Sara is in the Mt View High School band & they are putting on a special VIP 'Eclipse' midnight showing Wed June 30th at 12:01am - Doors open Tue June 29th at 11pm! It's in a private theater at AMC Mesa Grand (Stapley & Baseline). Since it's a private theater you wont need to wait in line all day for your seat. They are giving away great prizes including Cast autographs & twilight merchandise! Tickets are limited so hurry & order yours today! Tickets are just $15.00 & the proceeds go directly to the band.
If you are interested give Sara or I a call at 480-298-5346 or leave a comment with how many tickets you would like. Please tell anyone who you think would be interested in this. It's going to be tons of fun & it's really great not to have to wait in line all day for a seat!
Some of you might know I'm into Twilight. Well this past Monday I received some of the most exciting news ever!!! I will be going to meet Stephenie Meyer on June 18th all thanks to my friend Alison Genet owner of Twifans.com. Not only do we get to meet Stephenie, we get to interview her, have lunch with her & spend the day with her!
How did this happen you might ask?
On Monday Stephenie Meyer made a surprise announcement on her website:
May 17, 2010
Hey guys,
I want to do something different with publicity for this movie release. For Twilight, I did the normal press junket, for New Moon I got to go on Oprah. Both of these were fun, exciting experiences. However, they both had the same drawback—the interviews were designed for a very broad audience, and because of that, most of the questions were about things you guys have known the answers to for years. I feel like all of the basic questions have been answered, and for Eclipse I want to focus on the more specific questions of the readers. To accomplish that, I'm hosting my own mini-junket with a few fansites. It will be held on Friday, June 18th, the week before the L.A. premiere.
Unfortunately, I can't talk to every single site, and I want to keep this as low key and enjoyable as possible. So I put all the U.S. fansites in a hat (for logistical reasons, we had to keep this in the country) and drew out four names.
Each of these sites is invited to send two members of their staff (or one member and a guest) to our fan-centric mini-junket. You will be contacted shortly by my assistant, who will give you all the specific information. In the event that any of the sites is unable to send representatives, I've already drawn four back up sites, which I will post if it becomes necessary.
I'll answer all of your questions (and your readers questions, if you want to poll them) about the Eclipse Movie, and the Bree story, as well, which will have been out for a few weeks by then. We'll have lunch, hang out, and hopefully have a fantastic time. I hope you all can make it!
-Steph
I still get chills reading that!
Sooooo I get to go represent Twifans.com along with my friend Alison, the site owner. Thank you Alison! There is no way I can ever repay you for this! Also, thanks for making this super duper "Countdown to Stephenie" widget to celebrate the occasion.
Tonight Madison was honored at the Mesa School Board meeting by Superintendent Cowen for her Gold Award Chapter Showcase win, representing Mt View High School, at the State FCCLA (Family, Career & Community Leaders of America) competition this spring.
To win she created a huge scrapbook (like 45 pages) of the years activities for all the different FCCLA programs at Mt View, like culinary arts, child development, fashion & interior desgin. The scrapbook has to meet strict criteria in appearance & content & they do a 10 minute oral presentation to the judges. They compete against all the different schools statewide. Believe me it takes hours & hours.
It's Madison's 2nd year being honored at the board meeting as she was the State FCCLA Showcase Gold winner last yr as well.
Last year she went on to compete at the FCCLA National's in Nashville, TN & this year she will be competing in Chicago. She's so excited to be going to Chicago! Whooo Whooo!
We love you Maddie & are so proud of all your hard work & all you've accomplished! You're the BOMB.COM!!!!!!!!
On Monday, we went to a CTE (Career & Technical Education) award ceremony where Maddie was awarded a certificate for completing the 2 year CTE program in Education Professions & recognized for her State FCCLA Gold Medal win at that ceremony as well.
With Bieber fever sweeping the planet I figured we, well those of us over 15, could use a little "Justin Bieber 101". Who is this kid that was recently on Saturday Night Live, has an upcoming concert tour, & will be a guest on Oprah in the near future? Luckily I found this "Justin Bieber Guide for Old People" to help us out:
Justin Bieber is the first "YouTube Sensation" to make it big:
Back in the old days, pop stars like Lady Gaga came up the hard way: After years of performing thankless gigs in small clubs they would eventually be signed to Island Def Jam Records. But Justin Bieber was signed to Island Def Jam Records just because a YouTube video of 12 year-old Bieber covering Ne-Yo in a singing competition went viral. A prominent manager randomly stumbled on it and now he's chilling with Usher. Bieber is in fact the first real YouTube sensation to cross over to the mainstream, and much of his appeal comes from this grassroots creation myth. (No, Susan Boyle doesn't count since the only people who enjoy her sincerely are you Old People.)
