Thursday, September 3, 2009

So You Think You Can Dance Favorites List


I know you're not all dance people, but I have danced all my life and find good dancing and good choreography highly entertaining and invigorating.

So for all you dance lovers, please help me add to my lists! Cause lots of you are my dance people.


Here is my list of my favorite and most memorable So You Think You Can Dance routines.

Season 1:
(didn't watch this season)

Season 2:
Mia Michael's Bench (of course it's to Celine's "Calling You")

Season 3:
Lacey's Black Rumba? Hot.
Sabra's table dance

Season 4:
Bleeding Love
Tabitha and Napoleon's hip hop first week for Katie and Joshua
Katie and Will's Pas de Deux (seriously, why have they not replayed this? It was the BEST EVER.)
Mia Michael's Katie and Joshua running dance (ya know, she's running and he's carrying :) )
Sonya's The Garden, oh man, so rad
Mia Michael's bed dance (John Mayer) with Twitch and Kerrington (why have they not replayed this?)
Joshua and Katie's Baliwood (way better than Kaitlin and Jason's)


Season 5:

Mia Michael's addiction dance (Probably my all time favorite ever.)
Janette and Brandon's Burglar dance (Wade Robson)
Janette and Brandon's Cha Cha (LOVED THIS, hush hush hush hush)
Brandon and Janette's Argentine Tango
Mia Michael's girls finale routine
Tice Diorio's Breast Cancer dance
Stacey Tookey's Lyrical. Amazing.
Stacey Tookey's love affair dance. (Hate the medium, loved the dance)


My Favorite Utah High School Drill Routines (Come on, I know you remember the good ones!):

Brighton High School's 1998 Dance Routine (maybe 1997?)
Bingham High School's 1999 Military Routine
Brighton High 2006 Dance Routine
Hillcrest's 2006(?) Dance Routine (to Phil Collins), black dress costumes with rhinestones on necks
Bingham's Dance 2006
Hillcrest's Jumprope routine 1997
Bingham's Basketball routine 1999 and in 2000s sometime


Cougarettes dance to This Woman's Work by Janalynn Memmott 1998


Come on! Please remind me of what I've forgotten!

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Printing your blog?

So has anyone ever printed out their blog?

I've heard rumors that you can do that and I'd love to make this record more permanent.

Please tell me your successes with blog printing. How'd you do it? Do you like the finish product?

I need help.

Thanks.

Saturday, August 29, 2009

Previously Untapped Talents

Tim took these photos! Perhaps accidentally even. Hanging out at the park. Waiting for mom to stop gabbing.

We actually bought the camera for me, but maybe the camera will really be for Tim.

Here are the photos he took, untouched, unedited, totally raw.

I love them.

Tim's good! He's really good!

Funny thing is, Tim said he didn't even ask Trent to pose for them, he just started posing. Funny kid.












Thursday, August 20, 2009

Happy Anniversary Curt and Allison! You're one!



My brother Curt. My best friend for so long. One of the most amazing men to walk this planet. Amazing brother, Curt.

You've been married for a year to one of the most amazing women I've ever met. I doubted there was any one good enough. But...SHE IS.

Allison is really good on paper. Athletic, loves sports, scholarships paid her to go to college so she practically made money to go to school, graduated top of her class, honored by other universities she didn't even attend, graduated from BYU in nursing, served a mission to Brazil, speaks amazing Portugal without an accent, can play everyone else's board game including her own (this means she can almost always win since she's playing your game too!).

But in heart, she's equally or even more worthy of my amazing brother. Loves the Lord. Loves her family. Loves my family. Accepts my imperfections. Accepts my jealousies at times that she took my brother. Loves the Brazilians. Loves to learn.

Curt was the guy who made fun of all those people who got engaged quickly.

Pretty sure it hadn't been two weeks before he made this girl officially his with a proposal.

Now they've been married a year! (aka: Sorry it took a whole year to make this post!)

One year down and an eternity of happiness to come.

So glad Curt found you, Allison, and that you're ours forever.







Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Happy 75th Post

I am so in love with my friend's 200th post that I can't wait until a derivative of 100 to make a list myself. (She made a list of 200 things to say in her 200th post.)

Happy 75th.

