GRADUATION... and OFF TO NYC I GO!

The Traditional "Last Day of Finals" French toastix and Standing next to my grandpa's name in the BYU Memorial Hall.








Hey everyone! I am now a graduate of Brigham Young University. I now hold a BFA in Music/Dance/Theatre. I really want to write more, but I need to get to bed. I leave for NYC tomorrow, and as luck would have it, I have been really sick all week long. I don't have much of a voice. Our show is Monday. I am sort of in a panic. I need all your prayers so I'll be able to sing on Monday!!!! Love to you all! More later! Here're some GRADUATION pictures!



All my fellow MDT grads...



The MDT kids at the brunch we had after graduation

Oh the changes... (Be warned... this is a sentimental post...)

Wow. So this past week has been- and the week to come will be- full of changes in my life!!!

Really, when it rains it pours- and with the way this weekend has been I really have just stepped back and gone "WHOA." The fact that I am graduating on Friday is really starting to hit me, my dad got remarried yesterday, AND we located my house that fell down the hill. There is a loooong backstory to the last situation, but its kewl, and for those of you who knew what my little house used to look like, you will be amazed at how great it looks now!

Let's start with the story of my house: As most of you know, I grew up in Layton. I lived in a little white house with pretty red brick. Well, five years ago this summer, my little house "fell down the hill" of Heather Drive when a landslide occured. The landslide destroyed three houses, and ours was removed from it's foundation after we evacuated, and put on the front lawn. Soon after that, a big truck came and took my little house away and put it in a field by Grocery Outlet. It stayed there for awhile, and was then moved to another field up by Hill Air Force Case. More than a year ago, our little house disappeared from the field. We've had no clue where it was- until two days ago. Kate, my new step-sister, was on a tour with her high school interior design class. Next to the house they visited, she was told, was a housee that had been involved in the landslide a few years ago. IT IS MY HOUSE. On Friday, before a family dinner, I went to see my little house. I had this weird pit in my stomach as I drove closer and closer to it, and when I finally saw it, my heart was really happy. The outside of the house looks FANTASTIC. It is now a grey-ish tan colored stucco with stone where the brick used to be. Can I just say that it is really freaky to l0ok at the house you lived in for 15+ years- know it is your house- but not really recognize anything?

Then I went inside. Everything- for the most part- has been gutted. As I stood in the bedroom I grew up in, everything finally hit me. I was gone when the landslide happened, and I hadn't lived at home for two years- but as I stood in my little bedroom I finally- after five years- grieved. The thing that set me off was that among everything being gutted around me, the wallpaper from my bedroom had recently been torn off the walls and was in a pile on the floor. My pink wallpaper, and my flowered wallpaper, was scattered in shreds all over my room. It really made me sad- sad for the fact that that's MY home, and after five years I was finally in there again- only nothing was the same. Just lots of hilarious memories that now seemed weirdly ghostlike. (Yeah- I am in a dramatic writing mood tonight- can ya tell??) It was SOOOOO bizarre to look out my bedroom windows and not see what belongs there... the brown house from across the street on Heather Drive. I have never had such a weird, surreal, feeling in my life. So I sat in the middle of my room among the white dust and construction, and for the first time that I can remember- I cried that my house "fell down the hill." There's this old Disney cartoon called "The Little House." It is the story of my little house. Ü The last time I saw my house it looked something like this:


Now, after five years of being a sad little house, my little house that used to be white with red brick, now looks like.... (Drumroll please...)

THIS!!!

If you look at the carport you can see that it's still buckled a bit- thanks to the trauma the poor house has been through!!! BUT, I am so happy that the little house I grew up in is finally in a neighborhood again. The inside of it is going to look great- they are keeping our bathroom shower tiles- which is nice. SOMETHING from my old home will still be recognizable!

Anyway, wow- I have tons more to write about. BUT I have a final tomorrow- I should be studying- not blogging! :-) More later!

Another Quote from Amy's Dating Life :-)

I'm not doing this to make boys scared that they're going to be the next guy quoted on Amy's blog, but some of these are just too good to pass up.

Via text message: "I see all these guys around you and find myself wondering what are you looking for in a guy that you haven't been able to find yet. Are you looking for a guy?"

