You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch!

December 5, 2008


Last night Natalie had her Christmas Dance Recital. She performed two dances, Her "Shrek" dance and then the whole company each had different parts from "The Grinch". There were Cindy Loo's, and Hooville towns people, dogs with reindeer antlers and Natalie's Class, which were the Grinches. She did such a good job. It was fun to have a recital to go to again. After taking a year off I wasn't sure how Natalie would feel about dance again, but she loves it and is actually dancing really well. Of course the Christmas dance recital has now reminded me that Christmas is just around the corner and I'm nowhere near ready for it! HO HO HO Here We GO!

TWILIGHT "BITES"!

IN ALL THE RIGHT WAYS, OF COURSE!!!
So I had been feeling a bit bummed about dropping the ball on getting tickets to the midnight showing of Twilight, and I had mentioned it to my neighbor Lisa who was going (I was so jealous). Well she called me on Tuesday morning saying she was in posession of an extra ticket and graciously asked me if I'd like to go. HELLO! Of course I said yes!
She, her sister Jodee and friend Marlene came to pick me up at 10:30 p.m. on Thursday night and we drove down to Sandy, picking up Missy along the way. We went to the Jordan Commons and the place was crowded with "Twilighters" of all ages, including us in our "Bite Me Edward" T-shirts, except for Marlene and Missy (who didn't want to be seen with us). It was so much fun, we saw the Midnight show and our theater was wild and giggly and hyped up on caffeine and popcorn. I'm still nursin' my Twilight hangover. I had such a blast getting to know my new "Twilight Sisters" and can't wait until New Moon comes out! Same Time Next Movie ladies?
That was the first of my Twilight fun, then on Saturday my friend Sarah (who saw her own Midnight show) arranged for us to go and see the movie (again) at The Gateway. We planned a more reasonable hour to see Twilight, but it was just as fun! There were a bunch of us, including my Mom, Samantha (Dominic's girlfriend), Kristie, Erica, Lindsay, Tiffany and Sarah! I loved the movie even more the second time. If you haven't read the books don't be discouraged to see the movie, it held its own. Don't plan for Gone With The Wind or anything, but plan for a really cute flick!
GO TEAM EDWARD!!!

HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL!!!

November 10, 2008

*Spoiler Alert*
On Saturday we had a mother/daughter date and went to see High School Musical 3. It was a lot of fun and a cute movie, complete with Zac Efron dancing around in a tuxedo that looks like it followed him from the set of Hairspray...but you know, even in a baby blue suit he can still look dang good! One of my favorite parts was Zac's character (Troy) dancing solo around the High School singing a song called Scream. The coolest thing about this was as he's dancing in the halls they start to turn, and what I mean is they turn like one of those fun house spinning walkways, he sings, dances, jumps, slips and slides around all while the halls are moving. Don't ask me why I liked this, but I just thought it was cool!
A few times during the show I looked over and watched as these little girls stared wide-eyed at the movie screen. I was grateful for the funny moments in the movie that 6 year olds could actually understand and laugh at. And I had to laugh myself as Natalie covered her eyes during the lovey-dovey scenes (maybe she's not my daughter)!
After the movie a few of us went to eat dinner at Noodles & Company, and I must say, there's nothing like carbs to end the night on a good note! It was a fun Girls Night Out, and I can't wait to do it again...but next time, maybe one without the 6 year olds!
At Sunday dinner my brother Dominic asked Natalie what her favorite part of the movie was, and she said "The end, when they all Graduated." Needless to say Dominic was quite upset that she ruined the ending for him, because I'm sure he really wanted to see it.

P.S. Did you notice that no where in my pictures or blog does it say that blasphemous word EAST anywhere? That is because that is a four letter word that we don't say...E-VER!

YOU LIKE ME...YOU REALLY LIKE ME!

Thanks so much for asking me to post more, it means a lot. I've been part-time working for my parents (about 3 days a week) which means on the days I don't work I'm catching up on my full-time job, you know, the laundry, the vacuuming, the dishes (YUCK). So that is where I've been. I miss you all too...I usually check other blogs regularly, but I don't think I've read anyone else's blog in over a week, I'm going through withdrawls! AHHHHH!
I thought about posting on our new President Elect, but then I thought "I've always been taught If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all." So I opted out of that one...of course I do have to say that I'd feel the same had McCain won-there is just no pleasing me (don't tell Brandon I said that HA HA HA).
I hope you all have a happy day, and I'll be posting again soon! I PROMISE!!!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Just a few shots of our spooky costumes...

Yes that is me. Brandon already told me

I look old, so you don't have to metion it,

Thankyouverymuch!

But look how cute my little puppy looks!

Pumpkin Patch!

October 17, 2008



It's UEA and we all know what that means...NO SCHOOL!
Well we were graced with warm weather and sunny skies yesterday, so me and my friend Kristie decided to take our kids +2 to a Pumpkin Patch by our houses. They had a small hay maze that the kids could go through, and the bigger girls were so cute and helped the little ones. Then we spent some time picking our Pumpkins from the patch. There were hundreds of pumpkins and it was hard to decide on the best one, but finally we all chose the one we wanted. After that we took the kids through a corn maze. We got a little map and had to find 6 different stops throughout the maze and punch specific holes in our map and at the end we got a treat if we found all the stops. It was touch and go in the corn maze as the sun started beating down on us and the girls were getting tired and hungry, but we successfully made it through the maze, and to all of the stops throughout. It was such a fun activity to do on a day off of school (I feel a tradition coming on) the girls all had a blast and the babies were really good too, which is always a good thing.

Ramblings of Childhood and My Birthday!

Friday October 3, 2008

This may come as a surprise to some of you, but the very first Olivia Newton-John film I saw was NOT Grease, it was in fact Xanadu-a film that I still love despite being sporadic, and cheesy. I used to put on my roller skates and skate around my driveway singing songs from the movie, or the other Olivia Newton-John song I loved, Physical (of course I had NO clue what that song was ACTUALLY about). My mom also recorded one of her concerts that was on HBO, and my friend Mandy and I would watch that thing over and over again, prancing around like back-up dancers. Needless to say I was a bit obsessed with miss Newton-John.
Why am I telling you all of this? Well when I was about 14 or so I found out that I share my Birthday with this childhood idol of mine, and you can probably imagine how cool I thought that was. Now as some of you may know last Friday (26th) was my Birthday, and therefore cause to also think about ON-J, which in turn takes me back to my childhood. So it's kind of cool that having a birthday means I am one year older but I also have a reminder of being young...which I thought a lot about this week.
I thought about being an oblivious kid growing up in Glendale-ERR-Poplar Grove, where we could sleep out on the trampoline, and walk to school, and ride our bikes to Seven-Eleven. Life was much simpler back then, when mom and dad handled everything and we didn't have a care in the world. BUT, even though I have MANY cares in the world now, and as the Birthdays and years will continue to float by, it's nice to know that every now and again I can take some ME time and sit down to watch this silly movie and instantly be back to having unmatched clothes, with a bad perm and not a care in the world.
That's Xanadu in and of itself!!