Agwe, god of water (and other sundry parts)

So a few weeks ago, our good friends Charles and Julee Hamilton came by to drop off our new puppy, Dottie. Rebecca had just gotten home from Girls' Camp, preceeded by a full 2 weeks of Kodaly certification.

Ah, I just realized I can blame this whole thing on the Kodaly certification course.

Anyhow, Rebecca got home from girls' camp and was excited about getting our puppy from Charles and Julee, who had called me earlier that day offering to drive down to Provo to drop off the puppy. We invited them to have dinner with us and the Powells, who were also recovering from girls' camp.

After dinner, we were hanging out, and out of the blue Charles says, "Hey, you could play Agwe!"

Me: huh?

Julee obviously knew what he was talking about and got kinda excited about the idea, sending Charles out to the car to get a CD with music.

Okayyyy...

Charles then tells me how the musical he's in has been rehearsing for a month or so and somebody had to drop out due to work schedule changes or something. He and Julee figured I could handle the part easy. "There's just this one solo, and maybe a couple of dance numbers, but you'd be great!"

Hmph.

I agree to go sing for the director and the musical director at the next rehearsal.

Thumbs up.

Cool.

So now I'm Agwe, god of water, in the musical "Once on This Island."

And I'm a rich snob that waltzes (grumble grumble) and then jungle dances.

And I'm a rubbernecker at a car accident scene who happens to help carry the hurt guy to a hut.

And I'm a frog.

And then I'm a rock.

Oh, and I'm part of a tree, too.

Come see the play. Here's the Facebook page for it.

introducing Dottie

So, the car we had when we first got married was an old brown Datsun 210. Rebecca bought it for $300, and it got us through the first bit of our marriage (snow in that car was pretty nuts; I-15 to Jen & Mar's in Canada was crazy I heard). We affectionately named her "Dottie" and we still kick ourselves for not following through with our idea to take her engine out and make a dune buggy or something.

3 weeks or so ago, Rebecca was doing a Kodaly certification class and lo and behold, there was Holly, friend from Ricks! We got in touch with Charles and Julee Hamilton to have a mini-reunion.

The Hamiltons had just had a litter of puppies. Chi-weenies (sp?). Rebecca fell in love with one in particular, a female with a little black spot on her right haunch.

Thus the name Dottie.

Now we have a dog.

Facebook album here.

Here's a cute pic of her with James napping: