I'm Dreaming of a Brown Christmas

Devin and I had a merry Christmas in the Lone Star state. I loved visiting my parents. We enjoyed spending time with them both with the missionaries and without. They look good and are doing good things. Here are a few images from our visit. Enjoy. Devin and I also decided to entertain ourselves by being silly.

Snowshoeing

I went snowshoeing up the canyon a few weeks ago. I came across a few deer (you can see one of them in the trees above) and I could sense a mountain lion stalking me, but he couldn't catch up to me fortunately. Here are a couple pics from that excursion.

New York...New York

For the past few days I've enjoyed the holiday spirit in the crazy city of New York. Unfortunately Devin wasn't able to join me so I took a lot of pictures. I loved visiting my pseudo sisters-in-law up in Harlem and attending some wonderful shows. I enjoyed attending In the Heights, Spring Awakenings, and The Christmas Spectacular at Radio City Music Hall with the Rockettes. The highlight of the trip was the professional dance classes. During the three classes, we were taught the historical technique of Jose Limon, Martha Graham, and Katherine Dunham. What an amazing opportunity! Enjoy the pics.

Rockefeller Plaza. The tree wasn't lit yet but still beautiful.After the show with Bon and Brittney.
Me in Times Square
Go D-Will.
At the top of the original wooden escalators in Macy's.
Dwight Schrute. What a babe!
We took some classes at the Martha Graham studio. This is me outside the studio. I'm also here (below) with Caty, Marni (who danced with Martha for 10 years) and Bon. Marni was great and was 72 years old, dancing like a young buck. I hope I look as good and am as heathy as her at 72.
Me with Joan Peters. She is the only lady teaching the Dunham technique at the Ailey studio. She's brutal.
The windows at Macy's. Very cute.

We ate dinner one night at a great local hang-out called "Vynl" (spelled with no "i"). The resturant is musically themed. Old record covers were inserted in the menus and around the resturant were Barbies representing old musicians. The food was a yummy, home cooking type but the best thing about the place was the bathrooms. The resturant had five individual bathrooms, each with its own theme. On the outside of the door was a star with a singer's name on it. When you walked into the bathroom you saw a huge mosaic of the famous singer. If you spent enough time in the bathroom (which I did) you noticed that the music being played was the artist. Some of the singers included Elvis, Nelly (the rapper), Dolly Parton, and Cher. Fun. Don't be scared by the picture below.
Outside Radio City Music Hall before the Rockette performance.

This is taken at the Christmas Spectacular. If you look close enough you can see real camels on the stage. What if they had pooped?
Cute windows outside of Bloomingdale's. I love the vintage theme they had.

Dang what a beautiful man!

My bro suggested that I Google my name…so I did. A bunch of websites came up citing a couple of movies I was in. The most interesting website, however, was this one I found (http://www.stargalaxy.com/sg_gallery.php?performer=943&production=776) that had a picture of me from Split Infinity. There were a few minutes in the movie from which they could have chosen a pic but they went with this one. I suspect our blog will have an exponential increase in followers now that it includes this picture. Enjoy the eye candy.

Bird Brain

Here's a disturbing little clip of Jami and the bird.

Take Away Shows

I've shared this with a few of you already but thought I'd pass it on to anyone interested. Here's a great website I found a few weeks ago. They have "take away shows" which are basically artistic, single-shot videos of various bands/musicians mostly in Europe and the U.S. The videos are creative and interesting and I've discovered a few new fairly good bands and found videos of bands I already like. A few I recommend: Priscilla Ahn, Sufjan Stevens, Andrew Bird, and The Shins. Here's the website: http://www.blogotheque.net/spip.php?page=cae_all&lang=en
Also, not related to this website but on the topic of music, also check out the Radiohead Scotch Mist video (which includes songs from In Rainbows) on you tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukythkK4EPQ
Dang they are amazing musicians and brilliant song-writers!

Get candy!

We went and hung with our nephews and nieces. Jami thought we should leave some candy on the doorstep for trick-or-treaters. I thought they should have to earn it with a little more effort. Jami won out (she had already bought the candy). She filled two bowls with a variety of mini candy bars on the porch with a sign asking them to take two pieces. We figured it'd all be gone in the first 20 minutes. We got back late at night to find two bowls...2/3 full of mini candy bars. Dang those honest kids! It's their fault we've eaten 15 minis in the last 2 days...each.