Wednesday, April 12, 2023

March 2023

 March 2

Coming Soon!!! Opening Night TOMORROW!!! Tickets are going fast!! We sold out last year for Beauty and the Beast!!! Buy tickets online on GoFan.co #chittychittybangbangthemusical #snowflakehighschooltheater




Everyday silly fun life! We love little Olivia!

And we love Loa, our respite provider and Charlotte's new friend.

















March 3
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Cast will be on the radio first thing in the morning Power 95.7 arriving at the studio at 7:45 am🙌🏼🙌🏼

Cheering them on



Doors opening soon!!! All the excitement and anticipation back stage🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, here we come!!! Can’t wait to reveal “Chitty” the famous car.

March 4

Last night was a hit!!! 👏🏻👏🏻Can’t wait to post pictures from the play!! So proud of all the cast members, adorable, hilarious, talented and fun!! Matinee starting in 20 minutes

Yay! Here we go! Steal away!!! Hoping to catch every cast member in the play! Their face expressions are to die for! You have incredibly talented kids!!

March 6

Grand Prix and Toot Sweets, two fun scenes from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Snowflake High School Shs Musicals

This is the beautiful scene where Chitty the car is introduced for the first time. Yay!! Come see the fabulous car for “family night” tonight at the Snowflake High School Auditorium. Hands on tonight!! Come meet the inventors and see the inventions… and of course the famous, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Grand Prix Winner!



March 7

Birthday Girl!! 😍 I’m so blown away by Charlotte. She just ran off to her college classes, skipping out on her cake and ice cream…. being responsible. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 She’s trying so hard to keep up in college. It’s like I’ve started college again 😃🙏🏼 I love that I get to be her mother, watching her grow and develop into a beautiful Women. She and I work side by side together, helping her accomplish her goals and homework. She was writing an essay on Little Mermaid Broadway Musical for her Acting Class last night. She felt that she related to Ariel because her legs, like Ariel, don’t work like they should…. But like Ariel she felt that she is going to problem solve her way through life. She has decided on what she wants, her goals and dreams… and she’s going to go after it. Like a lot of us, it doesn’t come easy but she is studying and figuring ways to become independent 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 I’m so proud of her.


  • Doug Durrant
    Such a great tribute to Charlotte and to the family. The love and support you have for each other. So heart warming 🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️❤️. Happy Birthday Charlotte!!
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  • Sheila Peterson Saline
    Happy Birthday to a sweet and beautiful young lady.💗🎉💗
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  • Mia Randall Krishnaswami
    Happy Birthday beautiful Charlotte🎶🎂♥️🎁🎈🎊‼️
    And I just have no words for this incredible family, your love and support for each other is EXQUISITE, love you all ✨😘❣️
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  • Kyleen Riggs Pritchett
    What?!? She cannot be 19!!!!! Where does time go? Happy Birthday beautiful girl!
    Lovely Greetings The words, Happy Birthday, above a blue cupcake with a single candle and blue flowers swaying around the cupcake. sticker
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  • Delight Skinner
    Happy Birthday, Charlotte!! I love you and hope you had the most wonderful day! Great job on your essay 👏🏻 and rockin' college 💪🏽
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  • Frankie Petersen
    Happy birthday Charlotte. I hope your day was good. I’m excited for you and all your accomplishments. Love you!!🎶🌺❤️
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  • Shannon Westbrook
    Happy birthday girlie!!! Hope you had an amazing day full of laughter and fun!
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  • Sharon Rogers
    Happy belated Birthday sweet Charlotte!! Hope she had a wonderful and blessed day
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  • Pam Tenney
    Happy Birthday 🎂🎉♥️
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  • Christine Frost-Sanchez
    Awesome Happy Birthday!🎉🥳🩷
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  • Sherry Haws Yeaman
    I can’t believe you have a 19 year old 😳. Man life is flying by.
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  • DeLona Jensen
    Happy birthday Beautiful little lady,,





March 8

So many talented incredible moments!
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Two more nights coming up!
Thursday and Friday @7 at Snowflake Highschool Auditorium.

Tickets at Gofan.co or buy them at the door with some assistance online.

March 9

Ha Ha trying to keep up and missed Wellness Wednesday, so let’s Activate Thursday 💪🏼⭐️👏🏻🙌🏼 Busy week between dress rehearsals at NPC for Charlotte, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at the Highschool (last two nights) and headed off to State Championship Basketball for Special Olympics Unified 💙🙌🏼 All good things! Lets gather together and learn to activate our bodies :
Join us 💙💙💙🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
Activate Thursday
We're pleased to be joined by Dr. Nancy Bryan. She is here to educate on Vitamin D3 and its role in bone health. Vitamin D3 is a fat-soluble vitamin, meaning it gets absorbed and stored in the body’s fat cells. It’s important for bone health because it helps the body absorb calcium, which is key for strong bones. Lack of Vitamin D3 can lead to weak bones. So, make sure to get your daily dose of Vitamin D3 and learn about the new LifeVantge D3+.


