A Poppleton Kind of Day

June 16 (Yeah I know this is a little late!)- Before heading North for a while, Lucy and I had one last Poppleton Family day (as everyone gets older and moves different places this is a rare occasion!). There is nothing I love more than being with my whole family. We (Lucy and I) convinced everyone to meet us at the beach, indulge in some pizza, then head for the pool. We finished the night with an impressive rendition of "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" in the Ward Talent Show (watch the video below). It's been a long time since we all performed together, so it really topped the day off. All in all, between the beach, the sun, the water and the musical performance it was a Poppleton kind of Day! (We were lucky too! It was cloudy all week, and the days following. It seemed as thought the sun came out just for us!)






For your viewing pleasure you can watch our performance below. It's a little embarrassing (except for my brother Brian, my musical hero), but why keep secrets? I mean the whole ward already saw it and we all need to laugh a little more in our day. Today you can laugh at my expense. Let's just say Dave is really glad he was already out of town and not roped into this one.

Talent Disclaimer: This performance should in no way taint your views of my family's true talent. We didn't want to all perform with our true talent, because making everyone jealous of our family talent isn't what talent shows are all about (Yikes!!!! Just Kidding!) Let me plead my case, We put it together in about 30 minutes, props and all, so you gotta take that into consideration. We didn't want to go all out since we knew there wasn't even a stage at our church building. Without a stage it wouldn't seem like quality theater anyway, so we decided to just have fun, as you will see was undeniably had! That's all that really matters anyway right? Decide for yourself and feel free to leave your honest comments. I am tough. I can take it!

My how she's grown

My how Lucy has grown. Compare these 2 pictures!

San Diego Zoo - Christmas 2007 (Lucy's first Zoo trip)


San Diego Zoo - June 2009 (One of many Zoo trips in 2009)


Wow! What a year and a half can do!

What I know now that I didn't know then:

- One little girl could learn and grow so much in so little time (and I would be the one saying super cliche things to people with babies like "they grow so fast")

- She would get dropped on her head, roll off the bed, and poke her fingers in the outlet and still turn out happy and smart.

- She would stop crying whenever we drove in the car


- My heart would grow and I would actually love her even more then I did when she was a baby.

- She would have curly hair

- It would bother me when she started calling me "wedy" (sorry, but it's Mommy to you little girl!)

- She would eat flower petals, old raisins found in the car, 2 rolly pollies (that I know of), fresh ABC gum from off the sidewalk, m&m's off the ground at Costco, dirt, sand, even little rocks and she would live through it all.

- I worried about tons of stuff for nothing!

- How much I would love being Lucy's Mom- Being a Mom is the hardest thing I have ever done, but it is definitely worth it!