Don't Charge Me

This is my blog to keep everyone on the other side of the mountians up to date. Don't worry mom, we aren't having any fun at all. Afton, Brett and I went to a few rockin parties on Friday night. Showing Brett the 'real' college life- it wasn't fun, mom you would have hated it. I had an interview with the guy in charge of Vienna. I didn't 'wow' him like I did the other guy, but things are looking promising. I am not getting my hopes up though. Saturday night Brett and I went and saw Joseph at Comedy Sportz- don't worry mom, it wasn't even funny. No laughing at all. Sunday Afton, Brett, Kate and I went to Melinda and Josephs for a wonderful turkey dinner that was ya know, alright. Don't worry mom- you would have thought it was dry. No fun there either. Brett later came over to my house with a large rip in his pants! Boy he needs his mom! Having 4 of the 8 Brady's out in Provo isn't all it's cracked up to be, boring really...
An update on Landon- good. Not much to report. He is in a delema because he likes another girl, but come on- I am not worried:-) Going to Idaho this weekend. I should know about Vienna by the end of this week so I should know what kind of appartment to get up there. Because I am going back to Idaho. I enjoy Idaho and am going back up for the funnest semester of the year. Idaho is good.

BIG NEWS

MATT CAN RIDE A BIKE!!! (It's about time you're saying). It dawned on me the other day that Matt didn't know how to ride a two-wheeler so I said, "Matt you don't know how to ride a bike, let's go outside and learn". His response was, "I KNOW how, I just can't do it". Bright kid! After a great laugh we were outside and he was zipping around the driveway in no time. That's what happens when there aren't neighbors around to keep up with, and child #7 who could care less what others think. He's a riding fool.
Now Annalise wants to ride one but she says that all our bikes have been used and she needs a pink one - where did she come from? She's just 19 year too late.
Mom

This Weekend!!

We are really excited about everyone coming out! And to hear dad's choir again. I have a few questions for everyone though..... Dad mentioned that we are going to dinner on Friday after the choir performance and he was thinking about The Roof!!!!!!! Which I am totally excited for but we really need to get reservations because on their web site it says basically that if you don't you can't get in on Friday nights ANYWAY. He also mentioned that Steph might have something that night so we didn't know if we were going so we might have to go out Saturday-but Afton said she had some Nauvoo thing that she needed to go to. Joseph has to work at Comedy Sportz this weekend and we need to figure out which day he needs to get off so that he can come out and celebrate! Could you please let us know ASAP thanks!

PS-Click on the roof link to go to the website

Toot My Own Horn

I usually am not one to toot my own horn, but sometimes I've gotten in trouble in the past when I haven't told my family about cool stuff that has happened to me. So...

I recently graduated from BYU in Media Arts, with an emphasis in business/producing. My diploma says I graduated Magna Cum Laude which means "Top 1.1 to 5%" of the graduating class, according to BYU's website.

The cut-off for Summa Cum Laude, or top 1%, was a 3.99 or above GPA. Well, I wasn't getting that, so I'm happy with Magna. Plus, it sounds close to Magnum, P.I., which is pretty cool.

I have an announcement!

Attention citizens of Brady Land:
I have an announcement truly worthy of an enormous celebration. I believe that currently the royal Brady family is now completly depression free! Therefore- I would like to introduce you to our real father (AKA big Kahuna, editor of the book writen just before my blogg) Welcome back fatha- haven't seen ya in a while. Then there is Stephanie, whom we all thought was out of the woods long ago but is just now getting her head screwed on straight. And apparently fat is one of the other ways to cure depression because Brett has certainly broken free as well. Congradulations all. You've put up a good fight and deserve all the crap we are now getting from father.

Dad's (AKA-the Utah socialite King) upcoming social calendar

Request. Request. Invitation. Invitation. Such is the life of one, Fatha Brady, Utah's newest socialite. Although it's difficult for me to commit to a specific social plan simply because the invites keep rolling in and you all know how we 'Yellows' are. We live by the "better offer" theory. So, here's the most up-to-date info I have.

