My Baby. I Have Claimed Her. She is Mine. Sort of.

McKensie

... More pics to come. I have been forgotten and have very few pictures of this lil baby. Sigh.

BABY BABY and Halloween!!!

My niece, McKensie Ann Stout, was born tonight at 7:01 PM.

20 inches, 7 lbs 12 oz.

DETAILS AND PICTURES TO COME.

* And for those of you who went to high school with me... my sister married Brett Stout who graduated with me in '99*

Continuing on...

HALLOWEEN PARTY AT

THE "HAUNTED CHATEAU"

Our front yard friend.

Our pet bird.

The front door!

Me and Lindsey

MY ROOMIES! Gangter Girls.

Don't ask. I'm just SUCH a good dancer.

Lindsey showing off...

Me, Luana, and Kjersti at the Rockin' Rollercoaster at MGM.

I want a door like this in my future house. Into a game room or something... it was fabulous!

Should Be Sleeping...

So I've been working lots this week- no time to post. BUT it's also been a fabulous one- so here I am posting when I should be sleeping. I love blogging.

Showing off "The Card."

I saw the national tour of "The Wedding Singer" in Orlando on Friday night. Terrible show, but the performers were great and I had LOTS of fun!


Visitors from home! YAY! Ben and Luana got engaged a few hours after this...

* BLING * that's bigger than my head!

Pumpkins at the Beauty and the Beast stage. Awwwwww!

Pumpkins at home!!! We're having a big Halloween party here at my house tomorrow night, so tonight Jennlyn, Chuck, and I went CRRRAAAAZY with pumpkin carving. Yeeeah!

These say "Welcome to the Haunted Chateau." Oooooo.

The Long Awaited "CARD".

Today I officially became a member of Actors' Equity. It's a great day in the world of a performer, and even though I've been working under an Equity Principal contract for three months now, I finally OFFICIALLY joined the union TODAY. Now I have this lovely (temporary until my REAL card comes...) fluorescent orange card- with my name on it- that somehow makes my world as a performer a whole lot bigger. Exciting.

WELCOME TO LINDSEY!!!

This is Belle. This is Lindsey. Lindsey and Belle Are Friends.

So a month or so ago I told my good friend Lindsey- who I know from Hale in West Valley- to fly to NYC for the open call Disney was having for my show here at Disneyworld. She flew to New York for a few hours, just enough time to audition, and a week or so later she was offered a contract. Yep- the girl is amazing. Today marked her debut as a dancer at Walt Disney World. I am sooooooooo happy and excited to have her here in Orlando with me. Good, good times, I tell ya.

And now, before I go to bed- I wanna discuss The Office. I have never EVER felt so sorry for either Michael OR Dwight as I did in tonight's episode!!! My heart was breaking for both of them! When Michael took the bus to his other office and had to put that dreaded headset on his head... oh! I wanted to cry. I'm serious! It was painful. I have no good analysis or anything for this episode- I just wanted to say that I felt sorry for those guys. I wonder where the writers are taking all of this...

AND... I LOVED THE JIM AND PAM PARTS. I LIVE FOR THOSE JIM AND PAM MOMENTS. That is all.

Ramblings...

The Thoughts Bouncing Around in My Head Today:

# 1 Dirt and Germs and More Brown Stuff

Steering wheel gunk: Amy's challenge to you for this week- take a cleaning wipe- say one of those orange smelling ones- and wipe off your steering wheel. You will be amazed at what you find. Yuck. I am never touching a Wal-Mart grocery cart and driving my car again!

# 2 Assistance 4 Aubrey

Will someone please go to Aubrey's house and teach her to put photos on her blog. We need to see her cute face and the faces of her cute kids on the Internet. Yup. Jenna?

