Walk It Off

Ive fallen in love with this song...and i love her voice more than anything! Take a listen and fall in love:)

A Little Weekend Inspiration

This week deserves a little positivity at the end of a crazy ride...

"Dont let anything stop you. There will be times when you'll be disappointed, but you can't stop. Make yourself the very best that you can make of what your are. The very best".

A good friend and I discussed the idea of a negative thought the other day and it got me really interested in it's effects. It is easy to let the negative situations around us define us. Not only does a negative situation or thought effect us in one specific aspect of our daily lives, but suddenly it creeps into all the rest. How easily a smile is turned into a scowl, and good morning turned into a bad afternoon when we let those sneaky negatives control us. Everyday won't be perfect, and everyday won't be filled with sunshine and singing birds, but I believe I have the power as well as the choice to make it the best that I can. To make myself the best that I can. Now if anyone needs to take this little inspiration to thought, it's me:) I've failed at keeping those negatives out this week, but I thought id share my little lesson learned!

~Jessie Ann

SOULESCAPE 2010

I think i may be the luckiest girl alive...

I spent 4 weeks with the most inspiring people...

Reminding me what i love to do, and where my passions will take me...

"There are short-cuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them. " ~Vicki Baum

I Couldn't have done it without this beautiful girl. Haylee gave me a place to stay, many late night fro-yo runs, and a shoulder to lean on!

These lovely ladies were stunning... I learned so much from each of them and they took such good care of me! Even when i was throwing up, they came prepared with saltines and gatorade to make me feel better!

I was so blessed and honored to be apart of the soulescape family!

So Many Good Things!

There is so many fantastic places to eat out here in LA! Im going to be very sad to leave these delicious places that ive grown to love! The one thing that i have appreciated about food choices in LA is that many places are Vegan and all Organic! Many of you that know me, know that I'm slightly obsessed with eating organically. Its Heaven!

We ate at a darling cafe in Silver Lake called Flore. Everything was Vegan, organic, and gluten free! Nat, Hay, and I ordered a pizza, burrito, and a chickpea-quinioa burger. We couldn't decide what we wanted so we split all three...

...and we ate all of it!! Inhaled it actually! So Tasty and im inspired to eat so much better now. I considering going Vegan...hmmm we'll see:)

We weren't finished with our food adventures for the day and discovered a cute place called Baby Cakes bakery. Guess what?! Gluten free and Vegan! Woot Woot! I order a cookie sandwich which consisted of two chocolate chip (Vegan and gluten free) cookies with vanilla frosting in the middle! Again i think i inhaled it instead of actually chewing it. Utah needs to get with the times and start providing this type of stuff!

Needless to say, we were all a little full, bloated, and sick but i think it was worth it...Did I tell you I'm a little inspired to change the way i eat? Im going to do it! Who knew a little LA would do me so much good!

Now this girl has been my "roomie" for the past month. Quite a saint for letting me crash at her place:) I cant tell you how incredible its been to be apart of my best friends life and experience her world! I dont know how we'll cope with out our late night fro-yo runs and yogi tea in the morning.. I may just have to move here:) I can always dream right?

This is the reason ive been so blessed to be in LA for the past month. Ive had the incredible opportunity to work with Justin Giles and the talented dancers on the SoulEscape dance company. These people are like none others:) #1 the talent is ridiculous, #2 they've taken care of me as I'm a stranger out here, and #3 the most positive, and hilarious people ive ever worked with! Rehearsals are coming along great and the show is coming up! The show is Monday August 9th, at 8 p.m at the El Portal theatre in North Hollywood. Cant wait to get on stage!

A Little Piece of LA!

Lets start with pinkberry...Were dating and he is sooooo good to me:) Always there everyday (sometimes twice a day) and never gets old! This is something that i will miss when i go back home..there is a pinkberry at every turn out here! I think i may be addicted. I wonder if they ship pinkberry to utah??

This place is heaven... It's called IT'SUGAR and it's every persons dream. The entire store is filled with any kind of candy imaginable. Each table is divided into categories of goodies. One table is sour gummys and the next is chocolate covered treats and entire walls of jelly beans and M&Ms! I walked in and they handed me a little zip lock baggy and told me to go crazy..well of course I did! I tasted a little piece of it all!

And we cant forget about the beach! We went to Santa Monica to play and relax at the beach! I think it took us at least 30 min to find parking that wasn't $12 but we did our best and took some R&R time:) I desperately wish that utah had a beach! So many fun people all gathered at one place, all enjoying the same sun:) Im gonna miss me some cali!

Gypsy Livin

Its been a very long time since ive blogged! Not that anybody really reads my blog but for the one that does (bryton:) ) here is the update!

Ive been out in LA for about a week now. I had the amazing opportunity to take my Jr Co dancers to Nationals with the rest of Center Stage. It was exciting to be on the other side of things this time around. I was a competitor last year at NUVO Nationals and now i had the chance to share it with my cute little chickens! Needless to say Center Stage swept the competition! I was a proud little mamma sitting in the audience cheering the dancers on. I cant even tell you how great it was to take class again. I was reminded why i love doing what i do!

Nationals ended on thursday and now I'm crashing at my best friends house who I haven't seen in way to long! Thank goodness haylee doesn't mind me tagging along on her crazy LA life! Ill be out here till Aug 10th. Quite awhile huh? I have the opportunity to dance for an exciting show and i cant wait to start rehearsals tomorrow! eeek! hopefully my body can keep up with the insane talent ill be working with...I guess I'm just gonna have to cross my fingers and hope i can keep up! I feel like I'm just going with the flow.... I dont have a car....or a place of my own...so hopefully this continues to work out! like i said...Living like a Gyspy!!

Dads Big Five-Oh!

We celebrated my Dads 50th b day on monday! (His real birthdate is the 8th of June but he was out of town) so we thought we would throw together a little suprise! I think my dad was a little bit sad that no one did anything special on his b day so he wasnt expecting anything at all! Bryton and i started by sneaking into his office at 7 a.m. (with the help of one of dads sneaky colleges) and decorating it with black balloons and Over The Hill decor:) Every two hours he received a cute note with the lyrics of his favorite songs tied into his favorite treats! I even snuck a nummy lunch into his office without him knowing! 6 o'clock rolled around and bryton and i dressed in all black and kidnapped him from the office...it didnt really go as planned due to the doors being locked but we finally got him outta there! after a very long detour we got my dad back to the house and to his suprise, we had all of his fam and friends there! I think he shed a few tears and bryton and I had the time of our lives being so sneaky! I'd say it was quite the success!