What's On Our Happy List?

A trip back to the 80's .....

For several weeks now the girls and I have been eating,

sleeping and breathing the "Footloose" soundtrack and

music video. Our Stake just held a "Music through the

Decades" evening last Friday night where each ward had

to perform a musical number from their chosen decade.

The 8th ward had the 80's and we picked the theme song

from "Footloose". I had the privilege of being in charge of last

years roadshow and got roped into doing it again this year.

The current Activities Committee Chairman is my good friend

Phillip. Although he's a very capable man, he's nearing elderly

status and felt quite out of his element trying to pull off

something of this nature. (Just the thought of that makes me

giggle) When he said he wasn't sleeping at nights because he was

up worrying about the roadshow I told him not to worry and that

we would take care of it. We had so much fun last year doing

"You Can't Stop the Beat" from Hairspray here that I didn't half mind

having the pressure of pulling something together again this year.

Although Kyleigh, Emma and I started several weeks in advance

scheming about choreography and who from the ward we were

going to get to play or dance certain parts, we really only have

one week and two practices to put it all together. C-R-A-Z-Y!

(Usually about mid week I'm begging for a strong drink or for

someone to shoot me) LOL Can you blame me though? I, who

cannot sing, act and sure as heck cannot dance, am the roadshow

director. I barely know what I'm doing and I find that quite

unnerving and humorous at the same time. Thank goodness that I

have daughters who have talent in this area. They helped

tremendously. With almost double the people on stage than last

year and so many more parts to fill with the choreography, it was

a lot harder song to put together than "Hairspray". It may not

have looked as polished as last years but the thing we did

manage to do was have the whole ward, young and old,

represented this time. Can I tell ya how much I love my ward?

...best on the planet. Not only did we have men in their sixties

shaking their groove (my poor father in law one of them) but we

had young women and young men that we never thought would

participate, up on the stage. And they had fun doing it! That in

itself was quite momentous and the most rewarding part for me.

We've laughed our heads off watching the video over and over...

the improvisation in the moves, (the hearts on the butts), the

uncoordination and the two near mishaps were hilarious.

Hopefully I can get the video posted soon... when we figure out

the downloading difficulties. In the meantime here is the actual

"Footloose"video that we got our inspiration from. Fun stuff I tell

ya!

My 80's girls..gotta love the leg warmers!