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Elliot Receives the Waterford Book Award
Deck Project
Why pay someone else, if you can do it yourself? That’s what I was thinking when I decided to power wash and stain our deck. I watched someone do ours a few years ago — it didn’t look that hard, and I’ve watched a few youtube videos — I’m set right?
Now that I’ve done it, I can tell you that it was not as easy as it looked, and I’m sure it didn’t turn out as well as it might have if I had paid to have it done. Of course having said that, I have paid plenty of people to do a not so very good job, so I guess I got my “not so very good job” for free right? Actually, I think it turned out okay — it was just a tiring job for someone who thinks she is younger than she really is!
Memorial Day
We wandered around the Murray Cemetery for quite awhile looking for a specific ancestor only to discover that while he was indeed buried there, there has never been a headstone!
Stake Musical
In Fiddler on the Roof, Alan, Clark and I were townspeople (a papa, a mama, and a son). Clark was front and center linking arms with another guy as they took turns tossing each other into the air.
In The Music Man, Alan and I were in the opening scene when Harold Hill first arrives in River City on the train. (We both had speaking parts!) Then we were all townspeople and then Alan turned into a quartet member and I turned into a Pick-a-Little lady where I got to do a lot of fast singing and dancing (not easy for an old lady like me!)
Clark was also in the Freedom number from Shenandoah, where he got to dance barefoot and swing a cute girl around, eventually landing her on his hip!
It was very fun and we are glad we did it, but it was also very time consuming with 3 rehearsals a week. The best part was meeting and making new friends throughout the stake. Thanks to all the family and friends who came to see us!
April Birthdays
Madeleine is no longer a teenager! She hit the big 20 this year! You know your kids are grown up when they ask for things like a voice recorder and the Chicago Manual of Style for their birthday and actually get super excited when they get them!
As we often do, we celebrated Madeleine’s and Alan’s birthdays together — this time on Madeleine’s actual birthday. But I did make Alan halusky (his favorite dinner) closer to his birthday — which by the way started out with four inches of snow on the ground!
BYU Graduation
Friday we attended the College of Fine Arts convocation in the DeJong Concert Hall, which had probably only 75 graduates on the stage, and yet we were never able to find where Phillip was sitting! We took some pictures afterwards and then headed home for a celebratory dinner.
Prom Night