White Mountain Tour!

What a great way to start spring break than to start it off with a tour!! Well, for the most part it was alot of fun. It is so exhausting doing so many shows in such a short time, but at the same time it was alot of fun, except for my knee acting stupid. Everything during the first day was going great until our night show in St. John. We were doing our company set dancing to "Rock Around the Clock", and there is a part where the girls have a lil dance break. I was having alot of fun and nailing the dance when my knee popped out of place. Yeah it hurt like no other, but the show must go on. Luckily, I have the best sister and friends in the world!! They took great care of me through the entire tour. Thanks you guys :) Anyway, the rest of the tour was kind of not as fun just because I was in pain the entire time.However, I realized something, I will do anything to keep performing, it's what I live for! Anywho, as always tour was fun but by the end of tour I was sooooo exhausted and ready to be home, 7 shows in 3 days will kill ya!

Our day started at 4am, we were DEAD!!

We got to play in the snow...I LOVE SNOW!!!!

My "mommy" taking care of me

We look like absolute dorks!!

I look sick!

Ms. Katie got engaged the night before we left on tour!! YAY!!!

Some of my favorite people :)

Yeah, we are pretty much gangsta!! haha I love Princess!!

It was kind of sad to think that this is probably one of my last tour, but all good things must come to an end! It was a blast while it lasted!! Now i just need to figure out what to do with my life...easy right?

Confessions of a Theater Nerd/ Music Dork!!

So my good ol friend Lauren tagged me for this. I guess i'm supposed to come up with 10 confessions about myself. Its kind of werid because Ive never thought about this kind of stuff before today and things the most poeple find "werid" i dont find as werid. So here it goes....

1. I make really werid noises...it really isnt uncommon for me to make some random noise. Sometimes im not aware that they come out, until my friends give me werid looks after the sound has been made.

2. I can impersonate guy voices. It all started when I was like 6. I fell in love with the movie Oklahoma, I watched it so many times that I could do a one man show. Well i started to sing like a man, and i guess it has just stuck with me cuz my voice is naturally low. Seriously tho, sometimes i catch myself singing the bass line in church.

3. I love Elvis Presley!! He was one I could personate really well, including the his hip movements. I loved his "Blue Swade shoes" and "hound dog"!! Oh and i can do his little lip thing too :)

4. I am the BIGGEST musical theater freak!!! I can tell you anything about a show, who was in it, if it won any awards, and when it opened. Its not uncommon for me to be sitting in the office having the broadway channel playing and i can tell you what show, whether not it is a revival cast , and who is singing.

5. Im a big choir/orchestra person. I can be sitting in a concert and I can probably sing along, or finger the bass part on my arm. Or I can tell you the composer of the song and a random fact about them.

6. I am deathly afraid of thunderstroms! It all started when i was like 6 and we were watching the Olympics. It was storming outside and all of a sudden our neighbors huge tree fell down. Ever since i get really jumpy and I plug my ears :(

7. I am the most insecure person. I have the hardest time being myself around people. I always think people are watching me and judging me. I think thats why im so awkward at times because im not confident and so it ends up being something awkward.

8. I have singing dreams. Its not uncommon for me to have my dreams that consists of nothing but music. Sometimes I wish my dreams would come true and that everything in my life would be music...oh wait it is almost that way.

9. Im scared about my future. Im finishing up my two years at EAC and i have no idea what to do with my life. it seems like everything i wanna do back fires and i end back in the same place...nowhere! I wish i had more answers

10. I am soooo clumbsy. As a kid i would run into things, or fall, or have things get dropped on me, thats why i have so many scares. Oh and my balance is horrible, sometimes i can just loose my balance when im standing, its funny cuz one minute im up and the next im down.



Well those are mine. Its now your turn!! I dont know who to tag, so feel free to do it. Actually I want you to do it, so do it!!!

SUPERCALIFRAGILISTICEXPIALIDOCIOUS!!!

