Here is the flyer for the benefit show for Viktoriya. There will also be workshops and a show featuring Sherri, formerly of the Bellydance Superstars also to benefit Viktoriya the weekend after this show. The blog wouldn't let me upload the flyer though, I'll see if I can get Rus to try to fiddle with it and convince it that it really does want to upload it...
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
flyer for Viktoriya benefit show
Here is the flyer for the benefit show for Viktoriya. There will also be workshops and a show featuring Sherri, formerly of the Bellydance Superstars also to benefit Viktoriya the weekend after this show. The blog wouldn't let me upload the flyer though, I'll see if I can get Rus to try to fiddle with it and convince it that it really does want to upload it...
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Why is the heater on in JUNE?!?!?!?
Happy Midsummer! Why do we still need the heater on?!?!?
Our newest nephew, Caeden Micheal Cataldo, was born this week! He actually just narrowly missed being born on Kelly’s birthday, being born at 1:55 am June 19. He measured in at 7 lbs, 6 oz and 19 ½ inches long, and is officially very cute : ) Kerry and Mike let me be there for the labor and birth, which was very special.
While we were down in Orem/Provo for the birth, we, along with Rus’ parents, stuck a candle in some yummy coconut ice cream and sang happy birthday to me.
Poor Rus was so exhausted after the long night that two of his coworkers had to bring him home from work on Friday, afraid that he might pass out if he stayed. When the kids and I arrived home that day, we put a movie on for them and he and I took a nap on the floor. But it was totally worth it of course!
Last week we got to see Laura and Cody and Mariah and their new baby Liam for a short visit anyway. Cute babies seem to run in this family. We got to hug and cuddle Liam too, which was great, it's too bad we didn't know they were here the whole week before that, we would've come down to see them more!
After that we were able to have a quick visit with Sarah and Juma too. We met up at the zoo, along with Shelley, Melissa and company and some of Sarah's inlaws. Rus was even able to meet us there after work. After the zoo we went back to our house for a thoroughly unhealthy but quick and kid friendly meal of hotdogs and watermelon. We sat and visited while the kids played and wondered how grownups could be so boring. (I used to wonder that myself when I was a kid).
So all in all it's been a great month for nephews!
Picture roll call:
Xander playing puppet with his cousin Oscar at the zoo,
Cousins at the zoo
MaryMegan (aka Auntie Moo) and Caeden
Caeden
Kelly holding Caeden
Sunday, June 14, 2009
"Fireball of Stickiness"
Gwen cracks me up everytime:
Gwen was biting her arm in the car,
Rus: Gwen, don’t bite you arm!
Gwen: But it’s fun for me!
Rus: You used to do that when you were a baby, now you’re a big girl, so don’t do it anymore.
Gwen: Let’s have a contest-I’ll bite my skin, you bite your fur!
Gwen after eating pancakes with honey for breakfast, held her hands up above her head, and in a very dramatic, very loud voice declared, “My hands...are...a fireball of stickyness!!!” I replied, “Why don’t you wash them?” She, adopting an odd, wide, face-stretching, mad scientist (still very loud) sort of voice said “I don’t want to do ANYTHING to take care of them!!”
Xander brought me a rose from our backyard and said “Mamma, if you multiply that by a BILLION, that’s still not a QUARTER of what you are” Sweet boy, he makes me smile.
Isaac has been very helpful keeping the younger kids happy and busy, inventing games and fun stuff to do during summer vacation.
