Side note

I will also be playing in Music and the Spoken Word Sunday the 14th. It is on KSL at 9:30 am. I probably won't be on TV, but it might be fun to look for me anyway :)

'Tis the Season!

If anyone wants to get into the Christmas Spirit this year I have a couple of FREE performances you could come to.

The first performance is my vocal jazz group "Salt City Jazz" It is in the TB building at the SLCC Redwood campus Friday the 5th at 7:30. We are singing a bunch of traditional Christmas Carols and we're pretty good, so it should be fun. FREE!

Next I will be in the Mormon Tabernacle Christmas Concert playing the bells. If you don't have tickets already, too bad cause they are all gone, but if you do, keep an eye out for me!

Monday Dec 15 I will be participating in the Grand Theaters Messiah; a Community Celebration. This is extremely fun because they mix Gospel and jazz versions into the traditional Messiah, I promise at the end you'll be dancing along.

The last (Phew) concert I will be in is my Bells of Joyful Sound Christmas concert. It is the Sunday before Christmas (The 21st I think) and is also FREE! It will be at the Granger Community Church on 3200 W 4100S. I think the start time will be 7ish.

Whew! I will be a very busy girl this December, but I am very excited about performing! It always puts me in the Christmas Spirit.

Picture Tag

Tagged: Here are the rules, you pick the 4th picture in your 4th folder, and then give a brief description...

I didn't have 4 folders so this is the 3rd picture from the 3rd folder. We were camping down in Huntington.

I tag Sam, Mindy, and Jenny

A day at the rodeo, (ok not really, my dad compares it to watching a T-ball game!)

It was two days of many many many horses! My riding club, Saddle Pals, spent the weekend in Herriman competing against other riding clubs in Salt Lake. I got to ride in events for the first time ever! My brother Trevor, his wife Jayme, and her mom Carol are also in Saddle Pals with me. Its thanks to Jayme that I am even doing this.
The first thing we did was Grand Entry. It is just a mess of horses running through a slalom of flags. So fun! (Funny story, someone lost their hat during grand entry and the announcer wasn't satisfied until anyone who could walked on the hat, backed up, and stomped on it again! Oh, those western traditions!)

The events I got to compete in were team poles, team barrels, and team key hole. Poles was the first time I had ever competed on a horse. I was SOOOOOO nervous! But, with only a small set back (T-Boss was afraid to cross the white chalk starting line) I made it through with out knocking over a pole, falling off my horse, or dropping the baton, so Yay!

The next day we did our parade and drill routines for the judges. T-boss decided to freak out and do his own thing, so I had to drop out of drill (Sad!) but I got to race the barrels and keyhole so the day wasn't a complete waste. We didn't place much, but it was fun to be out there. We get to go to regionals to compete again this weekend! So if you find yourself in Logan, come see us!

Jayme and Noelle in Pairs Pleasure

Trevor and Cougar running real fast!

Trevor and Jayme got 4th place in the hide race, Jayme and Noelle got 4th in pairs pleasure, and two other girls on our team got 4th and 6th in ladies pleasure! Go team Go!

I'm such a dork!

I went to a midnight release for Breaking Dawn last night, and stayed up all night reading! I finally finished it at about 9 am.

So, if anyone wants to know who Bella picks, I've got the answers!

(It was awesome!)

Everyone come see us!!!

Jayme, Trevor and I will be riding in the Day's of 47 all horse parade on Saturday!!!

All Horse Parade
Date: 7/12/08
Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Address/Location:
Sandy's South Towne Center10000 S. 240 W.Sandy , UT 84070
Description:
The Days of '47 All Horse Parade is fun for people of all ages. Entries in the parade represent the finest horses, carriages, wagons, drill teams and authentic costumes in the West.

We'll be in Burgundy shirts, and black hats, pants and boots! Our flags are purple and white. It should be lots of fun!

A fun 4th of July Weekend!!!

So the Howards had our traditional Park City 4th of July. We had an awesome time swimming at the Peaks Hotel, watching the fireworks at the Park City Mountain Resort.

My Cousin Sofie dipping her feet in the hot tub...She looks so sad!

Trevor and Jayme

Cousin McKay

Front left to right :Amy, Dec, and Aspen. Back left to right: G-ma, Sofie and Jenny

Joshua and Shelly joined us for the fireworks.

They almost didn't make it, but we were glad they did

It isn't easy taking a picture when you can't see the subject...it was too dark to see anything!

On Saturday the whole family spent a white-trash day fishing for crawdads at Strawberry Reservoir. We caught two five-gallon buckets full using balloons tied to bacon wrapped around rocks. There was lots of screaming, splashing and swimming. We killed them by twisting off their tails (it was so sad, I felt so bad) at the lake. Ooooh, they were yummy!

Trevor with a handful of the legs, eggs, and mud we cleaned off the little tails. Caviar anyone?

Brook, Trevor, Jenny, and me with the fruits (or tails) of our labor.

We were the ones that got to clean them!

That night we camped out in the backyard. The stars were so beautiful, and it wasn't too cold. It really was a perfect weekend!