Frampton would be proud

So, in addition to working night and day on our stupid lawn, my house has also been quite busy with preparing my parents anniversary present. 30 years ago, on October 9th - 1976, my mom and dad tied the old knot. It's really amazing this day and age to get past 10 years. So GOOD ON YA mom and dad!!

My mom has said for years that she would love for us to throw them a big party with dinner and dancing, speaches and power points. But, that's not in the cards this year. I would have loved to do that, but the fact is Calgary is too far away to plan a party like that. Maybe for their 35th anniversary.

Anywho, since it's a pretty significant wedding anniversary, i thought i'd gather the whole crew of my brothers, my sister in law and my nephews together and we'd cut a cd. Seeing as we all have musical talent, and my hubby has talent up the wazoo for sound engineering and mixing...should be a breeze.



So Friday night - after the Elton John Concert (which i'll go into detail later) William arrived around 1.30 am. Brent and Pam and the kids arrived Saturday morning around 9ish. Brent was pretty hilarious. He was pretty sure he could just go in and lay down 3 or 4 songs in about an hour. .....about an hour and a half later, he'd barely finished one song.... i think he realized then that recording a song is not as easy as it seems. ;)

The little boys were easy enough to record, but tough to get levels on because they only wanted to sing once. They, of course, sound absolutely adorable. and they looked pretty cute too.



We spent most of Saturday recording songs over and over again... after our landlord gave us the letter our day was pretty much done, so we went to eat at Applebees....where we had the worst service/meal. I think my brother was ready to either strangle his kids or punch out the waiter. It was a little entertaining...

Sunday we took the day off recording. most everyone was done except Patrick who took a road trip to see Elton John in Edmonton. So we took the boys to the Science Centre where i think Brad and William had more fun than the little boys.




After William, Brent and family went home we waited for Patrick. He arrived and layed down some tracks to some stuff... one of which was a stirring rendition of "Sweet Caroline" that left us in tears.

So the rest of that week was spent doing the final touches, and Brad mixing the final versions. I had a friend of mine put together a CD Cover/Booklet and CD lable for me. It turned out pretty sweet!
The blank tape says: "Munkholms Come Alive...With a Little Help From a Harms..." and features such hits as "The Joker", "I Got You Babe", "Don't You want Sombody To Love", and Soo much more! Brought to you by K-Tel.

I ran down to an HMV downtown and sweet talked the manager in shrink wrapping it for me, and i had him add the price tag. $19.76 the year they were married.

So, this thanksgiving weekend we gathered around my parents and we all listened to the disc together. There were Tears, there was Laughter... and i think they loved it!
Happy Anniversary Mom and Dad!