June Gazette!

The Garrett Gazette

6/2/09

Dear Family and Friends,

It’s been a LONG LONG time since I’ve written but I’ve got a LOT to catch up on so here we go! Oh and it’s probably going to be very scatterbrained!

School is out now and as my dad has said, it’s a year of moving on for our family. Jakie graduated from high school, I graduated from Jr. High and Emily graduated from Elementary school. I keep wondering where the year went. It felt like we just barely started school, but no….we’re done now!

Jake’s graduation was on May 28th. I got to skip school and go see it. Jake looked so happy and that was an awesome experience. Aunt Cheri (I think that’s how to spell your name) and Aunt Amelia got to come to the graduation as well! We went to Wingers after the graduation and ate lunch there and gave Jakie his presents. He got a laptop and a bag to go with it. Jessica also gave him a really important hoody that he really likes! Good Job Jake!!!!

Emily graduated on May 29th. I’m not sure exactly what happened at that because I was at my own school, but she looked SO pretty!!!

On May 21st I had a choir concert! Amelia also got to come to that! I was in Show Choir and Perfect Harmony, so I was in quite a few numbers. In Show Choir we did a GREASE medley and it was SO much fun! Our Choreographer was amazing and I loved her! My friend Ashlin and I sang “For Good” together at the end of the concert! We did SOOOO good! I also got the directors award in choir, which was really cool! I got a nifty medal! Grandma and Grandpa Clayton took Emily and I out for Ice Cream after that!

So I’ve mentioned a couple times that Amelia was here! Well she came down on the 21st and left on the 28th. She just brought herself and her little baby Austin!!! He was sooooo cute! We all had loads of fun with Amelia! We went shopping like 4 times with her and she took me to go see Wolverine! It was so much fun!

Mommy had a concert on Sunday! She and her two friends Afton and Carey sang a whole bunch of songs and their name is Lilium! They did an AMAZING job, and they all looked so pretty!!!! I got to do spotlight while dad worked the sound and the stage lights! I had fun with that!!!!

I know there should be something else to write about, but I really can’t think of anything! I guess I just had a brain fart! Well….I love you all and have an AMAZING summer!!!!

Love,
Kirk, Dawn, Jakie, Me, Emily, Bekah, and Hannah!

Garrett Gazette April 4, 2009

The Garrett Gazette

4/4/09

Dear Family and Friends,

Alrighty, I’ve got a LOT to say I think! Here goes…

We got about a month of a break from plays and now we’ve started up again! Sort of! In a way! Mom, Emily, Bekah and I tried out for a PCT production. They held auditions for The Wizard of Oz on March 27^th. Mom and I made callbacks. I got callbacks for Dorothy, while mom got callbacks for The Wicked Witch of the West. They didn’t even let me read lines cuz I’m not old enough, so I don’t get to be Dorothy. Mommy made it into the final two, but they chose the other lady, Ramona Samuels. She is the lady that mom sang McCavity with, so they were pretty happy for each other. Me and mom are Brush Brush beauticians. (we’re not quite sure what that is yet) Emily is an Ozian and Bekah is a munchkin!! We haven’t started rehearsals yet, but I’m excited!!! My friends Ky and Ashlin are the same thing as me! We’re gonna have a BLAST!!!

Mom, Dad and I have all had a turn being sick within the last couple weeks. Mom was soo lucky cuz she was sick while auditioning for the play. I’m even luckier cuz I got sick when I went to festival yesterday! (I’m being sarcastic by the way). Now…done with sarcasm…we did a great job at festival. In my opinion, my choir class stinks REALLY bad and I thought we would get a III. Instead we got a 1-. That’s also called a Superior minus, or it’s easier to understand as an A-. That means we were almost at the top!!

Mommy doesn’t have to work on Saturdays anymore!!! It’s SO EXCITING! Since she’s worked at 1-800-CONTACTS for a year, she gets her Saturdays off, and so she can spend them with us! We can be NOISY on Saturdays! YAY!

