Date and Super Saturday

Steve and I had a great date on Friday.  We got tickets to the Hale Center Theater for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.  It was great!  We were lucky to get tickets in the first place.  It was originally only scheduled for August, but due to high demand, they extended into September.  Even with that, there were only 3 or 4 days available when we got tickets.

We went to a matinee showing at 4pm.  The costumes and sets were amazing.  The Hale Theater is a circular stage with seats 360 degrees around it.  They use that little circle to its fullest potential.  Sections can rise and fall and it has 3 rotating sections.  I especially loved the HUGE camel brought in by the hairy Ishmaelites.  It was controlled by 3 people and it sang!

My only disappointment, was that it was so short.  Only one and a half hours.  Afterwards, Steve and I stopped at the IHOP next door to have dinner and wait out the traffic.  Yum!

Halloween Subway Art

Initial Wall Hanging

The next day was Saturday...Super Saturday!  Yes, our ward/stake still allows us women to express our creative side through crafts.  Steve watched Anna from 10am-3pm while I was crafty with my friends from the ward.  It's amazing to me how I can have so much time, and yet still not get finished.  I had 3 big projects, one little project and I went to a class on teaching children reverence.  By the time I got home, I still had work to do on two of the big projects. You can see pictures of what I did to the sides.

 I got a lot of ideas from the reverence class.  It was taught by Katheryn Nelson, a lady in our ward with 11 children.  It is amazing to see their family during sacrament meeting.  The children are so good!  So, of course, everyone wanted to know her secret.

3 Holiday Banners

Christmas Star 1.5' diam.

This is it.  She teaches reverence first at home during FHE and scripture study.  They are expected to be reverent during these times.  At the age of two, all drinks, snacks, toys, crayons, etc. are put away.  They don't bring Sunday reverent books or anything.  They are expected to sit and listen.  If they aren't being well behaved then after church they need to 'practice' by sitting on the sofa for 30 minutes with their arms folded.  Her other two points were consistency and praise.  You have to be consistent every Sunday for every child no matter which parent is dealing with children.  Also, you need to praise your children for being good.