1. I never thought I'd be a blogger.
2. I thought I could avoid it just like I thought I would avoid the DVD trend and save money by not converting all of my VHS's to DVDs.
3. I failed.
4. I'm glad.
5. My son says "a-may" all the time as a request. I have yet to figure out what a-may means.
6. He says it when he brings me something. He says it at the door as he holds the handle.
7. So far my only guess is he wants me to "open", but wow, that doesn't sound like a-may.
8. He is saying "a-may" repeatedly to me right now.
9. My son was pushing the screen door the other day and I asked him not to. I then requested he say "sorry" for doing that.
10. He said sorry, then gave the screen door a kiss.
11. All better.
12. Yesterday I told a friend my life was mundane.
13. I didn't mean mundane in the boring sense, just in the sense that it is routine and mostly free from drama.
14. I am over analyzing whether or not I should call her back today and clear up that I didn't mean my life was boring, since the word mundane has a negative connotation, or whether I should just let it lie since her reply will probably be, as is everyone's reply whenever I over analyze, "Oh. I didn't even remember you said that silly."
15. I over analyze a lot.
16. I love having a mundane/routine/simple life.
17. Did I just say simple? Isn't this whole blog about posting that I'm "in search of the simple life".
18. Yes I did type simple, delete it, type it again, delete it, then decide to let it lie.
19. Day one of my goal to stop over analyzing.
20. I wish my blog was 200.
21. Making a list is fun.
22. I feel guilty a lot.
23. I feel guilty I can't stare at my daughter all day long because I am trying to keep everyone showered and fed in this house.
24. I wonder if I will ever stop feeling guilty.
25. I really want to because I started wondering if I had slight postpartum depression last night.
26. I have been meaning to figure that out, but I've been too busy cleaning and feeding every one.
27. Ya know how sometimes you should just let yourself cry cause you just need to let out a good cry?
28. I'm still not good at that.
29. I'm afraid my list is getting too serious.
30. I am more in love with my car than I ever thought a person could ever be in love with their car.
31. I want to die still owning a Nissan Murano.
32. I can't believe I love a car that much.
33. My car has black carpet.
34. Black carpet is not good for people that don't like to feel that pestering feeling that they need to vacuum their car again. Over and over again.
35. I slept with my baby blanket for 26 years.
36. I did gift it to Tim, publicly, at our wedding dinner, and put a lock on it.
37. I gave Tim the key.
38. Couldn't sleep for five months.
39. I asked for the blanky back.
40. Tim reluctantly gave it back.
41. I slept with it soundly again until I became a mom.
42. I just couldn't sleep with my baby blanket now that I had a baby myself.
43. That's what it took.
44. It took a lot.
45. We have an air sanitizer in our house.
46. It goes off every four hours.
47. I wonder if it really does anything or if it just mentally blesses its owners with a sense of trying.
48. I wonder if it is worth the energy costs.
49. My father-in-law bought it for us.
50. He wanted us to have clean air to breathe in our houses.
51. I love that he wants that for us.
52. I hate that my microwave beeps continuously every minute when your food is done until you open the door.
53. I hate that our oven beeps once.
54. We have forgotten things in the oven because of this.
55. I hate it when my hair is wet.
56. I hate combing wet hair.
57. I hate waiting for my hair to dry.
58. I hate blow drying my hair.
59. I once was introduced to an amazing product called 5-minute manager.
60. It made your hair dry faster.
61. They took it off the market five years ago.
62. I have been saving my last application in its bottle for a day I am really in a crunch.
63. I have to constantly wonder, "Is this the day I am in a crunch enough to use my last 5-minute manager?"
64. It will probably still be in its bottle until I die.
65. Celine Dion is pregnant again.
66. I over analyzed about whether I should put that on my blog or not.
67. Done.
68. Done putting it on, and done analyzing.
69. Yes, I still want to be Celine's LDS missionary.
70. I feel a lot of pressure to make number 71-75 on this list really count.
71. I have been thinking about what to end with for too long.
72. This is messing up the synergy of the list.
73. Now there's just way too much pressure because I've used up half of the numbers thinking about what to end with.
74. Guess that's the end of my goal.
75. See #19.

Thanks for being our blogging friends! Happy 75th!

Monday, August 17, 2009

Father Indeed...

Need a Family Home Evening lesson for tonight? Watch this. Love this.

Tim and his dad actually know this family in the video and worked with the son in Special Needs Mutual.

(Thanks Mer. Couldn't have posted a youtube vid without you!)

The Blessing of a Baby



Ya know how some things can be so stressful and overwhelming to plan and prepare for, and yet they are suppose to be so simple and spiritual? Like weddings, missionary farewells, and baby blessings. Man, I wish I could pay to clone myself for these events so that one of me is the planner and one of me just gets to enjoy, cause I don't want to miss out on the planning either.

I prayed that I could be cloned in a sense, or that I could still focus on the spirituality of Hadley's baby blessing day and not just think about if we had enough pork in the crockpot.

I was blessed. It was really such a beautiful and wonderful day. Tim's blessing for Hadley was....simply...wonderful. Testimony meeting was rewarding and filled my heart with joy and gratitude. I was even able to hear the testimonies of some of my friends from Venezuela, in English! I loved everything about this day.

Hadley was in the baby blessing dress that I wore as a baby. My mom made it for me! The lace is completely hand done. That's right, the lace! My mom is so talented and I loved imagining her making it for me when I was a newborn, spending so much time on the details and doing it with so much love, and now seeing her granddaughter in that dress too, how amazing. It is so beautiful. Hadley even wore the socks and shoes I wore. And the little flower in her hair was made my Tim's mom. I'm a sentimental woman.

This day was such a gift and made me feel even more sealed to our eternal daughter Hadley.