Summertime Take II

Appropriately, a production, which may or may not include "takes" is part of this blog post! Once upon a time, our girls auditioned for a theatrical production in a musty, old, falling apart theater. But then the theater moved to a freshly renovated location within a former brick warehouse. But then . . . pandemic, so all the productions came to a halt. And then, theater came back! One of the young ladies in our youth group happened to be in the show. Interestingly, she was the cookie-making mouse in the very same church Christmas production in which Brennen starred many years ago (I'll see if I can find a photo)! 

The new theater space is way snazzy! We were super impressed and thinking what a fun place it would be for special events, dances, etc. Oh, so back to the show--it was super well done, and really funny, and all kids under the age of 18! My Crew recognized a bunch of the song and came home singing, "If I were a rich man da-da-da-za-dinga-za." Caelan knew the lead guy character (pictured in the masked photobomb below) from the dances she attended at the Catholic school in recent years. Overall, even though we had to sit in separate rows for social distancing (I ended up sitting with a family I've had in youth group at two churches :), we had a great evening out at the theater--and finished the night with a big old rainbow stretched across the sky :)

Brennen in red, mouse in green apron--I know I have a better one somewhere :) Five years ago!

Other summer stuff--finishing math. Graysen wore out his first laptop, and then inherited Caelan's when she bought one for school. Muriel stepped on it and snapped the hinge shortly thereafter. Now the left side of the screen is blank, so he mostly watches school videos in a minimized window on the right. It works . . . sort of :)

Next up, an increasingly frequent summer visitor! My cutie nephew came to play while his dad enjoyed a night on the town with dinner and dancing. We did our best to run the energy out of M's almost-four-year-old battery--baby chickens, more baby chickens, bubbles, up the hill, down the hill, back up the hill, on the plasma car, around the neighborhood, up the stairs, down the stairs, little man was busy! Eventually he settled into some light reading (Caelan's senior year book) and showed Brennen every picture that Brennen was in :) The next day, while my bro's sweetheart was running a race, the father-son duo came to hang out with us. Most of my Crew was at work, so my bro and G$ and Mr. M went to the bounce park. They jumped, they danced, they burned off some energy. Good times!

Another summer activity, youth group! There was a movie night recently and sludge wars (basically a food fight with the slimiest foods you can imagine) before that. I've noticed Brennen keeps popping up in the background for his own photobombs . . . Graysen might also be adding some comedy to my otherwise lovely photos, ha! (I actually only took the sunset one :)

One of the summer fb silly things, turn yourself into a cartoon character. We didn't actually post ours anywhere, so we'll share them here :) (I only end punctuate with smiley faces in the summer :)

When the dogs don't get fed until waaaay late, they don't mind eating side-by-side. Awww, friendsies!

The chickens decided to try a new trick--see that nest? Clear in the back? BEHIND the nesting boxes, in the far reaches of the dog kennel coop? Ay-yi-yi . . .

And then there's whatever this is . . . (Brennen ;) . . . the summer selfie smolder?? :)

Here's a fun summer activity . . . say fresh sushi three times fast! And then ask yourself, why would a store sell sushi that wasn't fresh, was it necessary to put it on the sign? Does that mean at sometime their raw fish dinners were not fresh? Hmmmm . . . freshushi, fresooshi, fresssoooshie . . .