Yesterday we went to the Scottish Festival and Highland Games that is held at Thanksgiving Point every year. We saw some of Molly’s Revenge ( a Celtic music group), the kids and Rus did the “beat the giant” “boffer” fighting at the SCA tent, (Rus and the “giant” tied once, and Rus won the next two times) Rus got to see how many pull ups he could do while wearing 20 lbs of chain mail, and Jon and Chastity and kids caught up with us for the Wicked Tinkers (a bagpipes and drums and digeridoo type of experience). Rus was sick last year, so he didn’t get a chance to dance much, but this year it was lovely to dance around together. There is something about dancing barefoot in slightly muddy ground to live bagpipes and drums that makes one feel more alive. In fact I was reminded of Marjorie Hinckley’s (former president of the church Gordon Hinckley’s wife) quote about wanting to exit this life with peanut butter stains from making sandwiches for a sick neighbor’s children, etc (It’s a great quote, wish I could remember it verbatim right now.) After we had finished dancing two nicely coiffed, done up women walked by, and I was reminded that after dancing outside and getting sweaty and slightly rained on, and the wind whipping my hair all over I probably was a bit scary looking. But then I realized that I really didn’t care, I would rather “exit this world” so to speak sweaty and mussed and grass stained from dancing and being alive than with my hair perfect from staying on the sidelines. What’s the point of being alive if you aren’t going to live?
Maxed Out Puppetry had a couple of performances at the Princess Festival down in Lindon. We performed Ape in Boots, Hardware Store, and a new sketch called “Seanderella,” set in the ocean.
And, for the record, Kelly looked good even after having danced crazily in the muddy grass.
Gwen was biting her arm in the car,
Rus: Gwen, don’t bite you arm!
Gwen: But it’s fun for me!
Rus: You used to do that when you were a baby, now you’re a big girl, so don’t do it anymore.
Gwen: Let’s have a contest-I’ll bite my skin, you bite your fur!
Gwen after eating pancakes with honey for breakfast, held her hands up above her head, and in a very dramatic, very loud voice declared, “My hands...are...a fireball of stickyness!!!” I replied, “Why don’t you wash them?” She, adopting an odd, wide, face-stretching, mad scientist (still very loud) sort of voice said “I don’t want to do ANYTHING to take care of them!!”
Xander brought me a rose from our backyard and said “Mamma, if you multiply that by a BILLION, that’s still not a QUARTER of what you are” Sweet boy, he makes me smile.
Isaac has been very helpful keeping the younger kids happy and busy, inventing games and fun stuff to do during summer vacation.
Yesterday we went to the Scottish Festival and Highland Games that is held at Thanksgiving Point every year. We saw some of Molly’s Revenge ( a Celtic music group), the kids and Rus did the “beat the giant” “boffer” fighting at the SCA tent, (Rus and the “giant” tied once, and Rus won the next two times) Rus got to see how many pull ups he could do while wearing 20 lbs of chain mail, and Jon and Chastity and kids caught up with us for the Wicked Tinkers (a bagpipes and drums and digeridoo type of experience). Rus was sick last year, so he didn’t get a chance to dance much, but this year it was lovely to dance around together. There is something about dancing barefoot in slightly muddy ground to live bagpipes and drums that makes one feel more alive. In fact I was reminded of Marjorie Hinckley’s (former president of the church Gordon Hinckley’s wife) quote about wanting to exit this life with peanut butter stains from making sandwiches for a sick neighbor’s children, etc (It’s a great quote, wish I could remember it verbatim right now.) After we had finished dancing two nicely coiffed, done up women walked by, and I was reminded that after dancing outside and getting sweaty and slightly rained on, and the wind whipping my hair all over I probably was a bit scary looking. But then I realized that I really didn’t care, I would rather “exit this world” so to speak sweaty and mussed and grass stained from dancing and being alive than with my hair perfect from staying on the sidelines. What’s the point of being alive if you aren’t going to live?
Maxed Out Puppetry had a couple of performances at the Princess Festival down in Lindon. We performed Ape in Boots, Hardware Store, and a new sketch called “Seanderella,” set in the ocean.
And, for the record, Kelly looked good even after having danced crazily in the muddy grass.
Sunday, June 7, 2009
Kids' Documentary
Xander, Isaac, and Gwen and I decided to make a 2-minute documentary. The kids improvised a narration for it in the style of BBC's "Walking with Dinosaurs." Here's the result:
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