'Tis the Season

This is simply because i wish I was there rather than here right now! My favorite place in the winter is the Salt Lake/Utah Valley. To all of you that live there, I am jealous!!!
As tired as I am, I need to stay awake and what a better way than to blog! What a week. My grandma came home from the hospital and has done well. She is too stubborn to go down without a fight. The day after she was released she and my mother took her to the beauty shop to get her hair done and run a few other errands. Crazy lady!!
So we have been pretty much back to back shows this week. We had Romina Arena on Saturday night. She is AMAZING! We bacame pretty good friends during her stay in Boise. It is so refreshing to have talent that is not full of themselves. This was another show that we got to design. It was so much fun decorating and playing with Treco and lights. It tuned out very nicely. Here are a few pictures. We also had Barbera Morgan come and speak. If you aren't aware, she is a school teacher from Idaho who actually just returned from a trip up in space after about 7 years of training for it non stop. She had pictures and video that were so neat! Most of which successfully put me into perspective... we are so small in comparison to the universe!!!Today we are working on Boises Concert for a Cause. Curtis Stigers (local artist) heads it up and it features about 120 different performers, a live and silent auction and all of the proceeds to to a different cause every year. It is really neat to be a part of something like this, especially this time of the year. Starting tomorroe we have the Ballet Idahos performance of The Nutcracker or as the backstage crew lovingly calls it, the Nut"buster". Its crazy insane. We have about 100 performers 75 of them children- backstage and we usually average about 20-30 hours of over time in about 4 or 5 days. AHHH... if we don't write soon, you will know we didn't survive!It finally snowed a bit! It didn't last long... it never does but it was nice to curl up on the couch with a fire in the fireplace and watch movies.We also installed an over the range microwave. Its awesome! Just removing a microwave from the counter created SOOO much space! I love it! Here is a pic of Matt being silly while playing handy man. At any rate, I hope everyone is well and enjoying the holidays and remembering why we call it Christmas!