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Sunday, October 9, 2011

September 2011

Alex led the Pledge of Allegiance at his elementary school for September 11

The firestation by our house had a Sept 11 memorial. It had a beam from the World Trade Center

Here's the beam

Alex turned 9 this year

Prosper Homecoming Parade

Back to school - August 2011

We had a back to school party in our back yard

Alex's third grade teacher, Mrs. Burch

Cub Scout "Belt Loop Circus" - learning volleyball

First day of 3rd Grade!

A new year at Apple Creek Preschool

Manti Temple / Erlene's Headstone

We were in Manti in August for the wedding of Kellie's cousin

We also put this headstone on Erlene's grave. It looks great.

Inventor/Artist Alex

Alex drew a picture of the Salt Lake Temple. We will send it in to the Friend to be published

Alex loves to draw. Here are some of his creations

If you flip one of the pages over you get this...

Sunday, August 7, 2011

U2 closed their 360 tour. I attended 3 360 concerts. I've been to 10 U2 concerts starting in 1993 (my senior year of high school...Brandon Maughan, my friend from Alta High has been to most with me). It's hard to pick, but my favorite is probably ZooTV, perhaps because it was my first.

I've attended the following:

ZooTV - 1993
Popmart - 1997 (Las Vegas and Salt Lake)
Elevation - 2001 (Washington D.C. and Salt Lake
Vertigo - 2005 (Dallas and Salt Lake City)
360 (Dallas, Las Vegas and Salt Lake City)

From USA Today:

U2 360° - the group's amazingly successful tour, came to an end in Moncton, N.B., Canada on Saturday night.

The tour opened in Barcelona on June 30, 2009 and, in 26 months, the group played 110 concerts for 7.1 million fans in 30 countries across five continents. The tour's biggest single audience was 108, 800 at Stadium Azteca in Mexico City on May 14, 2011.

"With tonight's final show, U2's 360° tour will go down as the biggest tour ever reported both in terms of box office gross and attendance," says Ray Waddell from Billboard in a release about the tour's end.

Some more fun facts and figures from the U2 360° tour:

10 million People watched a live stream of U2 360° at the Rose Bowl on YouTube

320,000 fans saw 360° in Mexico City

92,270 meals fed to working staff and guests

29,000 t-shirts given to local stagehands

9,760 guitar strings utilized

7,100 miles – approximate distance travelled by space station while talking with U2

5,200 years – collective touring experience of U2 tour personnel

400 tons – weight of the fully loaded claw

134 crew members

126 truck drivers

53 gigs attended by a single fan