Josh Groban Concert

For our Mother's and Father's Day presents this year Skylar and Sarah gave Rick and I and Clyde and Sharon tickets to the Josh Groban Concert.  We have waited since the middle of May for the date of the concert to get here.  Friday night was it.  We doubled with Clyde and Sharon and started with dinner at Tepanyaki, a family favorite. 

Neither of them had been there and I think they enjoyed the experience:) 

 

 

Clyde and Sharon and their two youngest children have been living in our basement for about a month now.  They are having a house built in Carriage Crossing so while it is in construction they will be staying in our home.  It's nice for Skylar and Sarah when they come to visit....they get to visit both families and not have to leave the house:)  We really don't see much of the Rigby's because Clyde generally works out of town on the weekdays (he works for the railroad) and Sharon works for the Tooele County School District as a speech pathologist.  They are both gone by the time I get out of bed.  (That makes me sound lazy doesn't  it)  Their son Ben is working for Turf It Landscaping and will be leaving for the Eugene, Oregon mission in December.  Their daughter Mary is a junior at Grantsville High and is involved with student government and basketball.  They are both outstanding  kids.   Clyde and Sharon's other two boys John and Matt live in SL where they work and go to school.

 

Back to Friday night......

 

The four of us at Tepenyaki's

 

 

Our tickets were in the lower bowl at the very top row.  The stage was a round one so there were people all around the arena.  When we first got there there was a lady named Judith Hill performing.  (I guess she was a finalist on "The Voice".  I don't watch that show)  While she had a great voice I couldn't understand the words she was singing and the speakers were turned up SUPER LOUD!!   I am losing a bit of my hearing and it was hurting MY ears.....I can't imagine what all those young ears were feeling!  Luckily, I had a handy kleenex in my purse so I plugged my ears.  What a relief that was.  At first Rick declined the offer of kleenex then when it got too bad he relented and plugged his ears too.  I was sitting next to Sharon and I was trying to be nonchalant about the whole ear thing because that's kind of embarrasing to have to do.  The health of my hearing won out and I pretty much used them the whole time.  I must be getting old!!

 

When Josh came out the crowd went wild and he started singing right off.  WOW!!   He was OUTSTANDING!!  He sang songs from his new album as well as his classics.  My favorites were the classics.  "To Where You Are", "You Raise Me Up", "Vincent", and "The Prayer" are just a few of them.  He also sang many in different languages as he is wont to do.  I loved the concert! 

His rich and full voice is just as great live as on his CD's.

 

This is the best picture I got.  We were up on the 29th row:)

 

 

Jazz Season Tickets

Earlier this year Superior Asphalt did some work for Miller Motorsports Park.  Brach sold the job and it was a big one!  The Miller guys wanted to make payment a little easier for themselves so they asked if they could do a little bit (or rather a lot of bit) of payment on trade.  Part of their payment were season tickets to the Jazz games.  We  got our tickets last week in the mail and split them three ways with Brad and Darrell.  On Tuesday evening Rick and I went to the first preseason game. 

they played the Golden State Warriors.  The seats are good ones on the 16th row looking at the Jazz bench.  This is the view from our seats.

 

 

 

What's really fun about these tickets is that with each game we also get to have a buffet dinner in the Legends Club before each game.  We started off our meal with the cold foods.....

 

 

Second course was the hot stuff......

 

 

and then a light dessert.  Fruit and a cakepop!

 

 

After dinner we enjoyed the first half of the game.  One fun thing that happened is that as we were watching the jumbotron (you know how they capture candid moments of the audeience) we saw Mindy Beckett's face pop onto the screen.  I yelled, "Hey, there's Mindy"! 

I ask you, "How often do you get to see someone you know big as life on the jumbotron??"

Cool Stuff!!

 

 

At halftime we headed back to the Club for yet more food!!  There was a great variety of desserts to choose from.  (This  is not the time nor place for Weight Watchers) .  These were Rick's delights!  I settled for a couple of cookies.  Then we both took a small bag of popcorn back to our seats.  I tell you,  "This is the way to see a Jazz game.  It was so much fun feeling like a VIP!!

 

 

Rick with his goodies back in our seats!

 

 

Here's the final score!  The Jazz came out on top!

 

Thanks Superior!!  It should be a fun season!

 

Favorite General Conference Quotes

General Conference was absolutely amazing.  During one session alone I used up SIX  kleenexes!! 
I felt many of the speakers were speaking directly to me. 
I LOVE THE PROPHET AND APOSTLES!! 
 I am so blessed to be a member of my Savior's Church.
 I LOVE HIM!

Pictures of Fall

Fall is here in all of it's glory. 

Today the high will only get into the 50's and I am looking out my window and can see that Tooele got a little snow.  Thankfully it has not hit Grantsville yet. 

I don't mind waiting a little longer for that:)

 

Here are a couple of random pictures that were taken this past week as we have enjoying the cooler tempratures of October.

 

 

Rafe in his cute flannel shirt playing with a pumpkin

 

Grandpa and Rafe at the Farmer's Market in downtown SLC

 

Rafe cheking out another pumpkin.

He didn't like the feel of the straw underneath him:)

 

Monday night for FHE we went up to Settlement Canyon again.  The fall colors were in abundance!

Here's Rick and I taking a selfie.

 

Tuesday was Darla Belle's birthday and she wanted to hike Silver Lake so DeeAnn and I picked her up and drove up Big Cottonwood Canyon.  We had lunch at the Silver Fork Lodge where we  sat on the patio and were swarmed with bees!!  No one got stung but they sure were annoying.  

 We did make a fun memory though!

 

 

Here we are as we begin our hike.

 

Halfway around we get a beautiful view of the lake and peaks

 

I love the fall!