Scooby As Sandy in CYT's Annie Production!

It all started last Saturday when the director of the musical Hannah is in asked if they could use our dog Scooby for the advertisement posters. I thought it was only for the poster but as it turns out, he will be in the show! They have added his name, "Scooby Mount," to the program. So, instead of working as an usher as I usually do for Hannah's shows, I will be the official dog wrangler! When I took him to the UA on Saturday for the photo shoot, he was immediately surrounded by tons of little orphan girls wanting to pet him. He loved every minute of it. It will be VERY interesting to see how he does for eight full shows which all run the same week. I have to admit that his cuteness is hard to resist. That's whay I sprung him from the pound almost six years ago. I think this is going to be lots of fun so we'll all enjoy it. We've told Hannah that she can do one production this year. Annie was her choice...she'd do all of them if we let her but want her to try other things. We had hoped she'd play softball again but she is DONE. She wants to take some more dance classes which is fine.

A New Year!

We had such a wonderful two weeks off during Christmas break. Hannah and I had the same two weeks off. We enjoyed making a ton of our Chex Mix and delivering it to our friends and neighbors. Hannah sang in the childrens' choir for both Christmas Eve services at our church. The adult choir was awesome that night as well. This was our first Christmas at New Life.
We saw a couple of movies at the new movie theater which is very close to our house. My favorite was National Treasure. Hannah saw the Chipmunks three times! On New Year's Eve, we opened our house to friends and had a houseful. Hannah loved helping the younger ones dress up. Everyone participated in singing American Idol and being ruthlessly judged by Simon, Randy and the fake Paula. I think the kids really liked seeing the parents get into it.
I ended up with a blod clot that runs the length of my left leg (it's in a surface vein). Long story made short, I went in to my dermatologist to have some sclerotherapy for some tiny spider veins on my left thigh. They gave me an ace bandage to apply pressure to it for three days. They did not tell me how tight to pull it. It kept falling down my leg so one night I cinched it up good...so good in fact that it caused the clot! I walked around on it for a week thinking it was bruised. Finally ended up in the ER and ultimately in a vascular surgeon's office. The pain is gone and I am so thankful that the clot didn't move and is dissolving. I may have to have a procedure done in a couple of months to close the vein down because it is so enlarged. All this to say, NO MORE VANITY PROCEDURES! I will just have to wear longer shorts and that's okay with me.