Stake Center Dedication

September 8th

Curtis and I were involved in the open house for our growing Prescott Valley Stake brand spankin' new stake center.  Curtis was on hand from 1:30 till 6:30 for any Spanish translating needs and I was involved with the musical entertainment.  The open house was a really involved venue.  They had amazing presentations throughout the tours and awesome displays with wonderful information in the cultural hall.  The feeling and energy in the atmosphere was amazing and we felt really grateful to have been a part of this little bit of PV history.

September 9th

Sunday evening we packed up our kids and headed for the dedication service.  I accompanied the choir musical numbers and had to be there early for the last rehearsal, which left Curtis alone to handle our 3 boys.  He did his best to keep them occupied, entertained and quiet and luckily another family jumped in to help him with the older kids while he bounced a fussy Marco.  Curtis survived the meeting, but barely.

As for me, I had my biggest piano playing blooper EVER!  A small mens choir sang a beautiful song that had challenging accompaniment.  I practiced A LOT in preparation for this song and just as we came up on a key change that lead into an acapella section I turned 2 pages instead of 1 and I flubbed the key change so badly that the poor men singers did NOT get their key change!  I could have died!!!  I didn't know what to do!  Halfway through the verse I had to join back in with the choir but now there were singing in a different key than I was playing.  It was a mess.  I came in when I was supposed to and prayed that things would right themselves out somehow.  The men floundered around for a few measures but eventually they adjusted and we finished the last page of the song with everyone back on track.  I was too devastated to cry, luckily, but I was so disgusted with myself I went home and moped.  Curtis tried to cheer me up but in the end a good nights sleep was all that could cure me of my self loathing.  It was pathetic and I'll never forget it.