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Face Your Fears

I was invited to go with Rhen to the American Fork Symphony’s Halloween concert to hear our Jessica play.

The flyer was spooky…

the tickets were spooky…

and the program was even spooky.

Lucky for me, the music was a fun list of music designed to go along with different—mostly crazy–phobias that some people, somewhere may have.

The fear of lightning, the fear of darkness, the fear of sharks, the fear of heights…

were all reasonable enough.

The fear of Phantoms, the fear of spiders, fear of the night, fear of the cold, fear of clowns and…

fear of chickens. Chickens?

Yeaaaah it was pretty much all covered here with a lot of really beautiful music.

But the best part…

was getting to hear Jessica play!!

We love you Jessica!

The gelato afterwards was pretty great too.

Heh, heh.

 

 

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School Days Prep

Sweet Jessica invited any and all of us that could come–to help her set up her classroom before school begins. Most of us have never been part of the “behind the scenes” work that is back to school. 

It was enormous fun doing any of the millions of jobs that needed doing before Meet the Teacher night could happen. I cut out flowers and word posters, folded and stapled booklets, and cut out name cards for the kids desks.

As you’ll see, there really was something even the smallest helpers all the way up to the most ambitious and creative of the group could do. It was lovely to just be part of the experience and to help the task not be quite so huge for her.

Happy Back To School night Jessica!! Here’s to the best school year EVER!!

We sure do love you!

 

 

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America 250 Freedom’s Melody Music Fest

We attended the America 250 Freedom’s Melody event at University Mall on Monday night. It was so beautiful. Our sweet Jessica plays violin in the American Fork Symphony so it was wonderful to watch her.

The patriotic music will always get to me. Then they had the veterans stand and I nearly lost it. They were nearly all really older people which made it even more powerful. Standing for some songs. Hand over our hearts for others. Singing along when prompted and singing along anyway when we couldn’t help ourselves.

The kids marched around the pavillion and kids waved flags. I was filled with a deep, deep gratitude to live here in Utah where people don’t mind actually loving our country.

We are a patriot bunch and we will always be proud to be Americans.

What a beautiful evening.

Thanks Jessica for adding more culture to our lives!!

 

 

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Another Life and Time

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to travel back in time–back to the Bible days? What would it be like to there long enough to get a good, solid feel for it, wearing the clothes, mingling with the people, and seeing the ancient sites all around you…

but still be able to sleep in your own cozy, warm bed when the day is done?

Well, I know a few people–who know exactly what it feels like.

Because they were right there…and…

“It feels incredible!”