I Heart Emmylou

Confession: I have a girl crush on Emmylou Harris

This woman is amazing, and I was lucky enough to see her live the other day. When we found that she was coming to Red Butte Gardens, Liz and I rushed to get tickets, and have been eagerly awaiting this concert. We got up to Salt Lake by 3:00 (the concert started at 7:00) to wait in line to get good seats. While we were waiting, we could hear her warming up! We were truly giddy. While surrounded by yuppies and hippies alike, Liz and I played the "What Concert Is She Going To?", trying to guess, if not Emmylou, where our fellow concert goers would be going. There were a huge number of Jimmy Buffet fans in attendance, as well as-- of course-- Indigo Girls supporters. It was hot as Hades out there while we waited, and even shaded by our gigantic umbrella, we were getting pretty soggy. Finally-- finally-- they opened the gates at 6:00, and then the race began. There were only about 50- 60 people ahead of us in line, but that seems like a lot more when they're all running next to you, trying to beat you to the best spot. Liz and I plunked down in a spot a respectable distance from the stage, just behind the reserved seating, only to see that there was still a little bit of room AHEAD of the reserved seats! (I should explain that at Red Butte, you bring blankets and low chairs to sit on, and don't get the assigned spots unless you pay a lot more.) The vacant spot we saw was no more that 20 feet from the stage-- how could such a prime spot be vacant? I wondered if it was too good to be true, and that it was vacant because you had to have special clearance to sit there. We didn't see staff checking up on anyone before allowing them into the area, but all the same, I didn't want to lose our decent spot where we were, and then be turned away from up front. A dilemma. Liz was bold enough to go down and ask the people next to the open spot, and as far as they knew, you didn't have to pay more to sit there. Sweet! So, loaded down like pack mules, we hefted our gear up to the very front of the venue! (We had four chairs- Liz had two friends joining us- a cooler, a back pack and a bag full of blankets and non-refrigerated foods, that huge umbrella, and my purse. Wow.) So we settled in to wait for Stephanie and Steve, Liz's friends, and then for the concert to start! Emmylou came out, unannounced, in her casual clothes to sing a song with the opening duo- how cool is that?

Then she came out- we swooned. Liz and I had our pictures taken "with" her-- notice how close we are to the stage!
















She is amazing. We had a great time! She sang some songs that we know and love, and some songs from her new album that we intend to know and love. When she sang "Red Dirt Girl", I got the chills. I heart Emmylou.

What a great summer!

Once again, it's been a while since I've posted. Ordinarily this would be because I have nothing interesting to post about, but not this time! I've just been so busy doing extra fun things- best of all was a river trip to Jackson Hole with my family. We've been going there in July for quite a long time, and it was great to be back again. Riley has made the trek every summer since she was born, but this was the first time we let her on the boat. There is a calm stretch above the part we usually go on that was perfect to take her on-- she loved it! We went from last Wednesday morning until Saturday afternoon. Kind of a long trip, and I was worried that maybe it would be too long. (I kept remembering our trip to Huntington last summer with Scott and Erika and Stephanie-- what a nightmare.) It turns out I was worrying needlessly, as Riley was a complete gem! Seriously, she was great. It helps that my dad invited a family with younger kids, so she had little people to run after and adore, but still, she was fantastic in her own right. I was thrilled. The rapids were fun, and my dad even relinquished the oars to Eric for part of the time. An oarsman is born- he loved it! We'll need to start saving our pennies now for a raft of our own. So that trip was a blast, and now Eric and I are planning a small trip of our own.

This isn't us, because I couldn't find ours online, but you get the idea.


While in JH, we missed out on Eric's family trip to his aunt and uncle's cabin-- one of his favorite places in the world. It was a bummer to miss, but we had already planned on the river. Aunt Marilyn and Uncle Gerry are two of the most generous people ever, and they're letting us come down just us this weekend. It won't be quite the same as being there with the whole fam, but second best is some alone time. Thanks to Grandma Pat and Grandma Char and Grandpa Craig, babysitters extraordinare, Eric and I are going down to the cabin for two days of relaxation. Eric will fish, I'll nap... what a life! Can't wait!

