Lovely Life: June 2010

Sunday, June 13, 2010

My Grandpa

I am very proud of my Grandpa and found these articles and pictures online about him during his time at Window Rock High School.

The First Window Rock Band Director

(This information has been collected from www.wrscouts.com/music.htm)

Ronald Bowen

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The first Window Rock High School Band

Director: Ronald Bowen

1st Row: Martha Davis, Jimmy Clark, Linda Fitch, Nancy Martin, Ron Benally, Lena Yazzi, Georgia Ashley, Patsy Cowan

2nd Row: Shirley Yazzie, ?

3rd Row: Ken Ogle, Frank LaVave, ?, Patsy Dale, Walter Seal, ?, Maggie Snez

4th Row: Dorothy Mineer, David Mann

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Window Rock High School Band 1958-59

Director: Ronald Bowen

1st row: Larry Davis, Nancy Martin, Ronald Benally, Linda Fitch, Eldon McCabe, Ernestine Tsosie, Patsy COwan

2nd row: Elanor Begay, Effie Arnold, Shirly Yazzie, Mike Weise, Helen Gatewooed, Lena Yazzie, Mary Showlater

3rd row: Kenneth Ogle, Marvin Shurley, Patricia Mann, Franklin LaFave, Bret Davis, David Mann, Lena Davis, Cheryl Mann, Margaret Nez

They were the John Philip Sousa Award Winners

First Awarded in 1965

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WRHS Marching Band 1959

Director: Ronald Bowen

Everyone is in step

Drum Major 1959

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WRHS Jazz Band 1961-1962

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Window Rock High School Concert Band Recording Session Announced

Director: Ronald Bowen

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Newspaper Article about the WRHS Band - May 21, 1964

Director: Ronald Bowen

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WRHS Marching Band

Homecoming 1964

Director: Ronald Bowen

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WRHS Spring Band Concert

April 22, 1965

Director: Ronald Bowen

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WRHS at Spring Music Festival

Director: Ronald Bowen

May 10, 1965

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A New Time and Season in Window Rock High School Band

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1970-1974 Band - Uncle Richard is on the left

Friday, June 11, 2010

My favorite crafty stores are:

1. Hobby Lobby
2. Archivers's
3. Micheal's
4. The Cotton Shop - in Provo, UT

Joshua and I love to just go walking through them, plan and dream. He is such a good sport to support me in my crafts. Before marrying him, I did not consider myself a crafty person but now I love it. He has even joined in the fun.

This last week, we bought some acrylic paints and canvases. We painted great pictures. I've never painted before. What I like about it is that you can't mess up.

Other fun projects we have learned together are:

Learning to cook new things
Gardening
Card & invitation making
Embossing
Sewing - he and I both have learned to make skits with invisible zippers.
Geneology

I love being able to let my creative juices flow and just be alright with however it might turn out.

Saturday, June 5, 2010

Saturday Projects

Today I started the day by going running with my old roommate Jessica Wenckus, soon to be Talbot. Afterwards, she and I went to Tai Pan Trading, an amazing wholesale home decore store, to get silk flowers to make her wedding bouquet.

We put together a great array of gerber daisies and smaller daisies. This afternoon, I did the final arragning of it and finished it off with a nice ribbon to cover the stems.

Lately I have also been on a cake decorating kick. Today was my first attempt at using fondant on a cake. Last night I had tried it on an upside down bowl. I think it turned out very well. I am proud of myself for making it look so good on my first time. It took about 4ish hours but I loved it!

The pictures on here are of the bouquet and cake I made today. Below is the progression of the cake (minus the part of cooking the cake and having the square cake fall apart, which is why it is a little uneven).