It's All Over

For the past three months I have had such a busy schedule with rehearsals and then performances for Beauty and the Beast almost every night. On top of that I was a taking a math class, which kept me busy with lots of homework and tests. I hardly had any free time. But Saturday was our last performance and I just took my final today! The problem is now I have a little too much free time on my hands. I am just not sure what to do. . . I haven't had this much free time for over a year because of school and wedding plans during the breaks. So to get the most out of this lucky extra time that I have I made a list of things to do before school.

1. Read lots of books!

(I'm reading the Luxe Series right now and I am almost done with The Luxe, so if any of you have Rumors and would be willing to let me borrow it I would much appreciate it! Also if any of you have some good reads, let me know too!)

2. Sew my skirt that I have been dying to make and lots of other things to come my way

3. Go to Lake Powell-- I have been waiting all summer for this trip!

4. Finally cook fully home made dinners (If you have any good reciepes, let me know)

5. Finish a baby blanket that I bought almost a year ago to make

6. Plan fun get togethers with friends

As sad as I am to not be involves with Beauty and The Beast anymore, I am so glad (Mckell is too) that I have more time to spend with family and friends! Thanks to my wonderful husband who let me give a ton of my time to the show! I couldn't have done it without his support!

Photo Shoot

Last night, our brother-in-law's brother, Cam, took some pictures of Mckell for his picture portfolio and they turn out awesome! He was amazing, both the photographer and Mckell! The pictures turned out so cool! We weren't able to stay out there too long because of the weather, but because of this we got some crazy cool pictures. He looks like a lightning bolt in the sky. My husband is such a talented rider, I could never get the guts to even ride his motor bike by myself, let alone with him on it with me! I love watching him ride, as he would say, "He's got style!" I love him so much, but here are some of the pictures from the shoot!

I even got to help the photographer! I was helping him test the lights while I ate a delicious cookie!

I am Unique!

So I found this link to see how popular your name is... give me a break, I was bored at work. And this is what I found out!


Click Here to check your own name

Officially Unemployed

As of May 16, 2009 I am no longer an employee of the most magical place on earth, Disney World. In January 2007, I moved out to Florida to live my dream of working for Disney. I lived out there for eight months and was a character performer in the parades and in the parks. I worked for so many different characters, it was so fun to get to know them and make kids dreams come true when they get to meet their favorite character. After those eight months, we have a year to go back and work again for us to keep our employee status, and that is exactly what I did. My friend I met out there, Ambree and I went to visit last May and worked my last shift at Disney World. I needed to go back out there and work this May to keep this status of employee and keep the benefits(one of them being free Disneyland passes) But as much as I wanted to go out there and work, I knew it wouldn't happen. Sadly I have to move on from that section of my life but luckily I made some great friends which makes the loss a little easier. I hope you all Have a Magical Day!

Softball Games

Mckell has been playing on our friend's companies softball team! He is a very talented softball player, especially for never playing in his life! I love going to the games and I have made a lot of good friends. They may be a few years younger then me but we always have fun when we are watching the team play! One day I let them take pictures with my camera and this is what I got! Enjoy! Thanks for letting me play with your girls! They are so cute!

Congrats Keater!

My littlest brother Keaton graduated from 6th grade las week!! He is such an awesome little kid! He is the youngest of six and he does get picked on a ton but he is such a tough kid. He is one of the smartest, funniest, and hard working kids I know and Mckell has so much fun having him as a little brother to pick on. He was one of the kids to give a speech at the graduation, and although you could only understand half of it because he was talking too fast, it was really funny and very good. I was impressed with how talented of a writer he is. He wrote almost the whole talk by himself and it was really good! We love you Keaton and good luck in Junior High!

