SPAM! SPAM! SPAM! SPAM!

What a fun surprise in the middle of my Board meeting last night to get a text from Shelly saying she was at SPAMALOT!! Yeah!!! What fun!! Troy and I both loved it when the musical was in Salt Lake a little while back, and we still laugh about it!

After the Board meeting we went out for a late dinner with some friends that serve on the Board as well, and the newest dancer for the Ririe-Woodbury Company..... we talked and laughed about Spamalot (amongst other things) and had a wonderful time!!

So... in other news - I am not sure this was a wise decision on my part, but I accepted the nomination and have now been officially elected at the Vice-Chair for the Advisory Board of the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company. It will be quite a bit more time and energy than last season, and I will also be taking on a much larger role in the planning of the annual fund-raiser.... but I am looking forward to it! I think it will be lots of fun, as well as lots of work.

In addition to my new duties, Troy has also been nominated as one of the newest members of the Board. He accompanied me to the meeting last night and everyone really loved having him there (and I did too!!). He will be a phenomenal addition to the Board and will do a great job. In the past year, even without being a Board Member, he already did more work and more for the company than some of the long-time Board members, so I am very excited for his continued support (especially with my new larger role) and the fact that we will get to work more closely on everything this upcoming season! Yeah!!

Tonight we are off to "Revenge of Yoga, the Musical" with a bunch of friends and tomorrow the Salty Crickets Concert, as I mentioned. So on that note.... Happy Early Father's Day to all you men out there! Have a great weekend!!

i love spring weekends!

What a wonderful weekend!! The sun was out and the canyons were all green... with a little snow still here and there! :) It was beautiful!

Paulette was in town over the weekend and we had such a wonderful evening together!! We ate dinner & shopped... and just talked and caught up. It was so wonderful to just have some time to hang out together. I miss her tons already! I need to go visit them soon... I will try to be better at that, I promise! And Madi - I still maintain you are just growing way too fast! Haha!

The rest of the weekend was great too!
We went to an art gallery on Friday night and ran into an old friend from Huntington (Robb Trounce). We went for a drive Saturday to enjoy the gorgeous weather and ended up at Bear Lake and in Logan Canyon. Haha! Quite a ways but we loved it! I love the spring... before it gets to unbearably hot.. Haha! Now if I could just get my allergies in control!
Saturday night we went to see Dirty Rotten Scoundrels... the show was hilarious!
Sunday we hung out with Bunker for a little while... always a complete riot! Haha! And then of course, dinner with the Hickman Clan.

The weekends are just never long enough!!

Grapes of Wrath...

What a fun weekend! Troy and I had very little on our "to-do" lists weekend so we had lots of time to play and do all the things we never seem to have enough time for...

- Friday night we were lucky to participate in the Vivace Grapes of Wrath Preview Event, that took place at the Salt Lake Art Center (http://www.slartcenter.org). There is a photography exhibit there right now that was just amazing. Most of the photos were from the depression and, oh my, do they just pull at your heart strings! Right in the gallery there was a special preview concert of the brand new opera, The Grapes of Wrath. And we also had the privilege of meeting the composer (Ricky Ian Gordon), who was there to talk about the process of composing the opera. He was so entertaining to listen to and he gave a glimpse into his writing process that people rarely get to see. It was a really neat experience and I am so glad we went! After that we still had time to hit a few more galleries in the Gallery Stroll (http://www.gallerystroll.org) and we found some amazing art work that we just love!

- Saturday we browsed through some book stores, hit another art gallery and even browsed through a furniture store or two. :) We had tickets to a play that night and just had a nice relaxing, fun day before heading off to the play. The play was very entertaining, as they always are at Desert Star Playhouse and we just loved it! (http://desertstarplayhouse.com)

Next week we are going to see "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" and we can't wait! (http://www.broadwayacrossamerica.com)