My Birthday Bash

Brandi proud of herself for lighting all 29 (yes, 29) candles on my cake.

Me waiting to blow out the cake.

Steady!

Woah! That is a lot of candles!

What a beautiful cake! Way to go Adele!

Make a wish! It was a great party. :o) Thanks everyone!

Sandiegopalooza!

This trip was a blast! There were so many people and we had so much fun. Especially Sunday night when we played Rook for five hours estraight. That bunch sure knew how to crack me up. And I don't know about you but I hate wrinkled clothes and so I brought a little secret along to solve the problem. Well my friend Karlie and I thought that it was so funny that we were both thought to bring travel size Downey Wrinkle Release we took some demonstration pictures.

I'm going to have to charge Downey to use this one :o)

It works!

Ah...The beach!

Karlie & Me

What a view!

My friend Karlie & I at Solona beach

My BFF Stephanie Zundel and I (Love ya girl!)

My Singing Telegram

My friend Derek who played Chuck in Footloose this summer sent me this singing telegram for my birthday. It made me laugh SO hard. Friends are awesome.

Happy Birthday to Me!

This weekend is my birthday and since it conveniently falls on Labor Day weekend I'm off to San Diego to hang out with one of my best friends Stephanie Zundel. She rents a beach house every year there and gets a bunch of people together to share the cost. The house sleeps 22 and I imagine it will be a pretty good time. She tried to get me to go last year but I couldn't but this year I decided it would be a birthday present to myself! Here are some pictures of where we are staying. CA here I come!!!!

Way back!

While I was waiting for calls to come in at work today I visted the music website for the university where I got my undergraduate degree and found these fun pictures. I guess they've been pretty busy up there because these were taken almost two years ago and are still on their homepage.

USU Chamber Singers Spring 2006

USU University Chorale Fall 2004

More Footloose!

Here is a video from the show last weekend. It is the opening number of the show. The choreography is really fun and I come in atthe end of it. Enjoy!

Not much to post

Hey Everyone...Sorry I haven't posted much lately. Not too much knew has been going on. I've been staying really busy doing "Footloose" this summer and it has been a blast! Thank you to everyone who has come out to see the show. Your support means a lot. We just finished our 14th show on Saturday and have 8 more to go. It's gone by so fast and I'm not tired of doing it yet. I guess I'm in the right profession! Next Monday I will be auditioning for their next show called "Lucky Stiff". I'll let you know how it goes. Here are a couple of shots from the show. I'm not in a lot of them becuase they are photos that some of the kid's parents took. I'll have more later.

Our First Sunday in Bomont

"I Need a Hero!"

Hero

"I'm Free" (The gym scene)

"Dancing is Not a Crime" (Town Council Scene)

Town Council

"Footloose" (The Dance)

Finale

What a show!

This is Lauren, she plays one of the dancers and does lots of cool flips and stuff, Everyone always thinks I'm her in the show so we decided to take a picture to see if we looked alike. I guess from far away we probably do. :o)

Scary!!

Yesterday we had our first big rain of the monsoon season. And during monsoon season when it rains it POURS!!! It rained really hard for well over an hour yesterday in most parts of the valley but Tempe got hit the worst. I left work at 5:00 pm and did not get to the theater until 7:05 and the show started at 7:30. Fortunately half the cast was stuck in traffic so I wasn't the only one late. I don't know how we did it but we started the show only 4 minutes late. But needless to say I was panicking the whole time I was in traffic. There was flooding everywhere. Below are some pictures of a neighborhood street I was on trying to avoid stop lights that were out and other flooded roads. The street looked fine but when I got near the intersection where I needed to turn onto the main road all of a sudden the water started rushing down the street and there was no escape but to wait in it to get out. It was SCARY. Then after sitting in the water for almost five minutes my brakes were soaked and didn't work right. I had to go really slow until they dried out a little. It was pretty stressful. Even the freeway was flooded in spots. I'm pretty sure this is just the beginning of the rains to come. They usually last well into August. But...since I live in the desert I can't complain when we get a little rain!

When I first came up the street it wasn't so bad

Then all of a sudden the water started rushing down the
street and this is what it looked like out my window.

This is another view out my window after I'd been sitting in the same spot for a while. As you can see the residents of this house had to be getting nervous. Every time someone went past water would almost splash up to my window. I was glad to finally get out of there, it was scary!

Twins Jumping

I went back to Utah this past weekend to help Shelley and Cason move into their new house. By the time I got there they were pretty much moved in but I got to play with my nieces a lot so my sister could run errands and we also unpacked some boxes and rearranged some furniture. It was a nice trip. I only got to see my nephew twice but he is SOOO cute. I didn't take any pictures but I did take this video of the twins jumping on their bed. Jocelynn is a hoot!

My Trip to Utah

A couple of weeks ago I went to Utah to visit my family and celebrate my Mom's 50th birthday. It was a a short but fun trip. I sure love my nieces and newphews!

My color green

You Are Apple Green

You are almost super-humanly upbeat. You have a very positive energy that surrounds you. And while you are happy go lucky, you're also charmingly assertive. You get what you want, even if you have to persuade those against you to see things your way. Reflective and thoughtful, you know yourself well - and you know that you want out of life.

What Color Green Are You?

So dumb it's funny!

This video cracked me up when I watched...probably because it's SO true still for a lot of women today. Enjoy!

Utah

I am sitting in the airport right now waiting for my plane to Utah. My family is getting together to celebrate my Mom's 50th birthday and my nephew's 1st birthday. I am SO excited to see my cute nieces and nephew. I've missed them SO much!

Footloose Rehearsals

Here are some fun pictures from rehearsla this week. It's hard to believe that we open in two weeks! I feel like everthing is still so unorganized...but I know it will all come together in the end. Enjoy!

During the duet "Learning to be Silent" with the reverand's wife

The kids during the opening number "Footloose"

Me and Jen waiting to go on for the final scene

Our little dance during the final scene of the show

"Learning to be Silent"