First--this weekend. I am flying to SLC on Friday, Feb. 10th arriving about 10AM. I will be speaking at a luncheon for doctors at the Hilton at noon. (So far we have no one committed to come, but we all have faith in Delores and Steph and Afton.) We anticipate between 3-8 doctors. Steph and Afton, we need one or both of you to help with the booth on Thursday and Friday--especially around lunch time. Friday will be busier than Thursday. Sharp business attire is best. Joseph is going to help film my seminar on Friday. Pay for all of you is $4000 each (which you have already received in the form of cash deposited into your accounts).

I will then fly to Albuquerque at approximately 4 PM that same day to join Mom, Mark and Brett (who's flying in from AZ to watch the tournament and go to DECA and see his Dad whom he really misses) for Mark's soccer tournament on Saturday, the 11th. Go Mark! No, Ben can't come. Mom is going to drop John, Matt and Annalise off in Manassa at grandma's house on the way to Albuquerque for the night--Friday, the 10th. After Mark's last game on Saturday, the 11th, we will return to Colorado Springs. Sunday, the 12th, we will ordain John a deacon. He's very excited. Brett will return to AZ on Wednesday, the 15th after DECA and family bonding.

Second. President's day weekend. The entire Colorado based family will drive to Utah on Friday, the 17th, in time to arrive at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building (next to temple square) at 4 PM for our 5 PM performance there. The performance will be about 40 minutes long. Afterward, we will all go to dinner for the first time to celebrate Steph's, Mark's, and John's birthdays. No, Ben can't come! With all the soccer camps, etc. this week, we haven't been able to go to dinner as a family here in Colorado, plus Mark and John wanted to have everyone there. Steph has voted for the restaurant that has the walnut pear salad.

Saturday, the 18th, breakfast and morning snack will be on your own but, we will get together for lunch. We have two choices. Brick Oven or Melinda and Joseph's. Melinda has a great meal without onions or peppers that she wants to prepare for us. Sounds good! This will be the second meal to celebrate the triple birthdays. At 2 PM, Young Ambassadors Performance. No, Ben can't come. Rumor has it that Randy Booth is going to send one former YA an invitation to be a guest performer to sing Billy Joel's, "I Love You Just The Way You Are." So far, no word. Maybe they're going to surprise me at the performance so it looks unrehearsed. I'll be ready either way. My costume is already done. I'm going to wear the same "Nephi costume" I wore in the "3 Degrees of Glory" play we did at Aaron's camp in '04. Mom was able to get the mud out of the brilliantly white fabric. I may have to wear a disguise (the pregnant nun costume always works) in order to get in the auditorium without being mobbed.

After the YA's performance, I will have to stay for signing autographs and the BYU catered "after party". No, Ben can't come. Food will include BYU's signature dishes--all the mint brownies you can eat along with chicken de hotel (raised by the sisters in the BYU 4,623rd ward), mashed fake potatoes (fresh from the Church's own Home Storage Center) and gravy, green beans (picked that day from the BYU Welfare Farm) and LaVell Edwards vanilla ice cream topped with a dollup of real whipped cream made from happy cows at BYU's own creamery. Yum! All the "Who's Who at BYU" will be there. Me, Steve Young, Me, LaVell, Danny Ainge, Me, Dale Murphy, etc., etc. We should finish in time to catch a late supper. No, Ben can't come! Again, two choices. Either Melinda and Joseph's (if we didn't eat there at lunch) or some other restaurant (John wants Fuddruckers--be careful how you say that, Brett) to celebrate the triple birthday again, for the third time.

Sunday. Feb. 19th. Church in the AM. Dad will go to south Weber and then on to Brigham City for two Cadet Choir performances. The first one starting at 2:50 PM and the second starting at 7 PM. A Congressman is speaking at the second performance. We should be back in Provo at about 10 PM. Anyone who wants to go with me is very welcome--except Ben. You will have to be willing to put up with the paparazzi that always accompanies me. The rest can chill at Grandma's.

Monday, the 20th. The new, smaller, sleaker and quieter Colorado Springs based family will drive back to CS signalling the end of the weekend party. There will be the usual misting in Father's eyes as he leaves his children and curses about this so-called "Plan of Happiness". (How can a plan be happy if children can't be with their father 24/7? Don't answer that!)

