Lots of things happening lately! Still making progress on the house remodel – the new rooms are painted! “Tawny” in the playroom and hall, a nice lavender “Whimsy” in the girls’ bedroom, and Swiss Coffee (like off white) in the pantry. Just need the wood laminate floor installed and the electrical outlets/switches/lighting fixtures. Once all that is done, we can start to move in!
Madison’s birthday is this Thursday, the 29th, but Braden & I are going to be gone, so we celebrated it last weekend. Saturday she had some friends over for cake, then we took them all swimming at the Cove in Sierra Vista. The next night she got to go with her sisters (and Mom) to see Justin Bieber in concert in Phoenix. Taryn and Cheyenne had fun too, even though they were trying not to look it. :)
A few nights earlier, Braden, Brittany&Joe, Taryn, Cheyenne, and I went to Elton John’s concert in Tucson! That was an awesome experience, I’ve been an EJ fan for most of my life. He is a first-class performer and it was a fantastic show. He had been sick, in fact he was scheduled to play on Wednesday but had to change it to Thursday. He also had to leave the stage for a few minutes because he wasn’t feeling well, but he came back and finished like nothing was wrong. It was amazing. He apologized for the re-scheduling, saying “Sorry about yesterday.. I was flat on my back.” But he said that he was not going to cancel the show in Arizona. He said “I know there are acts who are refusing to perform in Arizona… well I think they’re f***wits.” (I hadn’t heard that word before!)… then he went on to say “I go to California, and as a gay man I have no legal rights there whatsoever, but I still play there, what’s THEIR problem?” I was impressed by that.
The previous weekend we had our Mortensen Family reunion in Heber, AZ. It was beautiful up there, even if it was a little warmer than we would have liked. Our family borrowed a camp trailer from our friends, the Andersons, which was much nicer than sleeping in a tent. I have uploaded my pictures to our PicasaWeb. Click on the photo to go to the album.
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