Awesome Deal!

UP and Monsters Inc came out on Blu-ray today. Of course we bought the two but you have to check out this deal.

MSRP for the each movie is $45 that's a total of $90 for the two....way way way to rich for our blood. But we ended up getting the two movies (by the way both came with 4 discs. A blu-ray, the DVD, a digital copy and a special features disc) for.....drum roll please....$18. Yes two movies and 6 versions for $18 bucks.
Here is the break down.
Best Buy was selling monsters Inc for $29 and UP for $24. for a total of $53.
If you bought the two together Best Buy was going to take off $10 off the total purchase price. Now we are down to $43.
Disney had a manufacturers coupon for $8 off Mosnters inc and Disney also had a manufacturers coupon for $10 off UP. 43-18=$25. If you go to best buy today with the manufactures coupons. you can get the 2 for $25 bucks. I know what your saying...I don't own a Blu-Ray player. But it comes with a DVD and someday you will buy a Blu-Ray...it's inevitable....and then you'll already own it.

UP coupon: http://disney.go.com/disneyvideos/animatedfilms/up/couponoffer/

Monsters Inc Coupon: You need an account at Disney Movie Rewards (free signup). Once logged in to your account, click "My Account" at the top of the page and then type 786936164886 where it says "Enter Code." This is a manufacturer's coupon and you should be able to use it.

On with my story....A few weeks ago we bought the steal book for UP from best Buy that went toward the purchase of the blu-ray for $7. 25-7=$18.

Then patrick decided to buy audrey this cute talking "Dug" doll. But it didn't work so he is taking it back.

AWESOME! I love saving money.

But I think the coupons are for today only....So if you want to take advantage of this awesome deal you have to do it today.

Marching Band is Over!

Now please remember that I love marching band. But IT"S OVER!!!! after 6 months it's finally over. "I'm so Happy!" It was a great season. But we did have our problems. The same thing happened at Red Rocks (State Championships) that has been happening all season. I was 1 point. ONE! from the team that took home the caption.

Here is a break down of what happened to the guard all season.

Nebo-Won! (woohooo!)
BYU-Lost to westlake by 1 point
Davis-Lost to Westlake by 1 point
Mt. Timpanogos-Lost to springville by 1 point....beat westlake by 2
Red Rocks-Lost to Granstville by 1 point.

I would have to say that my problem was numbers, not talent. But I never saw grantsville's or Springvilles shows so I have no idea how good they are. The coolest thing about the Red Rocks competition is that we were the first to perform at the competition. Grantsville was the last. My team was in first place for 2 hours until grantsville performed. I'm pretty proud of that. I wanted to take the girls out for ice cream to tell them how proud of them I am but only 2 wanted to go. That's fine with me...less money to spend.

This is the only picture I have of the whole team. It's with Orem. Since the two teams are joining for winter guard we figured we should get a picture together. Sad, that I forgot to get one of just us.

My girls are in the red and purple costumes..
Rebekah is on the far left, then Deanna, Kristen and Katie. Katie is my captain and the one who does the solo in the ballad.

I have video of the two performances from this weekend but I can't upload to youtube. I'm not sure why. When I get them up I'll post them.

Saturday was the BOA (Band of America) Competition. There was no way were going to place or do anything important. It's mainly to go and see some amazing bands from other parts of the country and to have the experience. It was an awesome competition.

I have to tell this story. I hope you can follow it.

I really wanted to see this team from El Paso. One they are from El Paso and michelle is there and two Michelle says they are amazing. The competition started at 10. J.M. Hanks (from El Paso) was performing at 10:30. We got there at about 10:05. But we parked in the wrong parking lot and were told to move to another lot a quarter of a mile away. I knew that I would have missed them if we had done that. So I begged if we could get off the bus now. With some convincing on Jared's (the Directors) part the host volunteer let us off. I was the first off the bus and just started walking. Didn't wait. by this time it was 10:15 and we needed to walk around the field to the other side. following me so far? I get there at about 10:23. Fnd a wonderful spot to sit just in time to hear the announcer say..."J.M. Hanks was having bus issues on there way here today and will not be performing at 10:30. Instead we will take a break now and J.M. Hanks will perform at 11:45."

