All is better...and Busy

Life around here has been really crazy the last 3 weeks....we had a week of Matthew being sick, then travel to Canada for Thanksgiving, and then Anne was at the theatre all last week working on "You're a Good Man Charlie Brown". I thought I would get everyone caught up a little on us.

#1 Matthew is doing much better, sorry for the gross picture I posted...I honestly was not waiting for him to throw up so I could take a picture, it just happened that he did that right when I went to take a picture of him. But, really that is what was going on most of that week. We are going back to the doctor today, just to make sure he is 100% better, but he is really much better, just a little bit of a cough left. Here is a much nicer picture of him looking much healthier. This was taken at a family Christmas party we had at my Grandma's retirement home.


#2 Our trip to Victoria was wonderful. It was the first time that we had been able to travel up there since Matthew was born. He did really well in the EPIC car ride. Our drive on the busiest travel day of the year took almost 12 hours (it normally would be around 5) It took us 1.5 hours to get through Seattle and Everett, and then their was an 1.5 hour wait at the border, then we had to wait for the ferry. We arrived at Chris's parents around 11 pm, very tired. The boys actually did really well though, and they slept most of the way. It could have been a whole lot worse.
We had a nice relaxing time, and Matthew's cousins and Aunt Lorna and Uncle Bob enjoyed getting to know him. They were soooo excited to finally meet him.

We went to the duck pond several times and fed the ducks and peacocks.
They were amazing and would eat right out of your hand. It was really fun. Isaac just loved it of course.
#3 This last week, Chris has played "Mr. Mom" in the evenings while I was off at the theatre getting the show "You're A Good Man Charlie Brown" up and running. For those of you who don't know, I have taken a part time job with a children's theatre company called CYT...Christian Youth Theatre. It has been a lot of fun and the perfect job for me. The kids range in age from 8-18. We still have shows this weekend at Mt. Hood Community College. It is a really great, HIGH QUALITY show, perfect to bring the young kids to.


Check out the website if you would like to purchase tickets, or give me a call. The Gresham outlook had a great article about the musical and the company on weds. I currently am teaching an acting class for them and will be directing for them in the future. I am looking forward to being around this week and getting caught up on housework, and spending lots of time with the kids. If you are wondering wether I fell off the face of the earth, I didn't, I just got swallowed up by the theatre.

On Saturday morning, I woke up to a high school flashback....our lawn had been "forked" and saran wrapped. The kids in CYT decided to show their love for me by filling our yard with forks and wrapping saran wrap all over our lawn, car and porch. Very sweet. Isaac LOVED it and thought is was really fun to stomp on the forks. They wrote all sorts of notes on paper plates and left those around. Funny Funny!!! Guess this is payback for all those poor people we toilet papered while in high school.


Along with all of that, Chris bought a new (new to us) car on saturday...a post about that to follow, and we had a family Christmas get together on sunday. So needless to say it has been a VERY VERY busy 3 weeks. I still have another weekend of shows to do as well. Ah, the busy Christmas season! :-)