Happy Birthday Kaitlin!

Kaitlin asked for lemon bars rather than a cake.

In the midst of the whirlwind that is our life of late, Kaitlin had a  birthday.  We only had one free night all week and I set it aside to celebrate.  Kaitlin's activity of choice was to stay home and watch TV together (does that tell you how tired we are?), so that is what we did.  We also had pizza.  On Kaitlin's actual birthday we went to the dollar store and bought Kaitlin a birthday sash to wear. She also got to pick out other things because it was her birthday so we just went crazy.  She insisted that we all wear funny hats to the store, and so we did. We had a performance of Footloose that night, so I made a big poster, the cast sang happy birthday to her, and we gave out rice-crispies to everyone.  Kaitlin asked for and got money for her birthday.

We blended right in at the dollar store.

Kaitlin on TV

On Tuesday morning at 5:30 am Kaitlin went to be on TV to promote Footloose.  She was on several segments on the morning news between 7am and 9am.  You can click here to watch a clip from that TV appearance.  You see Kaitlin dancing on the second row at about the 2 minute mark. You can watch all the clips here (she is also in 'Cowboy Bob' and Hero).

Broken Window

The little hole on the lower right is the original hole.

While Kaitlin was dancing away on TV. I was dealing with a broken window on the van.  When we came out of Footloose on Monday night we found our drivers side window had been shot out with a bb gun or something.  Nothing was taken from the car, just the window broken.  It was really late and we decided to drive home with the window. When we started there was just a quarter sized hole missing from the window, but it cracked and moaned and little pieces started to fall off as we went. It was like a scene from a suspense movie.  But slow driving and prayer got us home with the window intact.  After a morning on the phone with the insurance and police I was able to get the window replace. Yeah, that was a hundred dollars I wasn't planning on spending.

Space Derby

As luck would have it, I had Wednesday night free to go to Cub Scout Pack Meeting and help run our first ever Space Derby.   The boys made rubber band propelled vehicles that self propelled down a fishing line.  The event was a challenge because each vehicle had to be twisted 100 times before they could be placed on the line.  It was tricky and fraught with technical problems, but in the end Jared one first place in the Webelos division. He made it to the semi-finals overall.

Goodbye Footloose

Nine performances later we are finished with Footloose.  It was a fun experience and I loved every  minute of spending time with my girls.  The show was a big success, and we had full crowds and standing ovations.  The teens doing the show were all so talented and hard working.  Kaitlin worked hard, and learned that she enjoyed dancing, and that dancing was hard work.  Overall we are really glad that we decided to take part and hope to do more with this community theater in the future.

Backstage, trying to look intimidating.

In her 80's prom dress.

Ruth was only in three scenes so she spent a lot of time sitting backstage.

Here are the rest of our Footloose fans. Thanks for supporting us!