Our ward split last week! We used to be a part of the Highline ward, but we got too big. The Maple Dell ward got huge too, so they combined some of Highline with some of Maple Dell. They also made a new Greenridge ward. We are now part of the Maple Dell ward which is where we were at before we got split into Highline. It’s kinda bittersweet in my opinion. Kylee lives on the other side of Highline, so now we’re not in the same ward, and I don’t know very many of the girls in Maple Dell! But it is nice to see some familiar faces and I know the bishopric really well, so that’s always nice!!

The Draper Temple dedication was a couple weeks ago. Mom, Dad, Emily, Me, and Bekah got to go to that! It was really cool!! When everyone sang the Spirit of God it was really special!

I feel like I should say something about Jakie, but I can’t think of anything! He’s never home, so there’s not much to say!

Aunt Amelia had her baby. Austin Edward Newton is his name! He’s cute and squishy!!!

Loves,

Kirk, Dawn, Jake, Me, Emily, Bekah, and Hannah!

Gazette...

The Garrett Gazette

3/18/09

Dear Family and Friends,

Our life is mostly back to normal now!!! Willy Wonka ended on the 7th of this month, so since then, I’ve had to wrap up a few random other performances, but now things are almost normal.

Wonka was a blast to be in. We had so much fun with random little things and you miss those random little things when it’s all over. We had a lot of funny things happen during performance. One of the Oompa Loompas pulled the fire alarm after one of our performances. That was an adventure. We did so well some nights, and other nights we messed up everything! It was a great experience. Closing night was really hard for a lot of us. The little boy who played Charlie Bucket was having a really hard time and he was crying a lot. I cried quite a bit before we went on stage, and then after the cast party was all over there was more crying. It’s so hard to say good bye to everybody when you’ve been like a family for three months. Well, I guess I’ll stop talking about Willy Wonka now.

Last week I had a few more things that I had to perform. I had a choir concert, in which I did awful. I completely spaced a part of my dance and I was quite literally front and center. It was embarrassing. That was on Tuesday the 10th. On Thursday the 12th me and Emily had a piano recital where we played two songs. We took those songs to festival on Saturday the 14th where we both got superiors (that’s the highest you can get) and I got stars on both of my songs which means something really trippy! Once I get more info, I’ll tell you what that means.

We celebrated Emily’s birthday on Sunday the 8th. I think she had a pretty good birthday! We ate lots of sugar and she got lots of hair and make up stuff!!! I’m pretty sure she enjoyed that!!!
Well…I don’t think I have anything else to talk about, so I’ll close now!!!

We love you all. Have a wonderful week, and we’ll talk to y’all soon!!!

Love,
Kirk, Dawn, Jakie, Me, Emily, Bekah and Hannah.

PS-Sorry, i don't have a pic of Emily on here...but i don't have a pic with all of us in it!

Gazette twenty...something?

The Garrett Gazette

2/16/09

Dear Family and Friends,

Basically if you want a short version of what has gone on in our lives it is Willy Wonka, Willy Wonka, and more Willy Wonka! AHH! We are pretty much about to puke Wonka right now! But since I’m nice and want to put you through the torture, I’ll go into more detail about our lives!

This last weekend Mommy and Daddy took off and left us all alone at home. Okay, well it had been planned for a few weeks and Grandma and Grandpa took us for a few hours, but yeah. They went to Idaho for Marty’s wedding. I think Dad will go into more detail about that, but I’ll just mention that we made it through alive with no burned house!! YAY! We watched a few movies, cleaned, watched more movies, ate and yeah!

Jakie bought a car the other day. It’s little and loud and if you ask me, it’s ugly. Jakie doesn’t think it’s ugly though, so that’s why he doesn’t ask me. He loves his car!

