Video from 1st Competition.

It may not be the best performance but you have to hand it to them. Half of them have never performed in a winterguard show before. Only 4 of them have ever competed in SA before. The girls from Timpanogos were in SRAA last year. They jumped 3 classes. That's unheard of. And on top of that they learned it a month ago. Our guard camp was January 2nd. Some of this stuff they have only known for a week.

Great job girls.

Orem Winter Guard January 30, 2010 from Elizabeth Spencer on Vimeo.

If you want to watch it in HD click on the link above.

Waste of a Morning

Today some company was coming to clean out the air ducts in the apartment. Not by my doing. It was part of the stimulus package for more efficient homes. I'm really not sure. I believe it ended up being free for the owner. Again I am really am not sure. I just know it was annoying.

I am not comfortable with allowing people in my apartment to do things, without me being there. except when it's a bug guy and he tells you, through a mask, that you need to stay away for 2 hours.

I was told that they would be coming between 9 am and noon. The guy ended up showing up at 9 looked in the furnace room and said I'll go and get my tools. I then proceeded to move all the furniture that was covering a heating vent. The couch, a dresser, and a desk, it was very labor intensive. The guy then went upstairs and did the upstairs apartments first. At about 12 I saw the truck drive away. I thought they were just going to get lunch so I waited. But then they never came back. I mean never came back. Not even to tell me what was going on. I don't know if they "did" my apartment or if they are coming tomorrow. If they do I will be super pissed, because I took today off so that I could be there. I am not sure what I am going to do about tomorrow. I would really like to call someone and chew them out. I would also like to refuse the service if they want to do it tomorrow. I don't know.

So now I am at work and am very annoyed about the morning. VERY ANNOYED actually I'm pretty pissed.

It's a little odd that this nasty post ends with a Love, Elizabeth, Patrick and Audrey. Maybe I should end with something happy.

What's BIG red and eats rocks?

A big red rock eater.....I found this picture on line. Pretty cute.


Okay I feel better...now the post can end properly.

2nd Place

Saturday was the first Winter Guard Competition of the season. It was at Orem High and it was Hosted by UVU Envision. It was a very stressful day but we don't need to dwell on that.

We took home 2nd place with a score of 61.3 and AF was first with a 63. Very close. The girls are excited and so are we.

I'll have the video up as soon as I get it loaded to you tube.

Oh and check out the pictures that Nate took. They are amazing.

Nathantgross.com

Assignment #3

Our assignment for this week was to take a famous photographers photo and recreate it.

I chose to do an image called Ground #41 by Uta Barth.

This is Uta Barths image

And this is mine...but I can't decide which one?

Option A


or option b