Wednesday, December 30, 2009

The Hills Are Alive...



Sammy tried out for the Middle School Musical this year. It's going to be The Sound Of Music!!! She put on her audition form that she wanted to be one of the Von Trapp children.

Her dream has come true! She is going to be Louisa, second daughter of Captain Von Trapp!

Can't you just see Sammy playing her? She is so excited!!!

We are all looking forward to the perfomances on Feb. 24, 25 & 26!

These Are A Few Of My Favorite Things...

Wish everyone could see her in this...especially Kelly since she's such a big Sound of Music fan. We'll have to buy an extra DVD of the performance just for her!

Monday, December 28, 2009

The most expensive Christmas Tree ever!

The Christmas season was so busy this year! We were too busy with a million other things that had a deadline of Dec. 25; since blogging has no deadline it was pushed back to January...Anyway, now that I have a little bit of time to play catch-up here's our family picking out the most expensive Christmas tree ever in the history of the Daynes family...and quite possibly the history of the world!

My brother paid a big $24 for his tree in L.A. this year. Our tree was well into the $200's. I know that it was brought over on a ship from the U.S. and it's the real deal and all...but ouch!






Sammy ran into her principal at the nursery when we were picking out our tree. She was just SO embarassed!



Tying our new baby on the car to bring her home where she will live for her short 3 week life with us!

Actually, she was a great tree. Everyone who walked into our house this Christmas season loved the fresh smell of pine which wafted immediately up their noses. It is a smell you never get in this part of the world! It will be sad to tell her goodbye.

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Turkey Day

Thanksgiving Day was pretty much the usual: Tukey Bowl in the morning, lots of cooking and real turkey in the afternoon with friends. It was a great day!


Here's Carson at the Turkey Bowl. This boy has a temper. He was mad b/c he hadn't scored a touchdown yet so he was off pouting on the sideline...



Jack wasn't interested in playing football but he did have a lot of fun on the sidelines making funny faces...





Carson got his long anticipated touchdown on this play so he was happy again...




Sammy wanted to go down to the squishy courts now to play some basketball. As if we weren't all sweaty enough already...






It didn't take Bailey long to invite a friend over for a swim...



After the play in the morning we went over to the Robison's place for Thanksgiving dinner. Here's Jack hanging on the couch with his girlfriend Kosette...they are looking just a little too comfy together! Before long someone might have to intervene there and say something like, oh, I don't know..."Let's be for sitting up!"



After dinner we played my annual "Turkey Dare" Game which I made up last year. This is how you play: You get a picture of a turkey randomly and on the back there's a dare which you must complete...if you dare! So, it might say something like, "Stick a piece of corn up your nose" or "drink the rest of the gravy." This year Mike got the dare, "Kiss Ruby the dog on the lips!" Here's a photo of 3 people who went together on a dare and just took their dare up to the next level: The dare was, "Sing a Christmas song." They got together and sang with some dancing and bell jingling. It was pretty funny...you pretty much had to be there to fully appreciate it!"



Another fun Thanksgiving was had by all!!! Jonna cooked a 20 pound turkey which was very delish. I made some rolls, sour cream apple pie, creamed corn, mashed 'taters and stuffing. Now the countdown for Christmas is on!!!