Albus the Fat Cat and My Kiddies

After a six and half hour rehearsal for A Wrinkle in Time, it's quite wonderful falling onto our couch next to Albus, the fat black cat. He's not OUR fat black cat, but our neighbor's. (: Hello, Albus.

Mostly this post is just an excuse to share the CUTE faces of the kids I get to see everyday. (: Today we got out the bikes and there was perfect mayhem on the playground. Sigh. I am still learning names! Sorry I don't know all of them. ):

Andrew's just two, so he couldn't get on the bigger bikes. He was quite put out, until I whipped out my camera and snapped a picture of him! haha A smile beamed across his face.

Asia's my little helper and likes it when I'm her baby girl and she's the mom. We go on frequent shopping trips to Walmart and buy Chicken Nuggets. haha The purple thing she's holding is a small bunny named after my mom's first name, "Alicia." I had to sing the bunny to sleep because she had allergies and multiple boo-boos. (:

These two are quite the duo. I don't remember the other's name, but she's a sweetheart and likes to show me her ballerina moves.

I LOVE HIM. SO MUCH. Ryder loves helping me and asking me questions and proposing to all the girls on the playground. He asked me to marry him the other day and gave me a flower. He's seriously the sweetest little boy. The other day he asked me to get all the babies so he could hold them. He wanted to hold the babies. !!! Today he asked me to help him find his Spiderman action figure. In his words, "I have a toy and his name is Spiderman." !!!!! CAN YOU HANDLE IT?!

Andrew totters after me all day long. (:

I don't remember this awesome dude's name, but he's pretty stinkin' cool. He almost karate chopped me.

My first official day, Jasmine came home from school with the other big kids and saw me on the playground. She shouted, "Chelsea!!!" and then catapulted herself in the air and hugged me tight.

Basically, I don't deserve the life I'm living, but somehow I am anyway.

Home Alone

Long time no see you guys! Ah! How are you? I hope stupendous. (:

Life's been pretty amazing as of late. Writing screenplays for a hopeful job, spending my mornings with four and five year olds, and plowing through five hour rehearsals almost every weeknight with 8 hour rehearsals on Saturdays for A Wrinkle in Time. Tonight, I had a night off...so I'm chowing down on some leftover Cafe Rio in my pajamas. Haha No shame. Our new home feels so good to be in alone. It feels like I'm in a small, fraying pocket inside a cozy sweater that cuddles close. Yeah. Perfection.

Zac's at work until later on tonight and I'm enjoying the time to think and jam out to my music and clean the house before his return. Blink 182, Mayday Parade, Lights...Ah. Doesn't get much better than that. (:

After three sessions at the preschool, I CAN'T BELIEVE MY LIFE. I've given and gotten hugs. I've flapped my butterfly arms and helped the kids perform monkey bar flips. I look forward to waking up early and spending my mornings with them. Hearing them call me "Teacher" melts my heart. It's wonderful teaching them my name, them stuttering it out, and forgetting just seconds later. GAH. KIDS.

A Wrinkle in Time has finally entered into tech week and we go up next Wednesday for an audience. WHAT. Mrs Who's super pumped to get her sassiness onstage for all the kiddies. (: I feel like I've finally got Mrs Who pegged down for my body and voice. It took a while and a lot of patience from everyone, but I'm so glad they were so encouraging. If you can come, do, please! May 29th-June 15th. You can get tickets here. (:

me + zac = 18 months

On Christmas Eve, Zac and I celebrated our 18 month anniversary in Arizona with family. We didn't chow down on our wedding cake toppers until our last day in California, though (yesterday). But, my, those quail were lovely. Rice Krispie balls covered in molding chocolate! Yum! I think my little quail looked like she'd been through a lot (seeing as we had them frozen for a year and a half). But that's what marriage does, I guess. :) Zac made his quail dance to this song. I MARRIED THE COOLEST PERSON EVER.

bumblebee chelsea (part one)