Eric in 40 years


In the meantime, I'm working on redecorating Riley's room, and getting our office ready to transform into babyworld. You know, people are so nice! A woman in Patti's ward was giving away a twin bed, so we got that for free. (Tonight is the first night for Riley to sleep on it- wish us luck!) And a woman in my ward was getting rid of a glider chair and ottoman, so we got that for free, as well. Those were some of the only pieces of furniture we were going to need to purchase, so I was so grateful to not have to! (If anyone knows where to get a bassinet, I'd love to hear about it!) Once we get everything painted and organized, I'll post pictures. Since I'm not a crafty person, I'll no doubt feel overly proud, but please don't burst my bubble.


This is one of the bed spreads that I'm eying, but it's kind of pricey. We'll see.

A Felonious Thing

The other day, Eric found this letter on the hood of his car. I have to tell you, it just made my day. It just kept getting better and better. My sister typed this up, and I want to stress this is the original spelling, punctuation, and wording- she said GrammerCheck was going crazy. You can't make this stuff up. So I hope you all enjoy.


"Me and my family have been very terribly, wickedly and violently victimized by Brent Brown and now Brent Brown is unrighteously suing me for 150,000 dollars to conceal the truth about the violent crimes against me my wife and our child because I did tell the truth about him and his numerous felony crimes and his corruption. It was absolutely proven that Brent Brown did commit many felony crimes against me including submitting dozens of lies to the forth district court to conceal his crimes and explain away attempted murder. It was only after I did make complaints against Brent Brown for stalking and after I turned them in for fraud and then filed a complaint against them for tampering with the brakes on my car that they did hurry and run and tell lies and pretend they are being victimized so that nobody would believe the truth about the violent and numerous felony crimes they had committed.

These are the absolute facts so I pray to invoke the wrath of God on my head if I am not telling the exact truth. Brent Brown did commit or incite many violent felony crimes and did also incite others to commit many felony crimes against me my wife and our child including putting grease on the brakes of my car then going into court with a voice mail that said I had talked with Chrysler about the brake lock differential on my car locking up and they with the hlp of Chrysler corporation did attempt to explain away them putting grease on my brakes but in fact it was proven that the brakes did not malfunction and that grease was put on my brakes to cause a serious accident. Also proof of this as having the intention to possibly cause the death of a victim and even a child is that Brent Brown did fraudulently take information that was not relevant nor did it pertain and use it in a deceptive manner and tried to make it look as though I drive very fast so as to explain away that if I had gotten in a wreck and our child or someone else’s was killed they had already covered it with fraudulent information so as to cast doubt and conceal the truth of their involvement.

Brent Brown did refuse to take a polygraph or to allow any of his employees to take once concerning this. Brent Brown is guilty of attempted manslaughter of a victim and their child to conceal his many felony crimes and conceal his criminal business practices if he is not then why not take a polygraph concerning the lies he told in court the, attempted murder of a child to conceal felony crimes and the many counts of fraud including changing contracts adding fraudulent charges and defrauding people for repairs made even teenagers under the age of 18 by refusing to do warranty work then charging for repairs that should have been warranty and many many other frauds even so many I could never even write them but I must mention that Brent Brown did even rip off women who’s husbands had been at war fighting for our country as I just recently found out.

These are the absolute facts and unconditional truths there is no other truth so I testify in the name of God that Judge Mcdade did commit felony crimes on behalf of Brent Brown and did falsify court documents and did knowingly purposeless and intentionally commit perjury in the 4th district court to support Brent Brown in a corrupt and unrighteous manner because they could easily manipulate Judge Mcvey to support Brent Brown in a corrupt manner because Judge Mcvey (at the moment is kind of gay because he did let Satan manipulate him like a trashy woman) Judge Mcvey did also attend BYU and beyond that he was also military and they are using that knowledge to manipulate Judge Mcvey to unrighteously support Brent Brown and here is why. I am Mormon and I try to live a righteous life but because I did openly profess that I did study Islam and that I did understand that the concept of Islam is one of peace and not of war and that the belief of Islam is that it is unforgivable to oppress any man so as to withhold from him the way to live righteously and I did compare that the crimes and lets be honest about those crimes which are being committed by these Judges. They are exceedingly corrupt and felonious crimes that are only of the devil and these men are so weak that they serve Satan as one of Satans women such as Pam Hitt who is one of the biggest liars on earth and did commit felony perjury on behalf of Brent Brown also. I did testify honestly that this kind of corruption was responsible for sept 11th and it was. So now they try to turn an ex military Judge against me but I only fear God and God said if they sue you and take away your coat offer them your cloak also."