Gnomeo and Juliet

I took Tristen, Tanner and Haden to go see Gnomeo and Juliet in 3d today. Good movie and pretty cute too. But my favorite part was watching Tanner. He kept trying to grab everything that he thought was coming towards him, cracked me up. So as I'm watching him watch the movie he asked if he could whisper something to me. Sure whats up?! Mom what are you thinking about? Actually Tanner I was thinking how awesome you are. He got a huge smile and said wow mom we were thinking the same thoughts.
Man do I love that kid.

WackADoZoo

Tristen came home from school one day and said he was gonna try out for the 3rd grade play, "Whack A Do Zoo" He didn't say what part he was trying out for but I was excited to see him do anything because last year I had to go to NY for a work trip and missed the 2nd grade play. He kept coming home with new songs he had to learn and slowly everyone in the family was walking around singing practice makes perfect, practice makes perfect, ect. So I asked him what part he tried out for and told us he was the professor and had to wear a penguin suit. Right on, he said his teacher Mrs. Cole was hooking him up with the outfit and I had my fingers crossed that he wasn't forgetting anything. I pictured the day of the show he would inform me that he needs me to figure out how to make him look like a penguin.

He practiced a ton and had the lead roll and even a solo! I could tell that the closer we got to the "night of", Tristen was getting nervous. He handles it pretty good too! I was proud of him, he worked hard and kept on going and didn't get discouraged!

We got a sitter for Tanner and Cassidy so we could actually watch the play and not have to chase Cass up and down stairs, stages, chairs, whatever.

Tristen goes and gets changed and comes out wearing a tuxedo!! OMG I couldn't stop staring at him he just looked so handsome and grown up. And not to mention how I thought he was going as an actual penguin, so I was cracking up. It is called Wack A Do Zoo so is it that bad that I didn't put this together sooner. Whatever, he looked adorable!

I went and snapped some pictures of the kids before the show~ Alex and Tristen getting ready for the big show.All the kids came out and Tristen was hiding behind the curtain waiting for his part to come up.Then he came out and was simply AMAAAAAZING. OMG he had SOOO many lines, he sang 2 whole songs by himself and he just nailed it!

Here he is holding his head because the animals wouldn't listen to him.

This is Miss. Pell the principle and Mrs. Cole Tristens music teacher. It was really cute watching him as people were telling him how great he did but when Miss Pell said how awesome he was, that kid was on cloud nine!

Watching my baby up on that stage was one of the coolest things I have ever seen. I am proud of Tristen for so many things but this topped it. He believed in himself, he overcame fear, he memorized a ridiculous amount of lines and sang his little bootie off. There is NOTHING like watching your kid proud of himself. Truly beautiful moment to see.

Then I came home and saw this picture of him, Hellllooooo can you say head shot?!

Maybe I'm moving to quick.

Family and Christmas

Hey it's 2 months after Christmas so I thought I should post some pictures of our family


Tanner and baby Ella


Cassidy and Claudia

Cassidy and her Great Grandma

Tanner, Grandma and Tristen

Tristen, Stella, Jackson, Tanner, Evan and Trey

Cassidy decided to join the gang