{"id":1607,"date":"2011-07-10T02:04:48","date_gmt":"2011-07-10T02:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.wordpress.com\/?p=1607"},"modified":"2011-07-10T02:04:48","modified_gmt":"2011-07-10T02:04:48","slug":"on-the-banks-of-plum-creek-once-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/10\/on-the-banks-of-plum-creek-once-more\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Banks of Plum Creek (Once More)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Long time readers probably know by now that my family lives near Walnut Grove of “Little House” fame and that my girls have acted in a local outdoor play (The Wilder Pageant<\/a>) about the Ingalls family’s time in our area since they were little.<\/p>\n

Anna started acting in the pageant when she was four years old!<\/p>\n

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And some of you may remember the drama around Victoria and her “crazy hat”<\/a> last year (she’s wearing another crazy hat this year, much to the dismay of that same girl!).<\/p>\n

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The girls are now in their 7th year in the pageant, Daddy is in his sixth, and this year marks Jack’s first year in it.<\/p>\n

Last night was opening night, so Alex and I headed out with Grandma and Grandpa to see the show.<\/p>\n

Here’s a few pics of my wonderful actors and the show.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

(Apologies for the terrible quality of the photos!\u00a0 I was using Victoria’s fancy camera and I really only know how to point and shoot!<\/em>)<\/p>\n

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Back stage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Before the show<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Jack got a little distracted by seeing me and the audience (over a thousand!) at first but then got into the swing of things<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Ingalls Family arrives<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Reverend Alden (my hubby) leads a prayer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Jack was just too quick in the potato sack race for me to capture him!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Victoria and Daddy (I mean Reverend Alden) help erect the church<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Jack (in back) prepares to roll some hoops during the church raising<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Trying to burn out the grasshoppers during the plague (thousands of oyster crackers are blown into the air as grasshoppers!)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Those rotten Oleson kids \ud83d\ude09<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The reverend says a few words in the Christmas scene (Jack is on the far right, the girls are hidden from view)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The exciting fire scene!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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In the second half, my hubby plays the mayor (at the first city meeting of Walnut Grove)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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I wish I knew how to use Victoria's camera! Anna did Irish step dancing and was in the middle of the front (in blue)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Victoria (in green with the hat) dances with Laura during the town social<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Jack dancing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Anna dancing (in blue)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Jack hanging out with the other boys during the adult dance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Jack and Anna stand with their families at the end, as Laura tells what became of each family (the Olesons moved to California and Willie was blinded playing with firecrackers)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Taking a bow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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My actors on stage afterwards<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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And being silly...<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Jack, Alex and a pageant buddy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Signing autogaphs and meeting the audience<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was a great start to the new season.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Long time readers probably know by now that my family lives near Walnut Grove of “Little House” fame and that my girls have acted in a local outdoor play (The Wilder Pageant) about the Ingalls family’s time in our area since they were little. Anna started acting in the pageant when she was four years…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[137,168,171],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}