Go Jazz!

On Wednesday night my sister Alyson had some extra tickets to the Jazz game against Milwaukee. I went with my friend Quin and we had a great time. The seats were really good-lower bowl a few rows back from the court, and the game was good-they were down for a while, then came back to win at the end even though half their players are injured.
So, in honor of Kyle Korver who got injured after this game and couldn't play on Friday I decided to post this pic!
Cute, huh?

Twilight Movie Night

So we went to Twilight last night. We did have fun taking pictures in front of the Ducati and talking to the self-proclaimed "Chocolate Abs". None of the other girls would be in the photo shoot with us!
My review of the movie: I liked it, I didn't love it. I don't know if I've ever seen a movie based on a book that was better. We did have a lot of fun counting the number of times the audience cheered- (9 full on clapping and screaming cheers, with a couple of other times that didn't count because it was only one or two people!)
I'm not going to lie, I think the best part of the show may have been the Harry Potter preview!

Moab

We went down to Moab last weekend. It was a short trip but the weather was really nice while we were there. It's a shame that this is the only picture I took the whole time we were down there! (That's my brother Jake in the background, I'm not sure why he's making that face.)

Halloween at school

I realize it has been a few weeks since Halloween but I just got these pictures from my school computer so I thought I would post a few. I remember Halloween at school as such a fun time. I loved dressing up, even when I was in kindergarten and I was a thundercat and no one knew what I was, I still loved Halloween. Here are a couple of girls in my class after we had our school-wide parade of costumes. It was fun to see all the kids so excited. These are a couple of the boys in my class. They weren't as in to dressing up as the girls but they were ok with painting their faces.

We made oragami bats and yarn spiders. A couple of kids really ran with it and used every little scrap to make a whole bat/spider family so I had to take a picture.

Hope you don't mind my late Halloween post, and I hope everyone has the fond memories of Halloween that I do.

New York, New York

I knew I couldn't go very long with out a trip in the works. My sister Alyson has to go to some conference in New York in December and my parents were already going to be in Virgina that weekend visiting my sister Hillory so we are all meeting in the city for a long weekend.

I'm excited because Hill has never been before and my parents have only been for a day. Should be good times!

What's not to love about New York at Christmas time? The Rockettes, a broadway show, ice skating at the Rockefeller Center, I can't wait!

Where to go?

So yesterday when I went to vote I ran in to Joann Neilson and she was asking where I was going next? I was stunned to realize I don't have ANY trips planned. That is so unlike me. I decided to throw it out there and ask, "Where do you think I should visit next?" Please give me some great ideas!

Disneyland (Finally!)

We left over UEA break for California again. We were shocked to find out that the weather while we were there was going to be 86 for the high. It was SOOO nice to get some sun.

This is a re-enactment picture of Kelly at the airport. Her birthday was a few days before our trip and she hadn't realized her license was expired until we got to the airport. Luckily, she was able to get her passport to the airport just in time to board the plane. She did have to run through the whole airport and was frisked by security. We were so happy when she finally made it on to the plane.

This trip we brought along this hidden mickeys book to pass the time in line. Apparently Disney is famous for hiding mickey's throughout the park. We found quite a few of them.

This one was hiding on the ground just behind the "R" of the big California letters. This one was hidden in the tree of the entrance to our hotel, the Grand Californian. It was fun to have our own entrance to the parks and it was really nice to be so close. We loved hanging out at the pool, but I don't think we'll pay to stay here again.


We finally got to ride on the new Toy Story ride. It is a lot like Buzz Lightyear where you have things that you have to shot at but it's in 3D. We got to ride it twice while we were there.

We loved how they decorated for Halloween, everything including the letters was themed.

For staying at the hotel, we got a magic morning so we could go to Disney an hour before opening. It was a beautiful morning, and we finally got to ride Nemo. It was fun, but totally not worth the 7 hour waits that we saw last summer on opening day.

Toy Story the 2nd time.

Kelly had always wanted to get a turkey leg and this was her time. We thought she was disgusting for wanting meat on a stick, but she loved it. It did smell and taste suspiciously like ham though.

Minnie Mouse in her fall attire.


On our way back to L.A. we stopped at In-N-Out for a quick cheeseburger, animal style.

It was a fun trip, but it was very quick. I loved seeing how Disney goes all out for the holidays. I didn't post any pictures of the Haunted Mansion, but it was completely changed to the Nightmare Before Christmas inside and out. SO FUN!