Breaking Dawn

Okay ,so I finished Breaking Dawn, I'm not going to say much about it because some of you might be reading it for yourselves and I don't want to ruin it for you. I will say that I liked it. I think Stephanie Meyer has done a really good job in writing this saga. It's been so long since I read the other 3 book in the series that I need to go back and re-read them. I have some students who are avid readers who were really into this whole series and I know they will be asking me if I've read this one or not, so I will be able to talk to them about it. I still think Twilight was my favorite of the 4 books, but I liked them all. I must admit that it was a much faster read than I thought it would be. If you have a while to just sit down and read, it really goes pretty fast even though it's 754 pages long. I did think the name they came up with for the baby was a little funky, so I liked the nickname Nessie! Anyway, if you've finished it, I'd love to hear your thoughts on it.

Pioneer Day Commemoration Concert

I had the opportunity to attend the Pioneer Day Commemoration Concert on the 26th of July. It featured the Mormon Tabernacle Choir with The Osmond Family as special guests. What a great concert!!! It was the end of the 50th Reunion World Tour for the Osmond Family. Donny sang a song that he had written for his son while he was serving a mission in Scotland called "Whenever You're in Trouble", it was an awesome song. Marie sang "How Great Thou Art" with the Tabernacle Choir, that was just amazing. The entire family sang "Through the Years" and they all got pretty emotional during that number especially Marie, the audience really enjoyed that song, everyone was on their feet cheering for more and many people were crying along with the Osmonds. The Osmonds sang so many of the songs that I grew up with and Donny and Marie did a segment that they used to do on the Donny and Marie show, it brought back some great memories from the late 1970's. The concert has since been shown on KBYU, I've watched it again becasue it was so good. I went with my friend Janet. We really had great seats (thanks Corrinne) and we had a great time, it was an awesome evening.

Madison holds her new baby brother!

Hello world, I'm finally here!

We have a new GRANDSON!!!

Stockton Dell MacDonald arrived at 8:40 P.M. Thursday August 7th, 2008. He weighted in at 9 pounds 3 ounces and was 21 inches long. He is a little cutie!!! He has a darling little round face and perfect little features. Everything went fine with the delivery, Natalie came through it like a real trouper. Stockton has the sleeping part of things mastered and is getting the eating part down pretty well. Both mommy and baby are doing fine. He looks a lot like his sister did when she was a baby and he really looks a lot like his Aunt Melissa did when she was a new born. He has already won my heart, I'm crazy about him! As you can see from the picture he is a little doll!

Breaking Dawn

Since I teach 13 and 14 year olds I've really gotten into the whole Twilight saga. Needless to say I was in line at midnight on Friday night when Breaking Dawn went on sale. My girls and I drove past the West Jordan Barnes and Noble at about 10:30 and the crowd was CRAZY!!! There were so many people there. Some were all dressed up in prom gowns, some were camped out in lawn chairs, it was beyond crazy. I had been to the neighborhood Wal-Mart earlier in the day and they were getting ready for a Breaking Dawn party to release the book so I went there instead. They had wedding decorations all over, wedding cake with black and red frosting, a fancy punch bowl (full of punch of course), trivia games and all sorts of other activities but they didn't have as big of a crowd, I only waited about 15 minutes. I'm about half way through the book (so far so good). I'll be sure and update my post and let you know how I like Breaking Dawn when I'm finished! I'm sure I will be draging my husband to see Twilight in December.