Friday, January 30, 2009

Colette draws . . .


Colette up to today has only scribbled, not really ever actually drawing anything. then today she surprised us completely by drawing the whole family. She's in the upper left, I'm on the right, Nicolle the bottom left, Johnathan on the lower right. The bunny is in the middle and "a movie" is the scribbles next to Johnathan.

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Free Performance: Rob Bennion and Hayley Singley

I'm performing at our ward party on Friday the 13th of Feb for a Valentine's dance . . .

FREE
where: the chapel on A street and 3rd ave in the Avenues downtown. On N temple, go east up the hill past temple square to the stop sign, it'll be the chapel there on your left at the top of the hill.

WHen: Friday Feb 13th 7-9pm

There'll be snacks and live music with Hayley Singley and myself.

I don't play at public venues often, mostly just private functions, much less for free, so this should be fun.

Rob

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Our day out on Saturday

Back in October we dressed up as Rainbow Brite & Co and won passes to a bunch of SLC's attractions . . . we couldn't possibly see everything included in one day but we went to the ones we liked the most:
The aquarium in Sandy, the Imax at the Gateway, Discovery at the Gateway, the Natural history Museum and a free lunch at the Lion House. Here are some pictures from the aquarium . . .


The Aquarium




We ate at the Lion house pantry
And dug for dinosaurs


We watched the 3-d imax movie about dinosaurs at the gateway too. Johnathan was mesmerized and jumped every time a dinosaur growled. He also tried to grab the 3-d images . . .

Saturday

Saturday we went to the natural history museum . . .

And discovery Gateway

Monday, January 12, 2009

Change is coming soon . . .

Here's my entry for a songwriting competition about the change that's coming . . .

http://www.robbennion.com/mp3s/changeiscoming.mp3


In case you can't understand the words (sung by Colette) here are the lyrics:

Dear Daddy,

Guess what? I went to the ocean for my birthday. We saw dolphins jumping in the waves. Wish you could've been there.

Dear Daddy, guess what? Momma wants you to come home soon. She says Change is coming soon. Momma says Change is coming home too.

Daddy? Who is Change? What does he look like? Momma says he'll bring you home . . . Is he a daddy like you? Momma says that he'll bring you home.

Dear Daddy, is he big as you? Change is bigger than you, Daddy!

Change is coming soon.

We saw dolphins jumping in the water.

Tuesday, January 06, 2009

Flashback . . .

Listen to this song, I promise you won't be disappointed if you had an N.E.S. as a kid . . .

http://www.robbennion.com/mp3s/zlatin.mp3

I recorded it on Alto, Tenor, and bari saxes today, with the help of a great percussion track.

Monday, January 05, 2009

Long time no post . . . post overload! New Year's Eve, and more!






Here are some pics form the new year's gig, Nicolle got to come and she brought a friend so she wasn't bored out of her brain whilst I played for 5 hours. Festivities included Taro card reading, blackjack tournament, and a raffle where Nicolle won a gift certificate to a spa place.

In other news we're snowed in usually up here in Salt Lake, we moved to the Aves and love it up here. Mackenzie (Nicolle's sister) flew out over Christmas and we spent a lot of time eating and watching movies at Grandma Bennion's house.

I bought Nicolle a new car (new for us anyway) and so I spent all of our money. Anybody who knows someone needing live music hit me up!

The kids grow up too fast to keep track of. I posted a ton of pictures here so be sure to check the previous posts . . .

Moab, Hole in the Rock, and Goblin Valley pics




Dressing up at Fort Worth's National Cowgirl Museum




Texas for Thanksgiving . ..




Rock Band




Logan



pics

Horses in Logan at Cammie's house . . .
Playing the piano at the Hopewell's in Texas
All dresed up with nowhere to go . . .
Forecast calls for cute baby overload

New Years gig - Check out Nicolle she's such a hottie


This New Years Nicolle was able to come to my gig, and she came with a friend so she wasn't bored out of her skull . . .

We had a lot of fun (I Played for 5 hours!) And Nicolle won a spa thing from the raffle drawing.