The Lion King Jr

Eric was in the play, The Lion King Jr back at the end of June/beginning of July.  It was put on by a bunch of students from LDS Business College.  Originally it was going to be performed on the college campus, but then the funding kind-of fell through.  So the students decided to do it on their own.  They practiced very hard and did all the scenery themselves.  In the end, the play was put on in an LDS church downtown and people donated for tickets to the play.  The play was awesome!  Eric's main part was Timone, but he played a few other parts as well.

Here are a bunch of pictures of different scenes (sorry they're so blurry)...

And I'm not sure if every one of them is in order of the play, but I think most of them are...

Here he is playing a hyena.  

Eric's in the middle

I think he's holding one of these buffalo faces too.

At the end of the first act was when Eric came out as Timone.  He was absolutely amazing!  Most of these pictures are of him and Pumba!  They both did an excellent job!

And here they are again...

Timone and Pumba are on the stairs in this picture

They really were so funny together and played great as a team!

And then it was over!  They performed it 4 times, and we went twice.  It was awesome both times we went!  And I heard the other performances were just as amazing!

Pumba and Timone and me! :) 

Way to go Eric!  You rocked it!

Eureka Hot Shot

When Todd and I got married (26 years ago), we got some gift certificates to JCPenny's.  Since we didn't get a vacuum as one of our gifts, we decided to use our gift cards to purchase our very first vacuum.  We bought a Eureka Hot Shot!  At the time, I think it was a pretty competitive vacuum.  Not the most expensive, but not the cheapest either.  I just have to say that this has been the best vacuum we've ever owned!  

Don't you love the green duct tape?  (I've heard you can fix anything with duct tape!  I think it's true!)

Do you see how the bottom of the bag is pretty much ripped and bulging? HA!  This thing has been through a lot!  

 It's been a trooper and has definitely done it's job through the years!  But we finally had to say goodbye to our old friend.  Sad, huh?  Farewell Eureka Hot Shot!  You served us well!

And this is a picture of Todd and the boys the morning of the Pioneer Trek!  I love these cute little pioneers! :) 

Eric turns 23! Holy Cow!

Can you believe I have a 23 year old son?  I can't!

(All of these pictures are pretty blurry, but they're all I have...so I'm just going with it!)

Eric and Andraea

And guess who got his braces off?  Yep, Kyle!  

Dang!  I'd better put a paper bag over his head, so the girls can't see him! HA! (Well, that's what Grandma keeps telling me!)  

Oh, and here's Ziggy too!  (His birthday is the same as Eric's.  I should have gotten a picture of them together!  Oh well...)  

Happy Birthday Eric and Ziggy!  And congrats Kyle!

A Cruz Cousin Visit!

Wendy and her kids came for a quick visit in the middle of June.  School was out for my kids, but hers still had a couple of weeks.  (I can't remember why she came down...maybe just for a quick break!)  But for whatever reason, it's always fun when they come!  

This picture cracks me up!  Everyone is so excited! (Well, okay AJ is excited...everyone else looks confused!)  HA!

We took a quick bowling trip while they were here! 

 Jacob and AJ...

Kyle and AJ

Alexis

And even Dallin came

We had a great time, even though it was a really quick visit!  It's always wonderful to see Wendy's family!  (I think Brad was working and Michelle and her kids were at Lagoon this day, so they weren't able to come.  Bummer!)

Twin Eggs!

Have you ever cracked an egg with 2 yolks?  I have seriously only cracked about 2 in my whole lifetime and then, suddenly, within a couple of weeks, I was cracking twin eggs like they were going out of style!  It was crazy!  (My family totally thinks it's crazy that I'm recording all the twin eggs I cracked, but I think it's awesome!) :)  Here is all the proof...

The first time I cracked a twin egg...I actually cracked TWO twin eggs!  The recipe called for 3 eggs.  The first two were twins, and the third one was a single.  These are the two twin eggs! 

See how the two twin eggs are really close together and the third one (on the right) is by itself?  So cool!

Different cooking scenario...one egg, two yolks! :) 

Look how cute and little they are compared to the single yolk?  So fun!

Fourth egg...different recipe!  Twinners again! :) 

Those are so cute!  I can hardly stand it.  I love how the "twins" really are smaller than the single one, and how close together they are.  I'm fascinated by twin eggs!  (Clearly I need a new hobby!)

5th twin egg....one of the twins broke right when it landed in the bowl.  Oh, I get so sad when that happens...

But there's the second egg on the left...

I promise all of these eggs were from different cartons within about 2 weeks of each other.  See how much bigger the egg is on the right?   I am predicting that it's going to have twin yolks!  

And I was right!  I'm getting good at this!  The left twin broke...so sad.

But here's the second egg compared to the twins.  You can see how much smaller they are than the single egg.  Seriously!  So awesome!  And by the way that is 6 twin eggs I cracked! SIX! 

There is one more big egg in my fridge and I'm saving it for a special occasion, because I'm pretty sure it's going to be a twin! Don't you think this is a sign for future grandchildren?  Twins are coming...eventually!  (I'm not saying now; just at some point!) 

HA!  You never know! It could happen! :)