Wednesday, October 28, 2009

It's not even Halloween yet...

and it's already been a busy week.

These are pics from Blaine and Roxy's big date night on Saturday. They went to a place called Cornbelly's. It is a little Halloween carnival thingy at Thanksgiving Point. They had a great time.


What a great shot of her on the blow up tramp they had!
They had to wear these glasses in the fun house they went into. I love Rox's expression in this photo.
The same night, Ben and I went on a big date to a dance show called Thriller. It was really fun. He even got his pic taken with a zombie!
It was at the U of U in a place without very good parking, so we took the train up. He loved the ride, it turned out to be a major part of our date. He thought of Papa often while on the train :)
I think we look really alike in this photo.
On Mon and Tues of this week Benji got to spend the day with a group called the Young Americans. They are a song and dance group that travel the world performing for kings and presidents and such. They had a workshop at the school and Ben got to miss class and then on Tues evening they put on a show. It was fantastic. I can't believe the number of songs and dances they learned and put together in two days. 
At one point they had dance solos for select students, this is a shot of Ben break dancing. He even did a back flip, he was AWESOME! He performed in front of so many people.
He also got to say a line, he introduced the upcoming performance. Keep in mind there were almost two hundred students in this show and he got TWO individual things to do. Some people only participated in the group things. It was nice for us that the Young Americans recognized his natural talents.
The next two shots are of some of the group dances they did. 
He is in the middle of this one (in case it's hard to tell)

This girl is one of the cast members of Young Americans, during the training process she and Ben really hit it off. After the show we were looking for her in the crowd to take a pic with her and Ben, but when we found her, before we could ask, she asked for one, and her friend took a pic of them together for her to keep as well. Ben really has an amazing personality. These dancers meet so many people and kids, the fact that she wanted to remember him personally, really says a lot about Ben. They exchanged addresses and will be pen pals. Yeah, she is like 20 years old. 
And sadly, that brings us to today. 
This sad, sad pic was taken during the time Roxy was waking up from her surgery. You can see the fear and confusion in her face, I hate seeing her like this.
She was at the Orem hospital, they were great. You can see how they gave her bunny bear all the same treatment she had. When it was time for them to take her back, they wheeled her back in a wagon to make it fun. They even brought me a blanket and pillow while I waited for her. I thought they had tremendous bed side manor, then when we got home and I was looking through the paper work, I found a get well soon card, signed with a personal note by all the nurses who worked with her. How great is that?

Well, tomorrow Ben has dental work to get done, then all the Halloween stuff is coming up this weekend, so I'm sure I'll be posting again soon.

Saturday, October 17, 2009

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Roxy's field trip

Roxy's class went on a field trip to the zoo on Monday, I came along to help out.
I can't get over how cute she looks in her school uniform.


This was our group. They look innocent enough, but holy smokes, it was a lot of work keeping track of them.
Roxy is a bit smaller than an adult female gorilla.


Monday, October 5, 2009

This isn't exactly what the color looks like, but it shows the basic idea.


  


Sunday dinner in the living room.