Fairy Tales Do Come True!

 Who is your favorite Fairy Tale Princess? 

 This pretty lady wins hands down for me.

Last night Craig took me to see Rogers and Hammerstein's Cinderella at the Redlands Bowl.

Cinderella was beautiful.  Her voice was lovely. Her dresses were scrumptious.  The Prince wasn't too Charming but I used my imagination.  But, BEST of all was her carriage!

Here are the lyrics to their romantic love song.

Prince: Ten minutes ago,
I saw you I looked up when you came through the door my head started reeling
you gave me the feeling the room had no ceiling or floor.
Ten minutes ago, I met you, and we murmured our how do you dos
I wanted to ring out the bells and fling out my arms and sing out the news.
I have found her, she's an angel, with the dust of the stars in her eyes.
We are dancing, we are flying, and she's taking me back to the skies!
In the arms of my love, I'm flying, over mountain and meadow and glen.
And I like it so well that for all I can tell I may never come down again.
I may never come down to earth again.

Cinderella: Ten minutes ago, I saw you.
You looked up when I came through the door.
My head started reeling you gave me the feeling the room had no ceiling or floor.
Ten minutes ago I met you and we murmered our how do you dos.
I wanted to ring out the bells and fling out my arms and to sing out the news.

Prince: I have found her.
Cinderella: I have found him, he's the light of the stars in my eyes.
Prince: We are dancing
Cinderella: We are flying
Prince: And she's taking me back to the skies
Cinderella: In the arms of my love, I'm flying over mountain and meadow and glen.
Prince: And I like it so well that for all I can tell I may never come down again.
Both: I may never come down to earth again.

Isn't that romantic?  Best of all they aren't fairytale feelings.  They describe how I feel about my Prince and he IS Charming!

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The Music Video of my Mind

Happy 4th of July!

Our house is proudly waving the flag.  When Craig raised the colors yesterday little tears moistened my eyes.  But, that was just one of many times yesterday that I felt emotional.  As we sang 'America the Beautiful' as the opening song in Sacrament meeting images of patriotic places we have visited and movies I have seen formed a music video in my mind. It happened as we sang later, 'The Star Spangled Banner', and then again as I visited another ward and 'The Battle Hymn of the Republic'.
Here is a clip from my mind's music video

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,

The Liberty Bell,

Constitution Hall

Gettysburg

The Lincoln Memorial

The National Mall

The Restoring Honor Rally 

Arlington Cemetery

 Boston, Massachusetts

The war scene from the movie "Friendly Persuasion"

The movie "Gettysburg"

and heroes:

George Washington

Benjamin Franklin

Thomas Jefferson

and other images flashed through my mind:

I am grateful for the great men and women God raised up to form this "the greatest nation on God's green earth."  (Michael Medved)


May Images of the FLAG+Singing Patriotic Hymns+ Patriotic Ponderings=
Happy 4th of July to you too!