Totally 80s

When we were in Utah a few weeks back, Ryan's little sister hosted the annual Gibby Family "Fish In Love Under The Sea Dance". This year's theme was "Totally 80s". We've never attended before, but knew that Heather and Trever dress to the theme each year, so I decided we'd do the same.

Doesn't Heather look totally awesome in those acid washed jeans and a side pony tail?

Ryan scoured the Internet to find a picture of what he'd like to wear and we found this one of Huey Lewis sporting a purple suit.

That began my quest of finding a purple suit for Ryan. And I found one. And I bought it.

For my costume, I rummaged through my friend's closet who actually has clothes that she wore during the 80s. This is a shirt that she sewed herself and wore when singing with her family - with the original big belt that buckles in the back! D.I. helped me with the pants and shoes.

We had sunglasses with neon ear pieces to dance to "I Wear My Sunglasses at Night". We had plastic guitars and had an "Air Guitar Contest". Those Biddulph men were the big winners with their in-sync choreography!

My boys weren't keen on dancing, but when the air guitar contest started, they decided they could participate with style. The rest of the night, they walked around playing on their guitars. Two and a half weeks later and Leo still walks around making music with his air guitar anytime he finds it.

Overheard at Church

Here are a couple of quotes from church today:

During Sacrament Meeting
"Dad, when I'm a missionary, I'm going to take all my Legos with me. So my Legos can serve a mission, too." -Roderic

Sabrina gave an awesome talk on Honoring your Parents. She used the POTATO method of planning a talk that I had conveniently shared with my Sunday School class (which she is a member of) last week. I did not advise the counselor in the bishopric that I had prepared my class to give talks in Sacrament Meeting, he was inspired - two of my students gave talks today. Bethany said the first thing that came to her mind when Brother Larson asked her to speak was "Potato".

In Sunday School
"Are you going to draw the picture today?" My class asks this one every week. The picture is of the Plan of Salvation, you know, the one with circles and lines. Pretty much every week, the manual (Preparing for Exaltation) suggests drawing or showing it during the lesson.

In Relief Society
"Next year we'll be canning chocolate, if they take our suggestion." -Sister Kelley, encouraging the sisters to sign up to work at the cannery this year.

"You don't have to attend every argument that you're invited to." -Sister Habben

What I missed hearing firsthand in Primary
"I want to choose the left." -Hyrum's reply when his teacher asked if he would choose the right.