Yeah that's right I made the band hussel for no reason. So now I was thinking maybe they are not that good and I did this all for nothing. But then after they performed I stood up. Turned to the band and said. Aren't you glad we didn't miss this Band? They were amazing. The kids talked about them for the rest of the day. I was happy that I was not disappointed and didn't make a fool of my self.

Here is a video of there show. Just to prove they are good.

This show seems a little different than the BOA one. They had a lot more visuals and then they had voice overs during parts of the show. I wish I had the BOA one. It was amazing.

Update

I feel like I need to play catch up since i'ts been so long. But really people nothing is happening. I guess I should try and make things out of nothing. I'll try and be better at that.

Since I posted last we've had 2 more competitions.

The Davis Cup, in Kaysville and the Mt. Timpanogos Competitive in Orem at Mountain View High School hosted by American Fork. I find it fun that we go to a competition that has the schools name in it, is hosted my American Fork High School and is at Mountain View High School.

Here is a video of the show. Can I just say I love my iphone. I was able to record the show and by the time the photographer was finished taking a picture of the band, I had already loaded it onto youtube. I LOVE this phone.



We didn't place and we didn't take home any captions at either one. However at Davis the guard was again .2 away from Westlake. At Mt. Timpanogos Springville took home the caption. But let me paint a picture before I tell you the score difference. There are 11 Bands in our class. We were 4th to perform. The judge saw Springville two full hours after they saw us. We were about a point away from Springville with Grantsville in between. So we, as in the guard, took 3rd in the class. Westlake was about a point behind us. It's a really close race. And I only had 3 girls performing at the Mt. Timpanogos Competition.

It's been a pretty tough year. I don't want to point fingers but the drill writer wrote a bad show and the music guy wrote bad music. I'm blaming it on them it makes me feel better.

Like I keep telling you nothing interesting is happening. I really wish there was something to post about.

I've had to turn in a few assignments for the Photography class I'm taking. I've really liked 2 of them so I'll share them with you.

This was a my picture for our landscape assignment.

And this was for our DOF assignment


I love this one. It totally feels like something you could hang up in your house.

Horrible Horrible Horrible

I am so bad at this. Actually I'm really not.

Last week I had to flu. No, it was not the swine flu. The doctor is pretty positive that I did not have swine flu. Most of my symptoms were odd and didn't match what is normal to it. But, he is positive I had a case of the flu. No, not stomach bug flu for 2 days. I'm talking a week! Sunday to Sunday! And I'm still a little under the weather. I now have a mild case...which seems to be getting worse...of bronchitis. So you can imagine what I've been doing the last 2 weeks.

Nothing! absolutly nothing! I have been going to work this week. But have been keeping people away so that I don't give them Bronchitis. It's been wonderful.

I don't think I've told you this but Audrey is starting to be interested in potty training. It's not consistent but she is letting us know she needs to go potty and will go to the bathroom door. If we are not fast enough she'll go in her diaper. I'm learning that if she says she needs to go...she needs to go and you have to act fast! But, most of the time she really isn't interested in using the potty and just wants to watch her movie or play in her room. On average it's once a day. I don't think we have ever had her do it twice in a day and there are still those days that she doesn't even want to sit on the potty. All that matters is there is interest in the potty. I'm excited.

Other than marching band nothing interesting is happening. Tuesday was the BYU competition and the band took 3rd place and got the visual caption. Too bad the guard didn't get the caption. It was sad. Good for Westlake. It's their first year as a marching band and they take the guard caption. Really great! But I'm making changes....making it better...and harder. Hopefully it impresses the judges enough. I'm just nervous that I won't be taking home the caption again since I only have 4 and westlake has 12. It's hard to compete when they have 8 more people then you. But we'll make it. They'll do great. I was literally on their heals. They had a score of 26.83 and I had a 26.67. That's nothing. Hopefully we can bridge the small gap and that they don't jump too much ahead. But again good for them.

I think that's it.