Adelaide's Lament

La Grippe, La Grippe, La post-nasal drip,
With the wheezes, and the sneezes, and the sinuses really a pip!

Guys and Dolls musical is one of my favorite musical from high school. I did a piece from the musical, " Sit down You're Rockin' the Boat" and had a lot of fun with it. This month I am working on  Adelaide's Lament from Guys and Doll, and I have to learn the New York Accent. Dave, my voice teacher is showing me how to sing "ugly". Since Adelaide is sick in this scene. I found a video that has one of the most awesome Adelaide. She's is so funny, her facial expression is priceless~! My fav' part is " ... See  note... see note?...oooo see note... hehehehe.."

Cyndy's nephew

As many of you might know, Steve and I are called to be the nursery leader. We basically are baby sitters for 2 hours at church. We love it!!! Those kids are so cute, and some of them are a hand full, but we love them anyway.

We have the youngest kids in the nursery, and most kids have some kind of anxioty when they come into the class. I don't blame them, they are only a little under 2. Actually, I don't really know how old those kids are. All I know that last year, everyone in my class can communicate what they want. They talk to me, and tell me what they like. We had all girls, except one boy who likes to color everything orange, and he wears his father's clothes - from when he was living in Germany as a kid.

The class we have this year is full of boys, and one girl. I guess girls learn to communicate a lot faster than the boys. None of the kids really talk that much, they understand what we are saying to them. But they don't really know or care what's going on. If one kid cries, then it sets off other kids. All hell breaks out, and all kids cry. I have learned not to say " dad" or anything sounds like dad, because it sets them off.

While all the kids cries, there is this one kid who just looks like he is thinking very hard. So hard, to the point that his brain might come out. He looks so intense, but Steve found his happy spot. This kid likes to read, and he knows all the animal names. Steve read the "Squishie Turtle" to this little guy, and he is just all smiles. He points, and yells the name of the animal on the page.

" Tou-tou" = turtle
"aw-pus" = Octopus
" hu'i - sh" = fish
"sh-ahhh'k" = Shark

Without fail, he licks the squish shinny seaweed every time we turn to that page. I later found out that he is Cindy's nephew. His dad brought him in, and turned in the paper that we need to know about the kids. I noticed that his last name is Ford, and as usual I start to common Mormon conversation starter. " Oh your last name is / you are from.... Do you know so and so?"

Carter's dad said " yeah, she's my sister. How did you know her?"

the conversation when on, and Carter became my favorite.
1. he doesn't cry.
2. he's super cute.
3. He is Cindy's nephew!!

This is not the best pic of me, but Carter sure is cute. Yup, he is the "tou-tou"(turtle) kid.

Last sunday, he was getting tired. He just runs up to me with open arms, I picked him up and he just just snuggled on my chest. awwwwww... i just wanted to take him home. For rest of the hour, he stayed in my arms. We had fun chasing and popping bobbles. To those of you who might be called to be a nursery leader, bubbles do wonders. They kids just gets goo-goo eyes and in their own la-la land.

Anyway, can't wait to see Carter tomorrow. Hope all the kids are getting used to coming to nursery a little more, and let's hope that they will stay chilled. 

weak photo

Recently I have found my interest in photography again that I put away since I was in Paris. I don’t know why I did that. Maybe it’s because Rexburg is really boring to photograph? Or it’s just too cold to go outside for a photo walk. I finally found “it” again when I decide it’s time to buy a Nikon D3000. It’s a beginner’s photographer’s camera, it takes awesome photos, and it’s compact.

I am not a professional photographer by all means, but I like photos. Photos can say a lot about what is happening, how a person might be feeling, a silent story untold and it helps me to capture memories that I might someday forget. Sometimes you can capture the most interesting moment of someone’s life, and they don’t even know it. My favorite shots are the ones taken with micro feature, the flower icon. Because the background is blurred, and only one subject is in focus.

My family have been my subject in the past couple months as I practice my shots. I don’t plan to be a professional photographer at all, it is simply a hobbie that makes me happy. Something that I can do in my own time, and it doesn’t cost money. Except for the start up fee: buying a new camera and accessories.

I spend my time at night listening to my Nora Jones music, and putting layers adjustments on my photos. After I am done with editing my photos, I like to show it to Steve. He always says “ Baby, you are really really good at this.” Maybe I am good, maybe I am not. All in all, it makes me feel good to share my photo with him, and receive his compliments. He’s great isn’t he?

Kevin

Steve

One year anniversary at Disneyland!

Can you believe it? We have been married for a year, and we had lots of fun at Disneyland.



During the holidays, we were able to go to the world famous San Diego Zoo with all the Petersons. Paul go to see his favorite animal, elephant. We took some fun pics.


We went to the beach where Steve Proposed to be 2 years ago, Del Mar. Megan was my model for the day. I had fun with my camera at the beach.

Don't Eat it ~!

We got called to be the nursery leader for 3+ yr olds in our ward. Yesterday was out first time in there, we had about 5 girls and 1 little boy. They are all cute, and I am glad that they are cute. The only boy is names Carter, and he had bleach blond hair, cut just right above his eyes. He has rosy cheeks with bright dark blue eyes. He doesn't speak much, but if you ask him about Mario Karts, he will kept on talking. His favorite color is orange, so he colors his drawing all in orange. When his dad came pick him up, the other teacher was trying to figure out which one was Carters. The dad just pointed to the paper covered in orange crayons and said " It's probably that one, it's his favorite color." Indeed, it is Carters.

we were also making pizzas with play dough, but we told them not to eat it. Just Pretend to eat it, but not really eating it. I think one of the girls forgot, and totally took a bite out of that slice play dough pizza she had. I guess it's because we were all making toppings like pepperoni, sausage, and other yummy stuff. Kids were hungry.

I kinda like them =^.^=

During part of the 3rd hour, we were combined with 2 of the younger classes. One of the little girls looked like Susan Boyle. I know this might sound mean, but you have to admit it's a bit funny

Nu Skin Convention and A new Website

I found out today that I am on Nu Skin's international site! How exciting!!

check out this site http://www.nuskin.com/nuskin/us/en/culture.html



Last week was Nu Skin's 25th anniversary celebration in LA, and there were many distributors came to Provo to check out the corporate building. Making sure that we are a legit company i guess. They were all so excited to be here, and they just want to take photos of EVERYTHING!!! they took pictures of people's offices, the photos in the offices, the name tag right outside of the office. I took many photos for these excited distributors, and i was probably in a couple of them, too.

Asian women like blond hair and blue eyes boys. One of my co-worker who happened to work with me at the same place, was showered with flirty smile, touched, and just alot of love towards him. One overly excited Japanese woman grabbed my co-worker, sat down next to him on the couch in that office. She linked her arm with his, and then put her hand on his lap without realizing it was really close to his manhood. 'nough said. She yelled out " My American boyfriend!!" when i was taking the photo for them.

It was a fun experience, i am glad that i am done with the tours. I am very tired.