Family Pics

About six months ago the whole fam was together at Sunday dinner, which is pretty rare, so we decided to take some photos. However, Bryan and I didn't get the memo. We just showed up and got the surprise when we saw the camera gear set up. By some luck, I wasn't wearing my pajamas, my usual family dinner garb, and we even wore almost the designated colors. I just got the pics, so I thought I'd share a couple of my favs.

Star Struck

Last night we went with my family to the OC Tanner Gift of Music concert with the Tabernacle Choir and the Utah Symphony at the Conference Center. It was so good! First, I learned that the O in OC Tanner stands for OBERT, which I find completely entertaining. The music was excellent. And I'm just gonna cut right to it...the real reason we went was that BRYAN STOKES MITCHELL was one of the guest soloists. I referred to him in a previous post because he's AMAZING! This is the first time I've seen him live, and he totally lived up and even exceeded my expectations. WOW! Aside from hearing his delicious voice, the highlight of the evening was definitely meeting him after the show and getting his autograph. And, I got to tell him in person that when he sang "Sarah, come down to me." in the musical Ragtime, it was the greatest moment in music history. :) If you haven't heard it, DO!

The black and white photo is an attempt to hide the rosy cheeks from running to the JSMB to get in line.

HE WROTE MY NAME!!! (fanning face rapidly with hand)

Is It Just Me?

So, please say I'm not the only one who does this...Last night I chose fashion over reason. I fell in love! I fell for these beauties...

And I had to have them! It didn't matter that they're 1/2-1 size smaller than my actual feet. And I'm not even sure I have much to wear with them, not to mention that technically I'm not supposed to wear open-toed shoes to work, where I spend a huge majority of my time. All that mattered was they're HOT and I also scored them on a clearance sale. Now ladies, I'm pretty sure I'm not the only woman who has done this, but help me out...what have you done for the love of a piece of clothing?

Swiss Days

It has been a Burgon tradition since the dawn of time (or at least as long as I can remember) to go up to Midway every year for Swiss Days. We usually go up on Saturday, but I heard there's better stuff and fewer people on Friday. So, Bryan and I took the day off work and went to Swiss Days and Park City for a fun day of shopping and much needed worklessness.

On Saturday we went up again with the rest of the Burgon bunch. Since we had done the hard core shopping the day before, we got to enjoy more of the entertainment, like the Swiss Miss Royalty (pictured below), the children's choir (if you ever go, don't worry about that part unless you just want an excuse to cool off in the back by the fan), and of course, the very entertaining yodeler! It's an event I always look forward to!

I also got some cute art and crafty project ideas, so if any of you are interested in craft night with Haylie, let me know.

It's Been A While

I have not been a faithful blogger lately, so here is a little bit of what I've been up to the last few weeks...
PICNIC IN THE CANYON

BIRHTDAY CELEBRATION

3 YR ENGAGE-AVERSARY

GIRL FUN

AND A NEW POSITION AT WORK THAT KIND OF TAKES OVER MY WORLD

When was the last time you did something spontaneous & maybe a little crazy???

For me...LAST NIGHT! After a long drought of excitement in my life, I snagged a willing friend totally last minute and went to the Jordin Sparks concert. Since I'm pretty much responsible for Jordin winning American Idol, I thought it might be cool to go hear her, but didn't really give it much thought. I thought the concert was tonight (Tuesday), so at the end of the day at work I decided to look on KSL for some last minute tickets. Well, turns out it was totally Monday not Tuesday. I got my friend Liz (who was also a faithful voter that season), to agree to come with me, got a bunch of names and numbers of ticket sellers, and had her and Bryan start pursuing the best deal. ) Of course, they were all sold already. I gave up a little bit and was a little bummed that my little Monday night adventure wouldn't happen. As I was discussing the lost hope with Liz, Bryan called the Abravanel Hall ticket office. And don't worry...not sold out! In fact, we got 7th row, mid stage tickets. Sweet! Anyway, it was 5:45 and the concert started at 7, so I booked it to change out of my work attire, took Bryan to our dinner plans that I ditched out on (thanks for being understanding), and sped back to get Liz and get our tickets. We had such a blast! I can't remember the last time I went to a concert. Probably when I was the age of all the little girls who were there all dressed up as if they actually believed Jesse would notice them and sweep them off on the romance of their dreams. Here are a few pics...

Prima J (opening act with entertaining dancing)

Jesse McCartney (attracter of piercingly high-pitched screams...and notice the one finger up on the nose thing...I can't decide if that's a trade mark or he doesn't know he's doing it or how stupid it looks)

Jordin Sparks (you're welcome)

(cuz i was just that close!)

The Rainbow Connection

I just wanted to share a pretty that we saw this evening amongst our Saturday night adventures.