Tale as Old as Time...

Us crazies, goofing off in the West Wing...

This is for Leah, who's been BEGGING for posts (; And Aunt Rusty, who wants to see some Beauty and the Beast pictures!! Really, the play was absolutely amazing. MAGICAL. Someone said it was better than the movie, and someone said it was better than the broadway show (and he saw that one as well). That was our BIGGEST possible compliment. It really was absolutely FANTASTIC. Not to brag, but I was great... (: My lead partner Konnor, who played Lumiere, stole the show, I'll admit...but I wasn't too far behind him, I think! I played Babette, the flirty feather duster...affectionately nicknamed Babs (: We got the BIGGEST applause out of everyone in the bows. That was my favorite part of the show most nights. IT WAS JUST SO AMAZING! So glad to be a part of this! The set alone was just incredible, and it stinks to say was instead of is....we had to tear it down the night of our last performance. Sad to see it go (especially since it went up with about 5 months time, and went down in 2-3 hours). But here are some pictures!

Me and my cousin Sarah, after the show

Beast, on the West Wing singing If I Can't Love Her

Principle Cast, plus a little girl and Ms. Coleman, our main violinist in the orchestra!

A good techie friend Ryan, and me in my human get-up!

Belle, the first song...in a poor provincial town

Belle and Maurice

Haha, Belle and Gaston!

Gaston and his silly girls

My leading partner, Lumiere! He's amazing!

THE WEST WING!

Madame de Le Grande Bouche(wardrobe), Beast and Lumiere

Belle's bedroom! Yes we built that, and covered all the wood with foam!

In Something There

Half of the cast, in the finale...I got cut off, as did the other wing. Oh well!

ANOTHER Long-Winded Update!

Alright, I think you know what time it is! 
It's Been-So-Long-Since-We've-Done-Anything-On-the-Blog-We-Have-to-Let-Everyone-Know-We're-Still-on-the-Face-of-the-Earth time!

-Dani and Josh are now BOTH in South America on missions...we haven't heard anything from Josh for a while and we're just hoping it's because he just got out of the MTC down there...?

 -Dani told some investigators that Christ could take away their dead fish...in Spanish, a very similar word to "sins." She's doing great though!

 -Kyle is doing his homework...without being ASKED first. Expect UFOs to appear soon to give us back the REAL Kyle.

 -I'm loving Beauty and the Beast but the rehearsal schedule is driving me CRAZY...get to school 7:50 some mornings and stay there until 7, get to school at 6:30 other mornings and stay there till (can you guess?) 7. FUN. (It actually is fun...just exhausting. And life consuming.) On top of that I have an AP US History class (APUSH), and I'm kind of freaking out.

 -Mom is ALSO freaking out, and its ALSO for school work. She's taking Physical Science and Musical History classes. She has Caitlin, Dani's roommate in her music class!

 -Grandpa is doing lots and lots better after his surgery

 -It SNOWED. The mountains are covered with SNOW. It's the beginning of October! BLAH.

 -(The one I don't want to write about): Yesterday Jarah was put down. She was 10 years old, and she had cancer that was causing her a lot of pain, once it grew back after her last surgery. We could tell it was a lot for her to go through the surgery alone, and we knew next time she had problems, this is what we had to do. Well, recently she hasn't been eating again, and she's had diarrhea. She was just hurting and we knew the cancer was back and we had to let her go. She is the sweetest, cutest, mellowest, BEST dog ever and we miss her a lot, but we're happy to know she's out of pain.

 -We're not sure about our holiday plans yet...whether we'll make it to Seattle, host a party for homeless begging college students...these are questions yet to be answered.

-I THINK that's all for us...everyone out there, come see Beauty and the Beast by Wasatch High School! October 25, 26, 28, and 29! COME SEE IT! IT'S AWESOME!