Saturday, July 25, 2009

Monte and Alisha's Engagement Day

On July 11th Roger videoed Monte's proposal to Alisha so I put it together with some music, words and hearts and posted it here.

My little brother, Monte, asked Alisha to marry him at the end of the auction at our family reunion. You can't understand what's being said on the video so I'll explain it a bit.
Alisha thinks Monte is bidding on an iPod, but during the day when she wasn't looking, he put the ring inside the container. She is obviously not pleased with how high he is bidding...most things at the auction go for $5 -$25 and he was getting up to $60, then $80, then $100 and so on. You can tell she’s getting more and more upset each time he makes a new bid because she hits him and tells him (through gritted teeth) not to bid one more time. Finally, when he makes the winning bid of $120 (I think) he takes her up to the front, gets down on one knee, grabs the wrong hand (hee, hee), then she says, "You're going to do this here?" He said, "Will you marry me?" And the rest is...well, you know.

Sunday, July 19, 2009

An Afternoon at the Gallivan Center

Ariel and Eryn spent the early morning hours of June rehearsing with the Granite Youth Symphony. They were practicing mostly patriotic music to play while on their summer tour during the first week of July. They had a couple of weekday concerts downtown at the Gallivan Center so one afternoon I gathered up the boys, got on Trax and made an afternoon of it!








We're boys...we'll take any excuse we can to ride the train downtown!

We enjoyed tasty snacks and drinks,

watched Eryn play the piccolo solo in 'Stars and Stripes Forever,'


applauded the excellent sounds of the Symphony,





played on the bars,








chased each other around the park





watched people walk their little doggies,




and had the most fun of all running and cooling off in the wonderful water fountain!







Outstanding concert girls!