The Actor

I am a little late in getting this up, but Dylan was in a school play a couple of weeks ago. He is in theater and is really quite a good actor. Especially in the comedy department. He had two main roles in the performance this year and everyone we talked to had nothing but praise for the way the performance went and especially about Dylan's parts.

Over the past couple of years, his class has also put on some improvisational performance. Let me tell you, Whose Line Is It Anway has nothing on Dylan and his class. They did some skits that would have been worthy of putting on that show. Dylan is really quick on his feet and will come back at you with a zinger in a heartbeat. It makes him extreamly fun to be around and very popular at his school. In fact, he was also voted the 8th grade King, by his classmates. No doubt because everyone loves to be around Dylan.

Fathers and Sons

This weekend was our ward Fathers and Sons outing. Dylan, Dakota, my dad and I all went. It was at Willow Creek in the Mount Charleston area. As we were doing 20 mph on the freeway at 4:00 trying to get out of town, the thermonitor read 113 degrees. So the first nice thing about this outing being in the mountains is it was 80 degrees when we got to the camp site. By the time we went to bed it was down around 60. MUCH nicer than the temp in Vegas. We had a really good time. Dad and I played horseshoes and the boys were climbing the nearest hill. We made some dutch oven chicken and potatos that were awesome. Later that night, we got together with all the other fathers and had rootbeer floats and a small presentation of the Restoration of the Arronic Priesthood. It was a nice night. Dakota was beat so right after, he and grandpa went to bed and I followed a few minutes later. I am not really sure what time Dylan made it to bed, but everyone was up by 6:00 the next morning. The Elders Quarum made breakfast burrito's for everyone and then we came home. I am really glad my Dad could go with us this year.

Making Ravioli

Last Sunday, It was Dylan's turn to help me cook. We decided to make Giant 3 Cheese baked Ravioli Alfredo. What a task! I thought that it might be difficult, but it turned out to be really easy. The pasta turned out great and baking the Ravioli was a lot easier than boiling them. It was the most fun I have had cooking in a long time!

Next time, I want to do this with regular Marinara sauce. If only the kids would eat the good food I make!!!

Snakes...

We just had one of the best weekends up in Utah. My cousin Livy got married last weekend so we went up to Utah for the wedding. All of her family came in from Wyoming and Texas. Don and Tammy, June Ann and Keith, J.O. and Becky and all of their kids. Plus a lot of my cousins, George and Susie, Greg, Meghan and Jeff, Mindy my Uncle Mark and Aunt Marilyn. The list goes on and on. We had a bar-b-q at Meghan's on Friday and then the wedding was on Saturday. I can not tell you how fun it was to see all of my cousins. I have not seen a lot of them in quite a while and I loved it. Plus seeing Don and Tammy is always high on my list. I think it helped us push to make a decision to go up to Cody in 2008. I already can't wait.

Since Toni and the 3 D' came up for the wedding and we picked up the 3 C's, we had a lot of fun together. We spent the first night with my Aunt Shannon and her husband Merlin. I can't thank them enough for taking on all 8 of us! They also told us that we should go down to the Store that cousin Brittney works at. It is a fish and reptile store. So we did. Brittney handles the snakes and reptiles for the store. They had a couple of Boa Constrictors, one of them an albino. She took them out and some of us were even brave enough to hold them. Take a look.

Here the kids are just acting normal...I mean silly. Looks there are two party poopers that just didn't want to get into the spirit!
Anyway, all the kids had a great time together and they can't wait until August when the three C's get to come down to Vegas for a week.