This weekend and last weekend, I was able to go to a variety of shows and events that were very inspirational. Last Friday I started the inspiration off by going to Disney on Ice! I went with all of the girls in my family as well as Mckell's family. I was so inspired that I started crying when it first started... Tinkerbell flying out with the Disney songs playing was so magical!
Then on Saturday we were supposed to go to New Moon because we had special passes a week before! We got to the theater and there was no one there... turns out that we weren't as special as we thought and we had to wait until next Saturday. Since we had driven up to Thanksgiving Point Theater we didn't want to make a waste of the drive, so we saw This Is It! Michael Jackson movie. It was really interesting to see him working and how normal/strange he really was. There was this song in it that talked about making the world a better place (not Heal the World song- that one wasn't in the movie to my disappointment) but it made me want to save the rainforests! Again inspirational.
This past weekend we started off with going to Savior of The World at the conference center in Salt Lake. Such an awesome performance! It was really interesting to see how Mary and Joseph felt when they found out they were betrothed and when Mary was pregnant. If you have never seen it before, take a night and go see how inspirational it was! Don't worry, I cried in this one too!
It finally was Saturday and was time to see NEW MOON! I had a very eye openeing experience. I usually cheer for Team Edward. But the more I sat there and watched Jacob with his shirt off for 3/4 of the movie, the more I switched to Team Jacob. The final turn was when Edward took his shirt off and I threw up a little bit in my mouth. (I'm sorry Robert but you should've known to wax your chest before showing it to a bajillion girls.) After the switch to Team Jacob, there was a lot m ore inspiration in the watching of this movie!
Saturday night, I had my mentor Holiday Party. The theme was an ugly sweater contest and I decided to dress mine up a bit with some hair bows. I was very inspired by the sweaters that I saw. I also found out that I love white elephant parties. I want everyone's junk and randomness! We gave a bucket of already popped popcorn and the making to Ryan Cabrerra's music video as well as some pillow shams. Both were a huge hit! We came home with some treaures of our own - an m&m teapot and a cute Thanksgiving turkey. I love Mckell's sweater on him - It is actually my mothers :)
Finally, Saturday night we went and saw The Blind Side. I am in love with this movie! I walked out not feeling like I want to punch someone like some of the movies I have previously seen, but that I want to take every homeless person home with me. I would recommend putting this movie on top of your movies I've got to see list.
Over all you can see how Inspirational my life has been lately and I know that with the Holidays coming up, it is going to become more and more inspiring so look out for really long posts!
Now with 12 papers out of the way, I only have 3 more to write, 2 presentations to give and only 3 more days left of school before Christmas break! I have been looking forward to December 18th since about October 18th and it is finally here(almost!) Now I don't have to stay up until 1:00am doing homework, I get to play Wii instead! I am lucky enough to only have presentations for my finals, I guess working by bum off the past two weeks really does have its rewards! This weekend I was so excited to have time that I get to choose what I get to do instead of teachers giving me homework assignments that take up all of my time, so I decided that I would spend the time baking! I love to cook, even though I don't do it as much as I should, but I still love to do it, especially cooking desserts! Friday I spent all day in the kitchen making cookies for my annual family Christmas cookie exchange! It was so much fun! We ate some delicious Cafe Rio and then got to take home a huge box full of cookies and recipes!
The cookies I made are the ones on the right. They are a white chocolate cherry cookie and not to brag or anything, but they were delicious!! I found the recipe here and this is the recipe I am going to use to make chocolate chip cookies from now on! I changed the recipe a little after reading the reviews and added another 1/2 stick of butter, you can never go wrong with more butter right?
