Guilty Pleasures...

Christmas music + Two very talented people = AWESOMENESS. I am so excited to listen to Holiday music. You have NO idea!!!! It's been two years since I have heard a Christmas song that was not performed by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, not that they are aren't awesome. It's just nice to have a change. I am so excited to listen to Holiday music by some of my favorites.

....Enter Mr. Michael Buble. I would marry him for his voice. No JOKE. I love his music.

AND he sings in Spanish

Moving on to Justin Bieber. Let's be honest - this kid is adorable. SERIOUSLY. His Christmas album is really good too, and he got a lot of great artist to work with him. 

Like Boyz II Men for example...

and Usher...I  LOVE HIM! 

 And my personal favorite - Busta Rhymes. Why I do LOVE this version of this song so much? Puzzle me that. All in all J. Bieber is just a good, clean kid with fun music. 

I can't wait to get home for thanksgiving and put all the classics we listened to growing up on my phone so I have them throughout December...N*SYNC, Kenny and Dolly, The Carpenters, Osmond Family Christmas, Donny Osmond (solo Christmas Album), John Denver and the Muppets, Amy Grant, James Taylor! Yeah...only the best and most classy of Holiday music at the Christensen home : D

I think I am just really attracted to nice voices in general. I went to see Puss in Boots with TheRileyManCan the other day. It was late, and I was very tired. I was almost falling asleep for part of the movie, but I really didn't mind because I just kept thinking that Antonio Banderes has such a nice voice and a beautiful spanish accent that I already got my money's worth. Actually - Riley paid for the movie, so HE was the one who got his moneys worth because Mr. Anthony is very smooth to listen to even as a cat. 

I rest my case...

Let's not forget him as Zorro...

Maybe that is why I am going into the profession that I am going into - to help people sound better when they speak. It's nice. I hope that my kids like to practice speaking and singing and using words correctly. I will make them read poetry to me and we will have reading nights where they will perform for me. 

Like this little boy performing Kurt Russell's speech from the movie Miracle. SO CUTE. Please watch. We had to transcribe this in my Phonetics class the other day. 

Thankful

I was going to post something that I am grateful for everyday in November, but I am super busy with school and work so I will just try and post as often as I can....

Number 1. I am so thankful for my internship, especially this year because it is something new that I did not have last year. I love working at Kids on the Move. I love helping my sweet little friends learn to communicate better. There is nothing more rewarding I could be doing right now. These children are bright little spirits that make my whole day worthwhile when I see them. It is nice to be reminded that I am not just simply going to school for no reason. It is for a purpose. I have a goal, and there is a light at the end of the tunnel - a very distant light that is three years away when you add grad school in, but helping these kids gives me motivation to keep on keepin' on all the way through my studies...the good times and the bad.