The Hunger Games

Read The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.

Do it. And soon.

Trust me.

I just saw the movie preview for New Moon...

Hot.

Motherhood is a Wondrous Juggling Act

Motherhood IS juggling.

I've heard it said that motherhood is a juggling act. Then one day, I said on my own, "Hey! This is like juggling!", as if I was the first one to think of it.

I take care of one baby, throw them up in the air, hope they stay there long enough for me to take care of the other baby, then just when I'm done with one baby the other is down again, take care of them, throw them up in the air again. Will they come down too soon? And I'll have a crash? Can they ever just float up there in the air themselves, then I can brush my teeth? Maybe they could learn to fly? Then I'll have time to read a book on how to juggle? Don't even think about picking up the 'Me' ball. Oh, here's come another ball.

But I seriously LOVE being a mom. Motherhood is truly where one can learn JOY.

I can't even imagine not knowing THIS kind of happiness...

Get out your Cougar Blue

Football season is here again.
Woah, time flies.


(And lest I be labeled as a casual Cougar, I do need you to know that I DID have my Blue CougarGear T-shirt on right up until before this picture was taken.)

And my friends in this picture? NOT casual Cougars:

Look at my Dad. This is serious business: Noise reducing headphones so he can listen to Greg Rubell call the plays on KSL Radio, while watching the game, without any periphery distractions. Binoculars. Sunglasses and hat on his person. Properly snuck-into-the-stadium candy bars in his pockets (not pictured). Prepared just like an Eagle Scout Scoutmaster (3 times over) should be.

Curt. He knows all of the rankings before they are even announced, and duly texts one and all so we Cougars know where we stand. (Though Tim likes to look this information up for himself. Fingers tapping. Heart racing. He opens the ESPN College Football webpage like it's a Christmas present.)

Allison. She actually understands the dang game! And can discuss the plays with her husband!

My cousin Justin. He's total Cougar. He and his family bought my twin brothers, Clint and Corey, Fully Invested T-shirts, and sent them to to Italy and France so they were vested, even overseas.

Tim. In our budget, "Cougar Gear" for every member of our family is in the 'mandatory' spending category, and not the 'discretionary'. Tim and his dad watch the game live at the stadium, and then they go home and watch it again on DVR/VHS! Again! Just what they saw! (At least that's what the tradition has been all of Tim's life. And he LOVES it.) I guess I have to accept this since I watch my So You Think You Can Dance and Drill dances over and over and over. Oh yeah, let's not mention my Celine Dion DVDs. But they just bring me sheer JOY. Is this how Tim feels about his football?

And me. My blood runs blue. And the rivalry with the Utes is in my bones. Wait, my bone marrow. No, my bone marrow's marrow. I gotta have a win.

And those two guys standing in the back? Don't have any idea who they are.


Go Cougars!!
Win!!
And then let me have my Saturdays, and my husband, back.

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!

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.

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.