The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940

I officially know I love going to see plays, especially comedy ones. So when I heard of one coming up at Hale called "The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940" I knew I had to see it. I mentioned to Rachel that if she got any free tickets to that one I'd love to take Larry to it (this was back when we saw Prince of Egypt, so it's been a while). 

Mom then reached out to me a few weeks ago saying she'd like to go and wanted to know if I'd go with her (I guess she forgot I mentioned wanting to go with Larry, but as long as I could see it, I didn't care). She told me this one sounds cool because the whole cast is in black and white (except the narrator, who is in color) and I was even more intrigued. I asked Larry if he'd mind if I went with her instead and he said he didn't care (he likes doing things with me, he doesn't really care what the things are). 

Mom mentioned this one was in the "smaller" theater (which kind of made me a little iffy because the one we saw the other play in felt pretty small), but that it didn't have any bad seats. Luckily, I liked the smaller theater since it was a stage in front of chairs (the bigger stage is a circle stage in the middle of the room and the seats go all around it), which is what I'm more used to. Our seats were way to the side so we didn't see part of the set, but it didn't take away from the story or acting.

I will say I noticed a couple flubs, but they carried it off so well they were very hardly noticeable. It was definitely a fun, goofy play and was so fun to watch. We were in the 2nd row, next to the bar cart so we got to see most of the characters way up close. 

The production was done so well and I just ended up loving everything about this one. I'd highly recommend seeing it. I also saw a lot of cute shows coming up so I'm really excited to go see more, and hopefully take some of the kids to some too!

Vintage Market Days

This year Mom and I tried the Vintage Market Days in Spanish Fork. It's closer to my home so as long as they had good (or some of our favorite) booths it would be good to switch for future ones. Getting down there wasn't so bad, but figuring out parking was interesting.

We found out they have 3 buildings at this one (Logan only has 2) and they had a lot of the same vendors. I found lots of cute décor to add to my collection. Unfortunately, there were a couple I was looking forward to, but they weren't there, so that was a bummer. They also didn't have a lot of food truck options for lunch. We, surprisingly, got through the whole thing so quickly. We were done looking at everything by 11. We then had lunch and then did a quick second walk through to see if we missed anything.

This guy was too cute not to get!

Since we were done so early, we decided to hit up Hobby Lobby and TJ Maxx on the way home. I found some things to add to what I got at VMD, so that made me really excited (I'm definitely going through what I do have to get rid of some things, but the new things I bought were for areas that don't currently have decorations for, so it worked out.

Always have to get the kids bath bombs

It was nice because Mom and I got to talk a lot and it felt cathartic to hear what she had to say or to say what I needed to. While I missed the Logan one, but this was a nice change. I could see switching it up each year or each season (they have a Spring and Fall one). I still look forward to more of these in the future.

Gwen's field trip to the Zoo

I was so happy I got to chaperone's Gwen's class trip to the zoo. It was a little more special since I was bummed I didn't get to go on her 1st field trip, but at least she got to be the first one this year. Getting ready for the day, I figured it would be cooler so I made sure we brought jackets and that all the kids in my group had jackets. However, the weather ended up being much warmer than I assumed so that meant I ended up holding all the jackets, haha. 

My group was a bit more active than I am used to (the teacher even made a comment that she'd be near us because one of the boys was a bit more difficult. He did like to wander, but he wasn't as bad as I thought. Which is good, because we hardly saw the teacher). The buses ended up leaving a little later than we expected so we didn't get as much time at the zoo (especially since we were also supposed to have lunch there). We started with lunch since we were all pretty hungry...or so the kids said (then they ended up trying to throw away half their lunches...I had to convince them to hold onto it for snacking later).

I made sure to ask the kids what their favorite animals were so we could make sure to see those ones. Mostly they wanted to see the reptiles, so we hit up that building, which got a bit more chaotic with the running around. We tried to make sure to hit up animals on the way there, too, so we could see as much as possible. 

The animals seemed pretty active, so I wanted to see if the polar bear would be more active, but it wasn't in it's area. The other bears were walking around though, so at least I got to see those.

We ended our day at the little playground to let the kids play around for a bit. I will say I did lose a kid or two a couple times, but I ended up finding them so it wasn't so bad. I realized it was time to head to the buses, but then thought I should make sure they don't need to go to the bathroom, which they did. So it was a rush to the buses after that. I thought they'd be wiped out after this trip, but ALL the kids on the bus were extra rowdy (except for the couple that actually fell asleep on the ride, haha). 

Once we got back to the school, I checked Gwen out to come home and I came back to finish up work. She was so excited to come home with me. I think she really loved me coming on the trip with her. It's always a special moment to go on field trip with the kids so I'm glad I could finally go on one with her. And the Zoo was a great one to go with. I look forward to more in the future.