This Is Definitely a Good News Minute Moment...

You guys!!! I have great news! I made SPAC!! Yay! For those of you who don't know what SPAC is, which I assume is everyone, it is the back up folk dance team! This was a big deal to me! I've been auditioning for things like this for the past year and a half, and I'm finally making my way up in the world. Next I'm going to make the touring team! That's the next item on my list! I'm so happy I made it guys! I was beaming all day yesterday when I found out. I found out at our huge folk dance rehearsal where like all 200 members of the folk dance club members were. People kept coming up and congratulating me at the practice and I was like what are they congratulating me for? And then I found out! It was great! So this Winter semester we will start rehearsing and then the first 3 weeks of spring term, we'll go out and tour all over Utah and perform at different elementary schools. I'm very excited to perform for these little kids! Kids are so fabulous! In honor of this moment, I am going to post a very revealing and applicable photo that shows my dedication and diligence to dance. This photo was donated to me by my loving sister Liza! Thanks Liza...your the bomb.com!

I MADE IT!!!

I MADE IT!! I MADE IT!! I MADE IT!!!

Choreography

I auditioned for the dance major just this past Friday. This is a huge deal if you didn't know! It's something I've been waiting for for 2 years now. So it was a bit of a nerve racking experience. For the audition they took us into a room where there was a long panel of "judges". Actually they were just the full time faculty members at BYU so I knew almost all of them (except for the Ballroom and Ballet teachers, but they only made up a small portion of the 15-20 teachers). It was kind of intimidating. We learned a ballet, modern, ballroom, and folk routine for the first part of the audition. We danced all of them for the teachers. From there we waited to hear if we had been given a call back or not. After about an hour I found out I made a call back! I was so happy! For the call backs, we were to perform a one minute solo for the teachers. This was a solo that we were to have had choreographed before the audition. I choreographed my solo. It's actually one that I have been working on for a while...or at least thinking about for a while. I put a lot of thought into it. It all started last year in my creative workshop class. We went to the art museum here on campus and our assignment was to receive inspiration for a dance from one of the paintings. The painting that I chose was one of Christ. I forget the title of the piece, but it's of Christ and he is lifting up a tent door looking inside to the man hiding in there. It's a very touching piece. I thought about it for a while and this is my inspiration. My piece that I choreographed for the major auditions is about the comfortless person in need of healing and then them receiving that healing through Christ. It was a really cool experience to be able to choreograph something like this. Like I said, I've been thinking about this for a long time. I'm glad I finally finished it, but I don't think this is the last of this piece. The piece was only allowed to be a minute long due to the great amount of people that would be auditioning, so it's not that long. I really want to take it to greater heights later and maybe expound on it. We'll see. For right now it's really short, so I hope you enjoy it. Remember to keep in mind what the piece is about as you watch it, and I think it will mean a lot more to you.


P.S. - I don't know if I made it into the major yet. I'm still waiting to find out, but I feel like I did my best. I'll keep you posted about that.

We Are Women...we CAMP!!

So my roommates and I have this awesome list! You see, this list is a list of things to do before the summer ends. It was a really great invention! It helps us to do the things we always say we want to do but never do. So now that we invented this list, we actually do the things on it!! It's amazing...It's visionary...it's brilliant...it's...it's...why didn't I think of it??? Well, I'm glad to be among such great minds who think of things like this b/c it makes life just that much more interesting! One thing on our list of accomplishments was camping! Now what a womanly activity that was! We are quite an accomplished batch of girls now if you ask me. We made a fire, set up a tent, cooked our food on the fire, told stories with a flash light...it was a legit camp out! And it probably was the best weekend that was had this summer! Loved it!

We kind of started the camp out off on a little bit of a sour note. It took us 2 hours to find the camp site when it was only supposed to take 25 minutes due to some faulty directions and various detours...but that didn't stop us. We still enjoyed ourselves!!



Our camp fire!!!!

Jen and Monica...the new additions to our posse!! We developed quite a nice relationship with these new roommates of ours!!

Me and a stick..."I just love camping!!"

Smoke follows beauty...and Suzanne is one mighty fine piece of work...her and her video camera



Jen hiding out in the see threw tent

Me brushing my teeth...I couldn't do the whole not brushing your teeth camping experience thing

Me looking angry because of the little kids who woke us up in the morning

4 of the 5 girls we fit in the 2 man tent...lets just say we got reeeeeal close

Becky laying on top of Jen

Our morning faces






This little kids who woke us up...dang kids

A Day Off...yesssssss!

Last week we had a day off of school!! It was pretty much awesome. This is how we spent our day...hiking to the most beautiful place in the whole world!
GOOD TIMES...GOOD TIMES!












Seth and Monica




Monica and I found our new habitat


OUR MOUNTAIN MAN POSES...









There was snow at the top...so we played in it

We tried to get the background but it didn't work

Becky fell down the mountain...or down the very slightly sloped trail, but we just like the say she fell down the mountain because it sounds cooler

Becky and I eating our delicious egg salad sandwiches

Suzanne likes her apple!!

Cowboys and Indians

As many of you know, my birthday was last week. All I have to say is I have the best roommates in the whole entire world. They threw me a themed party!! We've been really into these themed parties lately. Our newest idea is a little out there, but I can see it being really big...it has the potential. On the 20th of July,we plan to have a Space party because that is the anniversary of the U.S. landing on the moon. I know, I know...you think it's brilliant right?! Anyways, back to my birthday. They threw me and the twins (our roommates who's birthday was 5 days before mine) a cowboy and indian party!! So cooool! I loved it!

The picture on the flyers they handed out

Some of the Indians

Some of the cowboys

My roommate Monica and I...notice my fashionably hand designed moccasins made out of paper bags...I was so proud of myself...also the baby pappoose I had made to comfortably fit around my body

The twins and I

The whole muttly crew minus a few

This is us after our candles went out. I developed a fixation with one of the water guns that I stole from the cowboys and I surprised everyone by shooting our candles out with my water gun...that's why we're laughing

The cakes my roommates specially designed for us. Gotta love the roomies!!