Melodrama

I was back stage for the performance so these are pictures from our dress rehearsal.  They are pretty acurate as far as costuming goes except for some people shoes. Alex was Dr. Philastis Hurlbut, a snake oil salesman.  His job was to tell the audience what to do in a melodrama (boo, hisss, ahhhh that kind of thing). He wrote his own part and it was one of the highlights of the show.  Ethan was Henry Honeysackle Jr. and Fenton was Harold Honeysackle.  They each had a line but most of the time just followed Mom and Dad Honeysackle around.

The Honeysackle family on the trail to the Bear Lake Valley

 

Dr. Philastus Hurlbut trying to get you to buy his miracle drug that will help your hair to grow. Which later in his act fell off.

 



It will also cure your muscular atrophy and so you will have BIG muscles. Which were then popped by a little boy with a pin.

 



Ethan and Fenton inside the Honeysacle home

 

Singing the final song "Take me out of this valley"

 

This was Fenton through most of the rehearsals, off in his own little world.



Snow Festival

Over Presidents Day weekend we held our annual Snow Festival in Montpelier.  On Friday night we preformed an old fashioned melodrama.  Ethan, Fenton and Alex were in it.  It was a lot of fun.  For some reason it is not letting me upload the pictures from that but I will keep trying.  On Saturday we had a snow sculpture contest.  This year we decided to make a Monster Truck.  The kids didn't help much but I think Alex did a great job and we took 3rd place.

Sledding

We finally got a really good snow storm this last weekend so some friends of ours brought their snowmoblie over and pulled the kids around in the back field.  The kids had a great time!

 Griffin

 

 Anika

 

 Fenton

 

 Ethan

 

Dalton 

Anika the Cheerleader

This fall Anika started Cheerleading.  She wasn't too excited about it when she first started but I am helping with the team so I made her do it. Once they got their uniforms and started to perform she has decided that it is pretty fun.  They have only performed at a few of the city league basketball games and this next weekend they will be performing a half-time routine for a JV basketball game.  Their coach hopes to get them into some competitions this summer.

Griffin

For those of you who don't know Griffin LOVES animals but sometimes he is a little mean.  Last Sunday he was hitting Petey and finally Petey had had enough and growled and swung his head at Griffin.  He managed to get Griffin under the eye with one of his teeth.  The cut was small but deep so Alex glued it shut.  The next day Griffin had quite a shiner. 

Winter Fun

It has finally decided to warm up a little here so Friday the kids and I headed over to the ice skating rink for some fun.  Dalton and I are the only ones who have ice skates so we took sleds for the other kids to have fun on. We did a little bit of ice skating and then lots of snow ball throwing and sliding around on the ice.

 Griffin biffed it pretty good a couple of times and I happened to catch him going down in this picture.

 Dalton started to get the hang of skating

 Right before he threw the big snowball at me

 Fenton went to the playground to swing on the tire swing

 Anika tried the ice skates but they were WAY to big

 SNOWBALL FIGHT!



Fenton

Fenton showing of his Spiderman and Article of Fatih skills.