Memorial Day Roadtrip (and other stuff)

I know, I know, Memorial Day was over a week ago. What can I say? I can't seem to update our blog any more often than every 2 weeks or so. Anyway... Jeremiah's parents invited us to stay at their house in Driggs, Idaho (near the Wyoming border) over Memorial Day weekend and while we were there, we had a chance to rest, play a lot of Rock Band and visit Jackson Hole (click below for pictures).

Last Saturday, we went to the Morrison Center to see STOMP(the first time in over 2 years that Andrew and I have gone to see something other than a movie). It's not really a musical, a play or a concert, but it's a lot of fun. Take a look...

Reading Frenzy

It all started innocently enough when I went to Seagull Book & Tape to buy a Mother's Day gift for my mom. I had walked by the Twilight display many other times before, but this time, they had the book on paperback. I'm not a fan of vampire stories. I started reading one of Anne Rice's books a few years ago and it gave me the creeps to the point that I couldn't get past the first chapter. But many of the ladies in my ward had raved about this book, so I thought why not?

I don't think this had happened since I read the last book of the Harry Potter series. I was Sucked In. For those who haven't read the book, it is about a teenager named Bella who moves to Forks, WA to live with her dad, and ends up meeting and falling in love with a vampire. A vampire who looks like a cute 17-year-old but acts like someone from the late 19th or early 20th century. In the words of Orson Scott Card: "...Who would have thought it? Today, Mr. Darcy is a vampire."

The book was written by Stephenie Meyer, an LDS mom of 3 from Glendale, AZ, and it is so enthralling and addictive that, even though I had put myself on the local library's list to check out the following two books (New Moon and Eclipse), I couldn't wait that long so I downloaded them. Yes, I downloaded them from the internet. I'm an evil, evil woman!

Anyway, just like with Harry Potter, the movie based on the book is already in the works. Here's the trailer...