there was snow in may..i have hope for june. *fingers crossed*

i would like to begin with a picture of my good friend Landon. this is in late may. nothing about this is ok. thank you Rexburg.

this is a cave.... that yes, i was brave enough to venture into. cold and somewhat scary experience, but pretty neat. singing the Indiana Jones theme song helped a lot.

memorial day!!!- This weekend was great!! i got to see colette and will, josh and marcie, sum and jared, and all those kids!! I love watching their personalities develop- it's hillarious, we had several "kids say the darndest things" moments of our own this weekend. colette has all the pictures so as soon as cecilia puts them online i'll have to share them :) we have some great pictures of all our fun times (like bumper cars at pojos...those things spin FAST) :)

this is me milking the electronic cow Bessie at PoJos :)

we were very good and made sure to get a good workout in (Jillian Michaels 30 day shred! ahhh!!) ya, she kind of scares me. the kids had to try it after the grown ups. they did awesome.

i love maci and liam's little conversation at the end here...

this is me being famous!! lol- just a little clip from our new website at the "meet our staff" part. my boss spotlighted me as "an accomplished drummer" which makes me laugh every time: http://www.naturesnook.net/retailer/store_templates/ret_about_us.asp?storeID=7A7848F68DF34ED6A44B61B627AA38DE

fun adventures with the boyfriend...

ok so the whole fam has been asking about my boyfriend Kevin. i know i know. the name. but he is great through and through and we have a blast. in the short time we've been dating we've had about a million and five adventures, so i thought i'd spoil you all with close to that many pictures of the adventures. lucky you.

this is our first adventure together, being on the poster that advertised our drum concert in march. we've been playing in RixStix together since January, but at the time of this picture we had NO idea that we'd end up dating. hahah life is funny like that. but we were totally buds at this time.

this is one of our earlier adventures. game night at Jess and Dan's. absolute blast, and we even got these killer apple juice martinis spiked with mt dew. that's the good stuff.

experimenting with Smooth-Aways. sometimes, you just gotta try out those infomercial products for yourself. this one actually kind of works. like sand paper.

this date turned out to cost 60 bucks, with dinner and the car getting booted. we were in the 15 minute parking a tad too long at my house. they watch that lot like hawks i tell you. he was totally a good sport about it. but now if he picks me up he parks like 4 blocks away and walks to come get me....just in case.

concert nights....here's another thing he's a good sport about. as a music major i have to attend 8 concerts a semester from all kinds of different genres. he's only a music minor, but he comes with me anyway. the concerts here are normally pretty great anyway. except for those unfortunate cases of awkward audience applause. i think i need to lecture the whole school about it at devotional.

i did mention we play percussion together, which is motivation for me to continue praticing. here are some pictures in the practice room, when sometimes you just have to rest your brain for a minute. i swear we practice music in here, despite some of the comments i get from our fellow drummers at school. hahah. they're so jealous.

having fun making dinner: (what? sometimes pasta can be really funny)

kevin learning to paint my nails. he picked out the color and everything. this was all his idea, i would never make a man do this. but he suprisingly did a really good job. i was proud.

getting ready for yet another concert night.

well now that i'm sure i've sparked enough conversation for all of you to call each other and gossip i should probably go to bed soon. it's the middle of the night and i work in the morning...

LOVE YOU GUYSSSS

emily rose walker is my hero!!

this is a movie one of my best friends made about me...
using music from a band i love to make fun of :)


http://s286.photobucket.com/albums/ll110/erwalker_89/?action=view¤t=ADayintheLifeofAmberDawn.flv

copy and paste the website into your browser :)

rixstixpix...and such

some clips of my last concert: :) we had a professional photographer come take these

my beautiful baby niece :) she's really starting to develop her own little cute laugh now (she's 8.5 months)

check out my dorky 1 minute fugue rap :) (a rap about the form of a fugue...in the form of a fugue) this was a blast to make and mix, it has like 10 different takes in it, and i sound like WALL-EEEEE in part of it beacuse we auto-tuned the whole thing. http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=1055310

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"springtime" ---i guess that includes snow?

hello everybody and welcome to the first week of my new semester!! luckily it isn't snowing...today...but let's keep our fingers crossed. i now live further from campus and don't adore the idea of continuing to fight the storm to get to class. It's my spring break this week so i will be spending it setting up my new house and getting some hours in at work, just prepping for next semester's load :) oh, and i should probably finish my state taxes...shoot...

