BIG Night!

Big night tonight for the Presidential race...Go Barack!! I am so glad we have a performance of Little Women, that way I won't be torturing myself with the results. (o please let him win Texas!!!) By the by...Little Women is going astonishingly well! ha! (well...nothing astonishing about it....great talent foreshadows great shows!!! and Craig you did amazing last night..........DeeDee you make me cry every freakin' night! Insane talent! I love it!)
Just go win it big Obama!!!

The week off!

Hallelujah! I am so, so glad I have the week off! Now maybe I can make some headway on our dining room. ha! Yeah. And Happy Birthday to my sweetheart! I love you tons!!

Little Women cont.

OK we had opening night last night. The cast did amazing! The audience was about 90 strong and seemed to like it. Hopefully they will spread the word and others can enjoy this show. We have had people who have seen both the Broadway show AND the touring show and they said ours is by far better!!! (than what?) So that is a HUGE compliment!


The March sisters....forever!

Little Women

ok Little Women open tonight! yay!! Great cast and a way great show!! high entertainment! break a leg guys!

One Voice

Good luck tomorrow Barack!!
Yes We Can!

Michelle!

O my goodness! Alex, Alyssa and I went to the Salt Palace this morning to hear Michelle Obama speak. She is one classy lady and I was so, so impressed with what she had to say. I truly believe if things are to get better here in the USA we need a change of committment, not only at the top but in all of us. Here it is 2008 in the history of our world and I do not think it is all rosy and bright...what we are to leave the next or future generations. It is not for them to clean up after us. We must initiate change now...in health care in education, in the economy, in fostering good will not just here but on foreign shores.
this is a music video that is excellent.
I think I would vote for Barack just for the fact that he was smart enough to marry Michelle!! ha!
It was thrilling to stand there and repeat the words "Yes we can!" over and over. I love that.
It isn't one person that will change things...but all of us together!

Trying Times

I always try to "look on the bright side of life". But at times it is pretty hard! It all began with coming home from Christmas in Tucson to hear of my niece Maryn's husband collapsing at work and dying. Joey was 2 days from being 25. The cause? We have no idea! The autopsy found nothing wrong! Hard thing for a young girl to go through. My heart goes out to her and his family and...well, Maryn's family too. Then a lady that I visit teach, her brother died in an avalanche accident last weekend. And now on the news, Heath Ledger died. Hard times. But then I get a wonderful e-mail from Ames in Japan and he talks of "hope". How we have that eternal hope of living with God again and that it is up to us. Time to look on that bright side, I dare say!

2008

WOW!! A brand new year!! Holy Cats, where does the time go?? We just got back from spending a wonderful Christmas in Tucson. Can't wait to get our family pics!! But, it is good to get back to everyday living and back to eating right! ha! I'm already working on next Christmas with some amazing ideas!! Things I am looking forward to:
Little Women- end of Feb (Midvale City, I am choreographer and probably "gopher")
Spending a week tending my "Little Men" in Tucson!! End of April
Alyssa Graduating!! yay Sissa! June (and then watching my 4 boys here in Midvale while Aubry
and Chris go to England!!!)
And July 12th Aaron and Corinne's wedding!!! This will be the highlight of the year!!!
Ames comes home about 3rd week in August!!!Yay!!
I lalalove dancin' through life!!!

Twilight

OK....Alyssa and I have been reading the series "Twilight" by author Stephanie Meyer. So many people told that we HAD to read them. So we proceeded to do just that. We are so hooked!! Only thing is we didn't have to wait for consecutive books to come out ...ha! She already has three out and they are so amazing. The third one just came out this week....and we had to put our name on a waiting list to get one!! Why hadn't we even heard of this series before?? Real life characters in a science fiction sort of setting! I would never read anything to do with vampires, but these books have you rooting for them all the same. What have I come to now??? ha!
Favorite character is............. by far......... Edward!!!

Harry Potter

OK...I admit I am glad I read the book!! I wasn't going to beacause I had heard that Harry dies.
I couldn't face our hero doing that. I mean, shouldn't the good guys win and all that?
Parts I loved: The whole "Snape" thing!!! (I knew it! I just knew he was a good guy!!)
George Weasley's comments about his ear! HILARIOUS!!
Neville's courage!
All the past students and family coming to "fight" (especially Mrs. Weasley...oh
my! I laughed so hard!!)
Yes! even Harry's sacrifice and that he got to come back!!
Ron's BOOK that he gave Harry!! Ha! A chapter on Compliments!!!!! so, so
funny!
I lalaloved the ending....well was it really an ending? I mean, you have their children now. Can we PLEASE go on?? ( And boy o boy is the movie going to be amazing!!!) and yay!! good wins!!!!

The Show WILL go On!

I am choreographer for High School Musical in Midvale Ut. And during this show I am also running sound. We got there last night to set up and realized that the dressing rooms had been broken into and more than 1/2 of our sound equipment was stolen. They had rifeled through all the costumes as well....and wrote stuff on the mirrors with shaving cream. We lost mics, mic cords, 5 speakers and 2 sound boxes. We were all devastated....then in turn angry and also determined that it wouldn't get the better of us. We decided to do the show with only 4 wireless.....we usually have 10! But because our sound boxes were gone....had to use the only one left! Luckily our director took the mic packs home every night!! So we still have all our wireless mic pacs. It was good we did the show. We started 40 min late but the audience was patient and the show DID go on. It turned out pretty good considering a lot of speaking parts were not heard very well. The kids really turned it up a notch and started the show of their rendition of "We Will Rock U!" ha...got them pumped! They had tons of energy and did great. Yay us!!

Whew!

Whew!! Where o where has this summer gone??
I have done 2 shows! As chorographer....one for Copperview Community Center Youth Theater. We had 63 kids in this show ages 5-18 and it was great. We had a packed audience every night!!
Now I am finishing up High School Musical!! Choreographer for that one too and also am doing sound! It ends this Saturday. We have had about 200 people every night so far. I always spend my summer doing shows! lalalove it!!
My daughter Aubry and her family come this weekend for a week and Adam will be in and out that week too!! Can't wait. I really miss my grown children!!!
I have re-done 2 rooms in our home. The laundry/sewing room and the family room. (Why did they put popcorn ceilings in in the 50's and 60's??ha!) So...there went June and July!!!
So, sad to say, I haven't done my "summer" reading. Of course I am awaiting for the last installment of Harry Potter....just like the whole world! (Harry better not die!!) August is my "free" month......so hopefully I will be able to visit the library and read to my hearts content!!!