book?" I couldn't even fathom the idea that someone would do that! We sat down last night to watch it, WHAT A DISAPPOINTMENT! Bryan was right the director butchered the book it was hardly the same, maybe a few a names where still the same but what about the 6-7 people he cut out, the setting was different (although he did use Ireland for some of it), the story line was different, the characters were so drastically different it was hard to accept some of the scenes of the movie, even the letters were different. So my point is that if you are like me and like to read the book before seeing the movie, you will be sadly disappointed by this one! I think I might have liked the movie if I hadn't read the book!

Models

My niece stayed the night this past weekend and I told the girls I would do a little photo shoot. I posted some of my niece's on the business blog, but wanted to post a few of my girls too. I saved my favorites to put on the new website which should be ready within the next month!

Don't worry there are no more zoo pics

But there are some aquarium pics!! I am almost done posting from the trip to the zoo, but needed to add these from the Scott Aquarium. I wasn't able to get as many in the aquarium as I a had hoped, but I think I got a few keepers.

" I think I will name you squishy, and you will be my squishy!"

Name that movie!

Little Buddy, Bryan, and Badger Boy in the bubble at the penguin exhibit.

More dance images

I tried to do a mini session with The Chatterbox after she had her hair done and before the recital, but it just didn't work. We were way to rushed and she had a problem with her face! She forgot how to smile normal! She occasionally does this thing when the camera comes out where her face just does not work, she bats her eyes, puckers her lips, and makes the strangest faces. I thought we had cured her of this and she had been doing so well, but for some reason during this session she had a bad case of "Fake Face". This is why she is not smiling in these images, sometimes I take what I can get!