March 10
Last night to come see this amazing, beautiful, talented cast and all the colors and the famous car🤩🙌🏼 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang!!! The directors and cast and all the volunteers did a magnificent job! I love that I get to see the magic happen in front and behind the scenes.♥️♥️♥️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Thank you all!!

March 11
Karah Flake
It’s all in your perspective ❤️ if more of the world could be more unified 😃
Addie got to go to the Unified Basketball tournament and had an absolutely awesome time. What a great experience. 💕 love the Blue!
She had a little whoopsie on the court with her knee but I happen to know some awesome orthopedic doctors so that a plus 😜
Thank you Anna for allowing her this opportunity. Thank you others involved as well.



I want to quote @leahdclarke 🙌🏼

one of our incredible parents that help to make all this happen!! “Amazing Weekend full of friendships and overcoming hard things!!! This is why we #playunified GO LOBOS!! These memories will last forever!”




Sending Easter Gifts to Grandkids!!!












































































































Sahreena Lauree Mendoza always a good day when we get to see one of favorite families! ❤️ #onceacinderellagirlalwaysacinderellagirl








March 15

We made it!!! 24 hours later … Adventurous day in New Orleans 🤗 😍I think my favorite part of the day was the shrimp and grits…. OK and yes watching my kids enjoy the alligators🤩👌🏼 Swamps were peaceful and exciting! #oakalleyplantation #cajunencountersswamptours











March 17

Happy St. Patrick’s Day ☘️ 🌈 The day started off with “almost” catching a leprechaun 🍀 we had to be creative with our trap in our travels 😅😂😂 and he left a few naughty goodies behind 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 hee hee 😜 and off to a great conference, proud of the strides these two girls have made🙌🏼⭐️ love that they enjoy personal growth journeys and Legacy Service Projects!! Fun Spring Break😍

Hope you are enjoying your break. Would love to hear what others are doing



March 18

Evolve!!! Probably the scariest thing is change!!! We can change…. We can grow… we can evolve! We can live Activated, inside and out!! We can choose to RUN the day or let the day RUN us! My kids are upright and can RUN! (It may look different but they can and I watch them Evolve with happy tears) I am doing my best to keep up and follow their examples @_merrillbudz_



Marcdh 19

24 hours later….. home stretch!! We are almost home!! Our last hurrah was getting to visit this sweet family, our cousins, that moved out in the middle of nowhere in Louisiana. It was such a beautiful adventurous drive. We love our Merrill cousins and their new sweet little girl. Congratulations again!! …and we made one last late midnight snack, beignets, before the kids fell asleep for the long night drive. It’s always wonderful to be home and talk about the grand adventures and all the memories, especially the people.





March 20

Charlotte is in the NPC College Production this week 🙌🏼🙌🏼 Looking forward to seeing more talent in our community!!

 


March 23

Last night was a beautiful night at Snowflake Highschool… thank you Ben Petersen for being such a great Director and really caring about the students, the kids really enjoy you!! I was thrilled when they sang the song “somewhere out there” that was my song as a teenager! 🙏🏼 🌙 So proud of my girls, Kalicia in the women’s and honors choir😍🎵 she practices and she works so hard. They both love it!! And I’m so happy to see my sweet Caroline sing and just walk on stage without her crutches! I used to have to help her up and down the steps.

March 25

Unified track started!


Northland Pioneer College presents “Our Town” - four more shows




March 30

I feel so happy to see Charlotte performing and keeping up with life, the very best she can! So proud of her. She wants to do life like others! She is willing to do hard things! It's not easy, as life is not easy for others too. We are locking arms and working on college classes together, writing essays, memorizing speeches, monologues, taking tests... Would be so much easier to just let her sit at home, no real responsibilities, except to complete her therapies. But it's worth every moment of hard, when I get to see her be with friends in college and perform, "Our Town". She carried a chair across the stage! It took a lot of effort and balance... but that smile as she walked made my heart leap with joy!
All these cast members did an incredible job. Can't wait for 4 more shows to come! Fabulous!!! Fun getting to know the cast, had fun doing a 2-3 hour photo shoot after the matinee on Saturday.
Grateful for good kind professors at Northland Pioneer College and awesome directors. (This is the month to bring awareness to Cerebral Palsy... Diagnoseses don't stop us, they just give us something to problem solve and to do it differently.)