These Are A Few Of My Favorite Things...

• Going to the Temple on a busy day, instead of hurrying through the baptisms, I can take time to sit in the baptisimal font room and just think while other people are going. What a peaceful place to think.
• Listening to music with Keri as we do our hair and make-up.
• Buying new make-up!!!
• Going to Paradise Bakery with my favorite little sister and getting my favorite salad!!!
• Walmart, it just is a fun and happy store! :)
• Having a new CD to listen to! If only I could afford to have this more often!
• Going to Cold Stone with Amy, my favorite thing is the boy that works there!!!
• Driving and talking with my dad.
• DiGiorno pizza for dinner, its not delivery, its DiGiorno!!!
• Watching a movie I haven't seen before (today it was the movie Doubt).
• And writing on my blog!

Well that basically sums up my day. I felt like this week was very long with work and everything, and today was just such a good day off! I thought about it today how everything I have done has been fun, so I thought I would just write a quick blog about it! haha

My Obsession!

I am so obsessed with my Fox reality TV shows. None of the dumb ones like More to Love, but the good ones, like American Idol and So You Think You Can Dance! American Idol is the very best, and I think about it all year round. January-May are my favorite months for that very reason. And when it is not on TV, I still enjoy listening to performances on it from Blake Lewis (season 6), David Archuleta, Brook White, and Jason Castro (season 7) and most recently Kris Allen. Plus I have those old favorites like Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, Elliot Yamin, Daughtry, and Jordin Sparks. My point is I really like that show! But the reason I started this post was to talk SYTYCD! I just need to share my feelings with this season.

Last night was the last night they danced before the finale next week, and something weird happened to me. I got bored, and didn't watch it! Instead I went to bed, at 7:30. Weird Huh!!! My feelings about this season, Everybody is really good, but not one person has popped out enough for me to love. Last season I was totally in love with Chelsea Hightower, and Twitch, I loved Katie and Joshua, and I was very happy with the top 4. But this year, I have yet to really pick some people that I love. I think I only voted once, the first week. I just haven't felt like anyone pops out for my votes, crazy huh! This is the girl who voted over 3000+ for David Archuleta in one night, and the girl who had her entire family stay up all night voting for Kris (we didn't count so I don't know, but it was all night!)

So when I got home today I was in a mood to watch it, unlike last night. I watched it with my mom and my sister, and then right after that we watched the elimination episode tonight. During the episode tonight they brought back couples from last season whose dances are nominated for an Emmy, and I was SO much more happy watching all of those dances than any one I have seen this season. There are only really a few from this season that stick out, and the thing is, its the dances that stick out, not the dancers.

So ya, that's about it. I am happy with who the Top 4 is, but I really don't care. I wonder if I am going crazy or if it is just this season, who knows! But ya, I thought I would just rant on and on about this show. Thanks for reading! If your watching this season feel free to comment and tell me your opinions on this season! :)

Home Again Home Again! doo-daa-lee-doo

Well I am back from California, and honestly not too happy about it. We woke up this morning and drove for 6 hours, actually making pretty good time! We sure do like dads radar detector that beeps when a police is around! haha! But as soon as we stepped out of the car at a rest stop in AZ we all melted. After the beautiful week we spent outside, we forgot how horrible the heat was. It was like stepping into an oven...

We got back around 2 and I immediately started my lesson for Primary. If ya didn't know I teach the CTR 6 class in primary! So I started my lesson and realized I had to pick up a few things, so I went and got my bff Amy to come with me and we went to Target. At Target I got a DVD with Oceans 11 and Oceans 12 for $8.oo! Two movies for $8.00, I was so happy!!! I love those movies!

(It looks like this except without 13, which happens to be my favorite, but they didn't have that one.)

Anyway, I was planning on finishing my lesson and then watching one of them, but my friend called and was super bored, so he came over and we played ping pong. I really wanted to watch the movie when he left, by myself with some ice cream (which I was planning on doing in the first place), but I should probably get to bed. I do have 8:00 church! (for only 1 more week!!!)

Anyway, to sum up, California good, Arizona hot, Oceans movie funny, ping pong, and primary!
oh, and 42 days until I move to Idaho!!! :)

Yesterday I was...

Today I am...

In 42 days I will be...

Sunburns in San Diego

I think it is pretty obvious what this blog is going to be about. Dang Sun! haha!

So once a year we come to Escondido, which is about a half hour away from San Diego, and we just hang out! It is so nice to get away from the Arizona heat! The temperature here is in the high 80's, where back home it was in the 110's.

Yesterday we went to the beach in San Diego, and it was such a great day! It was cloudy, and kina cold, but the beach was pretty empty. Around 12 it got a little more crowded, and the sun came out a little later too. We boogie boarded forever. Even my mom and dad got out there! It was so much fun!

Unfortuantly we all had too much fun, and, well, you saw the first picture. Dang Natalee didn't put ANY sunscreen on and she didn't get red at all. So annoying....

Last night we all went out to dinner at Marie Calenders, and we got some pie to take home, so it was a great day! Then we all just sat outside for a while and talked, which is awesome, because we can never just be outside in Arizona. So ya, so far this vacation has been so much fun! And it has only been 2 days! I'll be sure to tell ya what else we have been up to! Here's some more pics of our trip so far!

