BenSpark Family Adventures

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #02524 Tonight Andy and I went to Boston for the Mix 104.1 Deck The Hall Ball. This was Andy's big birthday gift because the headliner was AJR. They were excellent to see in person. Their songs are fun and there was one point where they even broke down how they created the song "World's Smallest Violin". IT was super cool to watch.  There were two opening acts and they were pretty good. Andy was super enthusiastic when AJR came on. Clapping for each song and swaying to the music. Big smile on their face, too. We had pretty decent seats. The music was LOUD so I am glad that I had bought some LOOP ear protection before the show. They really helped me enjoy things so much more. It was a good time. Lots of fun with Andy.

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #02523 Tonight Allison had Colleen over and the two of them made meatballs. They made a ton of them and when they were done let Me and the kids have a couple before they were all packed up for meals. I think Allison said she got enough made for four meals for us and Colleen took the other half of them home with her.

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #02522 Tonight we went to see The Trial of Ebenezer Scrooge at the Attleboro Community Theater. Many folks who were in the play had been in plays with me in the past and it was night to see everyone. A couple of people who were also in plays with me were there in the audience and they are in plays themselves. They are in The Christmas Carol and I'm going to go see that Sunday. It was a nice show and I even won tickets to come back to another show. So I have at least two tickets already taken care of for my show, The Winter Wolf in March.

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #02521 Today was Anything but a Water Bottle day at school for Andy. So I did some arts and crafts and made a cookie tin canteen. I was trying to make it so that the cookie tin actually held the water but I cheated and shoved a diet coke bottle inside and put a hole in the tin and then sealed it up. I got some red suspenders from Savers and hot glued them to the sides of the canteen so that andy could carry it around school. People got a kick out of it.

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #02520 Tonight was the table read for The Winter Wolf. This is a play that I am performing in with the Attleboro Community Theater. I was asked to take on the role of the Father for this play. It is a very interesting play and there are a lot of big ideas for how to do the play. I'm looking forward to it and even more excited now that we have had our table read. I snapped this photo as a sort of teaser of what it too come. 

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #02519 Tonight was Andy's last Winter concert for band. Andy decided not to continue with band into High School. They certainly enjoyed being a part of the band throughout middle school but is no longer interested. The concert was a little different tonight. after the band played all the students left the auditorium and the parents got them to go home. Then the chorus would do their show. I'm not sure the reason for it but we could have stayed for the chorus as well but decided not to. I did not get a good shot of andy at the concert so asked for a photo when we got home.