Seussical the Musical

This weekend is the last weekend of Suessical at COD. I'm so excited to start another run of shows (4 this weekend-yikes!) I'd love it if all of my mommy friends and their kiddos could come see it. We are going to bring Aden this weekend and see if he can sit through it. Here are the show times...

Friday 8pm
Saturday 2pm, 8pm
Sunday 2pm

I'd say that you would need to get there at least 30 minutes early. The house opens 30 prior minutes to curtain and the tickets are first come, first serve. It's held at the Pollack Theater on COD's campus. Hope to see everyone there...happy Friday :)

BLESSED

God put a couple of people in my life that blessed me so very much! The wonderful Holly suggested that I take my hard drive video camera to someone who might be able to recover movies from it, even though I had already deleted them. Brilliant idea! I took it to Dave Petrie at SCC. On Sunday he called me to his office and he had pulled 24 GB from it! He clicked open one of the video clips and his screen was full of my newborn Ava, under a warmer, getting some extra oxegyn in the hospital. All I could do was sit on the floor and cry! He was able to recover everything I had ever recorded on our video camera. I am so overwhemled with God and how He always takes care of our family. Thank you Holly and Dave, words cannot express how grateful I am for what you have done for me, for the memories you have helped to save!

Sad Monday

It's been a rough week for us. On monday, our house was broken into about 10 minutes after the kids and I left to run a few errands. They stole my laptop that was in the kitchen. Unfortunately, all of the kid's baby photos and all of our home movies were stored on it, and now it's gone. I have been crying on and off for the past four days. It's like someone came into our home and took our box of pictures. I'd appreciate prayers of peace for myself. I've actually been quite suprised at how upset this has made me. I lost about 9 thousand photos and 3 years of home movies. The cops were unable to find any finger prints. I'm still hoping that it will turn up at a pawnshop or on Craigslist. If any of you happen to have pictures of my kids, I would really appreciate a copy of whatever you have, as we are now left trying to get our memories back...

Brave Momma

Yesterday Scott and I had a scheduling conflict (we pretty much have one everyday) so I had one of my girlfriends come over and spend the entire day with my kiddos while I was at a hugh and long rehearsal. I think that I have left them with Holly once (thank you my love!), and other than that, they are only left with our family. Yes, in case you haven't already noticed, I am one of THOSE mommies. Scott and I have tried very hard to only let family watch them. I know that eventually I will have to find a babysitter to help us out. Anyway, while I fretted about their well being all day, they were having a blast with Miss Shawna, laughing, playing, eating, napping ECT. I came home to find Aden cuddled in her lap and he even hugged her goodbye. Everyone was happy and perfectly content, and my house was clean too! I guess trusting my babies to someone else wasn't so bad after all :)

Busy Busy

This week the chaos begins! My show (Suessical the Musical) is opening in less than 2 weeks, so yesterday we started our daily full run rehearsal schedule. Scott is also in the midst of his v-ball tryout week with PDHS....SO we both have to be gone at some point for around 4 or 5 hours everyday, who wants to come over and play with my kids?! :)  

Scott could really use some prayer right now. He was just informed by the district that his principle has put him outside of his credential (AGAIN) with this year's teaching assignment. Basically the district could transfer him to ANY school within DSUSD. He's taught middle school for 14 years, and in a week and a half, he could be teaching Kindergarten! We think that this might be a blessing in disguise. His principle has never given him priority when scheduling each year, and Scott has been at JGMS since it opened. God has a plan, we're just along for the ride. A change like this could be the best thing for Scott right now....to be continued! 

Morning Coffee

Hello blogging world! I'm back at it after a few very crazy months. I've been trying to make my blog look cute and haven't quite figured out how to make my banner up top look right (with my family picture on top), does anyone know how to do that?! Anyway, the kids are still asleep so I will try and quickly sum up what all of my mommy friends have missed....

1st-I went back to school as a nursing major! This past spring I took an 8 week medical dosage class and then this summer I had a general health class and Anatomy and Physiology I. Try learning ever detail EVER about the human body in 8 weeks...whew! I made it through with a B. Actually, since I have gone back to school I have taken 3 classes and finished with a B in all of them. I suppose having a husband, and two kids under 3 years old has made me a B student. I have hope for A's this fall though, when I will be taking Chemistry and a math class.

2nd-I started working a couple days a week at Express (my most favorite store!) I'm mostly doing it for the discount, and a few extra bucks each month is nice too. (When I say "a few" I really mean A FEW haha).

3rd-I am back into musical theater after a 3 year break! Oh how I missed singing and dancing and being on a stage. I'm in "Seussical the Musical" With College of the Desert and everyone HAS to come see it! It's a fun musical that loosely follows the story of "Horton Hears a Who". I'd love to see all of my Mom2Mom friends and their kids there! Tickets are $15 and you can either get them through me, or at the college when you show up. It runs the first two weekend of September, I"ll post with more info as the date is nearer.

Scott hasn't been golfing much this summer since he lost his amateur status after winning our car. I know it's been tough for him, but he's been able to be home with me and the kids, which has been helpful for me since I've taken on so much this summer. OK well this blog has been quite long! I'm going to try and post two times a week so everyone keep me to that OK? Miss you all and can't wait for M2M to start!

New Car!

I can't believe it has taken me over a week to blog about this, better late than never!

Last Monday, Scott was in the finals of the Kraft Nabisco Million Dollar Hole-In-One contest. Well he didn't get a hole in one, but he was closest to the pin, so he won a one year lease on a new Toyota Venza! This is such a blessing, we are waiting for our lease on the Lexus to be up, any day now! He also won two 1st class round trip airline tickets to anywhere in the US. Vacation time for Mommy and Daddy :) Through all of this, his amatuer status was revoked, now is considered a pro. We're not sure if this is a path we are ready to go down just yet...time will tell! Here are a few pics, I was able to be at the event, photographing him as he won!

The winning shot

"And the winner is Scott McGihon!"

There was a lot of press, he was later on the cover of the paper (me too LOL) and we saw him on ESPN!

In front of the new car. We still don't have it yet but this is exactly what it will look like