Paul McCartney Live in Concert!

Yep, we were pretty lucky. We got to go to the Paul McCartney concert here. Troy did some work for my dad at his office and so my dad was nice enough to get us tickets to go see him!



We had pretty decent seats. No we weren't on the ground, but I think it was better to be up in the stadium so you didn't have to see past people's heads.

And anyway, my dad brought me a pair of binoculars.

Really the view was about this for us:





It was far, but they had these huge big screens next to the stage that you could see.



I managed some decent pictures, although dark.

It was a great concert and they even did cool fireworks shooting off when they did the "Live and Let Die" James Bond song. That was great.

I've gotten a lot of negative comments about seeing Paul McCartney and how wasteful it is to go see him and this and that. Well, goodness. I didn't know there were so many Paul McCartney or Beatles haters out there!

Right now Caleb is playing Let it Be on the piano and Micah is working on his Blackbird song on acoustic guitar. They played both of these at the concert and I got it on video so I could come home and show my boys. They thought it was awesome to see their songs in true life performances from the man who had written them.

Here's a little clip from the concert, Let it Be:

Here's a little video of the fireworks shooting off before some big guy stood up in front of me:

Anyway, thanks for the tickets Dad!

Jewelia Cuts Off Her Princess Hair!!!

Remember Jewelia's long long princess hair?

Oh, how she loved her long hair and always cried at the idea of getting it cut even just a little teeny bit.
She was a princess, and princesses had long princess hair.



Well, a couple of weeks ago we had our fun family vacation (see down a bit for that post) and she got to dress up like Sleeping Beauty and meet her.
I guess she got her fix, because earlier this week all of the sudden she decided it was time to cut her hair. She said she wanted her hair like Snow White now. Funny girl.

I told her it might be smart to have it at least long enough so we could still make a pony tail or a bun for dance class, so she agreed, and off we went to get it cut. Jewelia wanted her Aunt Harvest to cut it since she is going to hair cutting school and is really good.

Here she is making the first big cut:



Here she is with Aunt Harvest making things even:

And here she is holding her pony tail all cut off:

She loved it! Aunt Harvest did so good and her hair really seems much more healthier now and it is soooooo much easier to wash, comb, and style!

One big difference is that it seems like all the blond hair got cut off and now Jewelia is a little girl with brown hair!

I had hoped that cutting off all that weight would have brought back her curls, but not too much. She still has a bit of softer curls or wave to her hair, but not like when she was younger.

Either way she is super cute and she loves her new big girl hair cut!

Troy Gets His Own Office!

Troy has been working for a company for about 5 years now. He has been doing a pretty good job and was promoted to Team Leader about a year ago. He has always been in a cubicle, but last week he got permission to have his own office!

So, over the weekend we went in to move all his stuff from his cubicle into his office and to fix it all up for him for tomorrow. He isn't super lucky because all the other offices just got new office furniture and he has to use whatever old stuff is around, but we made it work.

I went in and hung his Diploma and GIS Certificate, his work awards, and I let him use my cool Mount St. Helens picture. I figured people at his work would think it was neat. We fixed up some book shelves and I organized all the millions of pictures of the kids and our family for him, and so now he is all set.

Well, I think I need to find some more pictures for his other walls, but I could only do so much with what I had, and I forgot nails and a hammer, so I was using pins and a stapler to pound things in the wall to do much of my hanging.

Anyway, we are happy for Troy. Although at first he was telling us that it didn't really matter that he had his own office and that he just thought I wanted him to have one, after we moved him all in there we could tell he was excited and happy. It will be good for him to have a place to work where he can shut the door and focus if he needs to.