lots of leena: 2009

My Brudders on YOUTUBE

While on his "mish" he lived with a family who had a recording studio in their house. One time of Pday they recorded him singing "Where Can I Turn for Peace?" and then posted it on Youtube. I didn't even know that was allowed but apparently it is if it isn't a video of them. Only a picture and their voice.

Phantom of the Opera

Is one of my all time favorite books!

A classic story full of mystery, romance, and chivalry. Who will end up with Christine? Who will she choose? The naive vicount De Changy? Or Eric? The man hiding behind the mask, creating music for the world to hear. With many other wonderful characters to complete this book I highly recomend it to anyone and everyone!

A true classic.

Who wouldn't love it??

Dough-heads. Thats the answer.

When the movie came out with Gerard Butler as the Phantom I knew it was going to be good. And I wasn't disappointed! The whole movie was spectacular! Gerard Butler is an amazing Phantom with the "Voice of an Angel" (ha ha ha haaa. . . . . . .) BUT in the movie they took out his best scene (in my opinion) of him singing "No One Would Listen". Luckily it is easily assessable on YOUTUBE :)

Now DARE to tell me that wasn't DELIGHTFUL!!!

*WARNING*

Those who dare. . .BEWARE!!!!!

I'm a fierce opponent.

My. . .

. . .first rainboots wear of the season!

First wear of the rainjacket also.

That would be the bright, colorful, 60's, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat looking one. :)

SLO Christmas Barn

Every year the family travels 25 minutes North to San Luis Obispo to vistit the Christmas barn. A nursrey that decorates their barn fantastically and turns it into a winter wonderland! They even make it snow in there! :)

We have been going there for the past couple of years. This year we arrived at the barn with excitement in our hearts as to what it would look like, walked into the barn and were horrified! It was empty.

With sadness hanging over us like a dark, dreary, cloud we walked around to see the few things that remained.

M-dog and his pathet....I mean sad face

Dad, M-dog, and Mum

The huge mirror that mother wants in the house.

The sad lone christmas tree. :(

Me in the deapths of despair

(but really it looks like my Zoolander face :) )

BUT dad took us to the hardware store where they have FREE popcorn.

That made everything better. :)

M-dog and his popcorn

Me happy once again

Gas to drive to SLO. . . $5

Popcorn. . . Free

Dog in a raincoat. . .Priceless

Christmas Caroling

Tonight for mutual we went caroling at the AG hospital.

Most everyone was wearing mickey santa hats which is always a plus. :)

Jackie, Christa, and Tara

The gang

Me, Kelsey and my Scottish hat thanks to Scotty :)

My new favorite picture! :)

Temple Trip

Peoples in my car on the way down.

Juliann, Dianna, Abby, and Miks
Once again Miks played Nintendo 64 the whole way there

Once at the temple it was POURING RAIN! But Abby was sliding on the sidewalk and got very good at it.

Dianna and Juliann

GANGSTA ABBY

Juliann

I was trying to have the effect of me having a halo. But ya that didnt work out too well.

All of us together.

Lovely face there Trevor

David Lee with thumbs up for his first time at the temple

Thanks to my trusty umbrella I had I didnt get wet.

But everyone was calling me Mary Poppins :)

ELATION!

If you were crying over this post as I was, I dont blame you. BUT be sad no longer!!! For the good Lord hath given my Tabitha a second chance and sent her back to this beautiful green earth to continue to share her talent of giving joy to me with her musical abilities! Eeeeekkkkkkk! (my squeal) How did she come back to life you may ask?? Well it all lies in one persons motto. Jarett is this persons name. He is a computer nerd who speaks English (rare I know) and he is always saying "Google knows". I always thought he was kidding but OHHH NO!!!! He has never been so right in all his life! I shall NEVER again doubt Googles abilities! All I had to do was type in "How do I reboot my ipod" into the search bar and up popped the Apple website and the happiness of my fate was in their hands and they did NOT disappoint! :) I did exactly as they instructed and BAMM! Tabitha is all better. :)

TONIGHT, TONIGHT, I'M GOING TONIGHT!

Tonight I'm going to the Los Angeles Temple with the ward.

Reason for visit?

A.) So we can see the Christmas lights

and B.) So we can do baptisms for the dead.

Miss Abigail and I will be venturing down together. Along the way Abigail will be forced to learn ALL T-Swift songs till she can sing them backwards. :) Also Kelsey is bringing CheeseItz! And that makes me happy! Although last time she brought those they ended up spilling ALL over me. NOT MY FAULT! I won't point fingers (cough, Molly, cough) because it was a true accident, but I did have a rather cheesy smell to me for the rest of the trip.

