The "Flower Girl"

Last week Rylee and her BFF were in the school play. They performed "Alice in Wonderland" and they were sweet little flowers. Rylee told me before she performed the play that they were supposed to be mean and nasty flowers, but she "couldn't help but smile really big in front of adults!" How sweet is that!


So here is the ordeal that Blackeyedsue and I had. (If you didn't know already, the girl pictured with Rylee is Blackeyedsue's daughter.) The girls worked SOOOOO hard on this play - they practiced after school three days a week for the past four months and during the last two weeks it was almost every night. So when it came time to get costumes ready for the play the girls were told that their Alice In Wonderland t-shirts were "it" for their costumes. HOW LAME! After all that hard work, they only get to wear a dumb t-shirt in the play! No siree Bob! That didn't fly with Blackeyedsue and I.


So, we decided to try to make them look a little more like flowers. Blackeyedsue got gung-ho last Saturday and got it all figured out for me (thank goodness, because I was having a rotten day). She found green pants at Children's Place, little stretchy headbands and flowers, which we were able to cut apart and hot glue to clips for their hair, and she got flip-flops that we hot glued flowers to.



So these pictures were taken the last night of the play right before we left. Look how cute they look all "gussied" up, make-up and all!

Feelin' the love! Our girls better stay best buddies forever or it will be so sad!

Can we say, "DRAMATIC!" This girl likes to pose for pictures. I just thought I would point out the very blatantly obvious!

I snapped this shot of a bunch of the girls backstage just before the curtain went up. They were ready to "do their thing!"

After the play, a few of the people who were in the play ended up at Pace's for ice cream. What a fun ending to the long play run for these kids! They loved it! And so did Hayden! He and Bill were little ice cream buddies!

Apparently Hayden can't keep ice cream in his mouth. Every time the kid eats ice cream, we get a picture of him with ice cream on his chin. Silly boy!

Lana and Rylee with a couple of other sweet girls in our ward sitting on the tall bar stools to eat their ice cream. What cute girls!

Lana and her BFF (also Blackeyedsue's daughter - just in case you didn't already know!) They kept running back and forth talking to each other and they were so cute. They can't get enough of each other!

Kate even had a good time. I fed her Cheerios for her snack, and she loved them! Cutie pie!

And this was why we decided to leave Pace's. I am a white trash mom who lets her son crawl in the cupboards under the napkins and straws at Pace's. They had to love me! Hey, at least he wasn't throwing a fit! And it's not like they have food in there. So there is your tip for the week: If you take a two year old to a restaurant and they have a cupboard they can play and hide in, it keeps them quiet and happy!