2016 Review

I still need to catch up on the end of 2016 blogging, but since today is 2017,  I must do my annual year in review spectacular. 

January

We added a new Ingersoll to the family.  We were (and still are) totally smitten by our beautiful, little girl, Chloe. 

February

Kyle and Reed played lots of basketball.  Reed's team came up short in the championship, and Kyle was honored with the sportsmanship award for his team. 

March

JR landed his first paying acting gig with some voice over work.  He made 75 bucks for about 10 minutes of work. 

April

In typical Houston fashion we had a flood and the kids missed 2 days of school.  At least they enjoyed themselves. 

May

 Lots of baseball was played,

Slash and Axl sang at the SBMS pop show,

And JR was voted "best singer" in 3rd period choir.

June

Reed was named to the All-Star team, and everybody went to Camp Olympia.

July

Jason and I snuck off to "adult camp" to celebrate our 15th wedding anniversary.

August

We made our annual Schlitterbahn trip, and added on an afternoon of wake boarding.

September

It was football season.  Reed was one of the quarterbacks; Kyle was the center.  

Very few games were won. 

October

I went on a fun girls' trip, the boys went hunting, and I made awesome Halloween costumes from our closet...again.

November

We got a new President (Glory, Glory, Hallelujah!) 

December

JR and I were in the 1st Baptist Christmas show and so many people came to see us!

Cheers to a great 2016! 

I Didn't Quit

No, I didn't quit blogging. 

This is just the first chance I've had to sit down at my computer since the last time I posted.

I can't even remember what all has gone on since then, so I will try to start at the beginning.

I put myself in charge of having the parents take over lunch duty as a Christmas present to the elementary teachers the last week of school before break (which was right after JR and I finished up all our shows). 

 Kyle and Reed had their school Christmas party (I was in charge of Reed's) and JR had finals.  (I don't have any pictures of those things.)

Then Jason and I had a Christmas party to go to the Friday school was out.  Don't we look festive?

And then we pulled out at 8:00 AM on Saturday for Colorado.

We stopped in Amarillo for dinner at the Big Texan where we met up with Brad and Cassidy and their kids.  It was 80 degrees when we left Houston and -2 by the time we stopped that night! 

The 2nd Act

The second act of the show was all biblical.  JR and I were both in a couple of the songs.

If we weren't on stage, I always knew I could find JR looking at or hanging out with the animals.  Unfortunately, I didn't get a picture of the baby zebra...and it was the cutest thing ever!

Yep, baby tigers! 

Monkeys

This one was on YouTube, and as you can see, it would be super hard for you to find us...though Jason said it was easier to find JR on stage than me at the show.  

(We are both on the right hand side of the stage. I'm on the stage and JR is on the 2nd level up.)

I'm in this one, but JR isn't.  I'm standing on the left hand side of the stage next to a lady in purple. We had so much fun during this song. Our character choice was to not believe in any of the miracles Jesus is doing (because there were plenty of people who didn't) until he raises the little girl from the dead. You can see that we think we have our own little show going on with how much we are talking to each other.  

On the last night (show 8) one of the angles got sick so I got to take her place.  Everyone who had been to the show asked if I got to be a flying angel, which no, I was a walking angel.  But I was just excited to wear the costume and have the fun make-up.  

I am still recovering from the shows and catching up on my sleep.

It was a fun experience, and I'm glad I did it. 

Ask me this summer if I'm going to try out again.  I'll have to see if I think I have it in me again.

Shopping and Elves

I was also a "shopper" in the opening number of the show.  I walked down the aisle like I was shopping and then broke in to dance with a giant shopping bag.

These costumes weren't so exciting. We had to wear red, green, black, or white.  And we had to look like it was cold, so obviously we weren't "shopping" anywhere near Houston.

 It was all my own stuff, except for the red coat, it's my moms.

(you can see how fancy our dressing rooms were)

JR and I were also elves.
I don't have a picture of him as an elf (he was not excited about the costume) but here I am with my elf group.

And here's what we looked like on the stage.  The arrow shows you where JR and I were dancing.

Dolls

Though I was in other dances in the show, the doll dance was by far the longest time I was out on stage, the dance I spent the most time learning, and the one most like my personality.

I'm the 2nd doll to walk on the stage so I spend a lot of time as either the end doll on the right hand side or the 2nd to the end. 

JR also comes on at the end of this video with a small light up box.

We put these costumes back on after the show for pictures.

You Know I Love a "Hat"!

JR and I are finished with our 8 shows at First Baptist.  To say that I am tried is an understatement, so I'm just going to post a picture of us in our biblical outfits for now. 

(Yes, I tied my own headwraps...I'm excited at how good I got at it.)