Maestro Sarah

Well, I think I have a musician on my hands! What do you think? She loves to play, flip the pages, and then play some more. This alone will entertain Sarah for hours.

Another Request

Well, another literary agent requested my manuscript. So, right now I am on cloud nine!! Hopefully this one pans out! Of course, I have the long awaited weeks on end before I hear back from them. So, everyone pray for me!!! PLEASE! I want my book published!

Drinking and Driving

Here is Sarah on her 4-wheeler she got from Nana and Bompa. Isn't she cute! I hope this isn't any indication of future driving skills! Sarah is doing well and growing too fast! She is already past 1/2 my height. I guess the pediatrician was right when he said she'd probably be 6'3" when she's full grown. Wow, my little baby is going to be taller than me!!!

Sarah is saying so many words now! I can't even count them. She is learning her shapes and colors as well. She likes to say green, which comes out "greh-n". She also says pink which comes out "peh-nk". Her vocabulary is so cute!!!

Here are a few more pictures from the Stake Musical as well. This is Andrew, aka "Frank" in the show. He is the protagonist. In this picture he is disguised as a gypsy trying to get information out of Cruella, the beautician witch (Sis. Virgin - The Stake Pres. wife!!). Andrew had a hard time keeping his face straight singing mean words to the Stake Pres. wife, she she had to put a wig on to distract him. This is the funniest scene in the entire show!

The rehearsals are going great. I wish we'd have more time, but beggars can't be choosers. I am just glad to be doing the show. Next years is already written, I'm just changing lyrics and such to make it church appropriate.

Reminising

I was reminiscing today about old shows I'd been in. The Pajama Game was one of my all time favorite musicals to be in. It was at Rodger's Memorial Theater in Centerville, UT in October of 2006. I was "Mary". Here are some pictures of me. If you can't pick me out, I am the one on the "Olive Oil" dress.

Here are some pictures of my good friend Jonathon Crittenden. He is a wonderful singer, actor, and dancer! He was "Hinsie" in the show. It was fun doing the show with him and so many other wonderful people.

Baby Daisy

My mother-in-law has a little cocka-poo dog who is whitish-yellowish in color and a little toy dog. His coloring is pretty similar to Daisy's coloring on her back. When Buster sees Sarah, he gets a little scared and runs and hides under Great-Grandma Opal's arms or feet. Sarah went to Grandma Resch's the other day and saw Buster, whom she normally calls "Daisy", looked at him and said, "Baby Daisy". So, now in her mind Buster is "Baby Daisy". It is so cute!!

Superbowl was fun. We had Jordan's family come over and Karina (Anna's friend). We had brauts, which Jordan bought spicy ones!!, chips, poppers, hamburgers, and the list continues. It was a good game too! I'm surprised I sat down and watched some of it. Normally I just watch commercials.

I had to sub in nursery again, so Sarah and I stayed the entire time at church (till 4 pm which makes her miss nap time). We got home and quickly laid Sarah down for a nap. She slept from 4:15-6:30 when I woke her up. I wanted her to go to bed at the same time as normal, 8pm, so I felt bad waking her up, but I didn't want to stay up late or wake up at 4am cause she was awake. Anyway, so Sarah enjoyed the snacks and a hamburger and spending time with Grandma Resch who read book after book to her while watching the game.

Rehearsals were great. I am excited for the show!! Only 7 more weeks and the show begins!

Jazz Game Suite

So, last night was Jordan's work banquet. It was really nice. We stayed the night at the Little America Hotel downtown (can I say the commute to work was great?! Only 7 minutes and I was there!!). The dinner was wonderful and it only lasted a little over an hour. Jolene, Jordan's boss, gave us some Jazz tickets that were comp-ed to her from the Coca-Cola vendor. So, we decided to jump on trax and go to the game since it was only an hour in. We got there and were told to head up to the Suites. Wow!! We got there and there was food galore! (We were already full from the banquet), sodas, juice, waters, etc. And, we had really neat seats! We came at half time, so we caught the later part of the game. The Jazz lost to the Spurs by 3 points, but it was still an exciting fun game. I hope we can go back to the Suite sometime!

Stake Musical

Well, the Stake Musical is going great! For those of you who've forgotten, or are new to my blog, I wrote the show. I am also the director, my sister-in-law Anna is the music director, and we have two sister's in my stake who are professional choreographers who are doing the show.

We started choreography last Saturday and let me tell you it was so neat!!! Everyone is so excited for the show and are having a blast! I can't wait till we put the entire show together. Here are some pictures of what has been happening so far:

This was our first cast read through and these are our leads sitting at the front of the auditorium.

Here is Anna leading the music. You go girl! It's not easy teaching 70 people how to sing!

This is our Lucy, the low self esteem, nerdy lead who changes who she is to be accepted. Come and see the show and you'll know what I mean.

Here are Sevil, Lucy, and Levil. Sevil and Levil are trying to convince Lucy to see the beautician witch to change her into someone acceptable and popular. These two evil characters are a hoot!

Here are Lucy and Gaston, who was given a love potion to make Lucy believe he was in love with her and changing herself made her popular and "everything" she wanted to be.

Here is a video of some of the blocking and dancing. It isn't too long, so enjoy! Remember, this is really rough right now and we're all learning. All of this was taught on Saturday.