My Birthday

    I had a lovely Seventeenth birthday! Although I do wish that I would stop getting older. Does sweet girlhood really have to end? Well, I'll not get started on that. Anyway, us girls- meaning me, my mom, my nana, and my sister- went on a shopping spree in the afternoon, and later the whole family went out to dinner at Stoney River. 

Here I am gazing into the distance, dreaming of my coming steak! LOL!

Nana and Me

Birthday girl shot

Dad and Pappap (a.k.a. Grandpa)

Mom and Dad

Now, there's another great thing about birthdays: free desserts! I got this DELICIOUS piece of cake "on the house"!

Aww, this is the cute card Sokea made me

Opening gifts

I got the Celtic Woman songbook, so this picture is of me poring over it the minute it was opened

Thank you, everybody, for making my seventeenth birthday sheer delight!

NATS singing competition

    In April I competed at NATS, a singing competition held at Roosevelt University downtown. I sang Il Mio Bel Foco, Beau Soir, and How Lovely Are Thy Dwellings. I didn't get a callback, but I sang my best and that's what it's all about anyway! The building was very cool because it was very old and looked like something out of a movie from the 1930s, complete with an old fashioned elevator! Unfortunately, I don't have any pictures of the elevator, but it was pretty awesome!

Here I am after I finished singing

My dress was sort of '30s inspired so I felt like I fit right it at the Roosevelt Fine Arts Building

Here's a picture of me before I sang. You can see the fearful, glazed over look in my eyes!

 Just kidding!