Saturday is a Special Day

We had loads of fun this past Saturday, October the 25th. It was special in so many ways. First of all, the family loaded up in the old mini van and headed to Oliver! rehearsal. For those of you not in the loop, we are participating as a family in this years production of Oliver! for the Dickens Festival in St. George UT. It is a fun abbreviated version that will end up being about 1 hour long so as to fit the Dickens festivals atmosphere and requirements. We practise for it every Saturday morning until the first weekend in December when we perform at the Dixie Center in St. George UT. It should be fun. The rehearsals are coming along nicely, though we do not yet have any pics to post.

We also had fun after rehearsals as we had the pleasure of getting together with the Alan Warby Family to celebrate the 16th anniversary of our Matriarch's (Lorraine's) 39th birthday. It was a magical time. We had a barbecue at Lance and Janelle's house in their recently completed back yard. Every one was there. No one in the family was missing. It did seem a little less annoying than usual so maybe someone was missing. I don't know.... maybe it will come to me. Anyways, here are some pictures.



We half listened to and half watched the BYU game. It was fairly exciting as they eventually beat UNLV in a close contest. The kids ran around the cool new back yard and Mom opened her fabulous gifts from her loving children.

We ate these great hamburgers and hot dogs made by Lance on his grill and for dessert we ate Crowshaw's pies. There was a chocolate, a pumpkin, and a peach. So scrumptious.

Oh..... that's who was missing. Sorry Russ. (Amy made that "annoying" comment. I didn't know what she meant... honest.) Anyway moving on........

Saturday night was the Grand Gala Concert thingy at the Burns Arena that Shane sang at so we all went to listen and enjoy. Darrin and Aliese met us there too. There were a lot of choirs and dancers that performed from all over the area. Then it was Shane's turn. He was introduced as being born and raised in the St. George area. Huh. You learn something new every day. Then he performed and blew everyone else out of the water. He sang "The Unreachable Star". It was fantastic. When he was done everyone started chanting: "Shane, Shane, Shane" and people picked him up and carried him around the arena floor while the crowd went wild. Well, not really but he did get a nice rousing applause. I think the rest of the show went well but I don't know because we had to leave. We had kids to get to and everything. So, all in all, it was a pretty great Saturday.