WALKER CIRCLE: April 2008

Sunday, April 27, 2008

Junior Prom

Saturday, April 26th was the very first Castle View High School Junior Prom. This is Tyson's date - Kelsey Hess. What a doll! (Love that girl) A very cute (and modest) couple!!! Kelsey and Tyson are good friends from school. Kelsey has an amazing voice and has been the lead in several of the productions at Castle View the past couple of years.

Had to include the classic "pinning on the boutonnière" photo... (moms always have to help) (smile)

KING TYSON

The very first Prom King for Castle View High School is Tyson Rigby Walker!!!!

Wow! Congrats to Tyson - What an honor!!! Here's a photo of the King and Queen! (Tyson and Morgan)

Nominations were collected from the High School advisement classes - there were 4 candidates. Tyson didn't even know he was a candidate until he got to Prom. Voting for the King took place at the prom and around 11:00 they announced the very first Castle View Prom Royalty! Cool stuff - huh???

Monday, April 21, 2008

Our Fun Uncle Devin

I HATE HAMLET

Way to go TYSON!!! What a terrific job Tyson did playing "Andrew" in the production of I Hate Hamlet! He was professional, witty, talented and most of all a dang good looking character!

Grandma and Grandpa

Look at these cute grandparents!!! We spent the day Saturday driving through the Rampart Range and on to Deckers. We ended up in the Hayman Fire area - notice the background behind them? The fire was five years ago, and it still makes me sad to see the damage. Not much new undergrowth either.

Anyway, We had LOTS of fun with Grandma and Grandpa!!! We LOVED having them visit Colorado and can't wait for them to come again!

Thursday, April 3, 2008

More Adventures!!!

Well Hello!!! I just wanted to update you a little bit... of course, with pictures! Two weeks ago we had 7 girls from Chicago come to visit campus for a week. Talk about PARTAAAY!! They toured

each of the different colleges, went to plays, dancing, bowling...

pretty much anything you can do in Rexburg, they did it! I LOVED having them here! They are some of my best friends and it was so much fun hanging out with them! They said that the best part of being here was feeling the spirit on campus!

This picture with the white people... haha... is from Easter Sunday! We had an enrichment dinner that night, it was great having a nice Easter meal with the people that I love! These are some of my past roommates Amanda, Lizzy, Lyndi and Niccol!
After the enrichment dinner, we went for a Sunday evening drive. While we were on our drive, we came upon a train that was just sitting there. So, naturally, we had to go and play on it!

That is pretty much as exciting as it gets these days! I have some more pictures that I need to put on my computer then I will put them on here!

The Things Kids Say

I walked into my bedroom and found Daiken jumping on my bed. When he saw me he said, "Hey Nana - your bed smells really good"

Today Daiken asked me to hold his stuffed animal, a pet dinosaur. I asked him if the dinosaur liked to have his tummy rubbed like a puppy does.
Daiken thought for a moment and then said: "You have to be grown up, like three years olds, to pet his tummy. Or old like you Nana... how old are you?"
Nana: "I'm like 99, that's what Brailee says"
Daiken: "Oh, well, you have to be a grown up like three years olds and 99 years olds to pet a dinosaur's tummy."

The other day Brailee, Daiken and Estee were busy pulling petals off of some flowers that Britnee had on display. When she caught them she asked them to please pick up the petals and throw them away. Daiken and Estee picked up a few petals and then quickly disappeared. Brailee remained picking up. Britnee asked: "Brailee, Why did you think you could do this? Why do you think this is OK?" Brailee very calmly stated, "Because we are children."

Britnee recently took Brailee with her when she went for an ultrasound. While the tech was measuring the fluid, Brailee asked: What are you doing?
Tech: Measuring the fluid
Brailee: What's fluid?
Tech: It's the water where the baby lives
Brailee: (shocked) Can it breathe?
Tech: Yes, the baby can breathe while it's in the water.
Brailee: Oh, is it a dolphin? Wait - No - dolphins have to come up out of the water to take a breath
Tech: (laughing) No, it's really a baby.

Britnee: (to Brailee) Brailee, I need you to have a happy face.
Brailee: But I just want to have a regular face.

Brailee: Nana, do you exercise?
Nana: I try to.
Brailee: Why? So you can have a baby?

Britnee: (to Brailee) Maybe we can have Grandpa or Daddy cut it 'cuz they are strong.
Brailee: Yah! They are! And Nana is the nice one and you're ... the mom.

Britnee: (to Brailee) You sure are a happy girl today.
Brailee: I know! I think maybe I'll listen to you today!

For my birthday Britnee wanted me to call ahead before I came home from work so the kids could surprise me. She and I secretely communicated on the phone and then Brailee said she wanted to talk to me. When Brailee came to the phone she said, "Hi Nana - when you come in the door we will be hiding and then we will jump and say "Surprise!" so you will need to come in and show us how happy you are." (so much for surprises huh?)

Brailee: "Nana, Can I have some of your drink?"
Nana: "Sure honey, but it's root beer. Do you still want some?"
Brailee: "Oh, No. I don't like roots"

Daiken: "Nana, where is my chapstick?"
Nana: "Honey, I'm not sure. You didn't see it downstairs?"
Daiken: "No"
Nana: "Hmmmm, what should we do?"
Daiken: "You can just buy me a new one"

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