Sunday evening through this morning was magical. Zac and I got to spend time with his family, who we haven’t seen in about a year. They drove up from California and stayed with a family friend in Syracuse while visiting us. Zac’s four year old brother, Ian, was so excited to see us. He couldn’t stop saying “Zac and…Chelsea!” His little lisp when he says my name just about broke my heart. By the end of their stay, he was calling me “Bumblebee Chelsea.”
Hugging Danielle, Marc, and Amer when they first arrived was so wonderful. Laughs were shared and memories made. Marc made us his famous Sunday breakfast dinner, we played Apples to Apples, and we sat under summer trees watching Ian run about our quad’s playground. We saw The Lorax at the dollar theatre and had an Outback dinner. Amer and I got pedicures together, watching the beach volleyball Olympics. And we had dinner last night with the Latham’s in Syracuse (yummy kfc haha). Zac and I had a super soaker fight, rode an airplane, and I clucked at the chickens. Then we had game after game of volleyball. I may or may not have hit the ball over the fence several times... haha Most fun I’ve had in a long time! We got back into Provo last night around midnight or so and they camped out in our small Wymount living room. We hugged them goodbye this morning as they pulled out of our parking lot.

I’m one lucky girl having married into such an awesome family!

:]

Part Two coming soon!

(more pictures haha)

year reviewzorz

January

My family moved from Burlington, Kansas to Buckeye, Arizona! I turned 20 two days before Zac...and broke up with him on fb to scare some people. hahahha We had some fun.

February

I was in "The Importance of Being Earnest" with Utah Shakespeare in the Park and got engaged to my very very best friend, Zac Hickman.

Gosh, I love them.

March

I had some fun in my first makeup class, found my wedding dress, and wondered if I should keep pursuing an acting major.

April

I finished up the hardest semester of my life, did my proficiency audition, and found out I was ready to move on. I said goodbye to my wonderful roommates: Emily, Amber, Lori, and Hannah. I went back to Arizona to be with my family before getting hitched!

Arizona chicken. Odd.

May

I went on a road trip with mom and Julie to Kansas to see my brother graduate high school. I got to meet up with some old amazing awesome friends, including Wooge. I went to California to visit Zac for the first time in three and a half months. I also touched a sea urchin for the first time ever! :O I then came back to Arizona to do some last minute wedding planning with mommy.

 Photo cred: Logan Whittington

I love you guys.

June

Mom and I made a road trip out to California together the week of the wedding and HAD A BLAST. We stopped by a huge outlet mall somewhere in California where I found a dress for both the honeymoon and the day of my endowment session. Lots of crazy things happened that week: dates, cake testing, reception decorating, friends flying out, and mass confusion/excitement. But it all came down to the best day of my life:

I was married on June 24, 2011 in the Los Angeles Temple to Zac Hickman.

And then four days later, on our honeymoon in Hawaii, he did a back flip into a pool hit his head and was rushed to the hospital. He didn't remember us getting married. He didn't remember me for a while. Oh, wow. Biggest scare of my life.

Do not approve.

>:(

July
I started to get used to the word "wife" and "husband." We came home from Hawaii, took a break in Arizona with my fam, and then went back to California so Zac could work before we headed off to school. We saw the 3am showing of HP7p2!

A Hawaiian cave. o.O

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

We got to watch the 4th of July fireworks on a beach in Hawaii.

Luckiest girl ever is me.

Harry Potter happy excited satisfied obsessed ecstatic faces.

5:30 am, don't judge.

August

Zac, Poter, and I went to see Ludo live in LA! AMAZING.
Zac, Karen, Stephanie, and I loaded up the car and drove from California to Utah. We stopped by Vegas and had a great time! (No gambling or booze drinking for me and Zac! haha) BYU started and I figured out I wanted to be a playwriting major and an English minor. :)

September

I was cast in a one act play, "The Stronger" by August Strindberg. 

We rehearsed for 3 weeks then it went up in early October.

Definitely changed my life.

October

We carved pumpkins with Emily and Tim!

I was a zombie for Halloween.

November

I got to see my dad for the first time in a year and a half for Thanksgiving. We rode a Greyhound bus to Colorado from Utah.

I.Hate.Buses.

December

We wrapped up our finals, celebrated Emily and Tim getting married, enjoyed our 6 month anniversary and had our first Christmas together!

I also learned how to do a hairbow.

:)

An amazing year, to say the least. The best is yet to come, methinks.

I'm ready for you 2012.