Last Saturday I did a most magical thing...I went to Disney On Ice! Hollie and Alyssa decided to surprise me and take me for my birthday (which isn't until December 8th, but Disney On Ice couldn't come back on the 8th just for me because of prior obligations) and it was AWESOME! To make things even better, we rode the FrontRunner there! In case you didn't know, I absolutely adore the FrontRunner, despite one time getting locked in it and having to go clear to Ogden and wait 20 minutes for the workers to smoke before they finally took us back to Clearfield. It makes me feel like Harry Potter on the Hogwarts Express! In fact, I have a plan to one day dress up like Harry Potter, complete with wand and cage holding a large, fake, snowy white owl, and just ride the FrontRunner back and forth, whispering little spells at people under my breath. But that's another post for the future! 
Anywho, so we get on the 4:23 train so that we can get to Salt Lake in plenty of time, and we're riding along, happy as can be, when I ask Hollie if I can see one of the tickets and she realizes she has left them at home! So we got off in Layton and just goofed around in the freezing cold of the station until kind Natalie brought us the tickets and we caught another train. We left Layton at 5:30 and got there just in time! They even went before it started and bought me some light up Mickey Ears to wear (which I kept on all night long of course)! Now I had found out about the Disney On Ice surprise beforehand because Lyss is a horrible liar, but what I didn't know was that not only had they taken me on a most wondrous birthday adventure, but they had gotten seats on the 6TH ROW! I was so happy/grateful that as I sat down in my seat and the show started, I started to cry! The magic tends to just overwhelm me at times I suppose. After the incredible show that I could have watched for hours on end, they took me out to eat at Applebees, and then to Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory for a mouth-watering chocolate drizzled caramel apple treat! It was a perfect night! Well, other than the fact that on the way home they forced me to eat a large majority of a partially white chocolate covered dog bone Hollie had bought for Ruby. It actually wasn't too bad if I bit the end with the chocolate to mix with the dry, grainy taste.
Hollie was convinced she could put her heels together and bend all the way down without lifting them. She couldn't. But she was a lot closer than me or Lyss!
Bruce was awful hungry....
Look how many characters were in the show! And this isn't even all of them.
She appears to be a little suspicious of something.
Smiling on the 2nd day! Sort of. You can see her little dimples!
It's catch up day! First off, Ruby! On October 26th, Lyss asked me if I wanted to go after church to a house where she had seen a sign for Shorkie (Shitzu+Yorkie) puppies "just to look." I figured puppy looking at someone's home was an appropriate/super fun Sabbath day activity, so along with Brit, Lyns, Morgan, and Lexi, we piled up in the car and headed to check them out! Needless to say, once we got there we fell in love with all 4 puppies, so Lyss called her parents to ask permission to get a dog (they already had two--adorable Oreo and mad ugly Snickers), and after much persuasion, a trip with her parents to see the puppies for themselves, and $600 from Lyss's own pocket, the little 7 week old girl runt was Alyssa's! Lyss named her Ruby and she is probably the only dog I have ever loved as much as my sweet Pebbles and Maggie. I'm able to spend a lot of time with her because Clark and Jodi's generosity in letting me live with them rent free combined with getting a few months ahead on my car payment has allowed me to, for the first time since I've been in school, have a semester of not working, so Ruby and I pretty much go everywhere together! I think Big Mama from "The Fox and the Hound" probably sums Ruby and I up best: "When you're the best of friends, having so much fun together, you're not even aware you're such a funny pair...you're the best of friends!" 
