Happy Birthday Boppie!

My baby brother turned 19 today! Can you believe it?! I remember the day he was born. My Grandma Smithee came out to spend some time with us and she took us to a movie that night. All I Want For Christmas. Its a pretty good movie. I especially like how the boy gets into his dad's diner at night and makes the girl he likes and his little sister amazing burgers. ha, its funny what you remember, and then at the end of the movie a lady has a baby. It all wraps up nicely. Shortly after the movie my dad came home and told us that my mom had had the baby and the it was a BOY! I immediately ran into my room and cried. I don't really know why exactly but I was happy. The next day we went and met Adam Joshua and we got to take blue bubble gum cigars to school with stickers that said, "Its a BOY!" on them. It was pretty exciting. I sure loved that little stinker and I still do. Im so grateful that I get to spend a semester at BYU with him and take a class with him AND work with him. Its really been a slice of heaven.

So, Here are a few pictures of Adam and I doing what we do.

I stole these car pictures from my parents camera. Adam went to some museum or something with his Priest's Quarom.

The next few pictures are of Adam and I on our camping trip. I blogged about it a while back but here are some of the pictures. It was so fun. He randomly asked me if I wanted to go camping with him. I told him uh sure if you plan it all and take care of it, we can go right after I come home from work. He did too. He had the suburban packed and our gear all loaded and even made up tinfoil dinners and brought smores stuff. We couldn't find a camping spot so we just picked a little meadow off the side of the road. That night we read Calvin and Hobbes comics and I showed him the star constellations I knew. It is one of my favorite memories with my brother.







This Sunday,Adam let me do his hair, and I put some palm aid in it and swirled the end like a Cupie Doll. He even wore it to church like that! It was awesome!

PROM. or maybe Homecoming with Becca. I like Becca. What a little stud!
I can't remember what he was doing to my mom but it was hilarious.
We both had braces....it was my second time.
1st Day of School. Senior year of High School.
A close up of the Cupie Doll hair!
Adam in our puppet class we are taking together. We are making marionettes!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY POPS!

I sure love you! More than words can wield the matter, dearer than eyesight, space, liberty, beyond all things rich or rare!

Sometimes you just have to go for it.

When I was little I would walk to school with my sisters. Most of the way there were sidewalks and I would always jump over the cracks so I wouldn't break my mother's back, and then I would make a wish! I would wish for all kinds of things, but more often than not I would wish that I could have black hair like my dad. I didn't not like my head of tow hair but I just wanted to be like my dad. I forgot that wish for a while and kept my hair naturally blonde and highlighted it lighter throughout the years then for my whole adult life I have wondered what I would look like with darker hair.
Sometimes you just gotta get things out of your system. I finally dyed my hair! BROWN, yup my childhood wish came true! Well a shade or two lighter. What do you think?

Add a little Zest to your Life!

When I hear the word Zest, I think 2 things.

First I think of the zest or peel of a citrus fruit, and how I don’t have a zester but that I really want one, because I really like lemons in the things that I cook, like REALLY I LIKE LEMONS and come to think of it I may like LIMES even better!

Second I think about the old commercial Jingle from my childhood.

♪ You’re not fully clean, unless you’re Zestfully clean! ♪

I still sing that to myself occasionally while I’m in the shower. Not that I use Zest soap, I actually use Lever 2000, their new aloe kind, but that jingle is just so dang catchy!

I google imaged Zest and this is what it came up with.

http://eziserv.com/imgs/ASDA_Zest_ISDS.jpg

Isn’t that crazy?! I guess it is pretty green though. Maybe we should get on board with the UK.

Next I went to dictionary.com and looked up Zest. Here is the result:

zest

–noun

1.	keen relish; hearty enjoyment; gusto.

2.	an agreeable or piquant flavor imparted to something.

3.	anything added to impart flavor, enhance one's appreciation, etc.

4.	piquancy; interest; charm.

5.	liveliness or energy; animating spirit.

6.	the peel, esp. the thin outer peel, of a citrus fruit used for flavoring: lemon zest.

–verb (used with object)

7.	to give zest, relish, or piquancy to.

The last random note about me is that one of my Favorite drinks is
Rootbeer with a lemon wedge in it. LOVE it.
It's my signature drink. Try it! You will love it!

Now go out and find what gives YOU a ZEST for LIFE!

Decisions Decisions Decisions

SOOOO..................

