Nutcracker Ballet / Tavaci Christmas Concert

Here's some Gunderson Family info: Lindsey is dancing in the Nutcracker Ballet this year as a Soldier and a Chinese Dancer. She is so excited!! Dates/times are:

Friday, November 30th: 6 p.m.
Saturday, December 1st: 1 p.m. and 6 p.m.

Tickets are $8.50/Adult and $6.oo/Children (11 and under). I think kids 2 and under are free. Let me know ASAP if you are interested in tickets.

If you want to make a weekend of it, you could go to the Ballet on Friday night and stay and watch the BYU Cougs vs. San Diego State Game here at our house on Saturday.

Also, Gracie, Oakley, Connor and Lindsey will all be singing in the Tavaci Christmas Concert on Saturday, December 15th at 4 p.m. It is a FREE concert and is always really fun to kick off the holidays.

NO PRESSURE for any of these occasions, just wanted to let you know what's going on in our neck of the woods. Love you all.

-Gwenny

Motley Crew

Sometimes I think about us traveling as a family with so many kids. I laugh and think we must have been quite the spectacle. Then I see pictures like this. "Spectacle" just isn't enough to describe it. Why do we all match? And why aren't Bryant and I wearing any pants? Even though we all looked retarded (and we all did... with the exception of Reese and maybe Mork), we still had a pretty good time together. I'm 98% sure this picture was taken on our Idaho trip. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

Melinda

Thanks for creating this site. I'm not much of a blogger but I love the calendar. I saw that Lindsey is in the Nutcracker, Bethany and I want to see the nutcracker anyway so now we'd love to drive to Gwen's and see Lindsay in it. And with Reese and Jordino on the calendar to go to Boise the Boise crew can see that and try to plan some time off to chill with them.
Well happy November 8th!

the Cougs

So I've been lucky enough to go to 4 BYU football games this year - Arizona, UCLA, Eastern Washington, and Colorado State. Greg's dad has brokered a deal with Ted for season tickets for the last 4 years and it's been sweet to be able to head down and support the alma-mater whenever I get a chance. I took this sweet pick of Cosmo at the game and thought I'd share it with you all.

I've gone with Law and Lee and obviously Ted. If you ever get a hankering to head down to a game let me know, I'd love to have anybody come and we can always buy extra tickets and make room.

The Blog

Hey I love this idea. What do you think about changing the permissions so that everybody can log in with their own google account? All you have to do is email an invitation to each of us and we can log in with existing account or create one for those that don't. That way instead of every post having "posted by quigclan" it would have our name associated with the post and comment.

GQ

The Number 20.

Biology

• The number of proteinogenic amino acids that are encoded by the standard genetic code.
• The number 20 is used as an index in measuring visual acuity. 20/20 indicates normal vision at 20 feet, although it is commonly used to mean "perfect vision" (Note that this applies only to countries using the Imperial system. The metric equivalent is 6/6). When someone is able to see only after an event how things turned out, that person is often said to have had "20/20 hindsight".
• There are 20 baby teeth in the deciduous dentition.

In religion

Age 20 is the age at which Levites in the time of King David were allowed "to do the work for the service of the house of the Lord", the Temple in Jerusalem (see First Chronicles Chapter 24, verses 24 and 27). In the time of Ezra and Nehemiah, following the Babylonian captivity, it was Levites from the age of 20 upwards who were assigned "to oversee the work of the house of the LORD" (Ezra Chapter 3, verse 8.

In sports

• 20 is the retired number of Pro Football Hall of Fame running back Barry Sanders, formerly of the Detroit Lions.
• The retired number of former baseball stars Frank Robinson, Mike Schmidt, Mark Fidrych and Lou Brock.
• 20 is the number of Tony Stewart's 2-time winning NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series car.
• The Twenty20 Cup is a form of limited Overs Cricket where each team plays only 20 Overs.
• The number of NFL stars Ed Reed, Ronde Barber and Brian Dawkins.
• 20 is the number worn by NBA player Manu Ginobili of the San Antonio Spurs.
• 20 is the iconic number worn by football player Ole Gunnar Solskjær of Manchester United.
• 20 is the number worn by New York Yankees all-star catcher Jorge Posada.
• A twenty-game winner (pitcher) in baseball is acclaimed as having reached a milestone in a season. The most remarkable of 20-game winners was probably Hank Borowy, who won 10 games with the Yankees in 1945 before being put on waivers, then signed with the Cubs and won 11 more games playing the rest of the season. He had been in the World Series with the Yanks and played for Chicago in the '45 Series as well.

In other fields

• The number of twenty can also be called a score, (as Abraham Lincoln did in his Gettysburg Address).
• In a game of chess both players have 20 first moves from which to choose
• Twenty questions is a popular party game
• Twenty is the age of majority in Japanese tradition. Someone who is exactly twenty years old is described as hatachi
• The "Twenty Year Curse" refers to the pattern of presidents of the United States who assumed office in 1840, 1860, 1880, 1900, 1920, 1940, and 1960 to die in office. This pattern ended with the 1980 presidency of Reagan, who survived his time in office and, notably, an attempted assassination.
• Bands with the number twenty in their name include Matchbox Twenty
• A 20-minute-long entertainment program shown before some films playing in United Artists movie theaters is called "The Twenty" (spelled "The 20wenty")
• Yan Tan Tethera is a 20-word jingle for counting sheep
• 20/20 is a late-night newsmagazine program on the ABC network, that has been hosted by Barbara Walters, Hugh Downs, Elizabeth Vargas, and others
• In the roleplaying game Dungeons and Dragons, twenty-sided dice play a pivotal role in gameplay, and to "roll a twenty" is significant to the point that it is sometimes used in other, usually related, contexts, similar to the use of "doubles" in reference to Monopoly.

20 is:

• Twenty, a village in Lincolnshire
• In the United States Constitution, $20 is the threshold value of civil disputes above which the right to trial by jury is preserved
• A denomination of U.S. dollar featuring Andrew Jackson's portrait
• A denomination of Pound sterling featuring Adam Smith's portrait
• The code for international direct dial phone calls to Egypt
• The designation of Interstate 20, a freeway that runs from Texas to South Carolina
• 20 (album), a 1988 album by Harry Connick, Jr.
• Twenty (album), a 1997 album by Lynyrd Skynyrd
• CB radio jargon for "a place", being short for "10-20", used in reference to a person or object's location

......or could it just mean that the 20th Quigley grandchild is on the way?

~Greg

Happy Halloween