The following Friday, the 24th, Brett will be moving from AZ to Provo. He will be resting (mostly) from his intense workouts there and to prepare for tryouts beginning Tuesday, the 28th. Go Brett! Good news. The BYU Men's Soccer Coach called Brett and talked to him without hanging up or telling him not to show up. Yea!

So, there you have it. Steph and Afton. There will be no time for boys while we're there. None. I don't want either of you leaving for any non-family event. Cancel the snowmobile trip. If we're going to drive 20 hours, spend a fortune on gas for the Suburban, miss one day of school and leave Ben, we don't want you to have "other plans." However, as a consolation prize, I can probably arrange for your FHE brother and Scott to have a personal, autographed picture of me in my "Nephi" costume after the YA's performance on Saturday, PROVIDED they both bring a notarized health certificate verifying that they have no potential for emergencies nor contagious diseases. In my past performances, many (mostly females) have fainted from excitement. With my strong, chiselled jawline, the power is overwhelming. Now that I have two jawlines, it will be double the power. Totally unfair to any faint-hearted YA fan. Anyone with a history of heart problems is strongly encouraged to use extreme caution and should only attend if authorized by their physician and they are properly medicated.

Oh yea. I forgot to say that the Cadet Choir will probably be warming up in Scott's dad's chapel (OK, it's Presidnet Hinkley's too) in preparation for the Joseph Smith Memorial performance. Scott and his parents are invited to come provided they are willing to wait their turn for photos and autographs.

Oh, the life of a 'Yellow'. Party. Party. Party. But, what's a Dad to do? Ta, Ta!

Love,
Dad

No!! I said, Ben can't come! And you can't bring your paintball gun!

That's IT!

OK! I am done being in the dark and having no idea what in the heck is going on! Presidents Day weekend- the weekend that all ya'll are coming out... what in the crap is the plan!? Let me tell you what I had planned. Birthday party for Emili and I Friday night. THEN on Sat go snowmobiling with my VERY attractive, hilarious, old FHE brother named Landon. Then bring him to watch the cadet choir. I have no idea when that is going on though. I have no desire to go to a YA concert, but if tickets have been purchased then so be it. There are a lot of people coming out that weekend and I have no idea what is going on. Please let me know!
On a better note- mother sent us a Valentines Day package and I just wanted to show you what we did with them. It was so much fun!

I'm a star in Utah!?!!

Failing tests over a dozen times, falling at nearly every competition, being the oldest skater in history at the intermediate level - and I'm a hero in Utah! I could get used to this . . . This, my family was the FRONT PAGE of the Utah Valley Life newspaper on Thursday. My body took up the ENTIRE page! So here's the story in a nut shell . . . I went skating one morning and there was a photographer there from the Deseret Newspaper. He was snapping shots left and right of ALL the skaters that were there that morning (a record breaking 5!!!). I just did my thing and was told that he was doing a piece on the 7 Peaks Ice Arena club members (which I'm not a part of until next week). Afterwards he asked us our names and that was the end. Several days, even weeks passed by and i hadn't heard anything. I assumed that the article was just a small column on the side of some random section and that he had obviously not used any of my pictures. WELL! i got a call from my boss on Thursday. She said, "Hey super star!! I hope you've seen the paper today! Because you're front and center!!!" I hadn't seen the paper yet and I still didn't understand the magnitude of "front and center". i showed up to teach skating that night and there was Vicki with about 50 newspapers in her hand handing them out to anyone that would take one. She handed one to me and i almost passed out! I was huge! All bad! My knees are bent! My arms are all wrong and I look like I'm in pain (mark)!!! Immediately there were like 5 kids that came up to me asking me to sign their papers. So my family! You see, my dream of becoming famous has somewhat come true! And I would be happy to sign anything for you for a small fee. :) Thank you! Thank you!

No Friends

Well I am sure glad that you all are coming to see us becuase ever since Steph moved in I no longer have friends. No one ever comes over, I make dinner and Joseph trys to help but ends up falling asleep becuase of all the hours he is putting in a KBYU.....so I eat by myself and talk to myself. Heck Necu won't even sub for me anymore. Sad. Brett you should come up too so you can hang out with me:)