my new living room :)

well the semester went out with a bang...it was such a crazy week but i still managed to have some fun to distract me from finals:



percussion family dinner at the snow building

PEEP WAR!!! ----this is actually the best way to celebrate easter, plus mine totally dominated.

i had several more of these that were much more gory...but i decided to spare the rest of the after shots. i know you guys are weak stomached.

new semester- new hair, sounds about right. actually i wanted the old color out of my hair (it had faded from black to kind of a weird red brown and i didn't like it)

this color my friend made up for me who works at the salon. it's what i wanted but i was really scared i was going to have purple hair when it was all through. the ingredients were as follows:

red violet, violet base, 4 color shots of red, one color shot of blue. yikes! but i'm happy with how it turned out :)

speaking of miracles--i'm really not sure how i pulled off the grades i did this semester. particularly in those classes i don't find it necessary to pay attention in. like science 101--who cares right? the subject could have been interesting...maybe...but my friend zack and i have such a hard time paying attention. all my notes i went to study before the final were just full of pictures and funny quotes. i thought i'd share with everyone how i look at my finest, in my earliest state, as zack deemed "neander-amber" these are hot hot hot.

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last week of the semester!!

wow this crazy semester is not slowing down at all!

this week (besides finals and one more jury) i am moving! once i get everything worked out i'm sure it will be great- i'm really excited to move into a new ward and new stake. I will be living with 5 girls i've never met- it should certainly be interesting. i'm ready for a change though, and a new semester. I'm getting excited about my new classes, i can't believe this is already my 5th semester living at this school!

ps-HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!!

general conference has been so great for me this weekend. it always seems that just listening to the prophet makes you forget all frustrations in your life. also, the easter bunny visited my house :)

this made the best conference breakfast ever! yum!

here are some more picture of my favorite group- RixStix! we got the chance to play in yet another awesome concert last week and suprisingly- it was a huge stress reliever. :) i actually love playing marching bass drums

here are some pictures of my new coolest hair do- thanks to my roommate cami :) she wanted to make sure i at least looked good for my juries in case i didn't play good....

here's just a clip of funny 12 second vid that i've named "interpretive dance"

it's what happens when you put too many music majors in a small room for too long. one of my friends was playing a recorder, and another friend jumped on the piano and starting accompanying her. it just sounded like some kind of "spiritual yoga music" and people walking into class were like "what the heck..." My friend greg- who's in this vid- served a performance mission in Nauvoo singing, dancing, and playing piano. so i started to dance around the room to this music and he stood up and started lifting me in the air. it was a great class bond, and one of my friends captured just a minute of it on her phone. good times. heehee.

concerts and juries

hello everyone,

just a short update for you this week. basically i've just had concerts and dress rehearsals out the wazoo. 4 nights last week and 2 this one, followed by juries. it is really hard to stay motivated but i'm just going to have to push myself for the next few weeks. luckily, i love performing.

this is a short vid of my partner and i about a week before the RixStix concert, this number went really well :) i only got my finger jammed on stage and didn't get hit in the face.

These are pictures of my drum line after the concert. I'm acting president this semester, and Randy and i get to run it together. Randy and i wrote the piece we performed this semester and it was a huge hit (i wrote basses he wrote tenors mostly). there's a vid on youtube of it, but it focuses in on the tenors mostly. it's still really cool if you want to see the visuals: http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DT0DukkLmjR8&h=0e2c79dd89684a371ca4a140333bf2be

This is a picture of our poster for the semester- i was lucky to be on it :) our percussion groups are awesome

close up

Brahms Requiem- This was a huge event in the music department. This GLORIOUS piece of music hasn't been performed here before, and hundreds of students were involved. it was a fun-filled evening for all of us.

camille (best friend from high school) and I- she did my hair and make up for my b4 the concert

kimsy and me!

we gots our choral faces on :)

Speaking of drums, this is probably the coolest thing i'm doing currently. a band needed a bass line for the concert next week, but with the lack of people, we're improvising and i'm playing all 4 :) soooo much fun

This is a video of a practice session for my solo to be judged this friday. i'm going to be picky and say it's not ready yet, but it anyone wants to catch a glimpse at what i do, here it is. actually i'm not even sure if all of you have seen a marimba :) i love this instrument.

also...i make a two second appearance in this video in the snow building :) if you know anything about solfege you'll appreciate this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kRlssgJEcs