Andrew and "Yena's" Wedding

One of Mckell's best friend in high school, Andrew, got married last weekend to one of the sweetest girls out their, Jena. Their wedding was so beautiful! The temple had gorgeous weather and they looked so happy! We are so happy for them to join the married club, even though sometimes it felt like they were married for months when we would hang out with them. One of my favorite parts of the day was when the sealer kept calling Jena, Yena and even after Andrew corrected him, he still said Yena a couple times. It is even funnier because our friend Nikki always calls her Yena for fun and then when she was married it was still Yena! But Mckell's other best friend Ryan gave them this beautigul picture of himself dressed up like a cowboy because Andrew has always wanted to be a cowbot. He is apparently making it a tradition because we got this beautiful picture of Ryan at our wedding!!

Ryan's Present to Andrew

Ryan's Present to Mckell

April Snow Showers?

We live next to the mountains and in April we had a huge snow storm one night and I woke up to this! There was so much snow on our tree that it blocked our driveway, I couldn't get my car out of the driveway because this tree was blocking it! I had to shake the show off of the tree so it would lift just enough for me to get my car out. Good thing I have such a little car. By the end of the day, there was hardly any snow left on the yard. This was such a wierd week for weather:)

St. George Vacay!

For UVU's Spring Break, my sister and Jessica wanted to plan a fun vacation for us and our husbands. We were debating on going on a small cruise or just going down to McKell's Parent's house in St. George. Since Mckell and Paul have never been on a cruise before we decided to wait on that and plan a trip to go on a longer cruise later on, but who knows when that will be. So we went to St. George, and it was so much fun! We went down on a Wednesday night and stayed until Sunday. It was the perfect vacation, we spent zero time working on homework and all time playing. We went down to Vegas on Thursday for Paul's first trip there. It was really funny to see his reaction to Vegas, it was nothing like he expected it to be. We ate at The Cheesecake Factory and Bahama Breeze, which I highly recommend if haven't been to either. Get the ribs at Bahama Breeze of you go there. On Friday, McKell's dad needed to get his pilot hours in so his parents flew down to the house and took us out to lunch. Then the boys went shopping and the girls went shopping. We were also the chaperone to Mckell's little sister McKenzie and her friends while they went to the Baseball Sunshine tournament. It was a full weekend but it was so much fun! Before Mckell's parents left, his dad took us up in the plane for Jessica's and I first time in a small plane. It was an experience, it was kinda shaky and you could feel every bump. Paul wussed out and stayed at the house and took a nap. Between all of this, we managed to go swimming, see two movies, go to Wal-Mart at Midnight for the release of Twilight(just the girls went to this, we couldn't convince our husbands to come), and even find a bowl to float chex mix in the hot tub(probably Mckell's favorite thing)

Rascal Flatts

Mckell and I love love love Rascal Flatts! We think they are the greatest band on the planet! Our love basically started when we met. We first met in our Institute class, Mckell and I had a chance to become really good friends, after class he would always drive me to my class on the other side of campus and we would listent to Rascal Flatts. Well one days he said that he had Rascall Flatts tickets and he wondered if I would want to go with him, well I had already been asked by my "boyfriend" at the time so I said that I was already going. For the next few days he would ask me if I had told this boy that I was going with someone else but I wouldn't give. He soon gave up and asked someone else, but we were both excited to go to the concert. Well the week of theconcert rolled around and I broke up with my boyfriend and ended up not going to the concert at all, but did end up with a much better boyfriend/husband! Anyways Mckell said he would make it up to me and he did! In July 2008, He took me to Cheyenne, Whyoming for the frontier days to see Taylor Swift and Rascal Flatts! Our two very favorite country singers! We had a blast and when we heard the Rascal was coming again in February, we wanted to go so bad but our married budget would allow us. We were both sad but we got over it. Well the day of the concert came around and I get this phone call from Mckell's best friend, Ryan, who said he had two extra tickets to Rascal and wondered if we wanted to go! I said of course and called Mckell to tell him the good news, which was kinda bad news because he had to miss his class that night, but he was quickly over that! We got our cowboy gear on and drove up to the concert and had so much fun! Not to mention Jessica Simpson opened.Yay for Rascal Flatts!