Theater fun for the Forsyths

The play's the thing...

The past six months has found us very busy with four different plays/musicals. In December, Emily & Dallen starred as Jo and Laurie in "A Little Women Christmas" along with the girls from Emily's book club. Tina wrote the script and directed the show. We performed for our family and friends and also at the "Beehive Homes", a senior retirement community, as a service project. It was a lot of fun and Beehive residents really enjoyed it.

Here is Dallen in his role of Sammy in "Revolt of Mother". He performed in March at the St. George Opera House. The show ran for two weeks. Dallen had been extremely ill in the weeks up to the performance, but got better just in time.


This is Aubrey and Noah performing in "Under the Broadway Lights", an original musical revue written and directed by Tina. Aubrey was one of the stars of the show. She sang a solo "God Help the Outcasts" and sang a fun & sassy duet with Shannon called "Trouble to Spare", an original song by Tina.

This is Cody (right) & his friend, Moredecai. The number they chose to do for the show was "Who's On First?", the skit made famous by Abbott & Costello. They did a great job with the comedic timing.

One of the nice things about directing is being able to put your own kids in a show... so Ivie & Noah both got to be in the show with Aubrey & Cody, and Dallen helped out backstage.

Here is Ivie performing as "Sarah"

She didn't have any lines, but is pretty

sure she was the star, anyway.

Aubrey was the home-town girl made into a BIG Broadway star!

The next show was "A Comedy of Errors"

written by Mr. William Shakespeare...

Emily performed in two roles in "Comedy of Errors" as

Amelia and The Abbess!
She was awesome and very expressive.

Emily & her best friend Emma~

Emily as the Abbess

Unfortunately, the actor that introduced her wasn't as

savvy with the funny English and kept calling her

"The Abyss" instead of "The Abbess"

Who says pronunciation matters?

Emily as Amelia - the mother of twins
She did a great job with all of that funny

English vernacular

Lots of goings on since I last posted...

We had to say some sad farewells to our Ragland cousins.

Ivie is going to MISS Mary Jane!!!!

Emily, Lily, Jaren & Cassi - cousins are the BEST!

Dallen at Halloween 2009 as a Naruto character

Ivie was a Princess... of course

This year she was "Ariel on land"

Basically, she wanted to be Ariel (her favorite princess),

but no flippers for her. She wanted to wear a pink dress.

I think it worked!

We always trick or treat with the cousins at Grandma's house.
Its always a fun house over there!
Besides - if you don't get enough candy from trick-or-treating,
there's plenty more in Grandma's cupboard
(or Grandpa's closet - SHHHHH)

Nathan would have NOTHING to do with dressing up for Halloween,

so he went as a "little Monster". It was a S-T-R-E-T-C-H,

but somehow he pulled it off. LOL

Reason #107 why HOMESCHOOL rocks...

field trip in a HELICOPTER!!!!!

No yellow busses for us....

The moms got to go, too. Tina (r) and her friend, Cathy.

We flew over our house (in the middle).
I sent a picture of this to Adam, who is on his mission.

It made him VERY homesick to see our house with

his CAR sitting out front. LOL

He said, "Don't send me pictures of my car..."

Blue & Gold Banquet!!!!

Scouting in America turns 100!!!!

Brandon didn't want a celebration for his Eagle Scout award,

but we did a small one at the house with just the family anyway.

Mom & Dad wanted to celebrate a decade of scouting

accomplishments, even though Brandon was just content to

have completed all the requirements.

"On my honor!" We are a scouting family...

(Don't ASK me what Cody has growing on his head!

Its definitely NOT Scout issue...)

Aubrey & Cody attended a formal dance with their Commonwealth friends.

Cody wore a tux for the first time, and Aubrey wore her first formal.

Don't they look great!? Wish the camera had behaved that day...

Dallen turned TEN and became a Webelos Scout.

He has a tendency to get very emotional on his birthdays.

He is a sweet boy who is very grateful for gifts large and small,

and often gets quite overcome and teary when he opens his gifts.

Hence the baby blanket over his head.

Showing some spiritual MUSCLE!

Noah was baptized and confirmed

a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

on August 22, 2009 by his father.