SYTYCD Concert Tour

As I've stated before on this blog I'm a huge fan of SYTYCD (So You Think You Can Dance). When my friend, Michelle, and I heard the dancers were coming to Salt Lake City as part of the National Tour, we knew we had to get tickets. Michelle bought the tickets and got us great seats on the 12th row. Last night was the concert and we had a great time, except for coming home deaf in one ear. (You know you're getting old when you want the music turned down.) It was so much fun to see our favorite dancers, oh that Will has got one hot bod, and watch all the best dances from the season. For those of you who didn't watch this season, there were three people from Utah who made it and they did a great job representing. I'm tellin' ya people, if you missed the show this summer, you need to make sure you catch it next year. It's wonderful!!!!

OBX, North Carolina

Last week Mike and I went on a trip to North Carolina for some fun in the sun at the beach. My cousin Berkley (pictured below with his lovely wife, Meredith, and son, Tanner)

is a Dental student at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA and each year of group of dental students get together and rent a beach house. This year they had an extra room in the house so Mike and I were invited along for the fun. The house rocked: the beach was in the back yard, it had a swimming pool and hot tub, a pool table, a room we dubbed the man lounge, because you could always find at least one guy in there watching the big screen TV or playing one of the gaming systems and it had an elevator. It was 8 bedrooms, 9.5 baths and a great place to spend the week. The beach was wonderful, soft sand and warm water.

Here are some of fun things we did. Each day we made sure to spend lots of time at the beach. We went boogie boarding and Mike and I built a sand castle.

After playing I worked on my tan. I also took a walk along the beach each day to enjoy the sun in my face and the wind in my hair. We made sure to watch lots of cable tv because we don't have cable at home. Our favorites stations were Comedy Central, the Discovery Channel and HGTV. We played Settlers of Catan and out of six games I won four of them. We went miniature golfing. We ate way too much and tried to get in at least one large cherry lime rickey from Sonic each day.
We did have one rainy day. Tropical storm Hanna came through on our last day. Luckily, it only rained in the morning and by the afternoon we were down at the beach again.



All in all, it was a very enjoyable vacation.

Degrees to Stephenie Meyer

Another Disclaimer: This is getting to the point of me being a little crazy, but really it is all in good fun.

So you know that game the six degrees of Kevin Bacon, where you can start with any actor/actress and within six people you are back at Kevin Bacon. Well in this post I am playing that game, but it is with Stephenie Meyer and instead of six degrees I am only two degrees away. That's right folks, today I met Jen Longman. Jen happens to be a really good friend of Stephenie Meyer, she is one of the Jen's who is acknowledged in the back of the book. It was so cool to talk to her and know that this same person has spoken with and hung out with Stephenie Meyer. :-) Some of the highlights of the conversation were that she has seen the movie. I guess a producer of Twilight flew out to AZ to show Stephenie a rough cut of the movie and she invited some of her friends to watch it. Another highlight and something I think is even better than seeing the movie is that Stephenie let Jen read all the chapters of Midnight Sun (the book from Edward's point of view) that she has finished so far. I LOVE Edward, so I am super excited for this book. Jen said that Stephenie is just like any normal friend; they go out to dinner, hang out and go shopping. If I can't personally be friends with Stephenie Meyer, I guess this is the next best thing. :-)


Me and Jen Longman


Jen is the one on the top right and Stephenie is in the middle on the bottom row.(Though you should all already know that.)

Addendum: For those of you dying to know how I met Jen Longman, here is the scoop. She is my friend's, sister-in-law's, sister. (Not complicated at all right!?!) I went to a birthday party over at my friend, Kristie's, house and since the family was invited, Julie (the sister-in-law) came and since Jen was visiting from AZ, she came to the party too.

Breaking Dawn

*Warning this Post contains spoilers*
(I love how that is on everything I read, so I thought I would add it to my blog too, because my post contains spoilers for Breaking Dawn and Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.)


