Talent Show

The kids had a 4-H talent show on Saturday night. They performed a small skit with their club. It was called Rosalie's Cupcakes. It was about a cupcake baker that came up with the invention of sprinkles. An old grouchy man bought a dog that stole the formula and started his own shop. Rosalie the baker made up some cupcakes that had Happiness in them and the old man and his dog were suddenly happy forever. At the end of the skit, the kids handed out mini cupcakes with sprinkles to the audience.

Brooke was Rosalie the cupcake baker and Ashlyn was the dog. They had a really good time! They got second place in the group act division and they were really proud.Tony took video but I have no clue how to get it on here! If I figure it out, I will post it.

The funny story about this skit is that Brooke and some friends at school came up with the skit as a school project. Only it was a little different than the one they performed for 4H. They had to change it up a bit because the one for school had that they fed the old man poison!!! And he died!!!!!! Brooke got an A on it in school. Surprising that it was allowed at school huh? Never shocks me what the public schools allow.

Anyway, she got double use of the skit and saved us alot of time coming up with something for them to perform.

Sugar Mill

Last week on Monday we took the kids to the old Sugar Mill in Port Orange. They  had the day off of school and we wanted to do something with them before life got crazy again. I started school on Tuesday so things have been really busy and just seems like there is not enough time for everything. Ashlyn is just amazed with the old sugar mills. She says she wishes she could see them before they fell apart! She is always so curious! There were lots of plants and stone dinosaurs. Brooke took about 80 pictures of plants just trying to get a really nice picture for her photo contest for 4-H.

The kids are staying busy! Brooke made it to the social studies fair with her project. Brookes still doing drill team with the horses and preparing for a performance at the balloon fest in March. Ashlyn and Brroke have been preparing for a play that they are doing at a 4-H event on Saturday. I have been spending every spare minute I have doing math!!! It seems to be the worst so far. I also have a microcomputer apps class and I actually like that one. My computer crashed on me 5 days before class started so I had to get a new one. That really made me mad considering my other one was only a year old and was 9 days out of warranty.Iit cant be fixed so I had to replace it. Tony got a new job as an engineer so he is off to school again himself! He should start next semester. It will really be crazy around here with 2 of is in school!

Anyway, thats what we have been up to the last couple weeks!

Ashlyns Show with Willow

Brooke and Ashlyn had a horse show over the weekend. Ashlyn showed Willow in leadline for the first time. She got a little trophy to be proud of! Brooke got Reserve Champion for the day! They both had a good time and Willow was a girl like usual.

Monster week 4

So it has been 4 weeks and Monster is back to normal! What a miracle. She has been off the prednisone but we still are giving her the vitamins. She has been staying in the garage at night and going out in the yard with the other girls during the day. She is also back to laying her eggs. She is not happy in the garage now so she is heading back to the coop tonight. Brooke is going to make a power point on the treatment to post for 4h for other kids that might have the same problem and dont want to kill their chicken. If you have seen the other video, watch this one and you will be amazed at the difference!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvW-iMoOsww