So last weekend my sister and I were lucky enough to go see "Mary Poppins", can I just tell you right now that ...I LOVE THAT SHOW!!! Everything about it was AMAZING!!! I was in awe the entire time because... A) I got to see\meet one of my favorite performers EVER!! B) The special effects were soooooo cool, its not everyday that you see someone tap upside down. C) I just LOVE musical theater!!! It was sooo great to take a weekend and have alot of fun, Ive been so stressed with school so it felt so great!

Me and Bert!

MARY POPPINS!!!

I now feel energized to finish off the semester!!!!!!

MY WONDERFUL ROOMMATES!!!

So this semester I'm soooo lucky to have some of the funnest roommates EVER!! Of course they do tend to keep me up at night but I do love them!! They are so much fun! This last weekend we decided to take some roommate pics just because we are cool like that. Here are some of the pics I had fun editing :)

I can't wait to see adventures we have this semester. Its gonna be a BLAST!!!

Christmas Break!

It is soooo werid to think that 2009 is now officially gone!! I cant believe how fast it went by, and I hope it goes by fast cuz I wanna be done with school!!! Anywho, my break was soooo much fun! I spent alot of time with family and my good ol friends back in Mesa. As always we had our Jones family party a few days before Christmas and boy was there ALOT of people there, we had so many that we needed to do it at a church building. We had around 80 people there I think, and that wasnt even all of my cousins. I swear my family is huge...and its still growing! The party was sooo much fun and of course my grandma had to do her traditional "Pancho Claus", I think it is one of my favorite Christmas Traditions :)

Christmas Eve is always the Riding family party, and this year everything felt back to normal. Our party last year was not the same because we had it in a Care center where Grandpa was. It felt great to be back at Grandma's house.

Here are some of the girls with Grandma :)

As you can tell...we love each other

One of our traditions is to have the younger cousins do the Nativity. I guess we dont have as many younger cousins as we used tooo so we older ones got help out.

We had a plethora of angels :)

Not to mention, baby Jesus was sooo cute. Oh I love my nephew!

Sadly these are pretty much all the pictures I have from the break because my Camera died while training on the flow rider. Yes I know its winter and the water is cold but come on I live in Mesa and it doesnt get that cold, besides it was "training" ...aka lets go play on the flow rider! So for those of you who will be in Mesa this summer I strongly suggest that you stop by Rhodes Jr High and ride the Flow Rider....its amazing!!

As for my New Years, I had a blast Ice Skating!! I had a great time seeing so many old friends, some of who I havent seen in years! I am proud to say that I only fell once...and it wasnt even my fault!!

Im sooooo excited to get started with this next semester, and what greater way to start it then with a tour :) It should be alot of fun!!

Winter Formal!!

So I had a flashback to high school this last weekend. We had our Winter Formal, and we had such a fun time. We all had our dates, and we even went out for dinner (yay for the $1 menu at Arby's). There wasnt a whole lot of people at the dance, but I still had a blast. I think it was partly because I have the coolest funnest friends!!

Me and Devon aka. Mommy :)

Some of the girls

We were practicing our high school poses

and of course you have to pull the ties!!

Me and Tawnie...love her!!


Jaron you were supposed to smile!

Love them soooooo much!!!

This year at EA would be incomplete without Lauren!!

So the dance was pretty much awesome. Afterwards we went to Lauren and Don's and played games till about 2:30am. Yeah I dont know why I did that, because the girls quartet had to be up early in the morning to sing for the radio. Oh well it was totally worth being dead in the morning!!

Surprises!!

So my life has changed alot over the lasy six months, and I felt that I should do something no one ever expected me to do. So I dyed my hair!!! For a long time my friends have told me that I should try going darker but I never wanted to, because I didnt think it would look good. Well, I think I should take my friends advice more often becuase I LOVE IT!!!

This was before, I was soooo nervous!

After!

I decided to surpise my family and friends with my hair change. I was actually nervous how my mom would take it because we were taking family pictures. To my surprise she didnt freak out, which is always a plus. Our family pictures were so much fun, and I was able to catch a few shots!

We are single ladies in the family

All the super cute grandkids...love them!!

Just a fun shot they got of the single ladies!!

I LOVE MY FAMILY!!