I am dreaming of a white...

So we (read Rob) finally put up the Christmas lights, so it is starting to feel festive around here. Of course, come Wednesday the 16th around 10:30 am things are going to get a little wacky. I have been trying to contain my creative energy for the sake of finals and school work, but at the time mentioned above I will be done with school until the 11th, which means I can fully dedicate myself to all things craft and Christmas. Is it weird that I am more excited about making stuff than I am about Christmas day? If it is, well I guess just deal with it.
On a none crazy note, the Bennions took us all to see The Princess and the frog which was a HUGE hit with the kids, especially Colette, who laughed and screamed and editorialized throughout the movie. We were just overjoyed that they sat through the whole thing, especially Johnathan, who has made even kids movies a thing of at home screenings because of his tendency to crawl over seats into other people's laps..Of course it didn't hurt that this movie was basically empty at 3 pm on a Monday. Next on the list for kids movies in the theaters..The Fantastic Mr. Fox...maybe we can see that after my last final...

more long overdue pictures

long over due pictures

I just realized how under represented Rob is...but if he wants pictures of himself up he has to do it himself :)
For those that don't know, Colette is wearing a traditional costarican dancing outfit (I made the skirt for her).
More pictures to come...

Pepper's annual halloween party

We went to Pepper Nix's annual halloween party again this year, she's a photographer in SLC who invites a bunch of "Wedding Professionals" to an annual party where we can relax rather than work (I play music at weddings). It's always a blast and especially fun because of the photos booth which she has there.

We watched an episode of the original star trek online, I think the episode was "Menagerie " in which Spock commandeers the enterprise mutinously to take pack Captain Peck or something to this world with an alien girl that looks like nicolle's dressed in the pictures. Lots of innuendo and green alien girl dancing in the episode.

Women

I have some very interesting classes this semester and I thought I would share this article that we read for my political science class...It has given me a little bit of direction today, I hope it inspires you too...
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/magazine/23Women-t.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1

Halloween preview and random pictures

random pics from my birthday weekend

Rob and Michelle got me a family pass to Hogle Zoo, so I painted the kids' faces as tigers and saw all the babies (elephant, three tiger cubs and giraffe).
Then of course we went to NY on the cheap to see the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. It was awesome. I brought Jonton back a little elephant trunk for him to be his favorite animal. Fun, fun.

the State Fair

Random Pictures (stolen from Mom's blog)

Timpanogos Storytelling Festival Performance Saturday Sept 5th

This year again my band is performing at the Timpanogos Storytelling Festival in Orem at the Scera Shell amphitheater. It'll be this Saturday . . . if you're already going to the festival or haven't heard about it, we're performing just before the "Laughing Night" at the Scera shell (outdoors). Its agreat band, with Bart Olson on drums (from Ryan Shupe and the Rubberband and earlier the Shriners if you knew me in high school), Hayley Singley Kirkland (last month she sang the national anthem at an LA Dodgers game, she's the regular singer in my band) and guitarist Kenji Aihara (japanese ninja guitarist master).

We're performing from 6:45 to 8pm. Hope to see you there! Nicolle and the kids will be there as well . . .

My latest cd

I just finished another jazz album, I'd like to share it with everyone who cares to listen. If you go to this link you can listen to samples from the album: http://www.robbennion.com/natureboy.html

Also I have remixed some of the songs with local rappers, here you can listen to the remixes featuring local hip-hoppers from SLC:

http://robbennion.com/mp3s/myfunnyrmx.mp3
http://robbennion.com/mp3s/natureboyrmx.mp3
http://robbennion.com/mp3s/canthelprmx.mp3
http://robbennion.com/mp3s/atlastrmx.mp3

Thanks for listening!

soak zone

For the very first show we went to Shamu and sat on the very first row, good for getting wet and seeing things up close; bad for camera.

Eat at Joes-crabshack that is.
I took mostly movies at Sea world so I will try to upload those later.
The one with Colette and sparklers was for the 24th of July (Pioneer's Day)

Want it, need it...

http://www.youtube.com/obamatimecapsule09

The only problem is that I don't have many pictures from the whole thing, or maybe that is why I need this book all the more. :)

pictures

Misc.

We are saving up for a trip to San Diego and Texas for Colette's birthday so we haven't gone anywhere for the last couple of weeks, so there are no super fun pictures to post. But a couple of cool things have happened, such as the Bennions are back! We are so happy to have Grandma, Grandpa and Chris back safe and sound from England. We have also been hanging out with Betsy and baby Ethan more, which is always fun. Michelle started working for the National Children's Study which has made me more inclined to work more hours too. I have also been trying out some crafty stuff posted here. Oh and we gave away the bunny, but it was to a friend close by so hopefully we will get to visit him. I can't think of anything else to update about so that's it for now!