Weekend Fun

We've had a great weekend. Friday night we had a barbecue which one of my neighbors organized with our street. We had it in our neighbor's beautiful yard and had a pretty great turn-out. It was so much fun but kind of sad to realize how much we don't see each other. We're determined to interact with each other more than the occasional hello as we pass each other at Church. We have several new families too (with young kids, yay!) and it was fun to get to know them a little bit better. The kids had a blast running around with the other kids.





Saturday we had Abby and Nate's final swimming lessons which means we get to go watch and get their certificates. It was really fun to watch Abby, they're really swimming and she did great. Nate's was a lot less showy as their skills were much more basic, but exciting nonetheless because he was completely at ease and his teacher raved about how focused he was. That does my heart good.







Saturday night we were the lucky recipients of tickets for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Pioneer Commemorative Concert featuring The Osmonds! Wow, the choir, the orchestra, the Conference Center, is just breathtaking. As far as the Osmonds, well I wasn't actually that excited about that aspect of the concert. I don't have anything against them, I just haven't really followed them. I remember watching some episodes of The Donny and Marie Show with Braden when we were young, but besides that really haven't seen them perform. I was really impressed. They can sing! Marie sang "How Great Thou Art" with the choir and it was amazing. Donny sang a solo or two too and I love his voice. Their group numbers were fun and it was very sentimental for them as they showed clips of their early years which was neat to see. Overall it was just neat to see how much these 9 siblings love each other and honor their parents.


The other fun part of the concert was to see some serious Osmond fans LOVE every second of it. The concert began with the choir singing some really beautifully arranged folk hymns. Then the Osmonds came out and they were kind of like ready to rock and roll (granted, in a mellow totally Mormon kind of way) and it took me a minute to be okay with that in the Conference Center with President Eyring a few feet away from them. Donny said they had permission to party though and his fans were right there ready to cel-e-brate! Anyway, thanks so much to Mom and Dad for fighting back the mobs to save us seats and giving us the tickets and to Mike and Allyson for giving the tickets to my parents. Good times.