Flashing Back to September

Back on September 6th, me, Lori, Landon and Whitney went to see Howard Jones & Tom Bailey in concert.

We got there about 40 minutes early and then ended up sitting through multiple opening acts so we really could have shown up 3 hours late and been right on time. Ugh.

Whitney found a notebook in the back pocket of my lawn chair, what a find! She drew for a long time and had a fan club (the people behind us) watching her. This notebook probably saved her life because she was having some serious attitude problems and I was close to freaking out.

We had to wait an hour for the show to start and then sit through three other acts (who were fine) before the headliners performed...Landon had a good time taking selfies with my phone.

Tom Bailey was fantastic! He sounded so great and was super high energy. I hadn't realized how many Thompson Twins songs I knew, but they were part of my high school years' soundtrack for sure.

The song from the end credits of Sixteen Candles pretty much does me in no matter how many times I hear it.

More selfies.

Howard Jones was good too.

And more selfies.

I enjoyed the concert more than Lori or the kids because those songs are linked to many memories for me, but we all had a good night.

A Flashback--High School Style

Surprisingly I don't have any minutiae from this week to put into a Five for Friday post (what the?!) so I'm posting a random flashback instead.


Betsy and I washed our hair in the rain (the shampoo bottles can be seen at the end of the driveway) before our high school graduation (my hair did NOT end up looking very good that night).

I love this picture because...

• It shows the joie de vivre we had at that time in our lives.
• Betsy is wearing a BYU t-shirt (that she still has) which she bought at BYU's Education Week the previous summer.
• I'm wearing the only Polo shirt I owned (they were very popular at the time).
• You can see the back of my beloved, gold Subaru, Betsy's Valare and her mom's brown Cutlass Sierra on the street. (All 3 of these cars were a big part of my time in high school.)
• I was thin, somewhat tan and had lots of muscles (I was sure I'd look like that forever).
  
• This is one of the few pictures I have from high school (why weren't we taking more photos?).

**Did you do a Five for Friday post?
Have you ever washed your hair in the rain?
What kind of car did you drive in high school?**

Comment Window Tidbit: I think we may decorate for Christmas this weekend (which is a week or more sooner than we usually do) because I'm sick of seeing the Halloween stuff (which is still up) and because December always flies by.