Now…Willy Wonka! As you all know by now…our whole family (except for Jake) is involved in this play. Emily, Bekah, Hannah and I are the actors, mom is the producer, and dad is a set and sound guy! We are opening this weekend, which means we’ve been going bonkers for the last two weeks trying to get things done. We’ve had to build the set, paint the set, add more stage to the set, paint some more set, build some candy, paint the candy, hang up the candy, finish finding props and then of course run the show five jillion times. Chad and Tina (our directors) are amazing and have been working overtime along with mom and dad and the rest of the board. We go to rehearsals early, stay after rehearsals and yeah. For Pete’s sake we were at Peteetneet for 6 ½ hours today!!!! OH MY GOSH! That’s a long, long time! Anyway, that’s our life right now. School, Work and Rehearsals…but thank goodness it’ll be over soon. Speaking of which, our performances are this Friday and the next three weekends. February 20, 21, 25, 27, 28 and March 4, 6, 7 all at 7:00 PM. Ticket info is on the side bar of the blog! PLEASE, PLEASE COME!!!!!!!!!!!

It’s midterm now in school which means we have a term and a half left till summer! That is AMAZING! This year has gone by hugely fast!

I got my Young Women’s Medallion which is really nice! It’s SO pretty! We had New Beginnings yesterday and Emily got to go to that. She was really nervous, because she was the youngest one there, but I think she’s secretly excited to be in Young Women’s.

I also got my Wisdom teeth pulled a couple weeks ago. I was pretty okay for the first couple days, but then on the third day my cheeks were HUGE and I looked like a Chipmunk. I got a little bit teased at school on Monday because of my chipmunk ness (although it wasn’t as bad as it was on Sunday). I still have to keep rinsing with an antibiotic mouth wash and squirting food out of my sockets after I eat, but my mouth is feeling TONS better!

Umm….I don’t think there’s been anything else taking up all our time, so I’ll be done now I guess.

Love,
Kirk, Dawn, Jakie, Me, Emily, Bekah and Hannah!

McCavity

A couple of years ago, Dawn was in Cats. I thought I could add this video so you could see her in action! She is the sexy Kitten in back, the hot one in red and orange! The other one is the art teacher that my kids had at Park View Elementary, Ramona Samuels.

Gazette # something something!

The Garrett Gazette

1/22/09

Dear Family and Friends,

Well, it’s a new year now! I told you it’d be a while till I wrote again, so yeah!!! A lot has happened since whenever I last wrote. There was Christmas, and New Years and school starting and all that, so I’m not sure how to organize this Gazette. If I sound kind of scatterbrained and all over the place, I’m sorry!

I guess we’ll start with Christmas. I’ll say one thing that everybody got. Daddy got a GPS thingy, mommy got a pasta maker and a bathrobe, and Jakie got a portable DVD player with a few movies like “Dark Knight.” I got an uber cute calendar and a calendar holder, Emily got a Scentsy candle thingy, Bekah got a Hannah Montana bean bag, and Hannah got a tent. It wasn’t a HUGE Christmas this year, but it was a good one and we enjoyed it.

On New Years eve we went over to Grandma Claytons for Dinner then came home and played games. I’m not sure what happened for 2 hours because I went to a multi stake dance, but when I came back we watched “X files” (daddy got the 1st two seasons for Christmas) We did the countdown and everything, but Hannah wouldn’t wake up.

School started and it’s been crazy trying to get everything done for the end of the term. Emily was working frantically on book report stuff and we were trying to read with Hannah and yeah. It was crazy. But now it’s Term 3 and we were relieved to have a break from homework.

We had a long weekend last week with Friday and Monday off so we got to relax and enjoy the weekend. I got to go sing with Mommy and we invited Brayden along with us. We sang at Carey’s house and I had a lot of fun.

I can’t think of anything else that I really need to say, so I guess we’re done here until I decide to write again!!!!

Loves!!
Kirk, Dawn, Jake, Me, Emily, Bekah and Hannah

It's ME!!!

Well, if you couldn't tell, I figured out how to switch the blog backgrounds. Daddy said I could do something girly, but it probably wouldn't stay very long! So I went girly. First I had a pink and green background, but I decided to change it!

Anyway, hope y'all like it!

I don't really have a reason for posting so yeah!

Loves,
~MEG~