Fathers Day Apart

This is our first Holiday apart. It's no fun. Jon, I wanted to give you a little bit of home today- so here are a bunch of videos & pictures of Breezie for you. We miss you so much.
Jon, you are the best Daddy & the best Husband! Thank you for giving us your love so freely. Thank you for all that you sacrifice for us.


Breezie singing I'm so glad when Daddy comes home.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2wndWlB9ZY

Breezie singing I love to see the Temple
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnn71q2U_Ig

Your little monkey

We went to the 32nd Street Fair yesterday and completely exhausted ourselves. Breezie found a song she liked and man, did she dance! THIS IS A MUST SEE!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2LynxazOw8

This was a while ago, but I just love how she belts out with all her might
singing Somewhere out there!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rOCMaU38OQ

HAPPY FATHERS DAY SWEETHEART!

Meeting Mindy & Meaghan!

I have been following Mindy Gledhill & her music for years and she is seriously a hero of mine. Basically I want to do what she is doing! It was so fun to go to her concert. I made sure to be very early so I could get a good seat. We were front row 'til there was no more room in back and people started filling up in front of us. I got there early enough to see her rehearsing and I went and introduced myself. When the concert started the announcer said; " Who's the biggest Mindy Gledhill fan?" I stood up jumping up and down yelling & pointing to myself. There was a guy right infront of us that was doing the same thing, but I had power in numbers, I think because Deb's stood up with me I got the CD- woo hoo! I love the anchor album. If you don't recognize her name you'd probably recognize some of her music. She is on Sounds of the Sabbath.

Me enjoying Mindy's dreamy voice.

Me dreaming of being on stage.

Which I found out how this might be a possibility. There's this program called the sound-check series. They have Industry Pros come in and give you advice on your songs. They also hold auditions for opening the show at concerts such as this. Sign me up!

I got to meet Ryan Innes who has an AWESOME voice. He opened the show. I think he may have invented falsetto. I was also feeling rather short all night.The crowd grew to be almost 3,000 people. All on a cozy little rooftop under the stars.Now for Meagan Smith. She has a beautiful voice and such a grace on stage. She was so cute and funny. Her album was picked up by Warner Brothers and is featured on the movie 500 Days of Summer. When I asked her for advice when I met her I was surprised at her response. She said; "Oh your a songwriter; we need to talk" Asked for my email address and to send her some examples of my work! How thoughtful of her. I was excited that I actually have examples now for situations like this. Not just a very strong desire in me that is struggling to get out. When she responded back she had nothing but good things to say about my music. Woo hoooo!!!

So there is my fun filled night full of wonder and music!
Talk to you soon. . . .

Story Book Land

Part of our Louisiana Trip We went to explore a big park and ran into Story Book Land. We actually got in for free because they were about to close. For the most part it was just us. We had a wonderful time playing with Breeze and watching her have the time of her life.
This Dragon Slide was so fast. I went down it with Breezie and ran right into Jon at the bottom. If he wasn't there we would have taken quite a spill. Then Breeze wanted to go down by herself. We thought for sure she was going to back out, or want one of us to come up with her. To our surprise down she went. She got a burn on her elbow in an attempt to slow herself down, but we were so proud of her for being brave!

"I'm just a Princess!"

As fast as she went into to the Whale, she wanted out. She wasn't sure about the rushing water at the back of his mouth.

New Orleans!

The first time Jon went to New Orleans right away he said I'm gonna have to bring you here. It is a town all about music. Boy was he right! Breeze and I went last month and LOVED it. It is hot which I always love, and I am now a huge fan of Gumbo & Beignets. We went walking around down town just about every night until we dropped!Getting there was a whole other story! Breeze & I had free flights, so we didn't have first choice on the day and when to fly. Breanna was going with Jon on a later flight and I was scheduled for an 8 hour journey with two connecting flights. It was one of those days where the universe was aligned in such a way that everything that could possibly go wrong - did! It started that morning when my ride to the airport fell through. I won't go into every detail of the day- After I checked in, the flight was delayed. Just when I started to worry about making my connecting flight I found out there were tornado's and dollar coin size hail going on within 20 miles of the airport. One good thing; I was actually able to transfer to the same flight as Jon and Breeze. With all the delays, we ended up rollin' in to New Oreleans just before 3:00 am. My bags didn't arrive because they were still on the connecting flight I was originally scheduled for. We went all over trying to find a rental car company that was open. Finally we found one and we were on our way to the hotel. To top it all off the Hotel lost our reservation so we had to go somewhere else. The next day it was nothing but play and fun!!!
The Honey Island Swamp Tour was a blast. Jon liked this one better than the air boat tour in Florida.

This 7 foot alligator was literally 4 feet from us!These amazing trees were a common sight down there. The Spanish moss is so enchanting.The Baton Rouge Louisiana Temple. It was nice to be able to hang out with Dave too since he recently took a job with Jasper.About an hour drive and Beautiful the whole way! I wish our free ways looked like this.

The Party bus is one of my favorites. An open top bus blasting music with people dancing and a light show as it drives by can be nothing but fun. If you dance when it goes by, they will throw you beads. As you can see, we ended up with quite a collection. Plus people would just hand Breezie beads as we walked by. She is a magnet for free things. Everywhere we go people are giving her things.

Dance the night away. Often the restaurants/ bars would have open walls where you could walk right by the musicians.

I'm teaching Breanna to be a "Mod-Bod" So excuse the cute little midriff. I was pulling her shirt down all night.

The ultimate swing chair. It looks like a thrown. I thought it was so funny, I had to take a pic.