Concert!!

Alright, alright, regular week stuff first.  We had flag football, football, crazy dressers and another win (undefeated so far!!)

But on Monday we had the concert!!  So many weeks of planning and stressing came together!  We spent all day at the church parking lot filling balloons, picking up desks and chairs, setting up the stage, setting up audio equipment, dressing the stage, decorating food tables, setting up chairs and setting out the giant balloons.  Then it was time to sing!  I got ready and came out just in time.  Everything went well and everyone had a good time.  It was such a team effort and I am so glad it went well, and that it is done!

Prep prep prep

What a great week.  We had flag football.  We had the makeup football game up in south Salt Lake (which we won).  We had rain, rain and more rain.  And we had another regular football game on Saturday (which we also won).  And I have many wonderful friends who helped me out!  I was getting ready for a big (at least to me) concert I am putting on soon.  I have had so much help with planning the script and figuring all that out. I also have a wonderful friend Whitney who is an even planner for the city of Provo.  I asked her to help me prepare and she has been amazing!  I have been slowly collecting everything we have planned and then on Friday I asked for anyone who could help to come over and help make twizzler bundles and help with last minute odds and ends.  So many people came and it was wonderful! We have great friends and neighbors.  It's all coming together! The big day is tomorrow!

Rainy daze

We started off the week by hosting the Single Sisters up at our cabin.  This is a group of mostly elderly ladies who love a good excuse to have a nice get-together.  I sang a few songs and our friend Brother Butler spoke about his trip to Jerusalem a few years ago.  We also had a delicious white chili dinner with rolls and a gourmet salad.  Those ladies know how to eat.  Our boys were clearly worn out from being quiet and fell asleep on the way home.  Thunder got to test drive a very cool old truck from 1969.  It was all authentic but very well maintained.  Tornado was very confused about how to roll down the window.  Sunshine had a very fun made-up fairy tale presentation in his class.  He is such a ham and just a great kid.  On Saturday we made our way up to South Salt Lake city for a football game.  Just as the previous game ended a huge thunderstorm moved in.  Everyone huddled under a canopy for a while, but then the refs decided there was no hope of it clearing, so they postponed the game.  Of course the kids thought it was all very adventurous!

Fun times

For Labor Day we were able to take a couple of days and go up to the cabin.  Oh how I love that place.  We invited up another family and the kids had fun hiking, going in the hot tub and exploring outside.  Ahh I'm remembering it now.  For our Young Women's activity that week, we were combined with the Young Men.  We got to go on a giant slip and slide, complete with dish soap to make it really slippery.  A fun time was had by all.  This is the second year we've done it, it's practically a back-to-school tradition now.  Tornado is now playing flag football and loving it!  He is on a team with several boys from the neighborhood.  They are all athletic and have a great time together.  It's been fun to watch him.  He is still in gymnastics too.  He is on a Level 4 team which meets three times a week.  He is getting so strong.  He does handstand pushups and all sorts of tricks on the trampoline.  We were also lucky to have Nana and Papa visit us.  Papa went with Thunder to the BYU vs. Texas game.  This is the one that was delayed by a couple hours due to rain.  They huddled in the car for a while then went back in and enjoyed every minute of the game.  We always love it when they visit!