This weekend was the first of twelve outing of Christmas. Angel and I were discouraged that we weren't able to take the kids swimming, to the park, or out and about as much as we wanted to last year. This mainly was to do lack of money or time. This year will be different. Each of the kids received a calendar this year with certain dates blocked out. Angel and I have scheduled in days and activities that will be funded by the money we would have spent on toys this last Christmas. We found an activity a month we could do and planned them out in advance.
For January we took the kids to a play put on by the Treehouse Museum in Ogden. It was called "The Frog Princess" and was based on a Russian plan. There was a cast of five people with a total of eight characters. They were clever and for the alternate roles they Russ-ified the actors' names. So Rob Green played a Russian prince, but Robert Mikhailovich played the forest spirit. They did a really good job and the kids enjoyed it a lot. Angel and I had fun to. They had some fun moments where you knew the actors were exiting stage right and then running around like made to enter stage left. From a my former (if limited) stage crew experience it was well done with sound and fun effects. The actors were a lot of fun to watch and it made me want to get involved some how. The kids were good through it except when Tigger asked in a loud voice, "Is that a real frog?" when the frog princess first appeared (as a puppet).
We arrived home a little later than planned, but still in good order to find our CO alarm going off. We didn't go in the house (or at least nobody besides me) and I called the city to figure out what to do. I didn't want to call 911 because we were all safe and nothing was in immediate danger. Come to find out, a CO alarm going off is something you call 911 for. The police, fire and ambulance all showed up in good order and the kids were thrilled to watch the firefighters go though the house looking for possible sources. The ambulance crew even gave them little fuzzy teddy bears. Roo even got one. After an hour or so, they figured it was a bad monitor but called the gas company just to double check the furnace and water heater. Angel and the Kids went to her parents as it was quite late by then and I waited with one of the paramedics. The gas guy arrived and found out that his testing machine was broken. He had to call another guy in from about an hour away. I gave them the garage code and went to join my family. All in all it was a busy day. Everything checked out (they finished around 1 am) and I went out and bought a new monitor that I'll be installing very soon.
For January we took the kids to a play put on by the Treehouse Museum in Ogden. It was called "The Frog Princess" and was based on a Russian plan. There was a cast of five people with a total of eight characters. They were clever and for the alternate roles they Russ-ified the actors' names. So Rob Green played a Russian prince, but Robert Mikhailovich played the forest spirit. They did a really good job and the kids enjoyed it a lot. Angel and I had fun to. They had some fun moments where you knew the actors were exiting stage right and then running around like made to enter stage left. From a my former (if limited) stage crew experience it was well done with sound and fun effects. The actors were a lot of fun to watch and it made me want to get involved some how. The kids were good through it except when Tigger asked in a loud voice, "Is that a real frog?" when the frog princess first appeared (as a puppet).
We arrived home a little later than planned, but still in good order to find our CO alarm going off. We didn't go in the house (or at least nobody besides me) and I called the city to figure out what to do. I didn't want to call 911 because we were all safe and nothing was in immediate danger. Come to find out, a CO alarm going off is something you call 911 for. The police, fire and ambulance all showed up in good order and the kids were thrilled to watch the firefighters go though the house looking for possible sources. The ambulance crew even gave them little fuzzy teddy bears. Roo even got one. After an hour or so, they figured it was a bad monitor but called the gas company just to double check the furnace and water heater. Angel and the Kids went to her parents as it was quite late by then and I waited with one of the paramedics. The gas guy arrived and found out that his testing machine was broken. He had to call another guy in from about an hour away. I gave them the garage code and went to join my family. All in all it was a busy day. Everything checked out (they finished around 1 am) and I went out and bought a new monitor that I'll be installing very soon.
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