A Very Merry Weekend

This weekend was full of Christmas joy! I attended a production of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens on Friday night. It was in a very small playhouse but they sure do a good job of using the space they have to put on an amazing show. The man who played Scrooge played grumpy and mean well and was just as good being giddy and happy at the end, he was cute. I had actually forgotten I had said I would go to the play with some friends so when Cami asked me what time I wanted to leave I was quite surprised to find out I had plans. I had already made plans to sit on the couch and watch television all night, so these surprise plans were much more inviting. To put just the right touch on a wonderful Christmas celebration when we came out of the playhouse, the actors and actresses were singing carols to us as a light snow trickled to the ground. It was very movie-like.
The Christmas merriment continued on Saturday morning by attending the Ward Christmas breakfast. It was jolly good fun to sit with friends and laugh and see my cute Sunbeams sit on Santa's lap. That night I spread Christmas cheer by taking care of my friend's dog. We watched the Christmas classic, Transformers 2. (Okay so this would be the part that was not so Christmasy, but I was serving and we should all serve our neighbors at Christmastime.)

To finish the weekend off right Cami and I got up before sunrise to make the trek to Salt Lake in the rain, sleet, and hail (well really just rain, but it sounds so dramatic to add the other two) and see the Mormon Tabernacle Christmas Concert featuring David Archuleta. This year with girls of all ages dying to get tickets we were very lucky to get some Sunday tickets. I have to admit after hearing David sing and see his cute smile, I may be a little smitten myself. The MOTAB is always amazing and David has quite the voice. It was a great Sunday morning. I made it back to church in time to spend one last Sunday with my Sunbeams before they head off to CTR 4 in January and I start with a whole new set of unruly 3 year olds to mold. We had a lesson on the birth of Christ and it was so fun to hear my cute Sunbeams tell the story of the birth of Christ and they always surprise me by how much they know.

So as I prepare to leave the rain, snow, and cold of Utah behind and have a beach Christmas in Florida, I have to say this weekend did make me feel merry and bright!

Rain couldn't keep thousands of people from pouring into the Conference Center to see and hear teen cutie, David Archuleta. Cami and I were there for the MOTAB though, not David. :)

Here we are after the concert! Do you like the new rain-dos we are sporting? It was worth it!

I realize this is a picture of the big screen in the Conference Center but I was too far from the real thing and I just had to capture how stinkin' cute and happy David is!

Here are my cute Sunbeams! They have tons of energy and the attention span of a fly, but I love them dearly and will miss them!

33 is the Year for Me!

I am sure you are all anxiously awaiting a blog about my trip to Greece but that blog will take more time than I have available at the moment, so you are just going to have to wait a little longer. (I do have some pictures and commentary about my trip in a photo album on Facebook to tide you over until then.)

I thought I would make sure I document the most important day in all of our lives, my birth! Admit it, your life wouldn't be the same if you hadn't met Angela Day and on November 30th, 1977 my journey towards knowing all of my devoted readers began.

I have always enjoyed my birthday, a day dedicated entirely to people paying attention to me, who wouldn't love it? Although, since I have hit the 30s I will admit I haven't been too excited and for some reason 33 has been really hard for me to say, getting closer and closer to 35 then 40! Ugh! Now having just gotten back from Greece I felt that was a pretty great birthday present to myself. The guy that checked me through customs even wished me a Happy Birthday since it was a few short days away, nice huh? So nothing too grand for the real day, dinner with a few friends and a little party after.

My principal did manage to announce it was my birthday in morning announcements, so all day I had kids wishing me Happy Birthday and trying to guess how old I was, that was fun. Fortunately no one guessed over 26, man I love kids! Then some good friends and I went to a yummy restaurant, Texas Roadhouse. To celebrate your birthday this place makes you ride a saddle while the whole place sings to you on your birthday, something I was super excited about, but sadly I didn't have time to ride the saddle since we had to get home for my party. Big bummer! ;)

At my party I displayed my Greece pictures and some Greece candy for others to enjoy, had a great time laughing and catching up with friends, it was a good time! Happy Birthday to me!

Now at the beginning of the day one of my good friends at work asked how old I was to which I forced myself to say, "33." She told me her little motto when she was that age was, "33, the year for me!" We joked about it but the more I have thought about it, the more I really like it. So my goal for my 33rd year is to make the year for me, in all aspects of my life: career, having adventures with friends, serving in my church more, putting myself out there, doing great, crazy, exciting things. So hopefully I will have lots of future blog posts about this year being MY year!
And now for some pictures...
Taylor Lauttner was nice and stopped by work to wish me well on my special day. He stayed all day actually and kept freaking me out every time I walked into my office! But it was a good freak out.

Here are Suzanne and I at the yummy restaurant posing with the cute card she gave me. It might just be the cutest card I have ever seen!

So when you turn 33 you don't blow out wussy birthday candles, you blow out honker candles like this one! It was close, but I blew it out so my birthday wish should come true...

My friends think I rock! I think they rock too!

Here are some longtime friends, cute Dave, Boyce and Suzanne. Boyce and Suzanne are expecting a baby soon and I am still crossing my fingers they name her after me!

Lovely ladies that stopped by to say hi and give me a birthday squeeze.

The cutest roommate ever! Cami set up the dinner, made the yummy cake and all while conquering world hunger at the same time! She is truly amazing!

My dear friend Sarah had to show up after everyone else had left so she could spend some quality time with just me, she is so thoughtful!