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Ilah has decided to create a blog... She really wanted to to a web show, but this is the best I can do. She would love your comments!!!!!!



P.S. The link is over on the left under Friends and Family.

North Middle School's Jazz Band

Since I have been taking classes to get my masters, I have had to miss several concerts, games, awards nights, etc. I was completely bummed a few weeks ago when I missed what I thought was the last band concert. Lucky for me, the band was asked to play one more time after my class was over. Hardly anyone attended because it wasn't advertised, and the majority of the band parents/families had just attended their "last" concert. So about 10 people- including me and Taysom- were treated to a wonderful night of jazz. Tucker and his two buddies from church (Matthew and Sam) are the three of the four trumpeters. (Tucker is the tallest one.) Melia, also in our ward, is on the keyboard.
Our favorite song is "The Pink Panther."

The one below is the Pink Panther. If you only have time to listen to one, I suggest this one. Notice the steady metronome in the background. It was the self-proclaimed 'best audience member' clapping in time because Ms. Palmer asked the audience to participate. Taysom never lets down the band :)

Henry and the Terrible, Horrible, No-good, Very Bad Day

This morning Henry woke up a bit grumpy. After getting his church clothes on, he went downstairs to the kitchen to toast some Eggos. Unfortunately, Ilah and Tucker had just finished them off. It was going to be a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad day!

He had to move Taysom's pioneer dress making mess on the table so he could sit up there and try to get his church shoes on. They are lace-ups, and he hates lace-ups. He was really having trouble with the left shoe so Ilah decided to help. She pulled out the laces to try and loosen the shoe. Henry yelled at Ilah for taking out the laces. Just then Mom came into the kitchen and got after Henry (she had woken up a bit grumpy herself). It was a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad day!

As we were walking out to get into the van, Mom mentioned to Henry that he needed to go right to his room for a nap when he got home from church unless she saw marked improvement in his behavior at church. He glared at her thinking, "This is a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad day!"

While sitting on the pew during sacrament meeting, Ilah asked Mike for a piece of gum. Mike gave Ilah his last piece. Henry became sullen and even grumpier. Mike had been at meetings all morning and didn't understand that Henry was having a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad day so he leaned down and asked Henry what was wrong. Henry said, "They ate all the Eggos, now the gum... I bet I don't get any lunch either."

I hope he doesn't move to Alaska!

Henry Persuades Through Humor

A couple of weeks ago we took the family to Olive Garden in honor of Tucker's birthday. After our delicious dinner we were deciding who wanted to go to Academy Sports with Dad and Tucker to pick out Tucker's birthday present (a clay pidgeon thrower). Henry quickly piped up that he needed to go because he really needed new shoes. I had no sooner given the questioning look when Henry started explaining, "Mom, let me show you my shoes' new features, and they weren't included!"

That boy had us all cracking up :)