So I was talking to my sister, Rebecca and she said that while she was driving up to Park City last week she saw on one of those cross walks above the freeway where people are always writing notes in red cups the message "Bella Dies" I thought that was so funny. Had I not finished the book and seen the sign I would have freaked out. Last Saturday we went to my nephews baptism and some people were talking about the book and I had to ask them to stop because the lady kept talking about all this stuff that she heard happens in the book and it was making me really mad because I didn't want to know anything that happened. Side story: Back when Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince came out I was listening to the radio one morning right after the book was released and some stupid radio DJ said that she heard that Dumbeldore dies. Anyway to make a long story short I wrote her a real nasty email because I hadn't finished the book yet and I didn't appreciate her ruining it for me, but back to my point, so I am really sensitive to when people say stuff about highly anticipated book so I just asked them nicely if they would stop talking about it which they did, so I was happy. But I digress… so for the Breaking Dawn book release I really didn't feel like going to Barnes and Noble and waiting around all night in that craziness (I did that last year), so at 11:30 I went down to Wal-Mart with my friend and by 12:15 or so we were out the door and ready to start reading. My official review of Breaking Dawn is that it was ok. I liked it better than Eclipse but not as much as Twilight or New Moon. One thing I did like about the book was that Bella finally turned into a Vampire. Something that really weirded me out was the whole vampire love child thing. I mean Bella was so freaked out about getting married at 18 because she was afraid of what people would thing but she was ok with having a kid? I’m sure people would talk more about you having a kid at 18 than getting married at 18. Anyway the girl has some issues that really bug me. I deal with her for Edward's sake; whatever makes him happy makes me happy… (Ha, I'm starting to sound crazy.) So my official review is that it was OK.

I got a job

I know, am I a complete sucker or what? I decided I might as well get paid to surf the internet as opposed to doing it for free at home. Ha-Ha (Don't tell my boss.) I am actually a really good worker. I am working for an insurance agency doing office work. I work three days a week, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. (I figure I need a day in between to recoup.) Anyway, we'll see how it goes. Wish me luck.

29 Big Ones

I need to update everyone on my Super Birthday Birthday, casue I know you are all dying to know how the festivities went, but I have just been so darn lazy lately and really don't feel like posting much. So here is the short and sweet version.




• Three days of celebration! That's right the Birthday Celebrations started on Friday and didn't end until Sunday.
• Birthday pedicures and dinner with the Beesley cousins on Friday Night.
• A Birthday pool party with old neighborhood friends on Saturday.
• A Birthday BBQ with the family.
• My Favorite gift was from my hubby, thanks Mike. It was the game Settlers of Catan. I love playing it.

4th of July Weekend

For the 4th of July we went up to my dad's cabin in Pinedale, WY. It has been over 3 years since I have been up there; the reason being is that my dad has been remodeling the place and I haven't wanted to go up while it is under construction. It is still under construction, (hopefully by the end of this summer it will be done) but we had so much fun that I am wondering why I didn't go up sooner. We went up Wednesday night and stayed until Sunday morning. Our days were spent enjoying the outdoors and we basically did whatever we wanted.


We spent at least part of everyday on the lake. We went skiing, wakeboarding and tubing. I like to wakeboard and it has also been a few years since I've done it, but I was able to get up like a champ. I got used the feel of the board and thought I would try out a few jumps, the first one went well, so I decided to be a little braver and I cut a little harder into the wake and got some wicked air and came down and would ya know it, I caught the front of my board and smacked right into the water. Anyone who has ever done that can empathize with me. I had an instant headache and decided to get back in the boat for a breather, but got out a little later to go at it again. I also went tubing and that was fun being bounced around all over the water.

For my birthday, Mike gave me the game Settlers of Catan. I have heard people say how fun it is but I'd never played it until recently and I love it, so I took it up with us and we played every night. We even played twice one day. We may have gotten a little rowdy when someone would block our settlements or wouldn't trade resources with us when we were making an awesome deal (you know who you are) but it was all in good fun and we had a great time playing it. I even won one of the games.For the 4th of July we crashed the Pinedale City barbecue, and then we caught the fireworks show. It is one of the best fireworks shows I have ever seen.

On Saturday we went on a hike to Miller Lake. It was eight miles. (Impressive I know.) We originally thought it was only 4 miles, but it was 4 miles one way. While we were walking we kept saying this can't be only two miles and we almost gave up about a half mile before our destination. We made Nick run ahead and it is a good thing because he found a sign that pointed us in the right direction. The craziest thing of all is that I meet someone from our ward at Millers Lake. I mean Pinedale has a population of 1,400 people, so it is a small town and would be quite amazing to see someone there I know. Miller Lake is one of maybe 30 hikes you can do in Elkhart Park and to think that I meet someone from my ward there is just crazy. Just goes to show you that it is a small world after all. Another cool thing we did was take a night boat ride to see the stars. It was pitch black while we were driving out on the lake so our beautiful night of looking at the stars could have turn into a real, scary horror movie, I kept picturing something like the Loch Ness monster coming out to get us, but luckily it didn't. We stopped in the middle of the lake and were able to just star gaze for a while. It was beautiful. You could see the milky way and we saw some shooting stars. We had a great time and hopefully can do it again real soon.