A Star Is Born!

A couple of months ago, 

our cute little granddaughter, Abby, 

told us excitedly that she had 

won a part in, "Annie,"

as Lily St. Regis, 

Rooster's (Miss Hannigan's brother) girlfriend.

Rooster and Lily team up as fake parents of Annie 

to get Daddy Warbuck's money.

If you're like we are, you're saying,

"Oh, yeah, now I remember."

Anyway, we couldn't miss Abby's acting debut,

so we headed to Salt Lake to stay with Rick's family.

On Saturday, we got to watch Josh play in a tennis tournament.

He won the first game and lost the second,

and we were so impressed with how well he plays. 

He just started playing a couple of years ago.

Jodie invited her folks, Bart and Kathie, 

and Grandma Stratford over for dinner before the play.

We had homemade Cafe Rio pork salads - 

a family favorite.

We remembered to take pics after we had it all cleaned up.

Kathie, Lois and Katie

"Annie" was performed by the 3rd and 4th graders 

at Legacy Elementary Charter School.

The sets and the staging were so well done.

The excited theater-goers before the play

Abby as Annie's "fake" mom

As far as we were concerned,

Abby was the true star of the show!

We asked Abby to go put her wig back on 

that she wore when she first came onstage as Lily, Rooster's girlfriend.

Here she is posing with Annie and one of the orphans. 

Posing with a couple of orphans, Miss Hannigan, Annie and Daddy Warbucks

Abby played her part of Lily St. Regis to the hilt - 

so cute!

The other proud grandparents, Kathie and Bart

We got a kick out of watching Rick and Jodie 

watch Abby onstage and hearing them laugh and cheer.

Abby's "Groupies" in front of the stage after the show

We love our sweet little Abby!

Grandma Strat said she was so glad she came,

and it made Abby really happy that she was there.

Proud Big Sister, Sadie, with Abby

Sunday, after church, Mindy, Jeff and kids came over 

and we had a delicious dinner. 

Rick spends virtually all day at the church 

with Bishop's duties every Sunday. 

Roger grilled the marinated chicken, mushrooms, 

peppers and onions and we had roasted potatoes,

 broiled asparagus, Jodie's homemade breadsticks, 

fruit and Jodie's famous fruit dip 

and corn on the cob.

Mindy brought amazing Symphony bar brownies - Yum!

We spent a fun evening with the Linds and Rick's family - 

the cousins love each other so much!

Wish we had pics of the kids!

Jessica did my hair Monday morning 

and Sam put Roger's crown on his tooth.

We haven't gotten together with my dear friend, Karleen, 

since she came and visited us for the Shakespeare Festival.

We usually go north before or during Christmas, 

and make a date to have lunch with Karleen.

But we didn't do that this year 

because we spent Christmas in Mesa.

We met her on Monday for lunch 

at La Jolla Groves in Provo.

We had a very delicious lunch and I had Roger 

take a pic of my blackened salmon salad 

because it looked so good, 

but then we forgot to take a pic of us.  

Just one more senior moment!

It was so good to catch up with her.

So, we had one more fruitful trip up north!

Now, on to March Madness!