Timmins Got Talent

Brother Carr-Lawton thinks Britain's got talent, but he had to admit this week-end that Timmins too got talent. And lots of it. Let me start with the beginning (I'm being very original, I know!). The bishop asked to go first and, since he's the bishop, he was obliged. 

 

 

 

 

He did a great job and was quite hard to follow! But the Young Women tried.

 

 

 

 

Trust me, we were better during practices !

There was a lot of music and songs.

 

 

 

 

 

I didn't know how long the batteries for my camera would last so I don't have them all, but I do have some!

 

 

 

 

Shannon's song was Julia's and Zack's favorite:

 

 

When I asked my Sunday School class, they said the fox song was their favorite.

I hadn't been able to practice on stage with the others because Kelden was sick, so that's my excuse. I'm glad Ashley was ready though!
I liked this song:

But our Timmins musical talent isn't limited to singing and dancing.

 

 

And Timmins doesn't just sing, dance and ring bells. We had a few other talents displayed. Sr Newton did not give permission to film her so you only get a picture...

 



 

Brother Vaughan surprised us with his unicycle.

 



 

There were also a few gymnasts:

 

 

 

 

Keld and I performed a little skit. (At first, it didn't look that too many people were going to do something so we signed up for quite a few things just in case..).

 

 

 

 

And I kept the last song for the end (like I said, very original order).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I can't wait for the next talent show !



Easter 2014

In France, kids have two weeks off for Easter. Not here. Two days is all they get, Good Friday and Easter Monday. We started the party early as Special and Grandpa Bruce invited them to a sleepover on Thursday. They first had an Easter egg hunt.

The next day, they made little bunnies and also decorated Special's windows.

On Saturday, Special made the Easter feast for the family and the Thompsons.

On Sunday was our egg hunt with clues leading to the treasure. Instead of buying big chocolates we bought a little gift for each kid.

On Monday, I made my Easter's nest. My mom does it all the time (although I don't know if she did it this year, none of her kids were there).

We went to the cinema as a family, for the first time. It was actually Zack's first time too. Grandpa decided that it was a good idea and came with us! We saw Rio 2.

We also took advantage of the sun to go biking during the long week-end.

A good thing we did, it's all white again today!

 And for the spiritual part, here's the song the Primary children sang on Sunday.  I have to say that they did better on Sunday than what you see here...

I like that one day we can all be together with our families forever.

We might have to match to make sure we find each other in the crowd...

Zack Is Three

Zack turned three last Thursday but we celebrated on Saturday.

 I didn't think he would mind waiting for the party. I might have been wrong. As soon as we said "Happy Birthday" on Thursday, he wanted Brucey, cake and presents. Brucey came that day (a good thing!) but he waited anxiously for the cake and the presents.

He wanted everything on his cake: Buzz, Thomas, R2D2, Zurg, etc. I wasn't sure how Grandma Special could do that but, sure enough, she did it! We were impressed, he was happy!

We had hotdogs for lunch, not too fancy, so Keld used one of Mom's ideas and made them look like boats.

I think Zack realized that the wait was worth it.

We go him a bike...

...but I think he preferred everything "Thomas," starting with a new T-shirt:

 and real Thomas and friends' wood trains:

I thought his sharing skills had improved but he sure isn't letting anyone near those trains !
Grandma Special and Grandpa Bruce also got him a "record the story yourself" book (a book about Thomas the Train- but that goes without saying). I wish they could have seen the look on his face when he heard his name at the end the first time!! Oh, how I wish I had a book like that from my grandparents...
Anyway, for the others we had mini goodie bags with cheerleading pom-poms for the girls and water guns for the boys.

Nothing for the adults but they didn't look too disappointed.

Well, it's over Zack, the party is all done, you're officially a big boy now.

Next birthday is Keld's, the crazy Dad...

But to end this post, I am putting a video of the children singing "I Hope They Call Me On a Mission"

I will show it too Zack when he turns 18, in a few years...

Piano Lessons

Piano lessons are not over yet for this school year but Julia finished Book One and so she received a certificate. She was pretty proud.

In that picture she is also proudly wearing her new pyjama pants, thank you again Sr Poirier!

But let's go back to piano. Here are some of Julia's favorite songs from Book One.

 I thought I would look at the beginners' books Special had given us and we found one with LDS Children's songs. We had a little competition.

Notice that Julia is the only one that can play AND sing at the same time.

Great job, keep it up!