Last weekend, we attended Moses Lake Stake’s production of “Beauty and the Beast” with Joe’s family. The stake spent quite a chunk of change on the musical, and it turned out pretty decent. There’s talk that they want to do “Les Miserables” next year, but the orchestra said, “No way!” They had a hard enough time playing the music for this play. The costumer vetoed “The Lion King”, and the set-designers balked at “Phantom of the Opera”. There are evidently not enough black people here to do “Hairspray,” so who knows what they’ll do? Someone suggested “Grease”, but the Mollies and the Peters thought it was WAY too racy. In fact, the high school did “Grease” a few years ago, and apparently a big part of the Mormon community here boycotted it, of all the ridiculous things.

Jeremy and Dyana came up for the play and stayed through the weekend. So we spent quite a bit of time Saturday and Sunday over at the in-laws playing games, hanging out, and eating a lot of really good food. Joe’s mom was kind enough to let our kids hang out at her house on Saturday afternoon while Joe and I took in a game of golf. Thank you!

I went to parent-teacher conferences on Monday. AJ is doing very well academically. His teacher says he continues to explode periodically when things don’t go his way, but he hasn’t been violent or disruptive. He just needs to figure out a better way of dealing with his temper.

We started ripping apart our kitchen. It’s going to be a HUGE project, but I’m really excited to see the end result. I got a request to go into more detail, so here goes. So far, we've cut off the peninsula and made it an island. We're adding a 18" drawer base to make the island bigger and expanding the cabinets along the wall by where the island used to connect with another 24" base cabinet. We are raising every other upper cabinet and adding trim for detail. Then, all the cabinets are going to be painted (white) and glazed (with a light brown). We replaced the light fixture, and we're adding under-cabinet lighting and pendant lights over the island. We're replacing the counters with granite/concrete, replacing the sink and fixtures, and redoing the backsplash all the way up to the cabinets in tile. Oh, and we're tiling the floor as well.






Here's Captain Underpants. He thought he was so funny.