my friends are better than yours

this year i am viewmont high school's dance company assistant artistic director.

i love it.

the amazing artistic director and my wonderful friend was diagnosed with MS a few years back. she is still in her 2o's.

every year the MS walk in salt lake city falls on the dance concert weekend. after walking and talking with some of the people i love most, i just want to say thank you.

thank you for not giving into your illness.

thank you for the impromptu but definitely definite forming of our own dance company ragnar team.

thank you for talking with me about how dance and the arts help us to understand the sacred things we learn in the temple.

thank you for being passionate about creativity in all forms.

thank you for our plan to get together and instead of talking, improv everything we want to say to each other.

thank you for making me realize that i can't truly live, without dance.

pardy hardy

Yesterday I received a t-message from the one and only kelli case that said:

"Tell Trey happy 420! Hahahahahahahahah"

She knows our love for the holiday.

Except I totally forgot and wore my Mickey Mouse t-shirt.

Which is a disgrace to 4/20 and Mickey Mouse.

Last year on 4/20 we went swimming, I was tan, and wearing shorts.

This year I drank hot chocolate at work.

global warming my eye

We talked all day about how to celebrate this year, and we settled on a pizza picnic on our living room floor while watching And Now For Something Completely Different.

bouncy, bouncy.

A classy celebration for a classy holiday.

everybody's working for the weekend

our weekend has consisted of:

the temple

5 guys burgers and fries

a picnic on the living room floor

will ferrell on the office

laughing with old friends

coldstone ice cream

24

dance practice

doughnuts

shopping with the girls

going to the movies

and tomorrow is sunday.

which means my responsibilities consist of

sleeping in

watching a sunday movie

going to church

feeling the spirit

eating my mom's cooking.

life is so great.

L.O.V.E.

Say hello to my little friend...

The iPad.

Oh yeah.

We totally got one.

The announcement of this little baby was greatly anticipated in the Richards' household let me tell you.

("Sara! It's practically faster than your computer. It could replace your computer!")

We waited in line. Early.

This is how grumpy Trey was.

Even though for the past 3 weeks every conversation of ours went something along the lines of:

"Trey, what do you want to eat?" "You know what I really want? The iPad 2."

"Trey this is cool!" "You know what's really cool? The iPad 2."

"(insert anything I say here)" "But Sara. Think about the iPad 2."

shocked that we actually got one.

Pure Joy.

You know those days

where you just really want a diet coke?

(for the record i have been killing it without these babies for awhile)

A few days ago I was at my parents and the urge hit me.

I needed one and I needed it now.

I asked my dad if my mom had any stashed anywhere (she usually does).

She didn't, but I was in luck! He thought there might be one in the fridge downstairs.

I flew down the steps, wrenched open that little black door,

and there it was.

One can, in the middle of the shelf, nothing else near it.

The heaven's opened up, a light shone down from above and the angels opened their mouths and let out one glorious, joyful note.

It's the little things.

The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

The Ugly:

Any hour before 6:00 am. 5:59 why do you even exist?

Last night's dinner consisted of tomato soup, taquitos and cheez-its. Fail.

The Bad:

Trey is the one who taught me how to iron my dress pants. Double fail.

I had Wendy's at 10:45 am this morning.

The Good:

I quit my job. It's not you Job, it's me. But...it's mostly you.

(and from seeing the aforementioned meal choices i apparently couldn't care less about the body builder lifestyle)

We are going to California in less than one. week.

Let me 'splain the awesomeness of this situation.

We did this California trip last year for Spring Break '10.

Just check out how fun it was:

Reasons why this trip will rock harder:

We are officially official and can now do like, married people stuff, yo. ;)

We are seeing Wicked.

We are either driving in Trey's car with the sweet dvd-playing stereo his super awesome wife bought him (holla!) or hitching a ride with some randoms and therefore being super thrifty.

The randoms are actually The Walkers, and they are pretty rad.

We are staying for one. whole. week.

Bring it on Spring Break 2011! Bring. It. On.