Me and Jack Johnson, oh, and Ryan too

'All at Once' community

If you are familiar with Jack Johnson' music, you might know about his "All at Once" community, which helps with environmental non-profit orgs. Ryan and I had the opportunity to be selected (ok, really Ryan was selected after writing some essay of some sort, and I just got to tag along) to work for Jack in his Green Village before his last concert of his tour. We got to meet him (and hug him) as well as his wife and daughter. It was a fun night, I even ran into Dr. Poliakin at the concert.

We got to sit front row as well. This is the 4th time I have seen him in concert. I think next time we will take Kenndee. I'm in the front row, second from the right and you can see ryan's head on the back row. I will hopefully get the pics with Jack in them soon.

My little CuPcaKes!!!

Blogger is being really slow in uploading photos, and I don't have the time........so these are the only pics you are gonna get.
We spent 5 days in St. George and Zion's National Park. We took the girls on a small hike with some awesome views. We also went to the underground caves (got a pic of that) and the sand dunes. We carved pumpkins and the highlight of the trip was watching my dad play PICKLE in the Huntsman Senior Games. Hahaha, my dad is a 'senior'. And if you don't know what pickle is, imagine ping pong and tennis combined. My dad took the SILVER medal in the singles division for men 50-54. GO DAD!!!!


Yes, these are homemade. I took one look at the PB ones and knew my daughter wouldn't wear that for longer than a minute, so I made my own simplified version without all the layers and layers.
K is Chocolate and Tay is Vanilla

Lots of Reading

I'm always reading something, but I read a lot more when I am nursing. I finished the HUNGER GAMES trilogy last week. They are a really fast read. Collins is a great writer, she always ends each chapter on such a high point, you end up reading into the next chapter because you can't wait to find out what happens next. I was recommended these books by my SIL, emilee. She read them, so did my MIL and FIL and even my husband. The 5 of us have different tastes, but we all seemed to really enjoy them. I definitely reccommend. I would give a brief summary, but there really is no way to explain what they are about without making them sound weird. SO, you'll just have to read them.

As you know, I typically read historical fiction or non-fiction. NISEI daughter is non-fiction. Monica tells her story of being an American-Japanese girl of Japanese parents(notcitizens) during WW2. It was interesting to learn more about their culture and what happenned to them in that time period.............but as far as a story goes, it wasn't much of a story than an autobiography. Not the most exciting, but still glad I read it. Next on my list is "the glass castle" and "The Help".