5 Year Old Sarah is HAPPY

Ok, it has been awhile since a movie made me giddy (other than HP #7 part 1). A movie that just flat out makes me laugh really loud, or doesn't even weird me out when the cartoon characters kiss. Well today I saw Tangled and let me tell ya I am STILL giddy. I came home and bought the soundtrack at the drop of the hat, changed my facebook

status to be about it and am now blogging about how much I loved it. I am a little obsessed I know, but I just loved it. Maybe it is the five year old in me but a good princess movie never fails to make me happy. I loved being able to enjoy a good cartoon musical while knowing that there wasn't going to be anything inappropriate in it. I guess I found myself relating to Rapunzel: Her SASS, her long hair, her big eyes, her innocence and trust, she even likes to bake and plays the guitar hahaha!

Here is the song on the credits of the movie...LOVE IT.

Christmas Songs that should NEVER be played...

Now don't get me wrong...I love me some Christmas time! I love the annual cousin's sleepover, the music, the family traditions, the movies, the smell of the tree, the presents, the nativity story etc etc. But there are just some songs I can NOT tolerate at Christmastime...call me heartless or a Grinch but here they are:

1. Grown Up Christmas List...Enough said.

2. The Christmas Shoes...."So I laid the money down!" Too dramatic, I mean it has a great message but it's just overplayed to the point where it is now just cheesy.

3. O Holy Night...No one should sing this song, not in church, not in the shower...Nowhere!

4. Mary Did You Know...especially if Donny Osmond is singing it.

5. Santa Baby...that's just sick.

6.Feliz Navidad...We get it the point but yet the song keeps on going and going and GOING.

7. Breath of Heaven...Over played

8. Feed the World...I don't know if that's what it is called but it's the one that's like "Do they know it's Christmas time at all" and it is so repetitive and annoying and every time I get in the car it is playing.

9. Any Christmas song but Kenny G, Gloria Estefan or Michael Bolton

But Hey! White Christmas never gets old,Silent Night never fails to give me the chills and Elvis's Blue Christmas is my alarm in the mornings! So there are some songs I still like ;)

P.S. My Dad and I made a gingerbread version of Graceland...Check it out.

Right Now, Sarah Jane!

This past weekend my dad bought me and my roomates tickets to go see Peter Breinholt's Christmas concert up here in Logan. Pete has always been a favorite with my family and I was pysched to go. It was a great concert and really put me in the Christmas spirit. There was one thing that stuck out however and it wasn't anything to do with Christmas. He sang a song he wrote for his little boy who auditioned for a part in The Christmas Carol at Hale Center on a whim and got it. It is called "Right Now" and I love it. It made me think that I have been holding off on a lot of things because I was too scared that I wouldn't be good enough or that people would judge me. After hearing the song, I was inspired to do something I had always feared doing...........write a song. And ironically that night I got inspired to write a song for my roomate Kenzy. It hasn't been easy, I am a terrible rhymer and I have never been able to express my feelings well. I found myself listening to other people's songs and being jealous of their talents and close to giving up on the song altogether BUT I finished it today! It is nothing fancy (it only includes 3 chords) but yet I am so proud of the little "ditty" I composed because it wasn't easy and I know it came straight from the heart!

So listen to Pete's song...Maybe it will inspire you too :)
P.S. Don't let the EFY emblem frighten you...it is really good!