I have no response to that- A comment from my home teacher who ALSO texted me once a few weeks ago saying,

"Are you as DELECTABLE today as you were at 18?"

I have no response to that either....

FUN TIMES WITH THE GIRLS!

Me, Hillary, and Lisa
Me and "Hellary"
HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!
So tonight Lisa, Hillary, and I got together in Salt Lake and ate at the Macaroni Grill. We haven't seen each other for a long time, so it was awesome to catch up, share stories, and just walk around Salt Lake... for a few minutes! Hill drove down from Logan, and Lisa and I came up from Provo. LICIA, we missed you, but thought of you! :-) Anyway, for those of you who don't know, Lisa and Hillary were my roomies back in the days of Ricks College. Fun, fun times! I love you girls so much!

I am almost in my last week of school EVER! Tuesday is the last day of classes, and after that, finals come. Things should be pretty easy from here on out. Weird. I am graduating. :-) Pretty exciting!

I had my first "Crazy For You" rehearsal today. I will be perfoming in the MWF cast and will do matinees on Saturdays at 12:30. So yeah... the link to the theatre site is: http://www.halecentretheatre.org/new/ Check it out. :-)

My last day at work is on Tuesday. I have ADORED my job, and especially love the people I work with. I will miss Cy, Jamen, Andrew, Cynthia, and everyone else soooo much! I have really been lucky with my job the past two years. It was such a great one to have while I was in school. (Sigh...)

Anyway, so there's life for today! Happy Easter to all!

2 weeks and counting!

I keep taking my camera places to take pictures, and for some reason my camera is killing batteries in like 10 minutes. Makes me sad!!! :-) Anyway... I GRADUATE IN TWO WEEKS. That's really hard to believe! After two years of Ricks, trying out Weber, going BACK to Ricks (BYU-Idaho), and FINALLY coming down here to the "Y", I am done with college. Which also means that I get to go to New York in a little over two weeks. I am a happy girl! I am staying there until May 12, and then I will coming back here to do Crazy For You at the Hale. After that, no clue. :-) Taking things a day at a time!!! :-)

So the quote of the week in Amy's dating life is, "Amy, you're what my mom would call "well cooked." Does anyone understand why I am tired of dating?? :-) Ha ha.

Anyway, that's all for tonight. :-)

Discoveries about blogging :)

Hi again all. Soooooooooo today I found out that I had a block on to moderate my comments! Thanks to Jason, and my cousin Brooke, I have discovered things about this blog that I had NO clue about! I am proud to say that I had comments awaiting my approval. Hee hee. (One of them was one from my cousin who told me all about ways to set up to see how many people look at my site... etc etc etc.) AWESOME! Thanks, Brooke, for the info! Anyway, things are good- I am working on a research paper about one of my ancestors right now for my church history class. Pretty interesting. :-)

SPRING, Alicia, and Crazy For You

IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE 61 Degrees on Monday- I am thankful.
Tap, tap... is this thing on? I know I haven't posted pictures, but I need some comments here people! Ha, just kidding. I am just doing nothing on a Sunday night and don't want to feel pathetic because I am writing on a blog that no one looks at. :-)


Well, it was a great weekend! I was running around a lot, but I was thankful for all the things I got to do! Alicia came into town this week, and I was so excited to go up to Ogden and see her on Saturday afternoon before she left. I just watched while she and Chris packed, and we talked, and ate, and she went back to West Virginia, but hey- it was SOOOOOO good to see her and we laughed because as she packed we were comparing clothes... she ended up changing into something almost exactly like I was wearing and we took some pics... but OF COURSE my camera pooped out and wouldn't work, so she's gonna post those pictures. :-) I love Licia!

Graduation is getting closer. I didn't realize it till today, but there are only like two weeks left of classes. Yikes. I have lots to do in those two weeks. :-) Hee hee. I am taking suggestions on what to do with myself after I graduate... anyone? And I WILL NOT say yes to anyone who says, "Marry me" as a comment on my blog. I have had too many guys asking me out over TEXT MESSAGING lately- and I say NO to technological advances! :-) Ha ha.

I just got cast as Polly in Crazy For You at the Hale Center Theatre in West Valley. It runs in June and July. I'll post more info eventually. It is an amazing theatre and I am really excited to work there. The stage is incredible. So we'll see how that goes!

Peace out all. Loves.