Michelle Boyack: distinguished by her community and certainly she deserves it...

Yesterday evening I sat foot in an American high school for the first time ever.

It was 7:15pm and my computer at work was crunching numbers so I was somewhat just sitting there. I remembered that Maria said Whitney would be dancing down in Spanish Fork that evening. Asking Sophie it turned out that the girls were expected to take the stage in the next 15 minutes or so. I left my office (computer still running) got in my car and drove to the high school.

How lucky is it that I got in the room as the group dancing before them was being applauded for their performance. I spent a grand total of probably 25 seconds waiting for them to take the stage.

Of course it goes without saying they did great and it looked like they were having fun. They stomped (heavily but not clumsily) loudly in there and the crowd really liked it I think.

I ran into Marilyn on the way out the room and we waited together for Whitney and the others to come out. Coming down to see Whitney dance was the reason for me to go. I will be away on a business trip for the next 4-5 weeks and I had not had a chance to see her for the past few days.

Marilyn and I argued for just a second about who Whitney should come back home with. I had to go back to the office so I had not thought about taking her home. Somehow a foreign distraction allowed me to sneak Whitney away :-). We stopped by my office to collect my things and went home. It was fun and we had a good time (plus she scored a Jelly Bean dispenser machine in the process).

Now onto the title of this entry: another reason for me to go visit the high school came up while looking for the address. I can across this text on their home page: "Congrats Mrs. Boyack--5A First Place Outstanding Advisor". Michelle is such a fantastic person somehow that was the last push I needed to get me off my chair and in my car.

Michelle, Marilyn not only you are great women, you also are great parents. Thank you for contributing so much around you. Seeing you Michelle up in the console box orchestrating the event and Marilyn chatting with me on our way out: you manage to make someone like me not feel completely out of place at a venue like last night. There is no wonder why your daughters are Tori's best friends. Thanks for being there for Tori!

Love, take care,
-Guy