Debra and Karen work extremely hard to prepare for the Stadium of Fire. They rehearsed 3 times a week starting right after school got out. The week prior to the show they rehearsed all day in the hot sun. Besides getting really good tans, they polished their dance to perfection! Becky went to the all day rehearsals at Lavell Edwards stadium and help keep the girls cool by spraying them with water and making sure they stayed hydrated. What an awesome Mom she is!
Here's the video of the show. The announcer is Glen Beck whom we saw the previous Sunday at the Provo Freedom Festival Patriotic Service. Unfortunately you can't see Debra and Karen... they are dancing in the second row from the left near the top of the screen.
Also as part of Provo's Freedom Festival, Little Wasatch played a 45 minute set in the show tent in downtown Provo on Friday July 3rd. No video is available from that show.
Becky gave Karen some tickets for her and several friends to see Jordin Sparks perform at the Scera Shell in Orem. We had an extra ticket and Becky bought a couple more so the entire family could attend. I wasn't all that excited to go, but go I did. I had visions of Jordin singing to a DJ track with a few dancers and I would much rather see a real band perform. I was pleasantly surprised that there was indeed a live band and a good one at that. I enjoyed watching the drummer play and he made the concert worth while for me. I even started to like the music Jordin played. It was an interesting experience as I have never considered myself capable of liking R&B music, even though I take pride in myself for liking a wide variety of music. With this single event and the right circumstances I found that I really could enjoy a style of music I previously disliked. As an interesting side note to illustrate what a cool world we live in these days, I was able to look up the drummer's name and found his myspace page. I sent him a message complementing him on his performance and received a reply within 20 minutes. That's pretty cool.
My band, Little Wasatch, has played a few shows since my last post. As I said above, we played a set at the Provo Freedom Festival on July 3rd. We also played in American Fork as part of their Steel Days celebration on July 18th. It was a very hot afternoon and as you can see in the video, not a lot of people showed up. If you're into the drums, take a listen to 'Ice Cream Girl'. There is some double base work in there that I think is pretty cool. Checkout the videos at our myspace site.
We just returned form a trip to Dallas Texas to visit Becky's brother and his family... Who am I kidding, we went to visit Natalie and to ride roller coasters! For those of you who don't know, Natalie has Leukemia and has been undergoing chemo therapy since 2006. She is doing well and has a good chance for a full recovery. She was in the hospital when we arrived in Dallas due to side effects from the chemo, but she was only there for 2 days of our week long visit.
While in Dallas we went to see Daily Plaza where president Kennedy was shot. We also toured David's facility where he works as an air traffic controller. That was pretty nifty too. Mostly what we did in Dallas though was play with Natalie, play Rock Star and ride roller coasters at Six Flags Over Dallas. On Friday July 25th we went to a concert inside Six Flags and saw Metro Station and Boys Like Girls which I thought was pretty cool. We also went and saw The Dark Night which was a pretty good movie. It was hot and humid and I even managed to lock the car keys in the rental car while it was running! We had a great time in Dallas. Check out the pictures from the trip.
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