Painfully Long Since Last Updated....

Well---I have finally broke down and turned to my blogging once again. I've had the most difficult time keeping up with life lately. However, I am determined to catch up at least a bit today. October 11th....was that honestly the last time I blogged? Bah---what a shame. Life just started getting excited at that point. ;) This is going to be my feeble attempt to give an outline of my life. (and just an FYI, I will blog about all the dances in greater detail on a separate post...)

October:

17th: Ingrid Michaelson concert! Brianne (the best sister in the entire world!), Lauren Redd (My favorite sister's best friend), and I got to scramble our way through the scary part of Salt Lake, much to my father's apprehension, to go watch our idol--Ingrid Michaelson! Lauren had introduced Brianne to some of Ingrid's music, but it wasn't until she bought her CD "Everybody" that we both became extremely addicted to her. The concert was AMAZING!!!! I won't lie, my legs ached like none other from standing for such a long time, but it was definitely worth EVERY throb! If Ingrid ever decides to come back to our small little Salt Lake capital, you can be rest assured that I will be there to listen to her again!

19th: This was the first day of Davis Youth Symphony! Last year was the best orchestra experience I had ever had, so of course I tried out to be in it again! :) Last year's music was beastly; I absolutely LOVED it! This year, I was more than willing to go at it again! Mari and I were placed in the first violins. It wasn't long before we started to get a bit mischievous sitting in the back of the room. One week, we decided to get some "fire in our eyes" as Mr. Wayman instructed us to do in the Spartacus. We spent our audition time making "fire glasses" out of paper. It is easy to say that Davis Youth is the highlight of my Mondays. :) (the piece below is the Spartacus that we're playing)

24th: This was the day of the BHS' Halloween dance! I asked Kyle to go with me! (though the asking process struggled quite a bit, it turned out to be highly entertaining) ;) Our group decided to go as "Decades" so that everyone could kinda decide on their own costumes. Kyle and I decided to go as the "60s". I sewed up a large blue poodle skirt and Kyle had a classy leather jacket. The day activity was a blast! I got to take everyone on a hike up Ward Canyon (a canyon right by my house). It was quite the adventure and afterwards we went back to my house to have hot cocoa and play 'Apples to Apples'. The dance turned out to be SOOOO much fun! We had an awesome dinner at Jess' house and then we went to the school for the dance. The decorations were amazing, as always, and we all danced around for hours! Afterwards, we went to Megan's house and had ice cream. :) It was DEFINITELY a highlight of the month!

30th: BCYC (Bountiful City Youth Council) had their annual Pumpkin Patch! This event is one of the Youth Council's fundraising events that brings together families from all over our lovely little city. This year, being my first on the Youth Council, I was so excited to help out. Rach and I decided to be EXTRA ambitious and to take care of the food for the entire event. The only problem was, we had never been to this event and had NO clue whatsoever of how many people would show up. We'll just say that we happened to order WAY too much food. Nevertheless, it was definitely a learning experience (and we all know how badly I need those ;) ). Mental note for next year: don't expect a billion people to show up if the WARM Rec center is having an event the same night. ;) At least I still had a blast and can't wait for next year. :)

31st:This was none other than Halloween!!! Halloween is quite strange simply because it just happens to be the holiday that I like the least even though it is my FAVORITE time of year. (It doesn't quite make sense to me either). For Halloween, I got to go to my friend's house with a whole bunch of friends just to hang out and watch a movie afterwards. We did a little bit of trick-or-treating around the neighborhood (probably scaring a few old people while doing so), and then we watched "Arsenic and Old Lace"(fyi---I love that movie!). When I had to head home, I noticed that my keys were not to be found in my pocket, much to my horror. Liz ended up walking around the entire Temple block to help me see if I could find where they might have dropped. To our enjoyment, they were resting right under the temple fence. When I got back, everyone was trying to help search for my keys. I have the best friends ever! Sooo---I guess I kinda got my curfew extended for the night. ;)

Well---my computer does not seem to like my large and chunky post. I guess I'm going to have to do my make-up post in several posts. So---bear with me....I'll keep blogging. ;)