The Troops minus my granddaughter and daughter in law

This was my grandson's blessing day... we got most everyone in the picture. Unfortunately my daughter in law and grand daughter were sick so they could not make it.

Pleased! She is a star again.

Chelsie  Shumway, here was in my shows at 10.
Now she is playing my dream role of Maria at Katie's HS.
Wow what a voice !

Maria and The Von Trapp family.

Sam is the section leader now

They told him had the talent but needed to be on time to qualify. So he did it!

Sam's debut in Junior orchestra

They invited parents up to photograph during the performance.

Fwd: [Our Guilin Boy] Halloween pictures

I would say it was a hit ! Matthew loved it. See the bottom photo, that bag was his loot.

Fwd: [Our Guilin Boy] Halloween

Matthew wasn't sure entirely what to expect today. However I had my Chinese teacher from UVU explain the holiday to him. So he was right with us carving pumpkins, marched proudly in the Halloween parade at school , and came home loaded with treats from his teachers (Thanks!)

 We decorated the front porch and he was quite excited by our pumpkin that you can speak through a microphone and scare people with. He also liked the plastic skeleton and cobwebs thanks to my son Samuel.

 Then I had to urge them to eat dinner, chicken noodle soup their favorite. He likes ANYTHING with noodles so you can't go wrong there. Then came the darkness somewhat. They were chomping at the bit to go so we got them their bags for treats (the girls got their pillowcases in case!) This was my first time home to meet the trick or treaters, and Katie (As Carmen San Diego) took them all out for the night's run on candy!

 Here you see Stephen as Ninja , Meili as a witch supposedly (although she lost her brand new hat at school!) Molly as a cheerleader than morning but by night fall decided she was an Olympic gymnast. Works for me! Matthew decided to go as Spider man! He found his costume at a garage sale for 50 cents! He was tickled .

 They left and returned at 8 foot sore, cold (as it began raining ) and tired. So I sent them off to bed after confiscating their candy for future doling out. They got to choose one piece (I figured they already ate several before they got home!) In any event Matthew seemed really pleased with his haul so we took a photo of it.