BenSpark Family Adventures

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.

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #02518 Today we went to see the Feehan production of Matilda. Eva was the costume lead for the show and her hard work was on display throughout the performance. Her major piece was a dress for Mrs. Wormwood. She worked so hard to make that dress. I really hope that her efforts are recognized in the MetG awards again. It would be amazing if she won. But I think that every time she creates something it is prize worthy.  The show as a lot of fun and the set was incredible. Myles, the stage manager, was also the set designer and used the original plans for the set from the original performance to create the set for Feehan. He even made a scale model of the set and that was on display after the show. It was so detailed and cool. Mom and Dad came along with Auntie Tara and Auntie Shelby. Aunt Donna was there along with Ellen Gustafson and Aunt Cindy, Uncle Wayne, Scott, Beth and Abby were also there. 

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #02517 I've had this Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles model in my closet for several years. I built the three other brothers a few years back and for some reason hung onto this one. I was going to do a video of building it but never ended up doing so. I should get back into making videos. I have an idea for a video series that I'm planning on starting once a few more things are in place. Once they are then we'll get started. I may finally use a new website for it. We'll see how that goes.