Singing at the Diner

I've been taking voice lessons for about two years now, long enough to just about drive Amy crazy with all of my practicing. My teacher and her husband perform around the area and they have one pretty casual gig they do weekly in a diner and she has let me sing a few times there. This weekend they were doing a country theme and she invited me to sing a couple of songs and Amy decided to bring the video recorder. I still get nervous singing in front of anyone, but it's fun and I'm slowly getting better. I sang The River by Garth Brooks and What About Now by Lonestar.

Car Shopping

We're car shopping...actually we have been for awhile now. Both of our cars are about ready to call it quits, they've been good cars but we're ready to say goodbye. We spent all day Saturday driving all over the place looking at cars, so far, no luck. We ended up in New Jersey at a place that sells exotic cars and I fell in love with this bright green beauty...
I tried to tell Jaron this is the car I wanted, but when a car is worth more than your house I guess it's probably not the best deal. Although Jaron thought this pretty red one might be nice...
Sadly, I think this one may have cost more than the one I picked out. So we left our contact information with the dealer and told him to give us a call if he ever wants to GIVE a car away to a nice home.
We always see commercials talking about Cici's pizza...but we've never actually seen one. After a very long day of car shopping we were lucky enough to be close to one and decided to test it out. Surprisingly the pizza was pretty good, the service was extremely friendly, and I was dancing in the both the whole time we were eating. Wish there was one closer. Here is Jaron showing our favorite pizza that they had: Chicken & Mushroom...soooo good!

Can we fix it....

Nope....but they can! I don't know what the fascination is, but anytime there are people working outside the kids are in a trance. Mike and Sarah had some work done on their driveway this week and Aspen and Haven were in heaven watching them with the sledgehammer, jackhammer, cement mixer....etc. They would ride around the driveway on their bikes and then stop and do this for the next 10 min. The funny thing is, I looked over and Danian and she was sitting their watching them as well. Who needs toys, just get weekly repairs done at the house and the kids are thoroughly entertained.

Guitars all around

Some friends in the ward invited us over for dinner and as soon as the food was eaten this is what happened. Greg asked Jaron to bring his guitar and the rest of the night Jaron, Greg and Meg were putting on a concert for the rest of us. Meg's little guitar was so cute!

Grecian Festival

Right next to our church building is a HUGE Greek Orthodox church. Every year they put on a big festival and we always miss it...not this year. Our friends Wayne and Naomi came with us to try some great Greek food and see what the buzz was all about.

Wayne and Naomi posing for the camera.


Jaron and I with the USA, Greece and some other flag in the background.

SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE...

I AM SO EXCITED!!

For all you SYTYC Dance fans, Season Premier is this Thursday at 8pm on Fox.

I love you, a bushell and a peck...

My mom came for a visit. We did all the usual tourist activities, here are a few pictures.
Mom and Haven...I think this was like the tenth picture so Haven is giving me his fake smile.
Mom and Aspen playing with Playdough. Isn't that a sweet little smile?
Mom and Danian playing patti-cake.
Here we are in NYC at a little place called The Shake Shack.

Mom and her friend Mary wanted to go see Mary Poppins, since Jaron and I have already seen that show we opted to see Guys & Dolls. I've been wanting to see this one for awhile and I'm so happy we did. We got amazing seats, first row balcony, and to my surprise....Adelaide was being played by Lauren Graham (Lorelei in Gilmore Girls...my FAVORITE show). It was a wonderful show!