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...

Coming Next...

Prom report and Musicals x 2!

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

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

So Allie and I decided that we wanted season tickets to the Hale Center Theatre in Orem for Christmas. Now, normally, the shows are mediocre at best. Occasionally a production will blow us away, but more regularly, we leave saying, "At least the costumes were good."

Last night, as my mom was incapacitated, and couldn't drive, Brandon was the lucky soul who got to drive me and Allie to the performance of "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels". He decided that I, the most directionally challenged person of ALL TIME, would be the navigator. So I'm sitting there, reading the directions from Google maps, trying to get us to the theatre. Well, we get to Orem just fine. But I'm stating to think that just maybe, we're not going the right direction. Before long, we reach the exit to head to Provo Canyon. Okay, obviously we are not going the right direction. So we call my dad, trying to get directions. We're already about five minutes late for the show, and I'm starting to hyperventilate a little bit. Yes, I have issues with being lost, and not knowing how I'm going to get out. So eventually we make it to the theatre. Luckily, we could get right in, and we missed very little of the opening number.

This show was AMAZING. I laughed so much, the first thing I did when I got home was ran to the bathroom. This show was not only the epitomy of classiness, but it was extremely hilarious, and had a very good story line, and music. The actors were also extremely spectacular. Not a single one of them did I question why they were cast in the role they were.

I would highly recommend that if you have the time to go, to DO IT. Afterall, it is playing until March 23.