I've Been Tagged!

...Twice! My sister Angie tagged me in her blog and my great friend Becca Dall sent me the same tag in a wonderful email. So now I get to answer a bunch of questions about myself, which is kind of fun because I get to pretend that everyone else is as interested in thinking about me as I am. You'll have to read all the way to the end to find out if I've tagged you or not....I guess my options are limited to a)people who I know read my blog. b)people who have their own blog. By the way I really tried to stick to the script but couldn't help changing some of the questions here and there....which I deem legal as of this moment. So here we go:

4 jobs I've had
1. I think my very first official job was at BRG research doing phone surveys.
2. Teaching violin
3. Freelance Recording
4. Violin coaching at BCC High school.


Places I've lived
1. Provo/Orem, Utah
2. Winston-Salem, NC
3. Vienna, Austria
4. Silver Spring, MD

Movies I love
1. The Count of Monte Cristo
2. Dead Poets Society
3. Pride and Prejudice
4. Anne of Green Gables and Avonlea
5. Our Mutual Friend
6. Emma
7. Joseph
8. Thoroughly Modern Millie

Movies I like
1. 13 Going on 30
2. The Truman Show
3. Mickey Blue Eyes
4. Disney's The Kid

Movies my kids cycle through over and over
1. Mary Poppins
2. Emporer's New Groove
3. Aladdin

Favorite Foods (It's so subjective. I really have to be in the mood)
1. Fresh Raspberries or Blueberries
2. Banana Cream Pudding
3. Garlic Bread

Favorite Pop Music/Bands
1. Karen Carpenter
2. Francis Cabrel

Favorite Classical Music
Any Brahms Chamber Music. Most Tchaikovsky

If I Could Have One Super Power...
The ability to freeze time. Think about how much more you could get done in a day!
(I shamelessly copied this from Angie. But how can you top this one...really?)

4 weird things about me
1. I get dagger-nose at night or whenever I'm really tired.
2. I get really excited about choral conducting.
3. I check my email more times a day than I care to admit.
4. I never tire of listening to my Winter's Solstice CD, which I'm starting to suspect that Stone may have confiscated by now because I can't find it and I think he does get tired of it.

Favorite Shows
That would have to be "The Office" which I always feel guilty for watching but still am not able to give it up. Other than that I don't watch TV.

Places I'd rather be I'm pretty happy where I am now but if I had to choose....
1. In UT with my family
2. In CO with my Sis who just had a baby

People I'm tagging

1. Claude Richards
2. Becky Rogers
3. Angela Robbins
4. Joy Sorenson

okay, okay, so if you've been tagged and you don't have a blog then just email me...or better yet, start one so we can keep tabs on you.

Pumpkin Days at Butler's Orchard

We had a fun family trip to Butler's Orchard to usher in the Fall Season....even though it still feels like Summer. There were so many fun activities there for kids and we only captured a few of them on camera. For me, the main attraction was the hayride to the pumpkin patch.



We selected our pumpkin and when we got on the wagon to ride back to the festivities, The Nogster insisted on holding the pumpkin the whole way.



The next best thing was the petting zoo with farm animals, which I knew the boys would love. Only the goats seemed interested in us at the time, but they were very friendly and even-tempered. Nogster completely loved them. I never thought I'd say this but I think he needs a dog.



Stone liked the slides. You have to sit on a burlap sack to go down.




The Blond Guy's favorite was the hayloft with big bales of hay for jumping off...




Nogster liked driving the mini John Deere tractors and climbing around the wooden train. On the whole it was a great day. The boys fell asleep in the car on the way home.

The Blond Guy's First Violin Performance

We have a little violin made of felt and other crafty items that The Blond Guy finally realized that he could pretend to play on today. I gave him a pencil for a bow and he was set. Now for my disclaimer: Even though playing the violin, and even asking me to accompany him on the piano was completely his idea, this video makes it look like it was my idea....and that's only because Stone and I were working so hard at trying to capture this moment on film. We had to take a lot of footage to get anything remotely worth writing home about.



Jesus said love everyone,
Treat them kindly, too.
When your heart is filled with love,
Others will love you.

Nothin' like a good pair of underpants

This morning Nogster found a pair of The Blond Guy's underpants and insisted that I put them on him. Yeah, despite being nonverbal he can definitely be insistent. I think these underpants have some superhero powers....at least, they make him look like a superhero.