Christmas Time is here!
So I would like to share with you a few of my favorite things.

• Cheesy Christmas movies
• Family
• Sugar Cookies
• Gifts
• Traditions
• I Spy Christmas

I can't wait for the rest of the family to be here for the holidays! It is going to be a blast.

Favorite things of Fall

• Smell and sight of falling leaves

• This little boy wearing the color orange and playing with pumpkins

• Wearing boots (these are under the non-existent Christmas tree...I want them on my feet!)

• Halloween - Football game and parties. I am going to be a flapper. :)

• Soup! Mom made the most delicious mushroom and barley soup last night. I LOVED it.
• Wearing the new fedora I bought (I couldn't find a picture, so I will take one and upload it later)
  
• Knowing that in a few weeks the ACT will be over and my apps to BYU will be in!!
  

Hooray!

I completed all the things on my list!! At least I got SOMETHING done this summer. I wish I were able to cross off summer reading... :/

Back to

School.

My time is no longer being absorbed by "useless" things such as Saved By the Bell, seemingly endless computer hours, naps, lounging, and relaxation.
Its all-go mode from here until May 17th, the day I graduate.
Yikes!
I can already feel the stress building...
I hope I don't explode.

COLORADO

I recently spent three weeks on top of the world in Colorado. It was awesome.
I arrived on the 19th of July only to be greeted the following day by John Mayer, Dave Matthews, and others at the Mile High Music Festival. I got extremely close.
The following picture-less week was spent with old friends from Parker, a suburb of Denver where I used to live.
I then traveled with my friend Michael to spend a week at Rocky Mountain High Adventure Base, a scout camp he was working at for the summer. I hiked, biked, and rafted the surrounding rugged terrain.
After the week was up, my friends Patrick and Wojo joined up with Michael and I as we set off to backpack for six days in the Collegiate Peaks Wilderness. We summited two fourteeners, Mt Columbia and Mt Harvard, and enjoyed the magnificent scenery. After that, I flew home on Southwest Flight 2394 to Kansas City. The End

MARIO!!!!

OHMYGOSH.
So, Jamie and I were pretty excited to see A Chorus Line. We had great second row seats and it was lovely.
All of the actors had incredible dance skills, and the singing was great.
THEN, afterwards we came outside.
It was a total frenzy! Everyone was just lingering about the door, so Jamie made the observation that they were waiting for the cast to come out of the door. So, like every other woman in the audience, we waited.
Then the cast slowly came trickling out. I was able to grab some signatures on my playbill and take a picture with one cast member.
Then, Mario came out. Everyone was screaming their heads off! There were even a couple paparazzi snapping pictures of him. "MARY-O!! " (is that how you say his name now? mary-o? or is it a NY thing?) "How's Screech?" "When's the Saved by the Bell reunion?"
It was hilarious. Afterwards I was starstruck and just in awe.
I felt bad for Mary-o. But I felt even worse for the actors who came out the door after him who didn't get much attention.

NJ/ NYC trip

I recently visited Weehawken, New Jersey to see my sister Jamie and her family. It was so much fun!!
We went into New York city 2 of the 4 days I was there.
We went shopping, ate out, and Jamie and I saw "A Chorus Line".

Here are some pictures capturing the excitement of the trip.

Shakes and fries at the famous Shake Shack.

Wearing Hats

Rocking out on the drums.

Next post devoted solely to A chorus line and our favorite cast member, Mario.