Wildfires!!

I'm sure if you've watched the news lately you've seen that the Angeles National Forest is up in flames! One day this week all the smoke was in the Los Angeles Basin where we live, it was hard to see anything outside! Now the smoke is going West and there's a great view (if you can call watching the forest burn down great...) from our roof. The first two shots are from a few nights ago, Adam and I went up to the roof to see the sun setting on the smoke and it turned out we could actually see the glow from the fire just north of downtown! My camera takes horrible night shots but you can see the glow off to the left of downtown. The second two pictures I took just about 10 minutes ago.

The Glow!:
Sun setting West of the smoke over the Hollywood Hills:
From today; you can see that the fire has come over the hill:
Also from today; a view of downtown with a background of fires!
Pray that they won't have to evacuate the city!

Married!

So here are a few of my favorite pictures from our wedding reception. I have a lot more on Facebook if you'd like to look there!
Care!
Grandma!Thank you to my cousin Taylor for taking some beautiful pictures! And thank you for everyone who helped with all the hard work that made this wedding beautiful and memorable!

Lauren~

Coming Soon...

Coming soon: Some pictures from my wedding day! Now remember, the wedding was small, I took only a few shots with my camera, Adam's parents took some others that I don't have yet...

1st Visit To Disneyland!

I know, I know, most of you out there are wondering what kind of childhood I must have had where I never made it to Disneyland until age 26. Well I guess we never had the desire to really go but I was fortunate yesterday to visit for the first time the happiest place on earth (and its neighbor, California Adventure)! It was really really a fun time and here are some pictures to prove it!

Lauren and I in the car, moving slowly through the parking garage traffic

The "L" of California

Right before entering the Tower of Terror
Not so sure about the 50 ft plunge of Splash Mountain
Okay so we sat in the very front of Splash mountain and got absolutely soaked, head to toe. Here's a picture of our picture from the plunge. I know you can't see very well but I'm in the very front and Lauren is right behind me. My face is priceless huh!?!
Anyway, such a fun day! (even though my face on Splash Mountain would say otherwise)
Lauren~

Engaged!

Adam and I have decided to tie the knot! We're getting married this summer, he's moving to LA! We're very much in love and excited to make this happen! He totally surprised me this last weekend and flew out to LA from OKC to propose...so sweet! The rings he bought for me are so beautiful and exactly what I wanted. I wanted something that I wouldn't have to take off or worry about every time I sit at the piano (which is pretty much 8 hours a day). So here's some pictures of the ring(s). I'm only wearing one of them right now for the engagement....here's what it looks like:Isn't it perfect??!!? Okay so when we get married, I'll add another ring (obviously). And THEN, when we get sealed in the temple next summer, I'll add the third ring. Each ring is made from a different metal. The one I'm wearing now is yellow gold, the one I'll add this summer is white gold, and the last one is rose gold. They're all eternity bands, meaning the diamonds go all the way around the ring. Here's what they look like all together, so pretty!
So yeah, those are the rings. Yay! Here's a few pictures of Adam and I over the course of our dating life, just for fun.
My graduation in 2007 from OU:

Summer after graduation in Oregon:
Camping last summer in Oklahoma before I moved to LA:
At Catalina Island last summer:I love you honey!

Lauren~

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