Pilgrim Poses

These are the first Holiday decorations to see the light of day for a while. I haven't been very good about decorating in the last year. It is just a lot of work!!! Put out take down etc. Everybody wants them up not to many people are willing to help or take them down. Enough about the Little Red Hen though! Marisa and I were straightening the garage after the Halloween decoration take down and we came across this Pilgrim couple. She immediately had to take them inside and find them a home. Throughout this month I have noticed everyone enjoying the little Pilgrim couple! I have captured just a few of the positions I have found them in!!

I think they are in love!

I hope they were just tired and someone was not playing ball in the house!!!!!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!

Can You Say ANDREA BOCELLI

The choir that I joined this fall The Southern Nevada Musical Arts Society Chorus has been asked to sing with Andrea Bocelli at the MGM Grand Hotel on December 12th. Andrea Bocelli has a chorus that usually travels with him based out of Arizona. For the December concert scheduled here in Las Vegas he opted to have a local choir sing with him and forgo the travel expense of his usual choir. He or "his people"read the review of our choir that was written in the Las Vegas Sun after our recent concert in October and listened to tapes of ours and other area choirs including Desert Choral the Master Singers and they selected ours to sing with him!!!!

What a privilege to sing in a chorus on stage with Andrea Bocelli. I feel so blessed not only to sing with someone as talented as he but to be able to learn and sing beautiful music. I truly feel the Spirit of my Heavenly Father when we sing this glorious music. I know the Spirit is there and helping me to do this. I could not do this on my own. My experiences in this choir and with the talent that I am working to develop is a blessing from heaven and I cannot deny it. It has brought me more joy and happiness than I could imagine outside of my own family!

Things are about to get complicated. . .

Jeff was put in as the Second Counselor of the Bishopric on Sunday. It has been a whirl wind ever since he received the call! We went to church on November 1st expecting the new Bishopric to be put in. Nothing happened. After Sacrament Meeting a man came up behind Jeff and I and put his hands on our shoulders and said, “Brother and sister Boyce could you meet with President Romney at 3:20 this afternoon?” Our eyes must have popped out for our heads. I quickly responded, “Yes.” He pointed it out, and I said, “Well I know it’s not for me!” He said, “How do you know?” Oh I know!!! It’s funny how you can see things coming from a mile away. A few months back Jeff gave a talk in Sacrament meeting. It hit me like a ton of bricks seeing him up there I had the realization that he would be up there some day. However I didn’t think it would be so soon. He is so wise and sensitive to the spirit, always worthy in my eyes and ever ready to serve the Lord. He will do a great job and is so blessed to be called with these wonderful men. He isn’t one to enjoy meetings and that will be a challenge. I am not eager about being a “church widow” either. Jeff has always shared the load. He is such a “hands on” dad. He really helps out. We are often late for church with his help- it could be a disastrous without his help. I know the Lord will bless us and hopefully our hardships will be but a small moment. I think it was more than a coincidence that my parents happened to be here the same Sunday Jeff was set apart. Jeff’s parents made a special trip. It was a lovely day!

88 Keys

For decades, Liberace was known for his music, candelabra, charisma, rhinestones and dazzle. Friday my parents my sister and I went to visit the Liberace museum here in Vegas. Wow!! What a story! He was an amazing showman and a dedicated son. Displayed at the museum are pianos like you have never seen before, some of his legendary wardrobe, and boy did he knew how to make an entrance. He had mirrored, crystal rhinestone cars etc. Some of his flamboyant costumes weighed up to 200 lbs. It was very interesting!

Thrilling . . .

Could Halloween get any Scarier? Wow it is exhausting!! All I can say is at least we got our monies worth out of those costumes!!! The girls both got to wear their costumes to dance, we had a ward trunk or treat, they got to dress up at school this year, we attended various Halloween parties and events, and a night of trick or treating in the neighborhood. Marisa went through two pair of tights before the Halloween night even came!! The best thing I ever did was to buy their costumes early. The kids had a day off of school early in October. I took them right out that day and we made some decisions!! Once it was decided there was no going back!!! Just wait for the day to come. Some moms got together this year and preformed THRILLER at our tri-ward trunk-or-treat! Yep that's me down there in my gauze reaper outfit!!! Marisa said she was afraid to look at me. I was a little afraid to look at myself!!!! It was too dark to video tape so we won't be making our YouTube debut anytime soon!!! It was thrilling!!!!