whoa #2

this blog was created to improve my horrible journal skills. 

this blog is turning out to be like all of my journals. Empty. 

Well as of late....

a. for school, working on the opera magic flute showing april 5-9. should be pretty interesting.  

b. made banana splits today.

c. taught relief society for the second time in my life.
d. it's my spring break this week. planning on sewing a couple jumpsuits.

e. my camera broke. sad.

can you believe it's march already? maybe i'll have a st. pat party with alison or something. 

whoa

january is almost over. crazy. i'm in an opera. photos will be posted...no worries. since i don't have any now, enjoy this video taken at the MoMA museum. 

the fans held up the filmstrips in the air. it was pretty cool.

december happenings

Connecticut/New York adventures

Juilliard school 

lincoln center

the metropolitan opera

the nyc temple (across the street from the met)

central park

walking to times square

so crowded

mj's sister and brother-in-law, tammy and nathan, were so nice to let me stay with them in new haven for the weekend. they are so great. they are the cutest family with their baby bri.

Christmas Concert in SLC

beautiful conference center. 

weird lighting in the basement parking lot
  

we stopped at in-n-out. that's what you gotta do when you go south of l-town. 

Satellite Clean-up

yes, that is a pillow connected to a pole with rubberbands.

fail. 

thanksgiving

lovielee.blogspot.com

concerts and half birthdays

yesterday was my half birthday. so i made a cake. i saw the cutest idea online about half birthday cakes. i wanted to make one similar to this:

i started making the cake and decided that purple icing would make it fun and exciting. {plus i love purple.} but instead of having a cute cake with purple icing my final product was this:

i made the icing too heavy for the fragile cake. fail. the fact that i added a 3rd tier didn't help either. fail. and the icing turned into a gray-purple. fail. by the picture you can see that i tried to salvage it by holding it up with my hands. fail. although the construction of my funfetti half birthday cake failed, it was quite delicious. win!

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mj was up in logan for an alumni concert with her sister tammy and their long-time piano friend adam. they did such a good job. i love hearing them sing.

the performance hall was crowded with the lees and castletons. it was fun.

{photo shots in the perf. hall while waiting for something to happen....}

 

friday

fridays are my favorite day. instead of staying at the school and practicing for voice, mom, erin and i go out for lunch. it is simply glorious. sometimes being a rebel and not doing what you're supposed to be doing is fun. but not like drugs. those are bad. 

p.s. i wish a had this closet

guy fawkes

remember remember the 5th of november....

erin threw a guy fawkes party and i helped. macy came up from provo to hang with us. she was in charge of creating the guy fawkes effigy. she did a great and awesome job.

we made toffee, meat pies, shortbread and sam brought trifle. we also roasted hot dogs. fires are so cool.

fires are once again, so cool.

life

i wasn't late for my 7:30 AM class. 

i didn't get a parking ticket.

my car is more reliable than usual.

alison's speech for school was postponed.

i'm getting the hang of this college thing.

the abnormally large fly in my room disappeared. 

i facebook stalked with one of my best friends for 2 hours in lieu of studying.

at school, erin found an Andes mint under her chair.

  

halloween goodness {pumpkin walks, treats, and costumes}

fun at the pumpkin walk....

the pumpkin walk is a logan tradition that i love, love, love. it's a walk in the park with multiple booths set up as movies/tv shows with characters made out of pumpkins. so fun. we went on family night ( so did everyone else ) and were upset by how long that line was. instead of waiting in line, we decided to go through the pumpkin walk backwards. we felt so smart.

the 31st

 this halloween i was so lame and didn't dress up or anything. but erin and sam dressed up real nice. they were a vintage couple. alison dressed up too. (sorry, no picture) She was a "sleepy girl" with her pajamas on, curlers in her hair and sleeping eye mask. mama made her famous dead-man meatloaf, homemade rootbeer, and the best doughnuts ever. good job mom. 

oh halloween........good times.

parties and parades

last night the momma and the papa had a neighborhood couple halloween party. they looked real good. momma was a diner waitress with name tag and team jacob pin included, while the papa was a chef.

momma made the best bacon wrapped dates stuffed with cream cheese and pecan chunks. let your mouth water.

 he looks official doesn't he?

this morning was utah state's homecoming parade. the family went down to main street and we cheered at every float. my personal favorite float was the biker gang, Hell's Aggies. very good weekend. excited for the football game this afternoon. love the family.  

haha. erin and i think that the jerrick's car is hilarious. if you're selling fine jewelry, get a better advertising technique or at least a better color/name or just change it completely.

So there's a blonde, a brunette and a redhead...

Everyone got new hair this week. 

Erin = blonder, Me = darker, Alison = red.