My weekend!!!

Ok, so I have had a really really fun weekend!!! First I got to go to my Aunt Jean's house for a couple nights...it was nice...I love her (and really loved the time away from roomies and their crazy boyfriends!!!) On Friday I got to go on a date with Chandler. It was an AWESOME last night in Utah. We played phase 10 and Mad Gab (I won phase 10, and girls won Mad Gab...pretty fun) Then we got Del Taco and Slurpees, that was yummy fun! Then we made up a game where we would turn right (in the car) on heads and left on tails using the coin flip thing on my phone. It was way fun. Then we went to this old wearhouse where he used to work and wandered around it...there was no roof...it was kind of scary I guess. Yeah, it was a really fun night in Utah.
On Saturday I got on a plane and ended up in San Diego, CA. After being picked up at the airport by my amazing Aunt Leanne I went to see Race to Witch Mountain with my cousins, Marci, Chloe, Claire and Audrey. After buying the tickets and getting pizza, bread sticks, and Icees we had some money left over. We decided to buy a disposable camera and take funny pictures all over Kmart. Its funny, I never thought I'd see the day where someone didn't know how to use a disposable camera...but I guess I'm old or something, but little kids don't even really know what they are anymore. Weird!
After that I took care of Leanne's kids and Claire, Audrey and Lauren. We went to the park, came home, had spaghetti, and played LOTS of Guitar Hero, while Leanne and Cyrus were at the adult session of Stake Conference. Fun night.
Day 2 in CA I went to my third Stake Conference this year. After church Leanne, Chloe and I went to a bunch of places for casual outdoor shots (the real reason I came...pictures). We ended up with a lot of good pics. After that I found out I had a new friend...Liam! He is sooooo fun! I totally LOVE that kid! He just kind of played with me all night. Grant did too, but every once in a while he's just get a little disinterested. Well I played with the two of them (piggy-back rides, spinning them around, flipping them upside down, throwing them on beds and couches, etc.) till it was bedtime. Then we did the formal, studio shots...not as much fun, but Leanne's really good...cuz she made me look really good! hahahaha...then I went to bed.
Then today...I got to spend the morning with Charlotte and Grant, then I helped Leanne clean (realizing just how much Chloe really LOVES HSM...she is just adorable!!!) Then Liam came home from school and he, Grant and I played Guitar Hero. Then I got to help Leanne with some picture stuff, and now I'm here! I'm going home tomorrow (leaving at 10 am and getting there 11 pm...looooong day) and I am so excited to see my family!!!! So that's just about everything!!!
~Manda

Ein Deutsches Requiem

This is an AWESOME recording of the Brahms requiem (the thing I was in this week). It's not my choir or the Utah Valley Syphony Orchestra, but I just wanted people to hear the absolutely breathtaking piece I was able to be a part of. I skipped the fifth movement cuz we didn't sing it...I sincerely love this music and now believe what my choir director was continually telling us about how there is not a single wrong note written in this piece and that if anything is missing it just isn't complete....this requiem is TOTALLY a work of art!!! It's amazing and I hope that people get to hear it at least once in their life...it's just that good!

~Manda

Oh yeah...if you for some reason don't have time to listen to all the movements...at least listen to the 6th....it's my FAVORITE!!!! It's just kinda...wow!! (please listen to some of it...I want to share this with the whole world...especially the 6th movement...soooo intense!!!)