Tuesday, August 26, 2008
OKLAHOMA-I can't get that dang song out of my head!
The Reed family has been busy working on Lehi City Arts Council production of Oklahoma. Nat designed the sets, Jennifer did set dressing and props and Bronwyn and Brooklyn are in the production. Bella has her hand in everything since she tags along with us to the theatre most every night. I sometimes wonder if she thinks home is the theatre. We are doing our production this year at Thanksgiving Point in the Barn which is the perfect venue for this show. It also is a more well known venue and is much more in the public eye. Thanksgiving Point has a lot of marketing tools that we have tried to take advantage of, ie. a big billboard, newsletter, etc. Once again Nat had outdid himself and built a beautiful set. Of course once again he lost many hours of sleep and did not have as much help as we had hoped, but he pulled it out of his magic theatre hat. This year the council splurged an hired a really great lighting designer who teaches at the University of Utah. I was skeptical and not sure it was a good use of the budget, however I was proven wrong. He lit the set wonderfully, and in a somewhat difficult space to light. The girls have really enjoyed being in the show and I think they have both been bitten by the theatre bug. This is the second show this summer for them both. Bronwyn had one of the leads in Suessical Jr. (I plan on posting about this eventually) and Brooklyn did a produciton called How Does Your Garden Grow? I had told the Arts Council I really couldn't help on the production since I just directed a show for them, however somehow I ended up doing props and set dressing. I also wanted to help Nat make his set look awesome! So this has been life for the last month. I am hoping that after labor day things will settle down, but we already have the next project lined up!
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
We want to live there.....
We just returned from Bear Lake yesterday. My cousins all have blogs and so my sister Amanda and I decided to be "cool" and blog as well. Our goal was to start our blog today. What better way to start than to post fun vacation pictures. First, I must tell you that Nat (my husband) named our blog. We love the fact that we have three wonderful, talented and amazing daughters. He thought wouldn't 3Dotters be a great name for a publishing company? Well, since I don't see any publishing company in our future we decided to name our blog 3Dotters. I guess we are publishing something.
Back to our vacation.....we spent 3 fun days with our family. It is somewhat of a tradition for our family to go to Bear Lake for a reunion. My grandparents (who are 82 and still alive) started taking our family to Bear Lake when I was about 14 or so. Since those humble beginnings of 20 or so our family has grown to over 50. Each family rents a condo at Ideal Beach. We have tried other places, but Ideal Beach (formally Sweetwater) is our favorite. Now each of my grandparents children (my mom is the oldest of 5) rents a condo for their family. So this year in my parent's condo there was me and my family, my sister Amanda and her family, my sister Melissa and her family and my brother Ryan. We would do our own thing during the day and get together with our aunts, uncles and cousins to share dinner and have family home evening. Each night a different family did dinner. Our night was Sunday and we did taco salad. We have done this for the last 2-3 years. Any new ideas let me know! Remember we need to feed 50 and be cost effective.
This year our family home evenings centered on our ancestors and each family was assigned different parts of our family. We were assigned my grandparents. I specifically had to talk about how my grandpa proposed to my grandmother. It was fun talking with grandma, I really didn't know the story. I will probably post that story in our blog later this week. I also brought fun pictures of them from the 40's when they were so young. Sometimes it's hard to believe how young they once were. I really love my grandparents and can't imagine them not being on this earth with us. I have never had anyone in my family really close to me die, and it's hard to believe that someday they will be gone too. My uncle's families talked our our pioneer ancestors who came over from Europe as young members of the church. The stories were fun and really inspiring. We also had a family auction that we have been doing for 3 years to raise some money for our family fund. I think it is really fun, but I'm not sure everyone in our family is into it. Time goes by so fast up there and before we knew it we were ready to go home. We have decided that next year we will stay a whole week. Well, I titled this entry because on our way home Bronwyn said "Mom can we buy a condo and live at Bear Lake?" It is truly a joy to be there, surrounded by the most beautiful lake in Utah (I think) and be with the people we love the most.
Back to our vacation.....we spent 3 fun days with our family. It is somewhat of a tradition for our family to go to Bear Lake for a reunion. My grandparents (who are 82 and still alive) started taking our family to Bear Lake when I was about 14 or so. Since those humble beginnings of 20 or so our family has grown to over 50. Each family rents a condo at Ideal Beach. We have tried other places, but Ideal Beach (formally Sweetwater) is our favorite. Now each of my grandparents children (my mom is the oldest of 5) rents a condo for their family. So this year in my parent's condo there was me and my family, my sister Amanda and her family, my sister Melissa and her family and my brother Ryan. We would do our own thing during the day and get together with our aunts, uncles and cousins to share dinner and have family home evening. Each night a different family did dinner. Our night was Sunday and we did taco salad. We have done this for the last 2-3 years. Any new ideas let me know! Remember we need to feed 50 and be cost effective.
This year our family home evenings centered on our ancestors and each family was assigned different parts of our family. We were assigned my grandparents. I specifically had to talk about how my grandpa proposed to my grandmother. It was fun talking with grandma, I really didn't know the story. I will probably post that story in our blog later this week. I also brought fun pictures of them from the 40's when they were so young. Sometimes it's hard to believe how young they once were. I really love my grandparents and can't imagine them not being on this earth with us. I have never had anyone in my family really close to me die, and it's hard to believe that someday they will be gone too. My uncle's families talked our our pioneer ancestors who came over from Europe as young members of the church. The stories were fun and really inspiring. We also had a family auction that we have been doing for 3 years to raise some money for our family fund. I think it is really fun, but I'm not sure everyone in our family is into it. Time goes by so fast up there and before we knew it we were ready to go home. We have decided that next year we will stay a whole week. Well, I titled this entry because on our way home Bronwyn said "Mom can we buy a condo and live at Bear Lake?" It is truly a joy to be there, surrounded by the most beautiful lake in Utah (I think) and be with the people we love the most.
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