School House Rock, and camping fun! (Warning!!! Picture Overload!!)

What a busy week we have had! First we had Alison and Tyler's play, they made it into a play for Herriman City for School House Rock Live JR! They tried out in mid July, made the cut and practiced twice a week for a month! They worked hard and I watched Trevin and Carli during the practices. They had 3 groups of kids in the 3 casts, ours was red, and the whole cast combined made up 118 kids!! The experience was so much fun! They even got to be on the channel 2 news and had to be there at 5:30 am!! Lucky for me Jarin took them and I sat home and recorded it! Each cast performed 3 songs, ours were Interplanet Janet, Adjectives, and Circulation, then all three groups at the end performed Interjections. Even their cousin Amber (she and Deven told them about the tryouts when we went to see them in Sound of Music) got to be in the backstage crew helping it all run smoothly! All the grandparents came, cousins and Uncle Jed and Aunt Laura and some friends which made it even more exciting! I am going to add the links to video in the side bar but here are a few pictures.....

A shot of all the groups together at the dress rehearsal practicing the last song.

Tyler had fun shooting squirt guns in the Adjective song when they talked about rain! The second picture I thought was great of Tyler Showing his "scared" face as part of the song actions.

In the song Interplanet Janet when Janet visits Earth she finds the people are a little weird, so the kids got to put on glasses with noses!

A picture with their cousin Amber and of course signing autographs!

I love my kids! They did a great job!

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Then on Friday we went camping with the ward, I'll admit we weren't to excited to go, we had to wait till Jarin got home from work to go and then didn't get up there till 8:30, but I had to be there for the activity committee, I had the smore's and the cheese for the next morning breakfast. We got there and had a hard time finding a spot for our tent but our friend Adam helped Jarin and they got it set up in time for bed. But we did get to roast a few marshmallows so not all was lost!!

Carli cried going to bed but eventually settled down while I sang to her, but she would only sleep with me holding her so I didn't get much sleep. Jarin got up early to help cook breakfast, build your own breakfast burritos and cold cereal or the kids! Then while things were getting cleaned up and I kept running after kids, a few of the grown were kind enough and very patient to help the kids on the rope swing, this was another Stakes property and we were allowed to borrow it.

The kids had so much fun on the swing, they took turns going several times, some getting wet since they were swimming over a little water that probably came up to the ankles. I had fun taking tons of pictures and I put them all up on Photobucket for the ward to have access to them.

There was also a bridge that the kids liked to walk across. I got a cute picture of CarliAnn. We were the second to last to leave and really had fun that Saturday, we are glad now that we went. Hopefully though next time we can camp for more than one night!