A Few Bugs at KidPak

We had another fun morning at KidPak - we had a few bugs, but that's okay because we had bug characters on stage once more.  We're still attempting to get Nerdo back to full size in our skit, as he's currently the size of a grasshopper.  It's been great fun - the messages are really good as we dive back into stories about the Garden of Eden and even Noah's Ark.  And I get to be a house fly!  Here are just a few of the pictures that Maddie took this morning.

Quiet day afterwards.  Maddie was over with Nate - I dropped her off there, and she spent the day there with the family.  I went back to see Mom at home.  She watched church online, and had a restful day.  It's cold out there, but there's hints of things getting colder in a week or so, and possibly with some frozen precipitation too.  

Got another post card!  I was on the treadmill, still doing the Elvis thing.  I finished up "Paradise, Hawaiian Style," which was just a fun Elvis movie, although not my favorite of the group.  Still, it's been fun.  The next movie I'm checking out will be "Charro!"  That's an Elvis movie where he doesn't sing at all, but rather walks about as a branded gunfighter.  From what I understand, Clint Eastwood actually worked with Elvis to get the gunslinging part just right, the action of the quick draw, and all that fancy gun play with the twirls and rapid movement getting the gun back into the holster.  Can you imagine two icons Clint Eastwood and Elvis Presley sitting there together, working on a quickdraw?  I wish there was a picture to go with any of that, because it sounds so epic.  In fact, they probably tried to take a picture of it, but the awesomeness on display was so much that it broke the camera.

ANYWAY, moving on, Mom and I watched yet another recording of a live production tonight, this time one I've never seen before:  "The Sound of Music."  This was the one that started them all off, a full-scale live production with Carrie Underwood taking the lead and a fantastic cast delivering a really entertaining performance.  I think the bar was pretty low for me coming into this one, as there were some folks that may have been disappointed.  And sure, it's not filmed in the Alps with Julie Andrews.  But it is a really well-done production, and we enjoyed it for what it is, a live play that has a lot of heart and energy.   And of course we're singing all the songs.  I popped on a Von Trapp Family record so we could hear the actual family's music.  Mom wants to watch the Julie Andrews one next.

Meanwhile, over at Nate's...

Maddie had a good day over at Nate's place, of course.  She got home and we watched a few episodes of Phineas and Ferb, and after that read some more from our book in the Discworld.  We have school tomorrow - we said our prayers and got some sleep tonight.  It's really cold out there!