Fun Weekend...

Troy and I had a fun, and quite busy weekend.... started Thursday evening with babysitting Avery. We all went out for some dinner and then went back to the house for some Kung Fu Panda. One of Troy's (and my) favorites, and Avery seems to like it lots too. :)Next we went to Repertory Dance Theatre's show, Chairs. It was an excellent show and we thoroughly enjoyed several of the pieces. There were also a couple things we didn't care for, but thats the nature of any show. Several people from Ririe-Woodbury were there that night too (all our dancers, the development director, company manager, founder, etc) so it was fun to see all of them!

Saturday morning we attended the baptism of our Friend Buck's son, Colton. Colton is growing up so fast! Can't believe he is already 8! The baptism was very nice - his older sister McKaleigh gave a very nice talk on baptism - and it was fun to see Buck, as we had not seen him in a few months.

There was also a Symphony concert this past weekend. It was titled, The Hero's life. It was a Dvorak piece and some Strauss as well. The cello soloist from the Dvorak piece also sat with the orchestra to play the Strauss pieces which was VERY COOL! The soloists don't do that very often anymore, but apparently it was very common back in the early days of the symphony.

Economic challenges are unfortunatey hitting all of us rather hard, but many of the performing arts organizations are having an especially hard time. The Utah Symphony Utah Opera is no exception to this. They just reduced everyone's salaries by 10% and the musicians agreed to also take pay cuts of 11%. In fact, the orchestra agreed to donate 2 weeks of time to show their dedication to the future of the symphony. Last night was one of the nights when the orchestra was working for free. We felt so honored with their generous gift to the audience.