My First Christmas Pageant!

December 17th was my last day of school for the year and we celebrated with a class Christmas Party, but the week before, we had our Christmas Pageant. The theme...The Mice Before Christmas. My class and I were gray mice...


We'd been practicing the play (songs and dances) and our lines for weeks. I didn't start out all that excited, but by the day of the show, I couldn't get my line out fast enough...


"Look! Look! A gingerbread house. A midnight snack for a little ol' mouse." That was my line and I delivered with a finesse that made my Dad (a Thespian himself) and Mama proud. Here's a look at some of the other shots my Dad got of me at the show...





It was a much better experience than I thought and a lot of fun. I have great classmates and a great teacher which makes everything else so much more delightful and easy. Merry Christmas everyone and Happy New Year!

Plumbing Catastrophe!!

It started out like any other weekday morning. I got up, dressed, ate, and went to school. It was when I got home that things got out of control. And it all started with the downstairs toilet backing up. My Uncle Ben and Aunt Dani stopped by for the night on their way home from their vacation and we were just starting to talk about dinner when Mama called Drain Right Plumbing for help. That call ultimately lead to this when the toilet backed up again the next morning:




Yes, that's me inspecting the clean-out for the sewer main coming from our house. What you can't see is the giant roots that have busted through the clay pipe the city or original contractor installed nor the giant root clump in the pipe just out of view. Those discoveries lead to this front lawn disaster:



I can think of only one thing to say about this December catastrophe...Are you kidding me? Needless to say, but the tree causing the whole problem no longer communes with Mother Earth. Here is one last look at the tree from my Dad's curious point of view:


Chow for now, peeps. Hunter is out! Oh, and you can see more of my Dad's curious pics on his very own blog coming soon.

More SuperFly Photography LLC

I cannot even tell you how fast time is flying for us right now. It seems like every day my little brother is getting bigger and I am getting older. School is going well and I've taken up a new hobby, one my Daddy enjoys as well, photography. You can see some of my first attempts at capturing digital images in one of my previous posts, SuperFly Photography LLC, but my experience with the camera continues and I look for every opportunity to practice my new hobby as you can see in my latest works. I call this photo set, "People and Faces".

This first pic I've entitled "Uncle Ben and His Boys". My Aunt Dani and Uncle Ben were here visiting recently and I took this pic while my Uncle Ben, Caleb, and Nathan were all on the couch in the living room.


Next is a pic I call "Ward Missionaries". Again taken in the living room, I caught this scene on digital media before anyone could object. People from the Church are always stopping by to see how we're doing. Makes me feel pretty good that we're being watched over.


Next is a pic I call "MamaRoo Baby". I got this pic of Cole in his MamaRoo during one of his quiet times (which he doesn't have too often, seems like that little brother of mine is always wanting something. Mama and Daddy can't hardly put that boy down before he's crying for something. It's crazy busy around here.)


Last is one of my favorites. I call it "Father and Son". I don't think I really need to say anything more than that. The pic says it all.


Well, that's about it for now. I will get more writing done soon. There just doesn't seem to be a whole lot of time to sit and ponder much anymore these days, crazy baby days.