Crazy hair day at Hillcrest today.  I ratted my hair a bit and put in a flower.  I'm so crasssssssy. Some of the kids painted their faces.  Who knew the face was part of crazy hair day.

I wrote my first article for the adoption website my friend Arlen works on.  It was pretty good, for a first time.  Scott is averaging 3 pages a day on his novel and will probably be finished soon.  It's about a girl who wants to play Cyrano in the school play.  It's really cute and funny.  Scott is good at the funny. Paige is writing papers for English every day and Christopher actually studied a book for Government.  I know, we're such literary geniuses at our house.

Anne of Green Gables, a play I'm directing for the Brinton Black Box at the Covey Center in Provo, is coming along nicely.  It's cast and will be totally blocked by this coming Saturday.  Lauren Pope, a junior at Timpview High school is playing Anne.  She is so wonderful and good.  I found some really great talent for the show.

I finished reading "The Help" last night.  I enjoyed it, but I'm not sure it's as wonderful as everyone makes it out to be.  I got interested in some of the stories and I liked how she wove together each different point of view character with the plot of the story to create the total picture.  My favorite characters were Miss Skeeter and Minny, although the part that brought tears to my eyes was when Aibileen askes Mae Mobely  what she is.  Mae Mobely answers with: "I am kind.  I am important."  It was very moving.  Now do I see the movie?  I think so.  It will probably be worth a buck or two at the dollar show.

I hope everyone has a terrific day.  It is Thursday after all.

Yesterday was Valentine's day.  The day of love.  What did we do?  Well, at 6:30 am I went into my daughter's room and rained hearts on them.  Paige was buried in her blankets and moaned. Rachel sat up and was like, what the heck? I think they secretly loved it.  Christopher was still at the gym, but when he got home and Rachel told him about the rain of hearts, he immediately laid down on the bed and snored so I would do it to him.  It was fun.

The Valentine's parties at school went okay and we all got a bunch of cool valentine's from the kids.  Kaylynn baked us a yummy red velvet cupcake.  My favorite. After work, Scott and I went to eat at California Pizza Kitchen.  I had the Chicken Tequila Pasta.  Or my!  Delicious.  Scott went to write.  He's working on a young adult novel, and I watched Glee out of the corner of my eye with the girls.  A fun day.

I didn't, however, call my parents to say I love you. So here it is.  I love you Mom and Dad.  I'll call later.

What did you do?

Lettuce introduce ourselves.

Hi, I'm back.

I wanted to do this blog to let the world know about us.  We're pretty cool, if you ask me.  So are you asking?  Good!