A Teenage Melodrama.....Like Whatever

This is Dylan after his performances last Thursday night. He played an angel (Chet) in Day Six and the air conditioning maintenance man (Dylan Everready) in A Teenage Melodrama.....Like Whatever. He was a great angel but we really liked his performance as Dylan Everready. Hilarious!!! He is one talented fella, if I do say so. Both plays were directed by students and they all did a really great job. :)

UNLV vs. Wyoming

The three of us went to the UNLV football game Saturday night and this picture was taken on Steve's Iphone and it's a little fuzzy, I noticed. Anyhoo, it was fun to be out with Steve and Dakota and this was after we got a free meal at IHOP (because they lost our order and the food was late getting to us, the manager picked up the check)Yay!! Steve's parents were there too so we were able to hang out with them for a while and share peanuts. It was a good night. :)

Pine Valley Trip

I have snuck onto Toni's blog and taken over for a day!!! Feels good to be back! Actually, I just wanted to write a little bit about a trip Dylan and I took last weekend. We went with the Priest Quorum and their leaders to Pine Valley Utah.

Friday night, we had a great lesson about quorums by Daniel Barnhurst and then just hung out with the boys talking and playing old Nintendo games. Saturday we went and shot rifles, handguns and shot guns in the morning. Here is a great video of Dylan being all Gangster with the handgun.



Later that day, we took a tour of the oldest operating LDS Church building. The contruction of the building was amazing. It is hard to believe what people did without the modern building tools we have now. It is a beautiful building.

The last thing we did was go to the Mountain Meadow. This was a little bit sobering. It is the location of a very sad story of some people traveling through the meadow on their way to California. They had been traveling all through Utah and the entire time, were pretty much being shunned and/or ignored by the people of Utah, due largely in part that the people of Utah, mostly Mormons had been driven out of their homes back East, abused, tortured and looked down on. As such, they were not receptive to people from the East and those travelers may have done their part to antagonize the Mormons. It is very unclear exactly how things got to be so bad, but the end result was nearly all of the people from Arkansas were killed, many by ambush from the Indians and Mormons both. It is a sad story but what we took from it was the need to not let situations escalate. Things like this could be avoided with cool heads and open hearts.

Anyway, the trip was great and I enjoyed the time with Dylan and the other boys and leaders. Here are some pictures.

One of My Favorite Things

Is to hang out with Steve when the kids are in school. Yesterday, Steve took the day off and after dropping Dakota off at school we headed out to Henderson. We stopped at Einstein Bagels for bagels, a danish, a pumpkin muffin and fresh orange juice. Delicious!! We headed to Walmart where we roamed around for way too long (we did buy a few things) and then stopped at Costco for a few things. By now it was the time frame you are allowed to drop paint cans off at the dump, so we did. The whole time we talked about so many different things and held hands and just enjoyed being together.

We then headed home and did a few things around the house that needed to be done. After some computer time and book reading we picked Dakota up from school and made our way to Sonic. Yippee I love me some sonic! When Dylan got home, he and Steve left for Pine Valley with Bishop and the Priest Quorum for an overnight trip. Dakota and I had pizza for dinner and watched Back to the Future. A great day for me. :)

Halloween Came and Went

October 30th was our Ward Halloween party and was so much fun. Steve made my most favorite soup ever, Cream of Mushroom, for the Chili/Soup cook off and it was as always absolutely delicious! Dylan and Dakota didn't dress up this year but they had a great time hanging out with their friends and playing games. Steve was busy taking pictures of everyone and I spent most of the night visiting with Brad and Leslie Johnson (who are such wonderful and awesome people).

1 bowl of soup and 2 cupcakes later, the Trunk or Treating began. I was going to make an early get away at this point, however, Dylan made off to Albertsons with my keys in his pocket. So again, I sat with the Johnsons chatting away while watching the little goblins trick or treat for candy and I had a ball. So much fun. Dylan and my keys found me and it was off to home. We have such an amazing ward and I truly love being a part of it. Our bishopric is fantastic and I am so grateful for them (especially the 1st counselor I absolutely love him):)

Sunday the 31st was a great day at church and wonderfully quiet at home. Dinner was awesome, left over Cream of Mushroom soup for me, thankyou very much. Then we watched Hocus Pocus, my favorite Halloween movie, to end the day. Happy Halloween! It was a great weekend! :)

October 22nd Came and Went

Just like the last 14 years. Dakota turned 14 on this day and I have no idea where the time went. He's my baby and I can't believe he is cruising through teen years now. I can remember just holding him as a baby and thinking "I better enjoy this and remember it cuz he's the last one" I'm so glad I did that. I remember how he used to wave his little hands in circles and scrunch his nose when he wanted you to pick him up. So cute I tell you!! Just look at this picture, I just want to bite a chunk out of him.

He got a cell phone for his birthday and couldn't have been happier. Evidentally, "everyone has a cell phone" and now he does too. We celebrated his birthday by having family over for brats and potatoe salad (dakota's favorite) and a burnt frosting cake. Yum!

I'm so grateful for this kid. He is kind, loving, funny, spazzy, energetic, smart, handsome, full of knowledge which he is always willing to share (whether you like it or not), sticks to his guns (whether you like it or not), athletic, and did I say funny? He makes us laugh all the time even when he's not trying to be funny. I love him, this little child of mine, which he's not so little anymore (6'1" at 14 sheesh). I'm so grateful for him and the love and joy (and the occasional craziness) he has brought to our family.

We love you Dakota and Happy 14th Birthday! :)