Mahogany Performs in NY

July 30- Aug 2, 2010
Brock's improv group (Mahogany) applied to perform at the famous Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre Festival in NY and they got in.  The group has been together for less than a year and they were really excited!  Team Mahogany performed on the second day of the festival, and managed to get a good time slot being the teams first year at 4:30 pm.  A lot of people Brock knew weren’t performing until 3 am or later.  Here is Brock's take on the festival and some of the pictures.

Del Close is considered one of the premier influences on modern improvisational theater. He trained Bill Murray, John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Stephen Colbert, Tina Fey, Chris Farley, and countless others who have become comedy legends.


Every year since Del Close’s death in 1999 the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre holds a improv festival in his honor. This was the 12th Del Close Marathon.
For 3 days with teams throughout the world perform 24 hrs. a day. There were 150 teams this year mostly coming from LA, New York, and Chicago, but there were teams from England, and Australia.

The performance went really well.  We performed in front of a packed house.  Then just hung out and caught some shows of friends, and saw some of the other groups from around the country. The cool with the marathon was making new friends and getting to see people you look up to perform only a few feet away from you.  The theatre rented out a vacant lounge were the performers could go during the day to eat, drink, and mingle. Everyone was really down to earth.
 

Oquirrh Hills Jr. Golf Champion

August 10, 2010
Braxton won the Oquirrh Hills Jr. Golf Club Championship for 11-12 year olds and was also awarded player of the year at the golf banquet. Special thanks to Grandpa Quinn for taking him every week to the golf league and taking him golfing nearly every day this summer.

Braxton holding his two trophies.

Receiving his awards.

Braxton and Grandpa after the banquet.

The Scoreboard.

Ryan, Braxton and Colton - golf buddies.

The Gateway

July 29, 2010
Grandma Bunn took some of the grandkids that wanted to go to the Discovery Gateway Museum and to run through the fountain at the Gateway.  The kids had a lot of fun at the museum playing together.  After the museum we walked over to the fountain and had a picnic lunch and then the kids played in the fountain.  They really liked the fountain.  Every hour the fountain plays a special program to music and the rest of the time it is just random, but a fun place to go.  After the fountain we walked over to the Clark Planeterium and walked around the exhibits.  It was a fun day! 

Driving the car.

Braxton on the rock wall.

Olivia, Jenna, Andrew, Emma and Braxton.

Braxton trying on the dress-up clothes.

They have this really fun magnetic wall with PVC pipes with magnets on the back where you can make a maze and roll marbles through the pipes.  All the boys had a lot of fun playing with this.

Posing at the fountain.

Playing in the fountain.

They landed on the moon at the Clark Planetarium.

San Diego

June 26, 2010
We were able to go to the Seaport Village in San Diego.  This is where some of the large ships are docked.  We also went to the San Diego Temple to do baptisms.  This was fun and a little bit different.  Us and another family were the only ones there at the time, so the  did the confirmatins right at the font before they did the baptisms.

There was a man who balanced these rocks on top of each other.  Pretty impressive.

Fishing pots.  These reminded us of the show Deadliest Catch.

San Diego Temple

Under going some repairs.

Sea World

June 24, 2010
We went to Sea World and it was not half as crowded as Disneyland, so that was a nice change.  We enjoyed going to the different shows and riding their rides.  Brax and I rode Atlantis and you could get pretty wet, but we bought rain ponchos so that helped so we were not wet all day.  In the evening it cooled down enough that you needed a jacket.  It was a fun day at Sea World.

Touching the Sting Rays.