Saturday, April 25, 2009
Tulip Fest 2009
This morning, my mom and sister and nephew, and my roommates Hilary and Stephanie and I all went to the Tulip Fest out at Thanksgiving Point. It was a bit chilly and windy, but thankfully the rain held off until just as we were leaving. The grounds were of course just beautiful. So hopefully some of these pictures captured a small sampling of what we got to see. Hope you enjoy!
Wicked!!!!
Okay, so I'm a week late posting this. But at least I'm getting it on here, right? Last weekend was a lot of fun. We were able to go and see Wicked in Salt Lake. We got season tickets about a year ago so that we would be able to go. My dad gave his ticket to my sister. And then my nephew Jared drew out in the lottery, so he and Jeff got to come to. It was totally awesome, like always. :)
The Capitol Theatre
The family that got to go - Jeff, Janell, Jared, Grandma/Mom, and me
Me, Annie, and Hilary
Inside the theatre
Such great fun!!!
The Capitol Theatre
The family that got to go - Jeff, Janell, Jared, Grandma/Mom, and me
Me, Annie, and Hilary
Inside the theatre
Such great fun!!!
Friday, April 24, 2009
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Happy Easter....last weekend :)
Well, so I'm a bit late posting, but what do you do? I was able to go home last weekend and spend Easter with some of the family. We had a grand old time, and here are some of our pictures to prove it!
Decorating us some Easter eggs!
It's time for the Easter egg hunt!!!!
Go Jared, go!!!
Those darn roots. This is Jay. (Sorry, I just thought this picture was too cute. :)
Cute girls - Hannah, Karen, and Abby
Yeah Tait - get that egg!!
Of course, there is food too. Look at this super cute bunny my sis-in-law Emily made.
Abby loves to dip those cucumbers!!!
And we also got to celebrate Makenzie's birthday!
Karen, Makenzie, and Ellie just enjoying some good cake and ice cream. :)
Decorating us some Easter eggs!
It's time for the Easter egg hunt!!!!
Go Jared, go!!!
Those darn roots. This is Jay. (Sorry, I just thought this picture was too cute. :)
Cute girls - Hannah, Karen, and Abby
Yeah Tait - get that egg!!
Of course, there is food too. Look at this super cute bunny my sis-in-law Emily made.
Abby loves to dip those cucumbers!!!
And we also got to celebrate Makenzie's birthday!
Karen, Makenzie, and Ellie just enjoying some good cake and ice cream. :)
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Spring????
Maybe. But the weather doesn't seem so sure. These pictures were taken this morning when I left for work.
Sunday, April 5, 2009
A little catch up
Here are just a few things that have happened but I've never really posted. I figure since I don't really have much to post about in my ever so exciting life, I should post these!
In the middle of March, I was able to go with some of my family to the Draper Temple open house. It was fun to see Kevin and Jeanette because I don't get to see them often. And everyone else. And it was fun to be there with the kids to see the temple. When we were in the Celestial Room, Abby, who is 1, kept reaching for the chadelier at the top. It was cute. So here's a couple of pics from that.
Some of the family (it was so windy and cold!)
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The Temple
A little more recently, I went with my sis-in-law Emily and a few of my nephews to the Fablehaven release party for the 4th book in the Fablehaven series. Yes, I am a fan. They're good books. I'm a bit sad that I now have to wait for the 5th. I think I need to stop reading series. Anyway, here's a few fun pictures from that too.
With the witch Muriel
This book is all about dragons. So....
We were going to wait in line to get books signed, etc. But it was just waaaaayyyyy to long. So we worked to get some pictures of the boys with Brandon Mull, the author, anyway. :)
In the middle of March, I was able to go with some of my family to the Draper Temple open house. It was fun to see Kevin and Jeanette because I don't get to see them often. And everyone else. And it was fun to be there with the kids to see the temple. When we were in the Celestial Room, Abby, who is 1, kept reaching for the chadelier at the top. It was cute. So here's a couple of pics from that.
Some of the family (it was so windy and cold!)
.JPG)
The Temple
A little more recently, I went with my sis-in-law Emily and a few of my nephews to the Fablehaven release party for the 4th book in the Fablehaven series. Yes, I am a fan. They're good books. I'm a bit sad that I now have to wait for the 5th. I think I need to stop reading series. Anyway, here's a few fun pictures from that too.
With the witch Muriel
This book is all about dragons. So....
We were going to wait in line to get books signed, etc. But it was just waaaaayyyyy to long. So we worked to get some pictures of the boys with Brandon Mull, the author, anyway. :)
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Reading Rainbow
Okay, not really quite that. But I saw this on my roommate Hilary's blog and was somewhat intrigued to see how I would stack up. So I figured I had to see.
