A Foggy day..... and more

It is foggy today which makes the trees gorgeous, the driving hazardous, and the inversion still bad....no snow. Where is the promised snow?

The Happy Family

Our little Ry guy is still the most beautiful baby in the world...you can tell I am the grandma...all grandmothers have the most beautiful, smart, etc...grandchildren. they are home and happy, very tired, but happy. I told J & L that they wouldn't have a good nights sleep for another 20 years..... J stayed up and watched him sleep last night. Gary says he remembers doing that. I remember even when you stop staying up regularly you still have nights when you stay up and watch them sleep. Ahhh to be new parents all over again.

Hayden in All Shook Up

Jayne, Jenna & Hayden after the Show
All Shook Up is almost over.....Hayden has been awesome in his role of Dennis. Cousin Jenna has also been fabo as Natalie. This show is fun, the audiences love it, people are telling their friends, the kids are have figured out how fun and funny it really is....they should trust Angela more. Anyway everyone has now discovered that the hubbub over content was just that hubbub..... overall I think we all have a great appreciation for the songs of Elvis, and the fun of the 1950's.

I finished up the Christmas presents this week. We wanted to take the family to see 110 in the Shade with Audra McDonald and Will Swenson when they come to Utah this summer for a fundraiser at the Hale Theatre Orem.... well, I scored us our tickets yesterday.... I had to wait until Utah residents could buy them....at first the phone was busy, but when I got through it was so easy to get tickets....I guess it pays to have previously purchased form the theatre. They had all my info and it was slick. We are all so excited!

The Weekend is here and there is still lots do do...just not as much as last week, yeah!

I am thinking let the New Year begin......I know it is mid January, but now I have the time to focus on 2010.

MCC

Opening Night

It's Opening Night...always exciting....for All Shook Up! It is such a fun show. I am glad that we have been a part of it.
The dancing is fabulous, the singing is great, the direction and staging is awesome, and if I do say so myself the costume design isn't half bad.
Jenna and Hayden are the highlights of the show, be it their lead or chorus nights. You watch them. They are in the moment and focused. Jenna plays Natalie, a girl pretending to be a boy. She is great...she looks just like her brother Aaron which is so funny. Hayden plays the nerdy best friend who is in love with Natalie. They both are great actors and singers so it is a pleasure to watch them.
I remember my opening nights of High School shows. We thought that we were so good....but I am sure we were just High School.....the fun on and off stage, the friendships that were made...Both Gary and I still have friends from those days and when we see or talk with someone from our High School shows that we haven't seen since then it's as if time has stood still.....I remember some of my lines and songs, and choreography...."Sing Out Louise!" "Spit and Chew" Quite Backstage, the live high school orchestra---not great, but memorable.......ahhh the memories.
Break A Leg!
MCC

Friday Things and Thinks

Friday has arrived ....and with it more rain and snow!?!?!Okay, so I want spring to return, but in the mean time I will have to amuse myself with things and thoughts that make me as joyful as spring.

All Shook Up-- definitely made me feel joyful and spring like.

We took the family the Hale Center Theatre In Orem to see All Shook Up last night. This

musical is scored by 25 songs made famous by Elvis Presley. The story is set in middle America in 1955, but the themes of the story are as old as time....You can definitely find the mix ups and mayhem associated with Shakespeare's comedies, Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, As You Like it and A Midsummer Nights Dream. The cross dressing aspects of As You Like It and Twelfth Night, Cause this musical to be a real fun comedy. It is fluffy and light, with a happily ever after ending.

I wasn't as familiar with the Elvis music as I was with the plot's inspiration, but I did love the songs and how they author intertwined the lyrics to make the story progress. I decided to see what the Broadway reviewers said about this show since it is one we missed in our New York journeying.....they didn't really love it, but I found one review that said "Were it staged in a pint-size theater with cardboard scenery and a campy young cast, All Shook Up might be a moderate hoot"....which it was at the HCTO. The only thing that bothered me about the whole production was that the had changed up some of the song order form the Original Broadway Cast recording and synopsis that I have....but I got over that. Apparently that is how it was changed for the national tour.

The Little Lady Agency--- Hilarious book series by Hester Browne.I found this series because it had a recommendation from Sophi Kinsella who wrote the Shopaholic books..... Set in Great Britain, but the second book is in the USA, is about Melissa Romney-Jones who runs an agency called "the Little Lady Agency." She is hired to help men sort out their problems, advise them on the real reasons they are social misfits, and tries to dress and shape them up a bit so that they can them take care of things on their own.

Good Food-- Strawberries, yummmmm!

I made Strawberry Cheese Cake Trifle for a get together we are attending to night. While cleaning the strawberries i think I ate a cup of them....my belly aches.

This is a great desert to show off with, it taste great, and looks pretty.

Strawberry Cheesecake Trifle

2 8oz. packages of cream cheese, softened

2 cups powdered sugar

8 oz sour cream

1/2 teaspoon vanilla

1/4 teaspoon almond extract

12 oz. Cool Whip. thawed

4 Tablespoons granulated sugar

1 Angel Food cake, torn or cubed into bite size pieces

16 oz. frozen strawberries

Mix together cram cheese, and powdered sugar until fluffy; add sour cream, vanilla and almond extract.

Gently fold Cool Whip into cream cheese mixture: gently stir cake pieces into cream cheeses mixture; set aside.

Combine berries and granulates sugar, stirring until sugar is dissolved.

Layer in a large glass bowl 1/4 of berries, then top with 1/3 of cream cheese mixture; continue layering; finish with berries.

**Fresh Strawberry option

Clean and slice 4 cups of Strawberries.

Make Strawberry Danish Dessert prepare as for pie filling; set aside and slightly cool. Add Sliced strawberries to Danish Dessert. Use this berry mixture in place of the frozen berries and sugar.

Off to find more spring like things.

MCC