Fullerton is Our Town

Catherine was in her grade level play called "Fullerton is Our Town".  It tells the history of Fullerton.  Catherine was the schoolteacher and took it very seriously.  All the kids sang songs and took part in a "tableau".

Catherine's spot on the risers was in the top middle.

Here she is in her tableau as the teacher.

On Saturday, we had a beautiful double rainbow!

 

Peter Pan Goes Wrong

I took Thomas to one of my birthday plays this weekend.  We saw Peter Pan Goes Wrong!  It was hilarious!  I didn't realize I would enjoy it so much and Thomas was the perfect person to go with.  Cathy Rigby was the narrator.  She is a former Olympic gymnast who then went on to play Peter Pan on Broadway for over 30 years.  

After the bows, Cathy Rigby came out and flew over the audience again in her Peter Pan costume.  She's 72 years old now and can still do the splits!

Running & Football

Lydia had her last league race on Wednesday.  Her coach asked her to run in the JV race instead of the Freshman/Sophomore race this time.  She's had a lot of fun this year with cross country and plans to continue next year!

Thomas and Catherine had a Fun Run at their school.  Another mom captured this picture of Catherine for me.  Both felt prepared with their Jackrabbits Running Club training.

Thomas had his championship flag football games on Friday night.  They won both games to become the silver league champions!

He's got another ring!

Las Vegas

BYU played in the Hall of Fame basketball series on Monday in Las Vegas.  Since the kids had the day off school we decided to make a trip out of it!

We stopped in Barstow on the way out of town for dinner at Raising Cane's.  Brian had never been before so we tried it out.

Gorgeous sunset on our drive

We made it to Vegas in good time.  We stayed at the W and after checking in, we went to check out some of my favorite tourist-y places at night.  

We headed to Bellagio to see the gardens.

It was an autumn forest theme this time.

Then we went out front to see the fountains. The kids were surprised to see how huge they were!  It was just as fun as I remembered it.

On the right you can see a structure going up for the F1 race coming up in a few weeks in Vegas.

On Monday we stopped a few fun places.  Vegas always has great photo areas.

We also had brunch at the Garden Court at Main Street Station.  My favorite Vegas buffet.

Afterwards we walked along the strip to see the shops and sites.  We noticed Vegas now has an ABC Store, which we have only seen in Hawaii.  It's a fun stop for souvenirs.

We stopped at the Coca-Cola store to try out the drinks from around the world.  Our favorites were the fruity flavors.  There were so many BYU fans here.

Then we headed over to the M&M store.

and then on to the Hershey's Chocolate World.

At 3 pm we made our way over to the Hall of Fame basketball series.  The first game was Florida vs. Arizona.  It was a close game, and Arizona ended up winning.

Then it was time for the BYU vs Villanova game!

Keta gave us some great dunks!

Richie Saunders had great shots.

and our new player AJ Dybantsa did not disappoint!

BYU ended up winning and we had such a fun time!

Lydia had things at school that she couldn't miss so we ended up driving through the night to make it home.  We had a few hours of sleep in bed before we were up and going again.  It was fun to get away for a little bit though!

Fun Stuff

 

Brian got to go to game 3 of the World Series on Monday.  Dodgers won in an 18-inning overtime!

Lydia also had a few racing pictures featured on the high school social media pages this week.  She has enjoyed running XC this year!

Halloween

On Halloween Thomas and Catherine had a Character Parade at school.  Catherine was a flying squirrel this year, and Thomas was Moon Knight.

We went to a few streets closer to the school to trick or treat this year.  We've never had trick or treaters come to our house.  But this year we had a few!  Our neighbor came with her little baby and another family came later.  It was so good to see them!