FUN: We Are Young ft. Janelle Monae

How I miss the Format! This is the next best thing. How beautiful is Janelle?!

This will be carrying me through finals. Thank You Nate Ruess!

I love you Billy!

This song takes me back to my Diamond days. I'm pretty sure if I could choose an artist to write the soundtrack of my life I would choose Billy Joel. How I love him!

Home - Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros Acoustic Cover (Jorge & Alex...

Okay, so I saw this on Maribeth's blog and loved it too. Thanks for sharing folks!
P.S. Did I mention I love to whistle?!

Huck-a-doo!

I'm obsessed with Memphis right now and can't get the songs out of my head since I saw the show on Friday night for the second time.

Reasons why I love New York:

1. Broadway

2. Central Park

3. The Holiday Season in NYC...I'm ready for it. The stores have been ready since early October.

I miss retail sometimes (only sometimes for the discounts and cheesy music). I love that the stores sport Xmas in October. It really is a beautiful life! I've already turned on the NSYNC christmas album. Battements anyone?! (Erin that was for you, the rest of the blogging sphere will think I'm nuts.)

Off to bed...it's almost 4 am.

Did you know . . .?

New York City has fireflies! Nate and I were just on a walk to the grocery store and we saw "lightning bugs"--lots of them! They reminded us of our childhood in Missouri. Here I go again with a back in Missouri post, but I would spend hours catching lightning bugs with my brothers, and Nate would too at his Grandma's house. It was a happy night! (NYC also has mosquito's. Not so fun! I already have two bites this summer. They like me a little too much!)

All About Your Heart - Mindy Gledhill - feat. Fiona Brawley

I love this song! Nate and I saw Mindy in Rexburg. Love her! This song was on the Nie Nie video and I had to find it. Enjoy!

The little girl, Fiona, is so me! haha spinning and dancing in her own little world.

"Believe me when I say, it's not about your scars, it's all about your heart!"

PS22 Chorus "EMPIRE STATE OF MIND Pt. XXII" Jay-Z & Alicia Keys

This is sweet! It reminds me of going to school in the city when I was little. I love choirs! These kids are singing about THEIR home, where dreams are made of, NYC!

New Found Fun!

Two weeks ago I needed somthing to do besides homework and housework, so I started watching "Make it or Break it" (a gymnastics drama) on Hulu. Needless to say, I'm addicted. There was a really pretty song on the latest episode, and I can't get it to embed but here is the link. It's called "Crushed & Created" by Caitlyn Smith.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uim1gfN909g
Crushed and CreatedBy Caitlyn Smith/Sara Groves/Gordon Kennedy

Looking back on the things that found me
Places I would never choose
The same things that both haunt and heal
My demons and my muse

We are crushed and created
Melted and made
Broken and built up in the very same way
What I thought I could handle
What I thought I could take
What I thought would destroy me
Leaves me stronger in its wake

And there are times that I’ve underestimated
Both the grief and goodness found in something new
Where one thing dies, something else can be created
And though it’s truth you find, it’s innocence you lose

I’m not the me that I started with
My friends say my eyes are brighter
I’m not the me that I started with
I’m freer, and I’m wiser, and I’m stronger…

It leaves me stronger

Love Story meets Viva La Vida

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0EvReA9jBo

This is really good! John Schmidt.

Be Still My Soul