Justin Bieber is Canadian:
In the grand tradition of such Old People favorites as Alanis Morissette and Rush, Justin Bieber hails from Canada. He was raised in low-income housing by a very Christian single mom in Stratford, Ontario (Pop. 32,000). Now he lives in Atlanta, which you may remember from the time they seceded from the Union during the Civil War.
Justin Bieber Owns Twitter:
Perhaps you have experienced the phenomenon of logging into Twitter to see what brands of wine your friends are drinking only to be confused by the fact that "Justin Bieber" is a trending topic. He almost always is, for no reason except that every eleven year-old girl on Twitter appears to only tweet about Justin Bieber. (And everyone else is tweeting "Who is Justin Bieber?") Bieber has more than a million followers and, according to Perez Hilton, he gains 11,000 new followers daily. (FYI Old People: Perez Hilton is a widely-read blog famous for always being right.)
Justin Bieber Has Famous Friends Even You May Have Heard of:
You might know Ludacris best for the women he has in so many different area codes. But a new generation knows Ludacris only as Justin Bieber's friendly rapping sidekick on the summer hit "Baby". ("She had me going crazy, oh I was star-struck/she woke me up daily, don't need no Starbucks.") And Usher, who signed Bieber after hearing him sing just once, said of Bieber, "Sometimes he's like a little brother or a son to me." Bieber's toured with Taylor Swift, and sung the opening line on the new "We Are the World" remake that is probably on your "Chillaxing" iTunes playlist.
Justin Bieber's Hair is His Most Distinctive Physical Feature:
Justin Bieber Has Three Songs Every Young Girl Knows:
Bieber's first album, My World was released in November of last year. It went platinum. But all you need to know are the three hit songs and their corresponding music videos:
"One Time" - The one where Usher calls Justin on his iPhone.
Justin Bieber Literally Causes Riots Among Said Young Girls You are old enough to remember the Watts riots, right? Bieber had one of those! Last November, during a scheduled appearance at a Long Island mall, a riot broke out among the 3,000 attendees when Bieber wasn't allowed to perform because of safety concerns. A handful of fans suffered minor injuries and an Island-Def Jam VP was arrested for not tweeting that the show was off. Yes, Old People, it's time to wake up to our scary new world where a YouTube sensation has supplanted social justice as the only reason anyone riots, and you can be arrested for not tweeting. Welcome.
In complete honesty I didn't need this guide at all... I've been fully Bieber educated by my darling Ashely who is JB's #1 fan & I MAY even have one of his songs as my ring tone but hopefully the rest of you who aren't so lucky found it helpful.
Happy Birthday to my dearest husband! Words can not adequately express how blessed I am to have you for my companion for the eternities. You're not only a wonderful husband but your a SUPER dad! We love you! XoXoXoXo
Our sweet little Faith Alice is 10 yrs old today! I can't believe it! Faith is our 4th child & the 4th daughter. She was born at our home on East Pepper Place Monday, February 28, 2000 at 11:42pm. She was due on leap day, February 29th, but came just 20 min before. She is our only child that came right on time on her own. I wasn't even expecting her because I was always overdue. I remember the day clearly because I started to sort through all the old baby clothes thinking I still had a week or so to go when I started feeling mild contractions. Needless to say I was shocked.
She is a bundle of fun & a great big sister to Adam. Faith is a VERY organized person. Her school teacher is amazed at how perfectly clean her desk always is & she hates to have a thing out of place in her bedroom so it works out great that she shares with Madison bc Faith helps keep Madison organized whether Madison likes it or not.
A story we will never forget about Faith was when we went on a Disney Cruise 7 years ago. Faith was a quiet & shy 3 yr old at the time. My mom went with us & Maddie & Sara stayed in her cabin. Ryan & I were in a different cabin, a few doors down, with Ashley & Faith.
Early one morning our cabin phone rings waking us up. It's a the ships security asking us if Faith is in our room. I thought that was strange...of course she's in our room...silly me...I said "yes" thinking Faith was in bed but when I checked she was NOT there or anywhere in our room! Ahhhhhh!!!! I went & checked my Mom's room & she wasn't there either. Apparently Faith woke up on her own, unlocked the door & decided to go visit Grandma but couldn't find the right room nor could she find her way back to our room either & was found wandering around. She wasn't telling the Security her name so they were calling rooms of people with 3 year old girls to see who she belonged to.
Not only was it bad enough that she ran off without us even knowing but the cherry on top was she was only wearing a pull-up at the time. Yes, she was out roaming the halls in only a PULL-UP! It didn't even hit me she was only in a pull-up until I saw the Disney t-shirt that she was returned to us in, along with the stuffed animal they gave her. What an experience.
Faith loves softball, collecting stuffed animals, fixing her hair & color coordinating her outfits. She is a great help to our family.