Davids Concert!!!

So if you didn't already know this about me, I'm kinda obsessed with David Archuleta! Like a lot! haha! So last night Keri and I got to go to our 2nd David Concert... and it was AMAZING!!!

So getting to the concert was a little stressful. My dad just bought me a new GPS though, so I got to use that for the first time and play with that! But there was a crash and it blocked 3 lanes of traffic, so we were moving VERY slowly, or just not moving...

Then Keri and I finally got there about 20 minutes before the doors opened. Once we got inside we used the bathroom, got some food, and then got our wristbands for the special Toyota club thing. Its exclusive for people who got tickets on there website or something, I'm not sure, but we waiting in there until the show started.. it was way cool!

Then we decided really quickly to go get some dippin dots and t-shirts! But unfortunately it wasn't as quickly as we wanted, and we completely missed the first band, KSM. Which I was really bummed about, because I really wanted to see them. But then I realized that I bought the tickets to see David and Demi, so I couldn't be all that sad. Once we got our T-Shirts and sat down, it was like 2 minutes til David started... and oh my was this amazing!!!

He sang a total of 10 songs, and they were all just as good as the next. I got a lot of videos, but it was hard, because I was holding the camera above my head while I was watching him, and then I wasn't watching the camera, so they didn't turn out great, but the sound is really good! Unfortunately, I was taping like every other song because I didn't have that much room on my memory card, and during his song A Little Too Not Over You, he came on our side of the stage and the lights were behind him and hit us, and Keri and I waved, and he totally laughed and waved back! We knew it was to us because the people next to us were sitting down, and the people in front of us were gone (they went closer to the stage). So it was about the greatest 2 seconds of my life, and I didn't get it on camera. :( But I did get others!

This was in the very beginning!!!

This was during You Can! (FAVORITE LOVE SONG EVER!)

This was seriously how close he was, we were in row 15, and he came out and was like... RIGHT THERE!!! I loved it!!!

And then before I knew it, He was done. He sang Zero Gravity, which was AMAZING live, and then he sang Crush (also AMAZING), and then he walked off the stage. Sad Sad time.

Then there was a 20 minute break, and DEMI LOVATO came on! For those of you who don't know her, she was on Camp Rock, and I have liked her ever since that. She also has her own show Sonny With A Chance, which Keri and I DVR and watch ALL the time! So it was pretty exciting seeing her too!

Her outfit looks yellow, but it was more of a bright lime greenish color, and it was so cute! And her necklace and bracelet, which you can't really see in any pictures, were so cool!!!

This was when she asked for someone from the audience who knew all the words for This is Me from Camp Rock, and this little girl got up there and rocked. She was so good, and so cute, she just followed Demi around the stage and held peoples hands and sang her little heart out! So Cute!!!

So basically it was amazing! I have tons of video but Blogger take FOREVER loading videos, and I'm sure you guys would all get bored watching them anyway! But ya, that was my night! I have been waiting for it since March 16 (the last time I saw him live) and I can't wait to see him again!!!

Wicked!

Crazy, this is my 3rd post in 2 days! haha. But I just had to write about Wicked!!!

My dad came to me in the beginning of the year and he said "oh man you are spoiled!" I was like, excuse me, what do you mean by that? And he told us about the tickets he got for us to go see Wicked and how we got like super good seats! I was so excited! I had never seen it but I always wanted to!

So we got to the theater about an hour before it started, and while we were in line to buy T-Shirts, my mom grabbed me and told me to look at this guy, in the bright blue shirt. Okay mom, I will look at this random guy, and it was Cory Mccloskey! He is the weather man on Fox10's morning news! Me and my mom love him! haha! This is a picture of him! haha

Anyway, then the doors open and we find our seats. They were in the 11th row and more on the left side, kind of like 3/4 of the way of the row to the left, if that makes since! haha. Point is, they were really good! And the people in front of me were not really tall so I could see! I loved it!

Glinda the good was the funniest actress in the whole world. The two girls, Glinda and the Wicked Witch were actually played by understudys today, but that didn't really matter to me, I just thought it was interesting that the 2 main stars were both out today. But the other actresses did AMAZING! Glinda was hillarious, I want to be just like her!

Anyway, I loved that show, and I am totally going to see it again next time I get a chance! I love that show! My mom actually found the Wizard of Oz is on TV tonight, so we are going to DVR it and watch it tomorrow so we can see all the things that go together! haha! Can't wait!

Funny Anika Videos!

Anika LOVES dancing with her aunts. I would get down on my knees to be her size to dance with her and she would get sad and say... Tand Up! (She's not very good at saying the S sound in front of words!) So I would "tand up" and hold her hands and dance! That is probably going to be the best memory of mine with her is dancing! We have been doing it since she was a couple months old. :)

So this is a video of Anika saying the funniest word EVER! The word is Tabernacle, but if you ask Anika to say that, it comes out... Tagamcle!!! Every time Angell and Sean pulled out the easy to read bible, she would say it, and not just say it, she would yell it! Then of course Keri and I would randomly be like... ANIKA, say Tabernacle... and she would! It was so adorable!

And here are just some more funny pictures of my funny two year old niece!!!