A Weekend Full of "Light"

I had the best weekend ever!! I wish it could happen more often! The performing group I was involved with back home ("Light") came up to Utah this weekend to put on a benefit concert in Spanish Fork, Utah, and I had the chance to see them perform and spend the whole day with them at Lagoon on Saturday. It was a blast! I miss those guys soooo sooo much! This group was my life throughout high school. I loved it! It was the best experience of my life thus far. I don't even know if the words I say could ever help someone understand the wonderful times that I had in Light. It was just a great great experience. There is just so much love and happiness that radiate from the kids in the group and especially from our director and his family. I love them so much! The Filichia's (that is the director and his family) do so much for the group. They are some of the finest people I have ever met. They are so loving and I feel so much a part of their family when I'm around them just because that's the kind of people they are. When I first saw Sister Filichia on Friday, I ran and gave her a big hug and we just started crying together. I was so excited to see her and Light! The benefit concert that was going on that night was dedicated to the Filichia's son Tim Filichia Jr. who just recently passed away in a car accident on his way back from Arizona to BYU. Their son was one of the greatest guys I knew and I'm so happy for him now because I know he's in a much better place right now doing a much greater work then he could have ever done here on this earth, but it just hurts me so much to see the Filichia's in so much pain. I love that family so much! Well anyways I had a great time this weekend and loved seeing my friends! It was a lot of fun. I even got to be in the traditional music video that Light makes every year. I felt like I was part of the group again!! The first picture is a picture of me and Whitney Dawe who is a girl from Spanish Fork that hosted me one year when I came up with Light. It was fun seeing her again. I'm wearing her hat that she wore in her performance. The second is Suz with some of our Light buddies after the concert. And the rest are pictures from Lagoon. I had a fun time bonding with all the new kids that joined the group this year AND of course my good ol' buddies from the year before. They were a lot of fun. Light's going to have one heck of a season this year!