Another Good Review!

Read this article, another good review of Lyric Theatre Los Angeles's production of Little Women! I was relieved to see that it was a good review considering we all thought the show was a small disaster that night....Cassandra Marie Nuss, who plays Jo, had her dress ripped, which she later tripped over to hurt her ankle, and then the dress got caught on a post as it took the post out of it's bearings, which resulted in a very loud sound when it dropped on to the stage....yikes! (sorry for the run-on sentence:)
Lauren~

Little Women!

Hey all! Most of you know I'm playing piano for a production of Little Women The Musical at the Lyric Theatre in Hollywood. Last weekend was our opening weekend and it went pretty smoothly! I just wanted to post a review we got from stagescenela.com
Click on this link to read it: http://stagescenela.com/html/little_women.html
It was a pretty good review! I'm proud of our show! Along with Cassandra Nuss, who plays Jo in the show, and Penelope Yates, one of our ensemble members, we taped a radio commercial advertisement for the show. It was so much fun! Hopefully one of these days I'll figure out how to post an audio file so you can listen to it....anyone done this before?
Lauren

Beach, Beautiful Weather, Haircut!

Last weekend, for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, a group of us went to the beach. It was totally surreal to be at the beach in January but I guess that's just one of the perks of living in SoCal. The weather has been absolutely gorgeous despite a couple days of rain over this last weekend. Anyway, we had a great time at the beach, here's a picture of Lauren when we buried her in the sand... She's a mermaid LOL!Since it had been raining a lot in LA before I got back from Oregon, all of the fog that usually overhangs the city was totally cleared up and we could actually see the mountains! This is a picture my roommate Chelsea took on our drive back from the beach into downtown. It's so clear!!And speaking of Chelsea, she pretty much has the most awesome hair ever! It's naturally really curly and she came back from the Winter Break with a sweet mohawk. Well last night I did a little work on the hawk because it had grown out a lot. Here's the result! (I also straightened out her naturally curly hair so this isn't what it always looks like.) Love it!And a side view...Yes I've worked my magic once again...haha.

Lauren~

I'M BACK!! & Winter Vacation

So I haven't posted for two months....so what?!? Just kidding, I know it's been a heck of a long time since I've posted anything on Blogger so here's a nice long one for ya. It's all about my winter vacation in Oregon. It was such a great time, I'm so lucky to have great friends and family to make it memorable! I got to spend a lot of time with family this vacation, I loved it! Adam was also able to join us for three weeks! We had a blast and here are some pictures...

So the first week I was in Oregon I stayed with my sister before Adam came into town. We couldn't believe the weather! It was like the first winter break where it snowed AND the snow stuck to the ground! White Christmas! The kids loved playing in the snow, it was so much fun. Adelynn was pretty upset with the wind but didn't want to go inside. Carter loved building his very own Frosty with help from Stuart.
When I got to my parents house the weather got even better. It continued to snow and snow! This next picture is of my parent's back yard...isn't it beautiful?And then I broke out into a nasty rash after Christmas. I think it was a heat rash because the room I slept in was so hot; right behind the fireplace in my parent's basement. The rash was so itchy, I hated it! Adam was stuck in Phoenix for over 24 hours trying to get to Portland in the midst of the Arctic Blast (that was what the news channel called the snowstorm). Portland airport actually closed not too long after I flew in! Adam was lucky enough to get a ticket to fly into Seattle before they started canceling flights as well. My dad and I took an adventurous drive through the blizzards to pick him up! Adam and I got to do a lot of fun things while he was at my parent's with me. We did some hiking in the Columbia River Gorge, one the most beautiful places on earth!

This pictures is of the two of us at Bridal Veil Falls. With all the snow we had, there was a lot of run off water, which made all of the many waterfalls really beautiful and probably the fullest I've ever seen them.This is Adam on a tree hanging over Bridal Veil Creek.
The next day we hiked to the top of Multnomah Falls. If you've never seen Multnomah Falls it's a must see. It's the second tallest falls in the United States and huge tourist attraction. Here's what it looks like looking over the top of the falls at 621 feet!And lastly, here's me at the bottom of the falls. It wasn't raining at all that day, there is so much water coming over the falls that it created a lot of mist, enough to make it feel like it was raining pretty hard at the bottom.Well, I hope you enjoyed a short recap of my winter break. I must say it wasn't too bad coming back to Los Angeles and waking up to sun and 80 degree weather. Can't complain about that!

Lauren~

"Wait...was that guy wearing a speedo?"

So on Thursday Lauren and I were walking through a building on campus where we spend most of our days, the Music Practice and Instructional Center, or PIC. We passed the last practice room on our way out of the building and happened to glance in to see a rather large man wearing a speedo. Atleast that's all we could see from the short glance we got. We looked at each other kind of puzzled and moved on. I also noticed there were a couple bodyguard-type men outside of the practice rooms but hey, it was almost Halloween and you never know what kind of weirdos are going to be in the practice rooms. So we thought it was odd but we moved on only later to get a call from our friend Emilie who said she saw WILL FERRELL coming out of PIC. Yes, we had seen Will Ferrell in the practice rooms. He was about to play a little Halloween prank on the USC football team. Here's the video, the last part of it was what we saw in PIC, he filmed that part of it in practice room #110.


Hope you enjoyed it, he's hilarious!
Lauren~

It rained!!

I know this may not be exciting for many of you but being an Oregonian who lives in Southern California, I really miss the rain. In fact, I have not seen it rain here since I moved here last June! We've had some really dense fog and overnight sprinkles but today was the first day I've actually seen the rain really come down. Granted it only lasted about 8 minutes but it was a shower! Here's a picture from my apartment window to prove it!Look how green the trees look! It gets pretty dusty here...I'm sure my car looks awesome right now considering it was covered in dust before it rained...ewww.

Happy Halloween!

Lauren~

A few pictures from the last couple weeks...

So I know I've been a really bad blogger (like I've been non-existent for several weeks...oopsies) so here are a few pictures from the last few weeks:

This first one is of me with a gorgeous five layer dip I made (well, with the help of my friend Lauren; and no that's not my imaginary twin, I actually have a friend with my same name). I made it for a Family Home Evening snack.
This next one is from a little shopping trip a few girlfriends and I took out to Santa Monica. Our friend Jessica had never been out to the pier or the promenade to shop so we HAD to show her the ropes...

This last pic is of Lauren and I. See....she does exist!!Anyway, I'll try to be a better blogger! I hope everyone has a great weekend!

Lauren~