rudolph the red nosed reindeer

last week addison had her first school performance.

each of the classes at her school did a different christmas song.

her class sang rudolph the red nosed reindeer.

we had been practicing singing it for a little while.

she was super excited about singing.

all the kids wore christmas pjs. {of course addison needed a new pair for the occasion}.

i was scared she would get stage fright and not want to sing.

some of the kids before her, which were in the younger classes, got upset. nothing too bad though.

let me just say, it was hilarious. she was adorable. as soon as she got up on the stage, she waved at EVERYONE. she was smiling and waving like it was her job.

then when the music started, she stood there and sang and danced. it was adorable. and i couldn't stop laughing. i was so proud. it made me so extremely happy. i can't believe how big she is.


it was a little dark, so the pictures weren't great. but i will never forget the first time she got up on a stage to perform, and just how cute and funny it was.

oh, and i'm pretty sure addison had the most fans. there were 10 of us. me, her dad, my mom, my granny, my step-brother and step-sister, maegen, jenna, haley, and jake. so ya, my child has groupies!

how did dinosaurs communicate??

this weekend, my mom decided that she needed to clean her garage.

while cleaning, she found a bag of cell phone chargers. she wanted me to go through them and see if we needed any of them.

and in that bag was the answer to the age old question: how did dinosaurs communicate?

let's start with what i thought looked like the most recent cell phone. this must have been used right before the ice age. (i guess verizon has been around for a while)


these next two seem to be about the same in age (many a few billion years old).


this last one is the best. seriously. this thing is SO old. it weighs a ton, too. my mom doesn't even think it was hers. i don't know where she got it, but i cried from laughing when i pulled it out of the bag!!


so, now we know how dinosaurs communicated. they used cell phones, of course!!