Decembertime

First off, my sister's husband, SSG Mills, just came home from Iraq today. It was a happy thing. I'm glad for Rachel and her kids to have there husband/dad back with them. I love that he came home before Christmas. Now they can have the whole break from school and stuff together.

Jeremy was cute when he was little, but he's even cuter now. Look at this ornament that he made once upon a time.



Last week, Jeremy and I enjoyed getting some treats in our shoes for St. Nicholas Tag (December 6th). I gave him a Star Wars trivia book. What fun!



The studio where I teach dance had parent showings yesterday and today. My preschool creative dance class and Ballet 1 class were so cute. They danced to "Trim Up the Tree" by Boris Karloff. I'm really proud of my students. They did well. I wish I had taken pictures of the girls yesterday too, but wishing in retrospect is dumb.



Tomorrow, my niece and some of her friends that I teach will be doing their little recital. They're going to be extra cute too.

What a busy week.

Sparse posts

I didn't post much this month. How boring. I wanted to get one more in before the month ended.

Here is a summary of some of the bigger things we did this month:
We wrapped with Dr. Fubalous
Jeremy performed in Divine Comedy's Common Room for BYUTV (to air at a later time)
We gathered more things of mine from my mom's house
Jeremy cleaned the house for my birthday party
I cooked treats for my birthday (yum)
We had a few friends over
Julian Rex is cute (this is a real instant Polaroid that is totally expired)

We gathered a little more from mom's house
We ate at Gourmandise with Charlotte
I got a super cute dress coat
Some good friends got married
Some good friends visited
We had friends' Thanksgiving
The Warners came for Thanksgiving and made the turkey
I made an apple pie
I had a girlfriends slumber party at mom's house
We got a new laptop for Jeremy
I made snowflakes
I made my first student loan payment (boring)
I started choreography in all of my classes; those little girls are all so cute
Jeremy and I feel super creative but not prolific at all.

That is pretty much it for this month. It was a good one, but it was also super busy, or so it seems. It could easily have been busier. Here comes December. This will be fun too.

Johanna's pictures

Below is a picture that Johanna took of me.



Johanna is one of my friends from when I was little. She was best friends with my best girlfriend, HillybeansmithDastrup. She is studying photography at UVU and did a project on me and the cause of my injuries last week. Some of the pictures I let her use are really disturbing at least to me and my family, just so you are warned.

Thanks Jo!
Click on the picture to go to her blog.

pump pump pumkin time!

Jeremy, Greg, and I painted some pumpkins. They're pretty cool. I've never painted pumpkins before but I am proud of them. It was fun. Jeremy already posted them on his brand new website.



Jeremy is working on a production called Dr. Fubalous. It is a web-series starring such notables as Flavor Flav and Danny Trejo and stars of YouTube, Donnivin Jordan and GloZell Green.

dances with hairs

Johanna is a friend from my childhood. She had a photography assignment to take pictures for a cause. So the thought of me because of the whole pedestrian and guy driving under the influence thing. Johanna took some pictures of me yesterday. I was nervous to put a leotard on again and to stand on the corner in Springville, but it all worked out and the best part is that we got to hang out for several hours. I don't think we've played since elementary.
I wanted to look cute so I did my hair in a crown-braid, then I did it again today. I think today's is the prettiest crown-braid that I have done thus far. So I took a picture.



I want to be more like Jordan Ferney and post consistently, even if I do it just once or twice a week. Blogging is Jordan's job. I want mine to be cute. It's supposed to be kind of minimalist, but I should just get over the fact that I'm not actually a minimalist even though I'd love to be.

goals are good

I have been needing a new iPod for when I teach dance. When I was discussing it again with Jeremy, he said, "Why don't you just get an iPad?" So I got an iPad on the 11th. I'm so spoiled sometimes. I really like it. Even though I like new things and new gadgets and stuff, I have a hard time using them in public because I'm too afraid that someone will notice and I don't want to look too posh or anything. Is that a normal thing? I like how it still smells new.

This month I'm going to focus more on becoming organized and cooking good meals at home. I think I may even attempt to organize this blog.

My friend Rinda is so cute. She took a long break from her blog and now has gotten back into it. I want to decorate for holidays like her and be a minimalist, even though it goes against most of everything I do.

onions

I like to bake and I love sweet treats. Baking and cooking are very different. I've found that have a hard time bringing out good flavors when I cook.

This evening, I decided to stick as close to some recipes today as a could and I made a tasty dinner with chicken, zucchini, and latkes. I really liked it. I got the recipes from our Williams & Sonoma chicken and potato cookbooks.

When I was cutting the onions, I cried harder than I ever have in that situation and it's not because I cut my finger (because I didn't) but because of how onioney the onions were. My mascara made defined lines down my cheek. Jeremy said I look like a juggalo. I thought that was funny.