Nov. 30, 2017
Grampa, Chad, and KJ are in CA this weekend!
November 30, 2017
November 6, 2017
Dia de los Muertos Altar Competition
At work we had a Dia de los Muertos Altar Competition. The departments had to choose a Thunderbird legend to dedicate it to. We did our altar for professor Karen Brown, who was a faculty member who passed away from cancer in 2016. She was one strong woman - hiking the Grand Canyon even when she was going through chemo! I didn't know Karen, but her husband (who came to the event) spent the evening telling me all about her.
As it turns out, one other department did an altar for Karen. Their's was beautiful, too, but ours was the only one that was beautifully personal.
It was a great experience - and we won the competition. :)
Halloween 2017
Kala the teal witch and Jace as Master Chief (Halo)
Kala won a goldfish at the Trunk-or-Treat and named her Cinderella (Ella for short).
Russell's '66!
We really got into the Halloween spirit this year! We decorated the house, dressed up the trunk, and I even dressed up as a fortune teller. Halloween's more fun when you just dive in. :)
Chad built the curtain frame and the crystal ball base, and I built the floating candles, the star background, and made the Dia de los Muertos skulls (which were actually for another party but brought them along).
Kala and Chad did the witch pumpkin together... Jace's Halo pumpkin hadn't been carved yet because we were saving it for Halloween night. :)
Jace dressed up Bear as Captain Underpants, and eventually Ella was part of the decoration.
Here is the trunk at night where you can see the floating candles!
This is our favorite holiday of the year... it's always so sad to see it go.
Happy Halloween!
September 29, 2017
Imagine Dragons!
So it's been more than a year. Yikes. Sorry.
But it's good to be back!!
But it's good to be back!!
September 26, 2017
For her 12th birthday, KJ wanted to go to an Imagine Dragons concert.
Phoenix was #1 on the tour list.
Here she is!:
Phoenix was #1 on the tour list.
Here she is!:
The first thing we did was buy shirts - they ran out of the shirt KJ really wanted, so I guess we were lucky to have gotten a tour shirt at all!
When we got in, Grouplove was setting up and we didn't know at the time we missed the first band (which was ok). We got there a little late, but all went pretty well.
The sea of people!! During Imagine Dragons, I took a minute to look around and from where we were sitting, I didn't see ONE empty seat. That's a lot of bodies!
Also, the height was a little spooky. :)
KJ thought the teeth that were part of Grouplove's set were gross. :)
She also thought their hair was gross, which it kind of was. I can't find a good picture of it, but the two singers had yellow hair. Not blonde, yellow:
Yep. :)
They were kind of fun, though. I've heard some of their songs before, and here's what was interesting: every song I knew was a bit slaughtered live, but every song I didn't know was brought to life on the stage. I really got into a couple of their songs that night. Thus, I have mixed feelings about their performance. I did like the woman's voice - the recordings don't do her justice.
Before Imagine Dragons started, KJ began rubbing her legs. I asked if she was ok and if they hurt. She said, "No, they don't hurt, they just feel a little tingly. I think it's all the excitement!!" lol!
She was SO pumped. She knew the words to all the songs and sang her heart out. :)
Their entry was pretty incredible. They certainly know how to build the excitement. :) Screens and lights came down from the ceiling with pulsing beats, slowly building the suspense. There was a video introduction - it was a collage of video and voices coinciding with the Evolve theme.
She also thought their hair was gross, which it kind of was. I can't find a good picture of it, but the two singers had yellow hair. Not blonde, yellow:
They were kind of fun, though. I've heard some of their songs before, and here's what was interesting: every song I knew was a bit slaughtered live, but every song I didn't know was brought to life on the stage. I really got into a couple of their songs that night. Thus, I have mixed feelings about their performance. I did like the woman's voice - the recordings don't do her justice.
Before Imagine Dragons started, KJ began rubbing her legs. I asked if she was ok and if they hurt. She said, "No, they don't hurt, they just feel a little tingly. I think it's all the excitement!!" lol!
She was SO pumped. She knew the words to all the songs and sang her heart out. :)
Their entry was pretty incredible. They certainly know how to build the excitement. :) Screens and lights came down from the ceiling with pulsing beats, slowly building the suspense. There was a video introduction - it was a collage of video and voices coinciding with the Evolve theme.
The quality may not be great because I had to shrink them down, but here are a couple videos we took:
After an hour and a half of playing, they turned off the lights and went to another stage in the back of the arena where they had a cello, violin, and keyboard set up. After a few songs they moved back to the main stage.
I really should have videoed the last few songs - they were epic. There was an amazing drum section that they added to Radioactive, there were incredible waves of rainbow lights timed to Believer, and a great video conclusion - a great finale to an already impressive show.
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