The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up? Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (X)
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien ( )
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (X )
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (x)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee () sad, I know but I will, I promise
6 The Bible - (x)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (X)
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell ( )
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman ( )
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens ( ) I did start it once
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott ( )
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy (X)
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller ( )
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare ( ) not all of them
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier ( )
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien ( )
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk ( )
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger ( )
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger ( )
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot ()
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell ( )
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (X)
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens ( )
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy ( )
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams ( )
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh ( )
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky ( )
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (X)
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll ( )
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame ( )
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy ( )
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens ( )
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (X)
34 Emma - Jane Austen (X)
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen ( )
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (X) Although this is part of Chronicles of Narnia
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini - ( )
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres ( )
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden ( )
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne ( )
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell ( )
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (X)
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez ( )
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving ( )
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins ( )
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery ( )
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy ()
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood ( )
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding ( )
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan ( )
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel (X)
52 Dune - Frank Herbert ( )
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons ( )
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (X)
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth ( )
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon ( )
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens (X)
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley ( )
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime-Mark Haddon ( )
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez ( )
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck ( )
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov ( )
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt ( )
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold ( )
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (X)
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac ( )
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy ( )
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding ( )
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie ( )
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville ( )
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens ( ) But I was in the play twice
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker ( )
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett ( )
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson ( )
75 Ulysses - James Joyce ( )
76 The Inferno - Dante ( )
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome ( )
78 Germinal - Emile Zola ( )
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray ( )
80 Possession - AS Byatt ( )
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens ( ) Does that children's book Mickey Mouse version count?
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell ( )
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker ( )
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro ( )
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert ( )
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry ( )
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White ( )
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom (X)
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ( )
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton ( )
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad ( )
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery ( )
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks ( )
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams ( )
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole ( )
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute ( )
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas ( )
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare ( )
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl ( )
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (X)
Hmmmm. How do they come up with these lists? I know I've seen a different one. Which I would love to find. I'm pretty sure it came from Mrs. Teeples, my AP English teacher. I'll have to try to find that one. I think it's something about 100 books everyone should read before they die or something like that. I'm 18 for 100 on this one. I guess there's a few things I should add to my reading list eh?
The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up? Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (X)
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien ( )
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (X )
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (x)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee () sad, I know but I will, I promise
6 The Bible - (x)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (X)
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell ( )
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman ( )
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens ( ) I did start it once
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott ( )
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy (X)
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller ( )
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare ( ) not all of them
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier ( )
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien ( )
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk ( )
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger ( )
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger ( )
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot ()
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell ( )
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (X)
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens ( )
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy ( )
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams ( )
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh ( )
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky ( )
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (X)
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll ( )
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame ( )
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy ( )
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens ( )
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (X)
34 Emma - Jane Austen (X)
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen ( )
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (X) Although this is part of Chronicles of Narnia
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini - ( )
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres ( )
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden ( )
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne ( )
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell ( )
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (X)
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez ( )
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving ( )
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins ( )
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery ( )
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy ()
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood ( )
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding ( )
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan ( )
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel (X)
52 Dune - Frank Herbert ( )
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons ( )
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (X)
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth ( )
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon ( )
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens (X)
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley ( )
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime-Mark Haddon ( )
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez ( )
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck ( )
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov ( )
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt ( )
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold ( )
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (X)
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac ( )
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy ( )
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding ( )
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie ( )
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville ( )
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens ( ) But I was in the play twice
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker ( )
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett ( )
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson ( )
75 Ulysses - James Joyce ( )
76 The Inferno - Dante ( )
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome ( )
78 Germinal - Emile Zola ( )
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray ( )
80 Possession - AS Byatt ( )
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens ( ) Does that children's book Mickey Mouse version count?
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell ( )
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker ( )
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro ( )
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert ( )
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry ( )
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White ( )
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom (X)
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ( )
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton ( )
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad ( )
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery ( )
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks ( )
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams ( )
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole ( )
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute ( )
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas ( )
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare ( )
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl ( )
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (X)
Hmmmm. How do they come up with these lists? I know I've seen a different one. Which I would love to find. I'm pretty sure it came from Mrs. Teeples, my AP English teacher. I'll have to try to find that one. I think it's something about 100 books everyone should read before they die or something like that. I'm 18 for 100 on this one. I guess there's a few things I should add to my reading list eh?
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