A Fairly Fabulous Day

Once upon a time there lived a girl.  This girl loved to dance.  But this girl was sad.  Every time she saw a invitation to a dance she would get dressed up in her prettiest dress and put on her magical dancing shoes in hopes of a fabulous night full of dancing.  But much to her chagrin all the dances held in the kingdom were not dances that she liked.  She was fond of the old school dancing that she read of in books and heard tale of from the ancients.  The dances held in the Kingdom of the Salt Lake were new dances that bumped and grinded, not the kind of dance that would let her be swept of her feet by a handsome prince.  Then one day her friend told her of a magical dance being held in a distant land of Ogden.  This was a dance like no other, where everyone would dress up from days gone by and dance the mythical 'swing dance.'  She was so excited!  But what would she wear?  She didn't have any clothes from yesteryear.  But...

We partied like we were in Redneckville on the 24th! Kenzie and Julio showing off all their hard work. Knives are toothpick too.  All dressed up for the party. Charlie's Reindeer Our version of Caroling The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Red carpet ready The Redneck Snowmen Family Picture Time We always have fun at our parties on the 24th of December.  I think this was the first year that I actually got a white elephant I will use.  I ended up with a bottle of chia seeds!  They are so great to cook with.  Ali on the other had ended up with the world's largest pair of underwear, which was promptly stolen from her from my brother.  He is so silly, it was his wife's white elephant gift!  But I guess he couldn't part with them.   We had a great time!  I am now starting to plan for next year.  I'm think the theme will be retro 50's Christmas.

We've had a great Christmas season so far that included:  Caroling Christmas parties karaoke egg nog Christmas Carol at Pioneer Theatre Company candy making Mistletoe kissing Dancing Santa Hats (see video below) http://youtu.be/jUfN70Il1xM White elephant gifts hot coco dancing Zoo Lights pole recitals The Muppet Christmas Carol (my favorite Christmas movie!!!) and general merry making Merry Christmas to You and Yours!!!!

I had some new head-shots taken about a month ago through my summer theatre camp that I teach at.  I'm not sure how I feel about them.  The first one is the one that I received back as my headshot, the one the photographer had chosen.  The second one is the one I think I like best.  Porter told me the first one is fine, but I just am not a fan.  Am I crazy?  I just don't like it, but I like the second one that I found on the CD of all the pictures he took.   Ugh, the life selling yourself, the life of an actor, it stresses me out sometimes.

 This post is a little late, but better late than never right?!  Well, back in July we went up to Bear Lake for our annual Grandma Bea Family Reunion.  I absolutely adore spending time with Porters family.  They are awesome!  This is his mom's side of the family.  I actually helped plan this reunion.  Usually we go to Cherry Hill, which is fine, but there really isn't alot for us older 'kids' to do there other than watch the little kids having all the fun.  So at our Easter Party I threw out the idea of Bear Lake and everyone was totally into it, hooray!   We stayed at the KOA campground, so basically luxury camping, except for we chose the one weekend that it rained every single day!  We had bought a new tent and boy did we get a chance to break it in.  We also had a jumping contest to see who could jump the highest.  I love that almost all of Porter's cousin's are around the same age, it makes gatherings really fun. ...

True Story

In my previous post, I told you all about my brother getting married.  Well, for their wedding present I did all their engagements and bridals/formals, and then I made them this cool photo book with all their pictures.  I thought I would show you some of my favorite shots.  We took these up at the Bountiful Temple about two weeks before the wedding.  We were there in the evening so I got some great sunset shots.  Enjoy!