She's an Artist!

Do you remember watching the end of "Toy Story 2" where Stinky Pete is stuck in that little girl's back pack with the barbie? You can only see the clean side of the barbie's face, and then she turns to Stinky Pete and says "You're going to love so and so, she's an artist" revealing her beautifully painted face. Stinky Pete felt a lot of horror at that moment, which is what I felt two day's ago. I was trying to convince Allegra to take a nap and in the process I fell asleep. I woke up about 30 minutes later to this face:



This next picture was yesterday. I went to take a shower and when I got out she had stamped her whole face and arms! It's still blue today. Like I said, she's an artist!




Allegra is something else! She is sweet, silly, strong willed, very vocal when she's had enough, very loving and tender... in the words of my friend Kjersten, "She's like a little pixie". I love this crazy girl!

The Muse

So for Joel's Christmas present we went to the Muse concert on Monday night. I have to admit the first time I ever heard about them was reading Stephanie's Myers blog, where she stated that this band was a huge inspiration for her writing. I first heard their song "Super Massive Black Hole" in the movie Twilight and really, reaaallly loved it. So after that Joel and I started to check them out. Joel really got into them when he heard they were libertarians (although not officially confirmed). This is one amazing live band. Seriously, the show was mesmerising with the lights, the graphics, and most of all the music.

First I must state that Joel got called back to work to cover for someone last Friday and we were afraid he would miss the concert (I was not nice enough to sell the tickets, I was still going!) He found someone to cover for him on Monday and drove 12 hours to and from work to come see it. When he got home we went to eat and then sat for an hour in traffic to get to the E Center. As we sat there we noticed how the snow was getting worse and worse and it was almost 8 pm. We finally found a parking spot about 2 blocks away and by this time the snow was coming down hard. By the time we got to the concert I looked like the abominable snowman, and let me tell you, wearing flats with no socks was not the best idea. We got their right as they were playing their first song "Uprising". So we ran to our seats and thoroughly enjoyed the rest of the concert all the way to their last encore performance.

What can I say about this concert, amazing, fantastic, &^%*( one of the best concerts I've ever been to (although Sarah McLaughlin, Live, Keane, and Duncan Sheik were awesome too) but none of them have ever put on show like this. Lead singer was amazing! He shreds on the guitar, seriously shreds it, amazing on the piano. Amazing live voice. It sounds just like on the CD. He does a lot of playing on his knees, lots of lunges, lots of kicks, and spins... this is starting to sound a little gay, but it's not. But I was in awe. The base player, who is the best looking, was disappointingly not very rock starish. He just stood their and bobbed his head up and down in a quasi modo fashion. The drummer was amazing as well. We loved it! Joel got the t-shirt. Go to this link to see what the show was like. It was terrific!