V-Day Dance

Valentine's day and the day after were nice. Danny surprised me with chocolates and beautiful red roses. Aren't they lovely!


Then yesterday our Stake had a Valentine's Dance for us "old married folks". lol It was so much fun! I have a passion for dancing, as many of you know. It is the only thing I miss about being single. The dances every month as a YSA, and the dance clubs in Chico. Dan is more than willing to take me dancing, but there aren't any places really around here(or where we lived in the past) to dance, plus you rarely get dances for married people in the Church. So needless to say I was ecstatic when the dance was announced a month ago! We made sure to get our babysitter 3 weeks ago. I was not going to miss this.

Dan and I had so much fun. The dance had a good sized turnout too. Hopefully they will make it a yearly event. It was nice to have such a wide variety of people there as well. At first it was only Dan and I and one other couple dancing, but slowly others started to come out as well. At the end there was quite a crowd. Some people just sat there at the tables the whole time. I just don't understand that. What is the point of going to a dance if you don't actually get up and dance?!

Anyway Dan and I had fun dancing and being goofy. You realize really quickly how out of shape you are once you start dancing a few fast songs. I am completely out of practice. Had to take a few more breathers that I used to. We were still out there most of the time, at least when there were good songs. We got to fast dance, swing, slow dance, and I attempted to teach Dan how to cha cha. So there was a variety in that aspect. Honestly though the song choices weren't the greatest, there were only a couple that I was really excited to hear and dance to. I could've done so much better at choosing the songs. But "beggers can't be choosers", as the saying goes. So I am just thankful that I got to dance; period.

It was funny because at the end, we had quite a few people come up to us and tell us that they enjoyed watching us dance. *hee hee* I guess I still have my crown as the Dancing Queen! ;D

We had such a wonderful night.

More Photo Manips

Well I promise this will be my last posting(for a while anyway) on Twilight. lol I loved these photoshoped pictures of Kristen Stewart and Rob Pattinson, so I had to share them.

Firstly this is a scene from the "Port Angeles" chapter. I thought the quality of this manipulation was top notch!

Next is just a very sweet one that showcases Bella & Edward's love. Beautiful job on this one.


Last but not least are three shots of Rob that feel very Edward-esque to me.



Smiling at Bella *sigh*..



Oh and I found a site off of Stephenie Meyer's site that is especially for "older" fans of the books. No teenagers allowed. So if you become as obsessed as I am, it is a good place to go. http://www.twilightmoms.com/ They have a forum and a bunch of other stuff. Very fun.

Also breaking news as of a couple days ago. The 4th book "Breaking Dawn", is now available for preorder on amazon and barnes & noble. It comes out at the beginning of August! *squeeeee*

Enjoy!

My Playlist

Music is an important part to the Twilight series. The books are so visual that music just fits into them perfectly. Stephenie Meyer created playlists that she listened to while she was writing each book. That helped inspire each book.

I've created my own Twilight playlist for my iPod. Some of the songs are from Stephenie's lists, and others are ones that I felt fit as well. Not all the lyrics in each song are perfectly perfect fits, but they will have the right overall tone and feeling for me, that they work. This is certainly not the end all list. I continue to add songs to it all the time. Feel free to create your own list, or suggest any songs that you think work. I'm always up for new ideas. :)

1. All I Want Is You-U2
2. Angel-Sarah McLachlan
3. Best I Ever Had (Grey Sky Morning)-Vertical Horizon
4. Breath- Breaking Benjamin
5. Clare de Lune- Debussy
6. Come Away With Me- Norah Jones
7. Come Undone- Duran Duran
8. Dreams- The Cranberries
9. Everybody's Changing- Keane
10. Fade Into You- Mazzy Star
11. Far Away- Nickelback
12. First Time- Lifehouse
13. Forever Young (Special Extended Mix)- Alphaville
14. Got You (Where I Want You)- The Flys
15. Here with Me- Dido
16. High- James Blunt
17. I'm Kissing You- Des'ree
18. I Will Remember You- Sarah McLachlan
19. In My Place- Coldplay
20. Iris- Goo Goo Dolls
21. Just Like Heaven- The Cure
22. Kiss From a Rose- Seal
23. Longer- Dan Fogelberg
24. Love Me- Yiruma
25. Mandolin Rain- Bruce Hornsby & The Range
26. Moonlight Sonata 1 Adagio- Beethoven
27. My Immortal- Evanescence
28. On A Bus To St. Cloud- Trisha Yearwood
29. Over My Head (Cable Car)- The Fray
30. Pictures of You- The Cure
31. Possession- Sarah McLachlan
32. The Reason- Hoobastank
33. Release- Pearl Jam
34. River Flows In You- Yiruma
35. Savin' Me- Nickelback
36. The Scientist- Coldplay
37. Silent Lucidity- Queensrÿche
38. Sing for Absolution- Muse
39. Somebody- Depeche Mode
40. Standing Right Next to Me- Karla Bonoff
41. Starlight- Muse
42. To Make You Feel My Love- Garth Brooks
43. Uninvited- Alanis Morissette
44. Vindicated- Dashboard Confessional
45. Where Are You Going- Dave Matthews Band
46. Who Knew- P!nk
47. With Or Without You- U2

You can check out most, if not all, of the songs on YouTube. To check out Stephenie's complete lists go to http://www.stepheniemeyer.com/ Lots of other goodies there as well. ;)

The Calendar I Made

I made calendars again this year as Christmas presents for our family. Using digital scrapbooking and then having them print them out at Kinko's. They turned out very nice this year. I am pleased. So I thought I'd go ahead and share what I did. At least the top part of each month. The bottoms aren't as exciting, since they don't have the kids pictures in them. You can imagine what the bottom looks like pretty much by what the top looks like. I made them smaller, so there'd be enough space on the blog for them. Click on the picture, to see it bigger. Enjoy...

Crazy, Obsessed Person that I am

WARNING: Very girlie post below. PROCEED AT YOUR OWN RISK!
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I have a new obsession, thanks to Molly Sampietro (Thank you Molly, you changed my life! lol). The Twilight series of books, by Stephenie Meyer. They are mind blowingly good. I would say they are like a cross between Harry Potter and Jane Austen books. Fantasy meets Romance. I read through all three books (each are more than 500 pages) in 6 days time, a couple weeks ago. And I am now reading them over again. Told ya I was obsessed. It's a sickness I tell ya.


Stephenie Meyer has such a talent of making all the characters so real. You can't help but caring for them, and wanting to know what happens to them. And it doesn't hurt that the lead male character is a sexy vampire. Ok I admit it, I'm in love with a fictional character. Didn't I mention I was sick. That's alright, Dan knows and he's ok with it. There are less chances of me ever meeting Edward Cullen, then there are of me meeting Orlando Bloom. So it's all good! lol

Stephenie's 4th book in the series is set to come out this fall. I can't wait! And then she is in the process of writing the first book from Edward's point of view. Very excited about that. Plus on top of all of that, they are in the process of making a movie of the first book. It is set to come out in December. *squeeee* The main actors have been chosen. Pictured below:


Kristen Stewart (not what I pictured Bella to look like, but she is starting to grow on me), and Rob Pattinson (who comes pretty close to how I imagined Edward, so I'm very happy). They are both great at acting, so I have high hopes. Fingers crossed.

Anyway, if you haven't read these books yet, you NEED to. Run out right now and buy the first one; Twilight. That's what I said, RUN! I promise you won't be able to put it down, once you start reading. After you finish the series, you can thank me for changing your life.

Ok, obsessive, delirious, and girlie rant is finished. ;p