Concerts Galore, St Patrick's Day

 

We had several concerts this week! Amelia had a pre-festival concert on Tuesday to showcase the songs the students will perform in NYC and in Idaho. Amelia’s two choirs sang a couple complicated songs! She even had a solo for the last song. Josie’s grade took us on a Wild West adventure at Reagan. The second grade performed for the school on Wednesday and for parents on Thursday. She was very excited I thrifted a western shirt! The program was very cute with all the yeehaws and yippee ki yays. Phillip and Everett had a band and orchestra concert Thursday evening. Justin attended that concert because I was in charge of the MCO attire check the same evening. The boys worked very hard and practiced many hours for this concert. They sounded amazing. Justin did not take any video, Heidi provided me video of some of the songs her daughter participated in so caught a glimpse or two of Phillip. 

Grandpa Lance celebrated his 70th birthday on 12 March, 70 years old! That is young if you ask me. He spent the day organizing shelves in his ever changing garage. I recall Grandpa Lynn doing the same thing.

Attire check went much more smoothly this semester. Kelly Orton reserved the downstairs music room for the occasion. Volunteers funneled the singers down the stairs and into the music room, in one door, check attire, get a sticker, back up the stairs! I wanted to prevent the singers running the gauntlet like last semester. Sara came with to help out as her concert volunteer assignment. I had my assistant and three other volunteers help check out the attire. I suggest to central attire that the slightly different Lands End jumper be considered for an alternate until the French Toast jumper is back in stock (sometime after June). I was thrilled this option was approved! I hated telling parents they needed to purchase a size 16 for a 7 year old, then get that tailored. Crazy. Now to input all the data and send a couple hundred emails. 

By Friday afternoon I am just dead tired, barely able to string a sentence together. Reagan hosted the spring carnival Friday after school. I manned the tattoo table, armed with some crappy tattoos, water, and a rag! I quite enjoyed seeing students come and shyly turn in a ticket for a tattoo. The girls had a great time running around with their friends, playing all the carnival games, eating pizza, and winning fun prizes. Josie went back to the same booth just to win a dolphin in all the rainbow colors. She was very excited to play and play. Evelyn convinced me to put a green mustache on her upper lip, the transfer did not go well. So she convinced a teenager at the face painting booth to accentuate her ‘stache. The older kids showed up for a moment to eat pizza. They went to an outdoor movie event at the Bledsoe’s home. So tired. 

I had a clothes pile of donations for DI, spent a couple lovely hours thrifting my little heart out Saturday afternoon. I donated the coffee table since we decided the open space in front of the couch was more appreciated. At this point I want to donate the entire upstairs. How can everything get so cluttered in just a few days? Amelia helped me whip together a pile of cucumber sandwiches for the ward Easter Egg Hunt party. We were to bring finger foods, it was a lovely warm day so cucumber sandwiches sounded lovely.  The youth manned different games we could play in the gym. At the tables we could play board games. I saw a game called Curses, hoped it was a game to come up with creative curses. It was more about getting cursed to do certain actions (like slap one’s face whenever one reads a card). Justin rolled his ankle stepping off the deck at the Ostler’s. He was in pain with a tender ankle. I think he found a couch to prop his foot up on after eating some fingers for dinner. Outside the primary kids enjoyed an egg pick up, not quite a hunt! Josie insisted I get her a really cool “grandma pincher thing” designed to pick up eggs. She lugged it about then picked up eggs like a normal kid. It’s a hard thing to break habits. Ha ha. 

Evelyn, Oliver, and Josie spent a few hours making leprechaun traps together. They went through an entire bag of glue sticks too! All three kids had really cool traps by bedtime. The awesome spring weather lured us all outside! Sleep was hard to come by with leprechauns coming to visit. The little mites managed to escape all three traps…again. The little buggers drew silly faces on our photos and left a string of silly escapades all over the downstairs. Guess the traps made them upset. We all wore green with much delight. Corned beef simmered all day, later potatoes and cabbage roasted, and a lovely loaf of soda bread made. I had RS General Meeting at 5 pm , Sara and I went together. All the messages were so uplifting. After the broadcast there was a testimony meeting. Everett worked from 11:30 until 6 making a rainbow jello, cream and jello layered in a 9x13 pan. He was very proud of that cake, it was very tasty. Yum.