Leprechauns, Chocolat, and Snow

Well hello blog! Nice to see you again. The end of third term kept me away for awhile, but so much has happened! St. Patrick's day came and went and the Leprechauns visited our house. I also watched a really great movie. Melissa and I had a girl's night on Friday (the first in I don't know how long) and we watched, "Chocolat." It was a really good movie, and by the end of the weekend I watched it a total of three times. Yikes! My sister Savanna posted about it, and practically said my exact thoughts about the movie, (I guess it's just one of those weird sisterly bonding moments) so I'm going to copy everything she said.

"This is such a cute movie about a lady who goes to a small village in France and sets up a Chocolaterie. She has a special knack for guessing everyone's favorite chocolate. She is sent there by the North Wind to help everyone with their problems. No one knows what to do about her because she's different. She eventually meets Roux and there is a little romance added to the story. It's a fun story of how just a normal person can add a little color to something and make everything better! I love the all outfits and music! It also makes me want to learn french!

WARNING: It WILL make you want to eat chocolate!"

P.S. The second time I watched it, I had to actually stop the movie and get myself a truffle. And now I'm obsessed with everything French. I ended up listening to French songs all weekend. Some of my favorites are Quelqu'un m'a dit (thanks to Jane), L'Amoureuse, and In the Mood for L'Amour. Although I don't understand a thing they say except for l'amour. I'm pretty sure that means love.

Today I woke up, looked out my window, and low and behold, it was snowing. It's March. I thought the groundhog DIDN'T see his shadow! Spring is supposed to be in my backyard, not a layer of frost. But my day was brightened by this:

Dad is really good about making my day with little things like this. :) 

Until next time, Au Revoir!

Disneyland

I'm such a slacker. About a month ago, my entire family on my Mom's side went to Disneyland. This is a tradition we love doing about every four years. We have so much fun spending time with cousins, riding crazy rides, feeling the magic of Disneyland, and just having a fun time together as a family.

{Princesses}

{Our family took up an entire Pirates of the Caribbean boat}

{Tower of Terror}

{The Mickey Ferris Wheel, 2007}

{The Mickey Ferris Wheel, 2011}

{We felt like Avatars}

{Me, Angie, and Rach}

{Savanna, me, Megan}

{Daniel and Angie}

{Goofy}

{We got to meet the real Cinderella!!}

{Mickey}

{Eugene}

{Princess Tiana}

{Sleeping Beauty}

{The fam}

{California Adventure}

{World of Color. It was incredible!}

{Funny story behind this picture. If you want to know, ask me about it. I don't want to write it all down right now. Let's just say it involves five '1's.}

{We did baptisms at the Newport Temple. It was such a small temple, but no different in the feelings inside.}

{Beach time! And to think it was snowing back at home.}

{Pretty soon there will be a popular new line of jewelry: kelp.}

What fun. :) Can't wait until 2015! 

Cinderella

I could very easily make this one of the longest posts ever because of all the wonderful things I have to say about musical, but to spare you, I will shorten my novel. But I must warn you, there is some mushy and gushy-ness... Basically, doing musical was the best decision I've made in high school. I have made so many friends. Not just "musical" friends, but lasting friends. It's awesome having such a large group of friends that have a common interest and goal and are just as crazy, if not more, than myself. I have developed talents I never thought I would, and I've just had an overall amazing experience. I was fortunate enough to play the part of the Queen in "Cinderella." It was stressful, fun, incredible to expand my talents the way I did, and just amazing. My very talented and loving grandmother, with the help of my aunt, made my gold queen dress. It's absolutely incredible. I don't know how someone can have so much talent to make a dress so stunning. She was very kind to make it for me and I'll be forever grateful to her. I'm also to thankful for my Dad who spent a lot of time helping me find my scarlet dress. And of course my mom, who helped me put together everything. Like I said, I could go on and on, but I'll just post some pictures instead for your enjoyment.

{Lionel, Queen, King, Prince Christopher}

{The hilarious stepsisters}

{Oh, and in case you wanted to add something to your list of useless facts, my full name was Queen Constantina Charlotte Ermintrude Guinevere Maisie Marguerite Anne. Yup, it was in a song. My son's name was long too.}

{On my off night I was a peasant girl dying to catch the eye of the Prince...}

{...until the ball when I fell asleep dancing with him.}

{My amazing Grandmother- the one who made it all possible. Love her!}

{King, Queen, Cinderella, Son}

{The King and I}

{Cinderlla, Fairy Godmother, me, Prince}

And you can't forget about the backstage fun! (Oh, and before I forget, the preshow Princess parties were super fun too.)

{My counterpart and me}

{I seriously would not have survived musical without these girls. They are the best.}

So that's pretty much Cinderella in a nutshell! Thanks to all my family and friends who read this who came to the show. It really did mean a lot to me and I love you all so much!

(Photo credit to my family and, once again, the amazing Annie. Oh, and the last photo is Emily's)