Pictures to come of the adventures we will have tonight :)

My Life This Week. . .

. . . Equals this show.

Once Upon A Mattress.

In the movie above you might recognize a couple of people. Zooey Deschanel plays "Larkin", the girl who cant marry her true love until the prince does. "Larkin's" true love is "Sir Harry" played by Matthew Morrison who plays Mr. Schuester in GLEE. With many many other name in this movie.

Mesa Middle School is putting this show on and it has taken over my life this week.

Can We Please Talk 'The Host'?

Ok seriously Twilight??? No no no NO! The Host is what it's all about! Out of all of Stephanie Meyers books The Host is by FAR the best! It's better written, more interesting, and the main character isn't a brat! There needs to be a movie for 'The Host' instead of all this Twilight nonsense!

Many devout 'Host' lovers have put together spoof video's of who they would like to play with character and posted them on YOUTUBE.

Out of the many, many, MANY videos out there my personal favorite it the one with Jessica Alba.
The day I catch word that this book is becoming a movie will make me one happy girl!!
I will GLADLY wait in line for hours upon end to see the midnight showing.
Can they just hurry up and make it already!

Holiday Taylor??

WOW! In love with this! I'v decided I need her to follow me around with her guitar and sing songs relating to everything that happens in my life. :)

Love, Love, LOVE This Song!

Oh Regina Spektor how you soothe my soul! With thy words of wisdom and all thy simpleness. Please continue your work so that thou can cause me happiness. :)

Sauna Night :)

On Friday the girls from church came over and we had sauna night. We saunaed, we ate, we did a lil ( a LOT) karaoke, and ate more! :) It was an eventful night. Everyone was full of energy except for dear Tara who fell asleep as soon as we got out of the sauna. Yep its that good. :)

Diana, whose name we changed to 'Gangsta D!', and Kelsey

Kelsey and me singing "I Can't Wait" by Hilary Duff

Jackie trying to hide from the camera

Abby, and Tara

Tara woke up for the pic :)

Kelsey and I were singing buddies.

Us singing a Backstreet Boys song :)

Me and Gangsta D!

My Life for the Past Week. . .

Has consisted of one thing. . . .

. .. . . this show.
All week I have lived my life at the CC (Clark Center) in the girls dressing room.

That dressing room smells of stinky feet and desperately needs the air conditioning to work! But all turned out well and the hair was lots of fun to do. :)
Rachelle-Belle
Hair done by yours truly :)

Rachelle-Belle and me

Dinner between shows with the Williams, Brett, Gma and mum

BB and Jackie

We all gave BB our fortune cookies and he wanted to shove them in Jackie's face :)

This pics dialogue went something like this

L: Brett what are you doing??

B: Leena im making classy poses

L: It looks like a cheesy pose someone would have as their fb profile pic

B: THATS EXACTLY WHAT IT IS! I'm glad you're smart enough to see that

Back in the dressing room getting ready for the second show of the day Sara was taking sips of the 5 hour energy nonsense. Kiera wanted a swig and INSTANTLY became hyper.

Kiera

Rachelle-Belle saw what was happening and wanted in on it

Rachelle-Belle and Kiera

Jackie put a mole on a different part of her face for every scene.

This mole started to bleed all over her upper lip

Jackie and Rachelle-Belle

Me and Sara

Jackie and Me

Photo taken by Kellie as in by the mirror

and the good news is that tomorrow I begin yet ANOTHER tech week. YAY. . . .

He Follows Me EVERYWHERE!

A couple days ago I was helping my dear mother with the family blog. While putting up pictures of the fam, and putting up flags of the countries we are from I decided to Google our family coat of arms. When I typed in "Kilpelainen Coat of Arms" and put it on images I found........
......Matty.
2 pictures of him. I decided to click onto it and found that it was a family's blog from the ward Matty is in.
After more investigating I found out that this family had the missionaries over to carve pumpkins.
I was quite puzzled over the look on Matty's face and after reading on I found that these two were practicing smiling without teeth.
Go Matty!

If you are puzzled over what they carved don't be!

It's simply something only my brother would do.

It's.....

.....a mullet man.

Don't you see it????

(Ya me neither)

Eggnong Testing

Today mum had Mika and me setting up all the Christmas decorations. Mika wanted to be the first person to decorate the tree so I allowed him to.

Then it was my turn to make the tree pretty.

End result for our American tree.

Then mum had me decorate our Finnish tree.
Me and my work of art.

Every year our family, the Smiths, and the Merrills get together and sing Christmas carols. Then we have Eggnog testing. We take this very seriously! Somehow without rigging it the girls like the same eggnog and the boys all like the same eggnong.

Emily