A FAR GREEN COUNTRY

My Aunt Cindy, my moms baby sister, passed away today from a long and painful battle with Melanoma Cancer. 

"LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL"

"Alone we are fine but when we're two, we are eternal." 

Scott, her husband, and Cindy

If I Were an Angel

If I were an angel I would bring you love in the day

 and peace in your dreams.

If I were a butterfly I would fly to the heavens

 and plea for more time.

If I knew how to heal I would offer my hands

 to bid your pain farewell.

But I am not yet an angel, 

I have no wings, 

and my hands do not heal. 

So once again I close my eyes

 and send a prayer for our Sweet Cindy. 

A whisper comes back filling my heart

 and finally I see.

Your sisters are angels, 

our prayers are your butterflies,

 and your sweetheart has healed your pain.

I cry tears of joy

 and thank our dear Lord

 for giving the sweetest gift in the world... a family.

- Autumn Moncrief

THE MYTH OF US

I couldn't resist posting these because I need a little happy in my life right now. I went on a road trip with my gal pals this weekend and ended up in Tucson to see my buddy Joshua!

I don't think we could be any cuter!!

Our conversation: Rosie: "Hey Buddy!"

Joshua: "Hey Buddy, are you wearing your pajamas?!"

Rosie: "Um, Yes!"

Joshua: " You wore pajamas to my show?! Awesome!"

More Sundance and Weekend adventure pics to come! Sorry I'm so behind!

USE WELL THE DAYS

Well, it's been a long, long battle for my Aunt Cindy with her Melanoma Cancer.  Especially these last couple weeks as it had spread rapidly to her back, brain, lungs, and liver.  She's such a fighter and a strength to us all.  My Mom has gone to Cali to be with her as we don't know how much time she has left.   I posted a few old pictures!

My Aunt Monica holding, I think  my Uncle Mark but it could be my Uncle John, Aunt Cindy, and my mom (what a TOP MODEL look!)
Little Rosie and Cookie, My cousin Roy and Aunt Cindy enjoying the day on John's boat!
Baby Natti, Aunt Cindy, and Great Aunt Hermina
Feb 2008, Toni, Cindy, John and Monica!  I love my family ;-)

This is my favorite scene from LOTR

EATING, EATING AND EATING!!!

Here are more Sundance photos! And yes, they are mostly of us eating because food is good! (and the boss man gave us money for our food!)

Laura, Noelle, Brent, Kimball, and Melissa ( I call her Mobes), eating at Nacho Mammas

So Mobes is one of my favorite people. She cracks me up. She was the manager over Merchandise and she sits at her desk with her head phones on, swearing up a storm all upset and then will take her headphones off and start talking about lotion or something really random and normal like nothing was wrong! Ha! This is one of those situations where you really have to be there I think.

Noelle, Laura, Kaytee, and Me eating at Good Karma!

YUMMO!

Our Night Security Guard for our Volunteer Villa. He did an amazing job as you can see! (I'm kidding by the way. He's supposed to stay awake.)

Rachel Katz cleaning up after our Movies by Volunteer event!

We took the Music TAxi to our lodging! I believe I was singing to Brittany Spears, O Baby Baby song!

Emily was really into it!

Katz was tying to be into it!

Me, Cindy, and Cheryl at our 100 Club Party! This is a party for volunteers who Volunteer for 100 or more hours. Cheryl and Cindy are my favorite Sundance Volunteers, or some of my favorite anyway!

Kaytee, Laura, and Cindy!

Random People

Me being bored monitoring the door!

Me, Laura, Noelle, and Kaytee

My Merchandise Co-workers and Volunteers! They were also my favorite! Kimball and David were stay and Chelsea and Melissa (I think) were Volunteers!

Kimball, Noelle and Oz! Oz was my stellar warehouse volunteer! Love him!

My Mac and Cheese dinner at Zoom!

My Peeps again!

BFF'S

Lindsay and Kaytee! So our bill at Zoom was $700! I know! But one of my co-workers dad is part owner so we got 50% off. Welcome to life of those who are rich and famous I guess!

My favorite Sundance visitors! Brandon, his sister Cristina and her husband Brady came and spent Saturday evening with me at the festival! I was even able to get them into the closing party! Funtastic times!

Me and Mike at the closing party.

Noelle, Shawn (our favorite) and me! Starting to pack up the Villa

Kaytee and Katz, Top Model all the way!

When I see this picture of me I feel very tiny, more than I usually do! We are modeling our new shoes that were given to us because of the awful Jacket issue. Basically what happened is that somehow we ran out of Volunteer jackets the second day of check in and we had no idea why. Volunteers complained, cried, sent really really mean and threatening emails. Then magically many boxes of jackets were found the day after the festival! Whatever is all I have to say about that! But I got super cute Timberland Boots for free!!

Timmy, taking a nap in the pile of "newly found" jackets!! So cute!

Still to come: All the pictures of famous people! That's what you all are waiting for anyway!