Baylie's 18th Birthday & Little Shop of Horrors

 18 Years of Baylie

Happy 18th Birthday Baylie Anne!!

Her birthday happened to be on opening night of the musical - Little Shop of Horrors. She played the part of Crystal, a street urchin. She had a really fun singing number. Little Shop of Horrors is not my favorite play, but I loved this performance.

Final Bow

The cast sang Happy Birthday to her. I missed the beginning of it.

Jayden played the role of the plant. He was great of course.

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Members of the cast and a bunch of friends and family that came to support.

After the play we went to Texas Roadhouse to celebrate. 

Then we went home for cake and presents. She wanted a lemon bundt cake and I found a gluten free recipe. It was pretty good!

Since Baylie wants to be a conductor, David gave her the conducting baton that Nove had given to him. It's a treasure. Hopefully she doesn't lose it.

I gave her a laptop bag. 

And we gave her a massive puzzle table with drawers.

There was another show on Friday night and more friends came to support.

Brusins - Gage, Tim, Shay, Calee, Baylie

Sadie Caley, Bella Howe, Ava Alsup, Baylie, April and Alexa Alsup

Savannah Stephens, Drake Allen, Prince Lloyd, Dallas Burns, Khalil Smith, Samantha Wilkerson, Jayden Samuels, Janai Brown, Jacob Quinones, Sal Erwin, Baylie, Jahira McNair

Baylie received LOTS of flowers!

This year Baylie was inducted to the International Thespian Society because of her participation in the musicals and because she sang as part of the One Act Plays.

Baylie also sang at the ceremony. You can see her performance HERE.

Grammy & Grandad Visit and Painting the Primary Room - March 2026

In addition to the musical and Baylie's birthday, we had some other activities while Grammy and Grandad were here.

We went to see Jalen's track meet. And of course, it's usually warm, but while Grammy and Grandad were here, it was freezing. Miserably cold! It was still great for them to be here though because they  never get to see the kids compete.

And he had a pretty good meet. Although the cold is really hard for him because he has raynaud's.

At some point we had Greek salad. I think maybe Baylie asked for it for her birthday dinner.

The Primary room was in such terrible shape. Grammy and Grandad couldn't believe the condition of our building, especially the Primary room. 

Torn up walls

Dirt streaks

Seriously!

David took a day off work and we paid for the paint with our own money. He worked all day.

Grammy and Grandad and I went and helped tape the last part. He finished at about 10 p.m. It looks fantastic now!!

Before video

After video

Child abuse?

We introduced Grammy and Grandad to the awesomeness that is shamrock shakes.

Dad started to get sick and I gave him some of my homemade medicine. He wanted to make his own so we went to the herb shop. Now he just needs to buy the vodka. We'll probably do that next time we're in Utah.

It's always so wonderful to have them around, but I miss them so much when they have to leave. This trip was really hard on Grammy so I don't know if they'll be able to come back out again.