Back from the brink

Happy 32nd!

8/20/10

We've been busy lately. Birthdays, parties, frolicking with the Irish, contracting the plague (OK, not the plague, but a plague...). I have some catching up to do.

Mark and I felt mostly better yesterday and suddenly had an enormous appetite. So we went out for Chinese for his belated birthday lunch.

You'd think we never feed Madelyn the way she packs it in at a Chinese restaurant. She loads up on crab, shrimp, noodles, egg drop soup and ice cream and eats five times the amount that she does at home.

Huh???

Madelyn and co. helped me make Mark's birthday cheesecake today, but none of us have had a piece yet. I forgot that it takes 4-5 hours of chilling time. Madelyn was nearly hysterical when I wouldn't let her have a piece right out of the oven. (gross!)

Annnd....

Last Friday we went over to the Utah Shakespearean Festival Greenshow that's free to the public. I knew Madelyn would love it. I almost auditioned to be a performer about six years ago, but then I got pregnant with her. (I am not one of those people who can keep on exercising right until delivery day [Rachel...]. I am one of those people who is blessed with incredible nausea and vertigo.)

She couldn't just sit idly by when there was dancing going on.

Luke was super thrilled to be there, as you can tell

Whee!

The SUU campus is so beautiful. I miss going there every day.

Trying out the stage

The next day, we went to St. George for my nephew Nathan's Star Wars birthday party. It was quite the celebration!

So yeah. Those events were all out of order but you get the picture.

We're tuckered out.

Only 10 more days till she starts school!