Anticipating...

(Or at least I know Dad has been!!)

After waiting over two months for my guest bloggers to write about their big events, I am giving up. I wanted Brandon to share some of his latest big days because he is a much more clever writer than me, but I figured you would rather get this sometime (with less excitement) than never so here we go...

20th Wedding Anniversary

It is hard to believe that Brad and I have hit that magic anniversary where I have been married as long as I had been single before marriage. Where does time go? No anniversary trip for us this year - not with a big family trip coming up. One of these years we will go to a nice anniversary spot. We are going to shoot for an off year - maybe 24th anniversary??

UPDATE on Brooke

Brooke has performed in a couple of concerts - getting a new acoustic/electric guitar recently (an early birthday present plus money she came up with herself after selling her old guitar to her sister). Brooke and Allie both participated in a vocal camp this summer and won the top prizes - Brooke won a song writing session with a local Utah artist and Allie won 2 free hours at a recording studio. Brooke actually scored on the deal because her sister was nice enough to give her the recording time for her birthday!! What a nice sister!!

Old Guitar



New Guitar (she insisted on a black one this time)



Westlake's First Annual Fine Arts Extravaganza. The drama department performed scenes from Camelot and Oklahoma.

UPDATE on Allie

Allie is now the proud owner of a new guitar, ukulele, violin and would like to add a few more to her "musical instrument" wall in her room. You may ask where she keeps her clothes and shoes? The answer is I don't know, but she definitely has her priorities straight! Allie participated in a couple of different things this Spring including Volleyball Camp at Westlake High and performed in her Spring Orchestra Concert. The volleyball camp was a lot of fun for Allie - her team came in 2nd place, and the Orchestra was MUCH improved from the concert earlier this year. I was even able to recognize the tune of "What do you do with a drunken sailor?" which I felt was a very interesting choice for a middle school orchestra concert!



More to come soon...

Joseph

I am right in the middle of this cast photo wearing a yellow shirt.

I just finished participating in my first musical at Willowcreek. It was a lot of fun and a lot of work, but it was worth it. I even enjoyed the practices. Sometimes I took my uke to play before practice started to pass some time. I was Zebulon's wife. Zebulon was played by Yoshi who was Jo Jo in Seussical last year and is also Mr. Wiltbank's son (counselor at the school). When Brooke found out what my part was, she said, "Poor Yoshi can't get rid of us Morgan girls!" He is quite a bit shorter than me, but red headed too.

A crazy thing happened with my tryout. I did not make the callback list, but as I was leaving to go home the day of the callbacks, Mrs. Jennings, the drama teacher, grabbed me and told me she forgot to put me on the callback list and would like me to come that afternoon leaving me NO TIME to practice the song. I felt excited because there were only like six girls out of about 100 girls that made it on to the call back list. Good thing I had heard the music a few times before!


My favorite costume was my GO,GO costume. You can't see me very well here either, but I am toward the left side with nice black shiny leggings (like the Mama Mia ones).

I am happy the show is over, even though I had fun! Especially since I came down with Laryngitis closing night! Thanks to all of the people who came to see me in the show! I appreciate your support.

Coming Next...

Prom report and Musicals x 2!

Hopefully this will encourage some of our other bloggers to contribute - hint, hint:)