Holiday Traditions

Lots of people have lasting family traditions that correlate with the Holidays. My family has 2 traditions that I wanted to share with you. During the Christmas season my family makes Christmas ornaments. My father and sister are artists. They are amazingly talented. My mom even has the artist touch... but me I like to come along for the ride and enjoy the company. Nate has enjoyed this tradition and we now invite our close friends and family to participate. We mostly us Sculpey clay, class and plastic clear ornaments, paint, and any other odds and ends we can find. My sister and I enjoy doing crafts when we hang out and recently we have started making fun holiday letters. We have only done letters for Halloween but we intend to include all of the other Holidays as well. So check these out! The elf was made by my dad, my sister made the Gru and Dobby the elf face, and the rest by friends and myself...

Thriller

I was born in October and every year for my birthday I go to thriller. Since I live in Utah, we always go and see Ballet West's Thriller. It is my ultimate favorite. In 2010 we went to see Thriller at the Tuacan Theatre in St. George, Utah. It is an outside amphitheater against the beautiful red sand mountains in Southern Utah. The ambiance of the theater is fabulous. My best friend Megan and her husband Nate came with us, along with my brother and sister-in-law Dave and Niki. I got to spend an evening with 5 of my most favorite people. I wanted to share some pictures of past Thriller productions. This is a tradition I have had since way back. Before the production starts, dancers in Zombie Costumes walk around in character giving the attendees little scares here and there. In one of the pictures with Dave and Niki you can one of the Zombies wasn't camera shy at all and decided to get her photo taken with them. I don't know if it's the adrenaline rush or what but those Zombies scare me every single time. I think they can smell fear because they always sneak up on me and make me jump about 10 feet off the ground (well not literally but you get the picture)