Flash Mob Fourth!

That's right. I participated in my very first FLASH MOB! What a way to celebrate my freedom!

My very talented cousins flew into Salt Lake City to dance in a flash mob at the Fourth of July Bula Festival at Liberty Park. Having added a flash mob to my life list recently, I couldn't pass up the opportunity to wow a crowd with my "dancing skills". We literally RACED back from Oakley to make it in time, and by raced, I mean we yelled at poor Ryan Conradi to "Go faster!" the entire ride home, even after the car overheated and we required help from a generous farmer.

We made it though, just in time to make Beyonce, and ourselves, shine!

I'm now suffering from a serious case of flash mob fever and have a constant urge to break out into choreographed dance everywhere I go. Watch out Salt Lake City! These dancin' feet are on a roll!

Feel free to practice yourself!

Dancin' my life away,

Kaites

My Life List Pt. 2

My Life List Pt. 1

1. Learn to drive a stick shift
2. Go on a run along the Great Wall of China
3. See the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis)
4. Learn to play the ukelele
5. Become scuba diving certified
6. Ride an elephant
7. Feel more in control of my life
8. Pay for the car behind me at a toll booth
9. Be completely debt free
10. Own my own dog
11. Visit a rainforest
12. Spend a New Years Eve in New York City
13. Really learn how to surf
14. Go on a spiritual retreat
15. Swim naked in the Mediterranean
16. Learn how to meditate
17. Form a great habit of waking up early
18. Visit a live volcano and see flowing lava
19. Climb the Statue of Liberty
20. Spend a Mardi Gras in New Orleans
21. Journal every day
22. Finish a crossword with no help
23. Hug more often
24. Be the best sister I can be
25. Speak less, listen more
26. Write a love letter to myself
27. Make a gingerbread house
28. Learn how to bake bread from scratch
29. Explore Amish Country in Pennsylvania
30. Learn to make chocolate truffles
31. Take a bartending class
32. Learn more about wine
33. Attend Carnival in Rio de Janiero
34. Spend time on every Hawaiian Island
35. Take a martial arts class
36. Go skydiving
37. See marijuana legalized
38. Snowshoe in Canada
39. Ride on top of a double decker bus in England
40. Drink sake in Tokyo
41. Find a four leaf clover
42. Visit Machu Picchu in Peru
43. Attend Oktoberfest in Germany
44. Go on a cheese tasting tour in Europe
45. Pray at the Western Wall in Jerusalem
46. Write an article for a magazine
47. Take a ceramics class
48. Sing karaoke
49. Host Thanksgiving dinner
50. Grow a garden

25 Things About Me

1. I value my time alone above many other things. I love to be around people but I regularly require time to spend with myself and regenerate.


2. I love to read. In the right weather, a beautiful view, and delicious snacks I could do it all day long and never stop.


3. I fall hard for the ones that are wrong for every girl, especially me. It's statistically proven.


4. I want to be a winner. I really hate losing. Anything.


5. I rocked an afro until I was 5. Naturally.


6. I'm fiercely loyal until I feel betrayed.


7. I rely too much on my intuition although it's hardly ever failed me.


8. I make decisions based on my feelings and rarely think through them until afterwards. This method hasn't always been successful but its definitely been fun.


9. I'm not really big on going to see movies all the time. I'll see one here and there, and if it's a good one, I can easily get into it. Although, if I've only seen it once, chances are I've already forgotten it.


10. My heart belongs to music. It's an addiction unlike any drug I've ever tried and I won't tell you what those are.


11. Along with that, I secretly dream of becoming an A&R Rep and spending the rest of my life discovering extraordinary musical talent.


12. I'm also a lyrical database. I know the words to just about every song I hear and if I don't I'm damn good at guessing. This also applies to rap songs.


13. I love my family so unconditionally and the thought of being without them used to give me severe anxiety. Of course, now sometimes the thought of being with them does too.


14. Sometimes I think I can read minds. Actually, I'm just really good at understanding people and its not difficult for me to pick up on how others are feeling. I often surprise myself.


15. I'm a true product of southern California. I really despise cold winters. I just wasn't built for it.


16. I find a good cry to be cleansing and rejuvenating and take advantage of that often.


17. I'm very passionate about what I care about. That's worked both negatively and positively for me but I like being that way.


18. I have an incredibly intense temper but few have seen it and few ever will.


19. I'm a feeler and I naturally investigate life at a deep emotional level. Because of that, I can be painfully hurt so I prefer to stay in control of my relationships although I don't always.


20. My astrological sign is connected to the very roots of my sex drive. Enough said.


21. I love to run. It's one of my favorite forms of my many self-medicating methods.


22. I love being a brunette.


23. I'm a list maker and do significantly better and get more done that way.


24. I'm lost without google or my BlackBerry. I google every question that comes to mind at any time during any day.


25.Therefore, I'm full of useless and ridiculous facts such as, men fart an average of 17 times per day, and the last time American green cards were actually green was in 1964.

My Life List Pt. 1

Naturally, I'm a dreamer. Thankfully, I was also born to one. My mother is a dreamer and despite many odds, she's accomplished so many of her lifetime dreams and goals. At a young age, she taught me to cut out pictures of dreams that I want to see and do during my lifetime from magazines. From those pictures, we created our first "Dream Book" and filled the book with pictures and words of things we'd hoped to someday see, do, or have. Years later, I can now look at that first dream book that we created and I can put a check mark next to many of those pictures. Since then, I've made many dream books. Gratefully, I still have too many dreams. Many will be accomplished, and others may not be, but I cannot imagine a life void of dreams and goals. So here are a few. There will be many more to come.

1. Run a marathon with my mom
2. Smoke on a Jamaican beach
3. Get my degree
4. Swim with dolphins
5. Learn another language
6. Write a song
7. Learn to sail
8. Spend time in a foreign country doing humanitarian work
9. Get bigger boobs
10. Leave a casino with a lot more money than I started with
11. Write "our" book with my mother
12. Smoke legally
13. Learn to play the guitar
14. Fall in love. The right kind.
15. Roadtrip across the United States
16. Have a child
17. Have a star named after myself
18. Build a savings I can actually depend on if need be
19. Enjoy a beer at a pub in Ireland
20. Join a book club
21. Learn to make my own sushi
22. Leave a $100 tip for a waitress
23. Attend the Grammys
24. Take a gourmet cooking class
25. Go whale watching in Alaska
26. Spend a summer travelling Europe
27. Visit the Seven Wonders of the World
28. Horseback ride on the beach
29. Purchase a piece of clothing over $1000
30. Camp in the Grand Canyon
31. Ride a camel in the desert
32. Start my own business
33. Take part in the movement to legalize it
34. Visit castles in Europe
35. Ride a gondola in Venice
36. Safari in Africa
37. Learn to decorate cakes
38. Spend a weekend at a winery
39. Spend time in Amsterdam
40. Go on a Mediterranean cruise
41. Ride in a submarine
42. Go on a vacation alone
43. Develop a healthy and honest relationship
44. Visit the historical sights in Washington D.C.
45. Attend a broadway show in NYC
46. Sleep in an igloo
47. Learn to surf
48. Win a beer pong game
49. Be able to say, "I'm with the band"
50. Visit Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris