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| blurry photo of the South Pacific dressing room |
She sure is fun to have around and such a builder of children. She always says such nice things to them and really treats them well whenever she is around. She is also so supportive of family events that go on like weddings and graduations. We love when she comes. Krista Liddiard, Sierra's friend from Elk Ridge, came up with Dave, Sheila, Hannah and Amanda. We had a full house but Sierra was glad to see Krista. All of the kids have really missed their friends since we moved to Logan but they have made some great new friends here too. Jace has loved hanging out with the artful dodger, (Cameron Conrad), Sierra has made some friends at the ward we attend and is excited to go to youth conference with this ward here, Olivia made a couple of friends from the ward and has taken a little art class with Haley Morrill, and Maci went to play with Paris Craney last week, one of the girls whose dad plays the doctor in Oliver. The kids did really well and remembered all of their lines and cues for the songs. It was only a tiny bit nerve racking for Jace. Cameron Conrad came over during the day and taught Jace by example that he didn't need to stress, it was just another performance like they had been practicing for the last month. The clapping after each number threw some of the timing off for lines that generally went much faster but with the noise of the applause, the actors had to readjust their timing. On opening night, the actors and actresses give each other a small gift to wish each other good luck (we'll have to remember this for the future since we didn't buy anyone anything) and Michael Ballam gave Jace the coolest framed picture of himself as the Artful dodger in 1966 with a sweet inscription on the picture telling Jace that he was the sweetest Oliver to ever grace any stage and that he had the voice of an angel. Beside that picture is a picture of Jace and Cameron Conrad dressed in their Oliver costumes. Coolest thing ever!! Jace wants it to hang in his room. Michael told him in years to come he may want to use it as a dart board but Jace assured him it would never be used in that way. He is such a thoughtful mentor for Jace.
South Pacific went well also. It was an afternoon performance for the opening and Sierra and Jace both did a great job and showed up when they were supposed to and said and sang all the right words. In the second performance, Sierra thought she made a noticeable mistake in one of her scenes but it was only obvious to her. Dave and Jace and I went to the opening night of Boris Gudinov and that was a very difficult opera to sit through. It was extremely non melodic and even though the singers were wonderful, it is such a somber opera. We left at intermission and took Jace to get a banana split at Angie's restaurant. It was a much better choice:)
On Saturday we went to the park and ate free chick-fil-a sandwiches and freshly-squeezed lemonade that they were giving away as a promotion. Those were yummy.
Jace and Sierra had Oliver in the morning and South Pacific that night. Jace especially had a busy day with two plays in one day.
I fit in the swimming pool trip with Olivia and Maci for a couple of hours between shows and then Hannah watched the little girls while Dave, Krista, Amanda and I went to the night time showing of South Pacific. The lifeguard was preoccupied when Maci came down the slide so Maci went under water for about 1 second before the lifeguard scooped her up and let her ride to the side of the pool on the lifepreserver. Maci said she is never going on the slide again! Olivia spent her whole time at the pool on the slides, especially the one that went straight down! She is fearless!! Sierra and Krista rode the buses around town and bought ginormous rings from the sidewalk sale.(including one for Nathan Oliver) They had ice cream and jamba juice and just goofed around all day.
Dave volunteered, with no suggestion on my part, to take the little girls home for the 4 days that there aren't any plays going on. I was going to go with him until I found out that my best childhood friend LeAnn Call, who lives 15 minutes away from here, was staying home all alone for the week because her husband took their kids to Arizona for the week. So now I have these next 4 days to spend doing whatever I want:)!!!! Hip Hip Hooray!!! I got to take the nicest, non-interrupted nap for two whole hours today. What a treat! On Tuesday I am going to go and see all of the temples in Northern Utah, (four of them) and do sessions at the ones that aren't closed.
I do not miss the noise and the fighting but I do miss the laughing and company of everyone and glad that I am the mother of many children.
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