Trent's First Communion

On May 20, Trent received his First Holy Communion. He was enrolled in religious education classes all year {with Babs as his teacher!}, and the culmination was this event. I was so excited and proud...and he was not, ha. Such a boy, that one!

Friday evening was his class play AND the dress rehearsal for First Communion, so we had to get to church early and practice with just the Director of Religious Education. They had a photographer there to take some posed shots of the kids, and Trent was being so uncooperative until the photographer started talking about Pokemon. Then he was putty in her hand!

Griping about me trying to fix his hair

This picture cracks me up. His life is so miserable isn't it?

Oh? You know what Pokemon is? Maybe I don't hate this so much.

GQ Model

Then he practiced with Ms. Diane

Finally! A smile!

Discussing where I can go QUICKLY to buy a belt. Did you notice T isn't wearing a belt in any of these pics? When Brent was helping him get dressed, we realized he doesn't have a belt, ha. I stressed and stressed over his outfit and never even thought to get a belt!

So we left and had just a little bit of time for us to stop and get a belt and get him changed into his costume for the play. THEN I realized he also hadn't eaten and wouldn't be home until easily 8:30...#momfail. So at Wal-Mart {ugh} we found a belt {that is reversible between black and brown and was $7! Score!}, got him a Lunchable and some chips {ugh} and also found a Dan TDM t-shirt. Trent is OBSESSED with this guy - he's a British gamer who has a bajillion YouTube videos playing Minecraft. He's like 24 and totally adorable in a nerdy gamer way. Trent FREAKED when he saw they had t-shirts, so of course I had to buy him one!

The next day we got everybody into their Sunday best and loaded up for church. Brent has now been to our church for Trent's baptism, Drew's baptism, and now Trent's communion. He'll have to go again this summer for Paige's baptism - the horror! Trent's godparents, Kristen and Schuyler, also came with their kiddos, both sets of grandparents were there, and also Brent's MeMa! Of course I got zero pictures of everyone together and Trent, Drew, and Beau acted like wild animals who had never been to church! 

And finally! Trent's First Communion! Look at that belt!!

His whole class

It was a very special day, and I did tear up a little as he was receiving communion. He's been really meh about the whole thing, but the next time we went to church he was pumped to go to communion, ha.

Movie Review: Beauty and the Beast

Hallelujah! I finally went to a movie! I'm so excited and can't wait to get back into a regular routine with Allison! {Lots of exclamation points there, ha} We have wanted to see Beauty and the Beast since we first knew it was being made into a movie, and we're both huge Downton Abbey lovers, so knowing Dan Stevens was the Beast made us even more interested!

Plot: An adaptation of the fairy tale about a monstrous-looking prince and a young woman who fall in love.

Review: Allison and I both loved it! This was not a cheesy production - you could tell everyone was very invested - the actors were magnificent {mostly}, the sets were beautiful, the singing was great {again mostly}, overall just wonderful. It was nice to have all the old songs to sing along to with a few new songs that were also really good. I only have 2 minor complaints - one, I think it was a smidge too long. At just over 2 hours I'm glad I didn't take Drew - I don't think she would have been able to make it through. They added some scenes that I think were added to develop Belle and the Beast's love story a little more which was fine but it just felt a smidge long. My other small issue was I didn't think Emma Watson was as strong of a Belle as the other cast members were for their characters. I LOVE her, and she did good, but everyone else did GREAT.

So there you go - my first movie of 2017! Here's hoping for about 50 more, ha!