For Halloween, I dyed my hair black. Don't worry. It was only temporary spray in black hair dye. Here are a few pictures for you to see! So, I may have fallen asleep for a bit and that hair dye is all over my face. I look like Mary Poppins when she chimney sweeps with Burt.






Speaking of dark hair...I am getting my hair dyed tomorrow and I am thinking about going dark brown with some red undertones....


What do you think? BLONDE or BROWN? Please give me your opinions!

Life: and Dracula

This is a life update I gave one of my friends on FB but I thought you all might be interested while I finish my other HUGE update posts.

1. i miss you. (my friend liz, and all of you guys who used to comment. i know ive let you down lately :) )
2. i have updated my blog, kind of.
3. i am working on a monster post, just for YOU.
3. i am back in Provo going to school.
4. i left my contract in st. george early. it wasn't working out.
5. i live on 900 east close to my last place with no one i knew but now i know them.
6. i pushed back graduation till April 2011 due to pell grant money and them not wanting to pay for my stats class that i have already failed unless i am a full time student.
7. i work at BYU-Info Still. ugh. but i am grateful.
8. i am just a part time student this semester. Puppetry is my only class. ha! and! i am taking it with adam. my brother. its fun.
9. i am still busy with stage management. i was ASM for Homecoming Spectacular at BYU. now i am working on Dracula! its been fun. and then in a couple weeks i am doing the Nutcracker with the Utah Valley Regional Ballet for Christmas.
10. i am doing a month long detox which has been pretty cool.


Don't Forget to get your Tickets for Dracula! Opening Night was last night and it was awesome! Don't miss out!

Dracula: the perfect Halloween event!

If you are looking for something fun to do this Halloween this is the ultimate! Dracula is being performed 1930's radio style up at the castle theatre in Provo, Utah.
I am the Production Stage Manager for this event and I cannot wait for it to open Friday night!

Get your tickets now at www.mortalfools.org!

PERFORMANCE DATES:

• Friday, October 22nd @ 8:00 PM SOLD OUT
• Saturday, October 23rd @ 8:00 PM
• Monday, October 25th @ 8:00 PM
• Friday, October 29th @ 8:00 PM
• Saturday, October 30th @ 10:00 PM
• Saturday, October 30th @ MIDNIGHT

Get Tickets Now Before they are SOLD OUT for the night you want!

The cast is Amazing! Vocal talents include: David Morgan, Barrett Ogden, Jake Suazo, Alexis Wardle Boss, Chris Kendrick, Annadee Morgan. We also have Cherie Julander and Jason Jensen on our SFX crew! and the extremely talented Dan Andersen tickling the ivories, wailing on the accordion and screeching dramatically on the violin! Not to mention it is all being directed by the brilliant Christopher Clark. Oh! and the whole thing is story boarded? By three different artists. Can I say AMAZING one more time? I think I just did. and you will too when you come to see it!


The setting is incredible! The Castle Theatre is nestled into the mountainside up above the State Mental Hospital. We are doing the show in the indoor upstairs theatre, it is actually the old kitchen. It is creepy! It is cold! (bring a jacket, blanket, a date, whatever keeps you warm) It is fantastic! and the perfect way to celebrate All Hallows Eve!

This may be one of my favorite things I have been involved with so please come and support live theater in your community and Mortal Fools!







ps. on a non dracula note, Liz, I am working on blog updates about my summer. I will hopefully have an installment up soon for ya!

Friday the 13th.

I haven't written on this blog in eons. Huh, eons. That is such a great word. You say it, out loud. EONS. nice. Well Today is Friday the 13th. I absolutely hate this day. I don't know why but whenever it comes around I just feel a little off. But this year I am trying to make it a good one. I have so much to catch up on blog wise, like moving to st. george to do an internship with the Tuacahn and that whole experience, meeting a certain someone and almost falling in love only to have it just not work out and that whole experience, decided that I was finally done with my internship and all the not so great things about it and putting in my two weeks notice, training my replacement, registering for classes, getting into a few new projects I am excited to start, Homecoming Spectacular! and calling up my favorite job I have ever had and getting rehired! This is a big shout out to BYU INFO!!! I am so excited to come back 'home'. Even better that my little brother, Adam, is starting training there on Monday! Way to keep things in the family Info! You wont be sorry with that one!

So today I decided to blog using a photo from the sixth folder and 13th picture in that folder for friday the 13th and wow, look what it is! A picture of INFO! Just wanted to say hi everyone and I am coming back! That is one thing I really am excited about! Woot Woot!