We've Been Busy

Okay, to get you caught up on a lot of what's going on with us, here you go. A quick recap of the last few weeks!

As many of you know, Breaking Dawn came out at the beginning of this month. I (being me) went to a midnight release party at Barnes & Noble, and let me tell you, it was insane! It was a lot of fun, and I met some cool people, but to tell you the truth, it was not quite as organized as some I have been to in the past and that sort of took some of the fun out of it. But we all got the book so all is well! And I will be reviewing it in an upcoming post.

Some people dressed up for the book party (no, I was not one of them). You can't tell from the picture but the three girls on the right had colored contacts as well to complete the look.

Chicago!

The first week of August I flew out to Chicago to see Cori. It was awesome! I think Cori and I may have a little too much fun when we get together. :) Oh well. So after the tornados died down my plane was able to take off from Atlanta and get to Chicago. Luckily we planned ahead and the four hour delay did not make us late for the main attraction, the Breaking Dawn Concert Series featuring Stephenie Meyer and Justin Furstenfeld from the band Blue October.

We met up with some friends before the show for Giordano's pizza then headed off for the show. My camera died after about two hours so I didn't get a whole lot of pictures, but Cori got a few more than me so I'll try to steal them from her. It is very unlike us to not document everything. But here are a few pictures that I did get.

Justin and Stephenie It was really cool to hear Stephenie talk about her books, but probably my favorite part of the night was when Justin played a new song called "My Never" that hasn't been released yet. It was awesome!!! Such a good song! I will definitely be watching for that to come out early next year. Cori recorded it on her camera so maybe I will try and get a copy to post here.

Cori and I then spent the next two days hanging out and just doing whatever. We did make Jeff go out to dinner at Benihana's (we were not lacking for references from The Office) then watch "Penelope" with us one night. He's a good sport to put up with us. :) And "Penelope" is SO cute. You should all go watch it!

Justin singing. Blue October is fabulous, if you haven't checked them out you should.

Idaho

The day after getting back from Chicago, Morgan and I drove up to Idaho for our last trip of the summer. We went to Dairy Days at Reed's Dairy and Morgan got to do her favorite thing in the world, visit baby cows. She has been obsessed with them lately. And since our most recent trip she will randomly announce "I smell baby cows. Baby cows gross!"

Morgan with the baby goat.

Morgan with her best friend, Baby Cow.

I also went to the Majestic Theatre in Pocatello and saw Kacey as Glinda in "The Wizard of OZ". She did a great job and intermission was like being at DisneyWorld. All the little girls wanted to have their picture taken with Glinda and the Cowardly Lion.

Glinda (Kacey) and the Cowardly Lion

And Back to Provo

My job is pretty cool, and occasionally I get some perks, allbeit odd ones. One of those came last week when we worked with a charity on a Pirates of the Caribbean event. They brought in the official Captain Jack Sparrow from Disneyland so Morgan and I took some pictures with him. He was amazing and it was fun to get to hang out with him.

We also got to meet pirates Pintel and Marty. Pintel is the one that says " 'ello Poppet!" to Kiera Knightly and Marty is the dwarf pirate. They were both really cool and gave me an autographed picture as a thanks for helping. They wrote "'ello Poppet" and "Keep to the Code". It will be framed and hung in my office.

Morgan and Captain Jack

Captain Jack and me. And yes, that is the Cosmobile behind us.