Boo AMA's

So I was watching the American Music Awards on Sunday while doing homework and I only saw the last hour or so, but the final performance of the night was ridiculous! All I have to say is oh my! Adam Lambert's performance was so incredibly inappropriate. I can't even describe what happened because it was so sexual. It was crude and wild and so unnecessary. His dancing and lyrics and actions throughout the entire song were so explicit that I think I was more offended by this than by Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake at the Superbowl! It was so bad. My roommate and I dropped our jaws and were completely surprised that this was aired and that people enjoy this kind of stuff! I don't know if anyone else saw it, but it was just so inappropriate in every way.

Tree of Life

So in talking about home videos in class yesterday, it reminded me of a classic home video our family made when I was little. Haha it makes me laugh just thinking about it! Our family acted out the story of "The Tree of Life" from the scriptures and man is it embarrassing! We watch it from time to time for family night and it makes us laugh so hard! Despite how humiliating it is, I am so glad our family has that video to look back on because there are so many memories that stem from those great times :)

Driving with Honey

So I'm with my best friend Josh all the time and he always listens to country stations when we're driving in the car. He introduced me to this new band named Lady Antebellum and I love them! I especially like this song called "Need You Now." It's so good and it's such a great song to belt to. It gives me the greatest feeling to listen to it because it reminds me of him and being happy. I love what music can do to you :)

Christmas Is Coming, The Goose Is Getting Fat...

My family has a tradition to go see the Christmas Carol play at the Glendale Theater every year. We have been going for 14 years now! I absolutely love it! To go along with this, I went and saw the Christmas Carol movie with my cousins. It was okay, but I was disappointed. If I was a little kid, I would have been terrified! I thought it was a very negative view of Scrooge and the whole story itself. It was dark and focused on entertainment aspects rather than the moral of the story, which I think is the best part. It had awesome detail and I was impressed with a lot of things, but I related it to the play that I have seen my whole life and it doesn't even compare. The play is lighthearted, funny and positive, and I will always be the biggest fan of that play. I look forward to seeing it this year and continuing one of my favorite traditions :)

Family Facebook

Yesterday I was in Salt Lake with my extended family for my cousin's birthday dinner and a huge topic of conversation was facebook! They told stories of wall posts and talked about how certain people are judged because of their facebook page. All my aunts and uncles were in on it too! I think it's crazy how big it has become and how prevalent it is, even among adults! I think a lot of adults join to monitor their kids and it's so weird to me. It's almost like it's not for them. I sometimes feel it's a generational thing and older adults shouldn't ever join, but I think adults are the fastest growing group on facebook these days. I remember how fast it became the new fad and how much it grows and constantly changes and even when an adult added me for the first time and I completely ignored their request cause it was weird to me! Don't get me wrong, I love facebook, but I joined cause it was an easy way to keep an intimate social network, with close friends, from a distance. But has it gone too far? Are too many people on it just trying to get as many friends as they can because it's the "cool" thing to do?

Television: Sexual Content

I knew there was a lot of sexual content on TV these days, but somehow I was still surprised at how much I found for our in-class assignment. I think I never really paid attention to the little inuendos or the slight kisses on screen, I was always only shocked by the bigger, more obvious sex scenes. It's funny how in elementary school, the word "sex" was almost a bad word and no one talked about it ever and now it has consumed the media in all forms. I already pay more attention to the content of shows I watch and will now be even more conscious of it as an active participant of the media.

CES Fireside

I bet a lot of people would agree that President Uchtdorf's talk in the CES fireside last night was amazing. I absolutely loved it! He is such an incredible and powerful speaker. I love listening to his words of encouragement. I thought his talk was way funny too, I laughed so much! I especially liked the part about Shakespeare's Hamlet: "to be or not to be." So good!

I find it such a privilege to have the opportunity to hear from the apostles on a regular basis. My dad always tells me, "Never skip an opportunity to be taught by the spirit." I have always taken that advice to heart and have never been disappointed. I was touched by President Uchtdorfs words at the end when he expressed his love for us individually and collectively. You can really tell that the apostles of the Lord truly love each of the members of the church. I love hearing from him and all the other apostles and I am blessed to have the gospel in my life.