Wow! Has it really been 2 months since I last wrote?
I have been so swamped with life that I haven't had time to sit down and write any updates, but I feel as if I have lost contact with my family!
Besides, just living our busy life, I have been busy trying to help Mckenna's friend Madison's family find a new house in Santa Clara. They are moving back from Idaho and with the house prices the way they are, I think that they wish they had never moved since houses have skyrocketed in price. We found a house for her just around the corner and you will not believe the price: 3100 square feet of house with 5 rooms, and a pool all of the low price of...$354,000.00! They dropped the price $30,000 but that is still insane!!! Most houses here are going for $400,000.00 bottom price, but this house is 20 years old and so it is a little less in price.
I have also been spending my days writing a Christmas play for our ward party! It is about spending Christmas with the Smiths. Unfortunately for me, the Prophet Joseph (or anyone else for that matter,) only wrote about 2 Christmas that they celebrated and that doesn't give much to work with. I have really enjoyed the research that I have done to fill in the story line. The reading has really helped make my testimony stronger about the restoration of the Church.
The play is only 30 minutes long and so isn't too bad. I am done with the script and am working on logistics such as cast members, music and props. The props are very simple, a table and desk which I already have, a book, a pen for Joseph to write in, a rug, a rocking chair and a few benches to sit on. I think that we will have some garland and battery operated lights (candle looking.)
Music is a problem right now. Our choir is so busy with their own program for Sacrament that I don't dare ask for anything more, they are also doing some music appreciation stuff for Relief Society, I may just have 4 people be carolers and call that good. I also am planning on having a fiddler for the dancing scene at the end of the play, but the rest will just be recorded music. I am looking for the correct period of music that they had then. I have a few songs, a few hymns that Emma compiled into the first hymnbook but I need some good prelude music and postlude music while we are moving to the next activity during the evening. If anyone has any great ideas PLEASE let me know (hint, hint dad!)
Halloween is coming so I will post more than!
