Adam's Final Concert 2012

Adam's final choir concert was bittersweet - exciting because they all performed well and sad because it was his last one prior to the Choir Tour.  He was able to perform in several groups - Madrigals, as a First Tenor, seen here...

...and here...

...Pieces of Eight...as a Bass...
 

 

 

and with the All Stars Choir Tour 2012.

 

(Look for videos in another post.) 

 

 

He also received the Outstanding Senior Award.

 

 

 

 At the end of the night, the traditional candle passing ceremony was held.  It was especially fun this year because Adam was an outgoing Senior and Lyssa was incoming Sophomore who got to partcipate... because she made Show Choir!  Yeah!

Sorry it's so shaky and blurry.  At the beginning of the song, I'm focused on Adam.  All the seniors stand in the front with candles lit.  At the "break", they light the candles of those who will be continuing on and move to the back.  Those that will be continuing on move forward.  That's when I focus on Lyssa.  I think it's a pretty neat tradition.  Enjoy!

Eagle Project

Adam organized and completed his Eagle project on February 5, 2011.  He had a lot of help from many family, friends and leaders.  What was the project, you ask?  We made rice bags for patients at the Huntsman Cancer Hospital.  Nurses will heat the rice bag for patients to help warm up the IV site, to help warm hands or feet, etc.

Adam's goal was to make 200 bags.  We made 544!  Way to go!

Getting Started

Cutting Fabric

Pouring Rice

Sewing the Bags

The First Completed Rice Bag!

Helpers

More Helpers

About Half the Completed Rice Bags

~Bobi

BRACES!!!!!!!

~Bobi

Learning to Sew

Lyssa and her 2 cousins, Amber and Sarah, were invited to Grandma's for a sewing lesson. They also got to have a sleepover! It was very exciting. They were able to choose some summer fabric to make pajama bottoms. Grandma took them shopping to purchase tops that would match the colors in the fabric they chose. Grandma was worried that they would all fight over one of the fabrics. That didn't happen, though. Each girl liked a different kind.

Here is Lyssa modeling the capri pajama bottoms that she made:

Pretty good job, eh?

Here is a picture of all 3 of them, modeling what they each made:

Don't they look great?

~Bobi

Cousins

My brother's 3 children who live with their mom are here visiting for the summer. We had the opportunity to have everyone together at my mom's for a visit. For the past 9 years, there have been 5 grandchildren on my side of the family -- I have 2; my brother has 3.


This past year, my sister was able to adopt a girl and my brother and his wife were able to have a girl as well. So, 2 girls have been added to the group. Here is a picture of all 7 of them:

L-R: Travis (11), Lyssa (13) holding Ellie (almost 11 months), Sarah (9), Amber (almost 13) holding Gwen (7 months), Adam (15)

Ellie was pretty unhappy, which is very unusual. She is normally extremely happy and smiley. We were all just laughing at how upset she was to not be held by her mom. Gwen had been happy, until Ellie started crying so hard. Gwen decided she needed to be sympathetic to Ellie, so she started crying as well. That just made us laugh harder!


I was able to get a different perspective on the 5 "originals":

Sarah, Amber, Lyssa, Adam, Travis

~Bobi

Girl Scout Overnighter

In May, our Girl Scout troop, along with 3 other troops, went on an overnight camping trip to the Heber Valley Girls Camp. It is a beautiful camp the Church has built. Anyway, we were responsible for Friday night dinner. The girls chose to cook ravioli with red sauce and green salad with brownies for dessert. Everyone had plenty to eat. I was happy at how well all of the girls in our troop (there are 8 of them and 7 were able to come) helped in the making of the meal and in the clean up. Guess what happened that night?



We couldn't believe it either! Most hadn't come prepared for this kind of weather. I mean, there was only 1 more week of May! We all loaded into one cabin to do our badge work in the morning. Here's a picture of Lyssa waiting for instructions:



She didn't know I was trying to take her picture, so she moved. Sorry about that!

We had a really fun time. The sun came out later in the morning and melted all the snow. By the time we left mid-afternoon, it was all gone! If you hadn't been there, you probably wouldn't have known it snowed at all.

~Bobi

Show Choir Tour 2010 Video

Thanks to my sister, Heather, who is so much more blogger savvy than I, here is one of the promised videos!

This is a Beach Boys medley.  Adam is in the center or to the left of the screen during this entire number.

Enjoy!

~Bobi