Same angled view:
Yeah, it's gonna take a little work to get this hero look. So, Thursday after school I took Allan to his Improv' class which is held in Scottsdale (I can't wait for it to be over.... 2 more weeks...) On the way we stopped by a Goodwill, which of course being Thursday, was dollar day. Orange tags, $1.00. So we found these great old ladies blue poly-pants that even have a little texture to them, a ladies pair of red exercise shorts, a body (kind of) colored t-shirt, all of which were a dollar each! Hello...SCORE!...and a red tablecloth that was $2.99. (We ended up NOT using the tablecloth because of it's 'stiffy' material and I dug deep in my material bins and found a 'flowy' red cloth that we had used for an Eagle Scout event decoration.) So, the two things missing was a wig - hmm....I have one of those....and boots. I went to Deseret Industries today (Friday) and found some great ones - black, size 10 1/2 (Allan's size) for a few dollars more than I wanted to spend, but I was desperate. So, I spray painted them red, 
left them out in the sun to dry for a few hours but they seemed to be quite tacky so I put them in front of my fan for the last few hours.
Oh, that on the chair is my old lady wig that we sprayed brown (even though it is hard to tell in this picture). 
This was the old lady pants that I had to cut and sew the 'bell bottom' legs to a tight fit so we could tuck them into the red boots and then add the knee patches. Here are a few pictures of 'our' Nacho Libre....
Brown and gray eyeliner pencils filled in a pretty good mustache and brows. 
It might really look like Allan's tummy here, but it's just a tee shirt with some 'titters' colored on with a marker. 
I think his buttocks are clenched in this photo. And for those of you who saw the movie, I know you just chuckled. One last pose before the dance. 
I know this picture does NOT do it justice, but this cloud was amazing! It looked like it was exploding out of itself. It was great. And then we saw the sun covered with the dust cloud and it was amazing too. I tried to get a picture but it was while I was driving and the photos turned out terrible. Just imagine it. Beautiful, right? 
These were as I dropped the kids off for A-hour, 6:45am. I love cloudy, stormy days. Nothing could be better. 
He will be my last and 6th child to graduate from Mesa and with that you get special privileges. During his graduating ceremony, Doug and I will be allowed to sit out on the football field and they will announce our name! With 2 Westwood 'Warriors', Carolyn and Brian, the rest will forever be Mesa 'Jackrabbits' and they are now, or have been, overruled on which school is best. 
Yeah, facebook probably. And here was Shannon's first outfit that she 'modeled' for us last night making sure we all liked it. 
Here he is twirling going to the car. We do a carpool with our friends the Hancocks. Wednesdays will be a day they call late start - but it really is just missing their a-hour and then making up for it the other 4 days, which will begin at 6:45am! Yeah, I'm a little nervous about how that's all going to go down. Tomorrow will be interesting.
Also, we have to get a bathroom remodeled ASAP. 
That will have to happen before I get a job I suppose, because we will have guests here for a few weeks. 
I love the story and how it sorta/kinda relates to him as a kid and the really profound way it impacted his life. (I promise it can be read in 2 hours). My favorite part is found on page 249 where the young boy is asking a 'man',
As you can tell, she looks a lot like Brook. Here we were having fun in the pool - or I should say, Allan and the kids are having fun in the pool. I just sat on the side with my feet in the 82 degree water, brrrr, and took a few photos. Brian had some fun water pump guns that Allan, while at first were attacking the kids, but then, at my instance, had to let the kids get him. Of course he later took revenge and was shooting Lukas and you can see that Luke found a great shield for protection. 
I enjoyed it very much. So any ideas on what I can read now? I'm still in the middle of President Monson's book but I like to have a few books going at one time. Another one I'm reading is 'I will not live an unfulfilled life' (or something like this (I can't find it on the internet). This is one I keep in the car for the times I am waiting for a child at practice or at a scout interview, so I know that this one might take me a really long time. Any suggestions for a new book?.....send them my way.
Allan came over here with me and the kids are loving it! And we've been lucky to have Brian around a little bit more than usual too, which has been fun for us all. Brian is now doing rotations - in surgery. On his first day he got to jump in and help resuscitate a woman who was on the operating table - succeeded! Yeah!!! And he has been able to 'scrub up' and hand the clamps and 'tools' to the doctors! I think he is enjoying it. I'm not sure this is where he will 'specialize' but at least he is finding it interesting. He likes to come home and tell us what he got to do that day. Allan and I took Brook and Luke to the $1 movie theater yesterday where we watched 'Rio'.
It was a pretty cute movie and kept them both mesmerized the whole way through. Celynda had warned me that the theater was not in the best of neighborhoods and guess what? She was right. As we pulled into the parking lot a police officer was questioning a guy. By the time we walked up to the ticket counter, he was shoving his face onto the hood of the car and frisking him; yelling at him pretty loud telling him he was getting arrested for jaywalking. I'm sure there was more to it than that, but it was pretty intense for a while. We had to be outside by them (probably about only 10 feet away) for about 3 minutes while waiting to get our tickets. It was entertaining, but I could have done without it. Luckily the kids said nothing about it and probably don't even remember it.
who got engaged last night! I can't wait to give her a hug and then one to her betrothed, Brandon Overstreet. I hear the date is November 18th, so save that date! We love you both!! See you on Tuesday.
