Fat Fat Dress Rehearsal

Home Away From Home

This lovely field will be our home away from home in the very near future. . .

Rained Out Nampa Nights

Sneak Peek

We have been practicing every Wednesday night this month and will be presenting "Fat, Fat Jehoshaphat" this coming Sunday morning! I think we might even be ready. . . almost. Jeanie made Zach's costume and did an amazing job! Here's a sneak peek of the play from Wednesday's practice (thanks to Allison for taking most of the pics!):

Memorial Day

The kids and I spent a relaxing day with my mom and dad on Memorial Day.

The weather was beautiful so we walked to a park a few blocks from their house.

Zach brought his remote controlled Dragonfly. . .

. . . and quickly drew a crowd of onlookers. . .

In fact, we were all pretty entertaining to the park visitors that afternoon. . .

Gloria convinced my dad to go down the slide:

Not one to be shown up, my mom took a turn as well. . .

She then challenged each of the kids to an arm wrestling match. . .

And seemed truly surprised when they soundly beat her!!

Gloria challenged Zach. . . and he won. . .

Zach challenged me and I totally took him out. . .

All of those things were entertaining, but it was the footrace that really took the cake.

Some random kid in the park just couldn't help but join in and he and Zach both beat me in a race. Gloria tried to take me down when she realized she couldn't catch me but there was no way I could let that happen. I came in third. . . out of four. . . Thankfully I'm hidden behind Zach in the picture. . .

It was a fun afternoon and I'm glad we could amuse and entertain the neighborhood. . .

Small World. . .

The strangest, coolest, most amazing thing happened last week. I found a long lost friend. That alone might be strange but not all that cool or amazing. The amazing, cool part of this is how and where I found her!! We have known Kurt for about a year now- we've run sound for his band, Straight Away, and he's worked a few events with us. In the last few weeks he has been building a stage trailer with Rob and planning to work with us on a full-time basis. Turns out, his wife also happens to be my long-lost friend!!! She was actually my very first friend when my family moved to Boise from Mtn. Home. We hung out our entire sophomore year and then somehow drifted apart the summer between our sophomore and junior years and then she moved away and we completely lost touch. She called me when she discovered who I was and we chatted on the phone for a really long time. It was so good to talk to her and we both have really good memories of our friendship 25 years ago. Seems like just yesterday. Anyway, I dug out my yearbooks and a big box of memorabilia from the attic and relived some of my high school days. . . I found a couple of pictures and her signature in my yearbook- the inside front cover! How amazing is that??

We were already planning to have dinner with them on Friday night to discuss future plans, but when we figured out our connection, all we could talk about was high school. Rob went to Borah, too, so he had stories of his own and we all laughed our heads off. I can't remember when I've laughed so much!!

We talked a little business, too, and tried to include Kurt. . .

I'm pretty sure that none of this can just be chalked up to "fate" or "Karma". I'm looking forward to watching all of this unfold. . .