# 3 Fluffy Tummies Crave JUNK FOOD!

Please explain to me why, right before we ladies are to experience our monthly visit from Aunt Flo, we feel gross and fat - BUT - all we can do is think of eating junk. I know my dear friend Terrah understands what I am talking about... One summer at the Playmill she downed an entire bag of mini Snickers the day her period began. I ask you, WHY? I am experiencing this joyful time in my life right now, and all I could eat for lunch was a bunch of M & M's as I glared down and my bulging mid-section. And did I CARE? Mmmmm... not really! (And I have been so GOOD lately! BLEH!) All I wanna do is eat pizza and candy and chocolate and cinnamon rolls and ANYTHING that is bad for me.

# 4 Men and Their Egos.

They bug me. The end.

# 5 Divine Something

How can anyone look at the world... the sky, the people around us, the ocean, mountains, ANYTHING- and not believe we're here for a REASON?? I have no comprehension of believing that we're all just here by chance and that when it's over- we just cease to exist. Maybe I am simple minded and unaware of what other people comprehend and choose to believe- but I just look at everything around me and am AMAZED by every little thing.

# 6 Like a Birdie

I like to fly. Makes me feel closer to heaven.

# 7 Kim

I hope my roomie Kim gets this new job she's applying for.

# 8 My Other Limb

Uh hem... my microphone has become an extension of my body this week. After 22 shows in five days, I keep feeling like something is missing as I sit here on my computer... at HOME. HELP MY LIFE. Ha.

... And that concludes today's random thoughts ...

Sunny Life in Florida

So I pretty much decided that I don't write enough about my life here in Florida. I had LOTS of things to write about when I was in Hong Kong. I mean, I had things like language barriers, weird smells, and four-year-old primary children to write about when I was there- but here- ya know... it's just life. It's the good ol' USA where I can go to Taco Bell at any given moment, Wal-Mart is a nightly activity, and I can go wherever I want, WHENEVER I want, in my cute little Sophie. I love it. Yep, life is good here in Florida.



My life here is pretty simple and fabulous. I work five days a week. On Sunday and Monday I do all five shows scheduled at the stage. On the other three days, I simply do two or three of the five shows. (The catch is that no matter how much I work- 2 hours or 7 hours, I get paid for a full 8 hours per day... I love my job) I live in a fabulous new house in back of the Magic Kingdom with five girls from the ward. We have great times and I have an amazing bedroom that I will be devastated to part with. Ha ha.

This is my job:

Rawr. Rawr. Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawr. That's pretty much all this Beast says, bless his lil' heart. But I love him anyway I guess.

This is Adam.

I promised Adam- probably a month ago- that I would write about him on my blog. Soooooo here I go- Adam is my best friend at the stage. From the very beginning he opened himself up to me and was just... well, nice to me! We entertain each other- he particularly loves my great dancing skills- we ride bikes, for awhile we had a great text messaging story about Julio's political endeavors, and he's just a fabulous guy. I am bored out of my mind on the days that Adam is not at work with me. Yup. He's 19 (almost 20, I KNOW), and has a great career ahead of him. He's already an Equity dancer here at Disney, and Japan, a cruise ship, and lots of other things are awaiting him I'm sure. Oh yeah- did I mention that he's Episcopalian? (WHATEVER THAT IS!!) Ha ha.



Marcus left the show about two weeks ago to be in the international tour of West Side Story. COOL! This is our engagement photo... even though his boyfriend may get a little jealous... Sorry Seth...

Are all you people envious of my life yet?!?!? Hee hee.

"4 Things"

It's a lovely morning for me here in Orlando... I don't have to be to work till 3:00. Not that my job is EVER that strenuous or anything- but I just finished a run of 15 shows in three days, and I am SOOOOOOOOOOOO over dancing cutlery and a fuzzy Beast whose mouth doesn't move when he talks. Yep, I am over it.

Anyway- got this off of the other girls' blogs:

4 things

4 jobs that i have had

1. Professional Princess
2. House Manager of the fine arts building on BYU campus
3. Cap and gown distributor at BYU during graduation (glamorous, eh???)
4. Retail. Retail retail retail. Mervyns (My FIRST job EVER... I got accused of stealing from my register... sheesh) I also worked at the Children's Place. LOVED that.

