Idina Menzel Concert!

Saturday evening, Mike and I had an AMAZING date night! First, we went to our favorite restaurant, Asian Star. (sigh) Just talking about it makes me want it again. We LOVE Chinese food, but that is definitely one of our most crave-a-licious meals!

We then took off to Deer Valley where IDINA MENZEL was performing, along with the Utah Symphony. We got there pretty early, but we were prepared with Phase 10 in our pockets. :) 

Man, the weather was perfect. It was probably low 70's, chance of rain, and not blistering hot. My kind of weather! 

The symphony started coming out on stage, and who should I see, but my old violin teacher Jack Ashton! I headed up to him to see if I could say hi, and he totally recognized me! It was so good to see him and catch up. They did SO well, and I miss going to the symphony as often as I used to. (Maybe I could get Mike to take me...)

Mike and I enjoying ourselves!

Mike and his constant chatter on the phone...

The standard kissing-the-cheek photo!

Then, Idina came out with the symphony introducing her with the fun beats of "Life of the Party" from "Wild Party". Everyone was just ecstatic to just see her come out! She was so beautiful, and everyone was commenting on it! I just got tears in my eyes as soon as she sang her first note! 

I actually got to see one of her last performances in the original production of Wicked on Broadway, and I never thought I would have the chance to see her live again! She is so amazing and just captivates you with her original tone and her amazing stage presence.  

She was so hilarious as well with her personal stories, and was so great at involving the audience! She sang "Love For Sale" by Cole Porter, along with my favorites "I'm Not That Girl" from Wicked, "Funny Girl" and "Don't Rain On My Parade" from Funny Girl. She got emotional as she sang a soft version of "No Day But Today" from Rent and had the audience sing with her. She even sang her version of "Poker Face" by Lady Gaga from Glee! All the while she was just making fun of the song and how ridiculous the lyrics were. She wrapped it up by singing, "For Good" and "Defying Gravity" from my FAVORITE musical Wicked. She then sang her encore "Tomorrow" from Annie.

We were really a lot closer than this, but we weren't supposed to take pictures and had to be discreet!

 All in all, it was an amazing concert, and I was SO happy Mike and I got to see that together. If anyone ever has the chance to see her, I would greatly recommend it!

Happy Anniversary!

Today is Mike and I's third anniversary! He has to work tonight, so we couldn't really celebrate it today, but we're going to party tomorrow! He did give me flowers-a dozen red roses, so that was so sweet. So beautiful! He is such a great husband-and I pale in comparison as a wife. I do not deserve him. I love him so much and I look forward to the decades of anniversaries to come! 

WE ARE WHAT WE EAT

So, this year I decided I want to do a food blog/cookbook. Whenever I cook something that looks super good, or if I eat something out that looks amazing, I'm going to take a picture of it. If I cook it, I'm going to take the picture and put it in my cookbook so I can see the picture of what I've made and if I liked it or not. So far, I've made a couple of meals and they've turned out really good. The roast was Sunday's and the spaghetti was tonight. More food to come! 

Slow-Cooked roast w/ button mushrooms, mashed potatoes, side of veggies and a whole-wheat roll. 

Whole wheat spaghetti w/ meat and mushroom sauce and garlic bread.