4 places that i have lived

1. Layton, UT
2. Orlando, FL
3. Hong Kong, China
4. West Yellowstone, MT

4 favorite foods

1. PIZZA
2. The Great Wall of Chocolate from PF Changs (ANYTHING from that place, as a matter of fact...)
3. Cinnamon rolls
4. Chicken salad from Costa Azul in Provo

4 favorite albums/songs

1. Kelly Clarkson- Breakaway
2. Ben Folds- The Luckiest
3. The Last Five Years (Yep, a musical)
4. Nickleback "Far Away" My addiction to this song came when I discovered it while listening to my iPod on a train in Hong Kong. OBSESSED. I am.

4 places i'd rather be

1. In Maui
2. In NYC watching some Broadway shows
3. IN a Broadway show...
4. At school in Provo. I tell you, I LOVED college. I LOVE BYU!!!

4 favorite movies

1. The Notebook- I AM OBSESSED.
2. Father of the Bride
3. Shrek 2... and Cinderella. Ha.
4. 13 Going on 30

4 favorite books

1. Here's a sad fact of my life- I don't read. I really don't read. Well, I read the Ensign and the scriptures, and occasionally an article from some trashy celeb magazine... but that's it. I have tried time and time again to pick up a book and READ. I just get too ADD. Someone give me suggestions on how to become a reader like I was when I was a kid. Sigh...

I Love Facebook and Professional Theatre. Yes. I do.

This is what I have to say to Heather, Jenna, Kecia, Nichole, Aubrey, Jamie, and anyone else who may be interested:

I LOVE FACEBOOK.

I do. I was always one of those people who was NEVER going to join anything like Myspace or Facebook- but being alone on the other side of the world kind of cracked me of my ways and since March I have been a HUGE fan of it. (Not so much Myspace, but Facebook, YES!) Even Melissa joined the other day, my friends. It is TIME! :-) We can even create our own little group to plans girl parties and whatever else. You find all kinds of old friends on there and YES!!! I AM PROMOTING FACEBOOK ON MY BLOG! HA! :-)

Go sign up. Now.

http://www.facebook.com/

"Now!" I say.

As for my mention of pro theatre... I LOVE IT. I love that today, when one of our guy dancers totally got injured on stage, word immediately spread of what needed to happen, and after only about a minute of chaos, everything was readjusted, the "swing" was in, and the show went on as normal. Ah. I love it. I love my job, have a I mentioned that lately? Yeah- it gets monotonous and sometimes I feel like I will scratch my eyes out if I ever have to see that backdrop or see those dancing spoons ever again... but I get over it and the next day I'm happy as a lark back at work. Life is real good.

Baby Shower in a Suitcase. And Snow. And Hot Dog Dogs.

# 1 Thing About My Weekend in Utah:

SNOW. Really? Come on people...


#2 Thing About My Weekend in Utah:

BABY SHOWER IN A SUITCASE!!

I said of this suitcase,

"I don't care if MY personal suitcase gets lost... just as long as the baby shower-filled suitcase makes it."

Remember that I said this as you continue reading...

I like Frontier Airlines. I didn't even miss The Office Thursday night because, OH! I could watch DIRECTV in THE AIR!!! Happy!

#3 Thing About My Weekend in Utah:

LOSING MY LUGGAGE

Tis true. I got to Salt Lake City at 11 PM on Thursday night, and as I go to Carousel 3 to pick up my luggage, only one of my suitcases appear. 30 minutes later I realized it wasn't showing up. Sooooooooooo for a night I was without my glasses, retainer, and clothes. I totally jinxed myself.

Lesson learned:
Never say that you don't care if your luggage gets lost.

PINK SUEDE BOOTS!!!!

Ah. This baby. I love him.

#4 Thing About My Weekend in Utah:

LATE NIGHT HOT CHOCOLATE RUNS WITH LINDSEY!!!

Cousin Mary's Bridal Shower!

Katrina

Mary with this sexy dancing Kangaroo. Ha.

#5 Thing About My Weekend in Utah:

THE HOT DOG

I have become my mother. I bought this costume at Target for her dog. Help me.