Here's the Three Blind Mice.

Flapper gal and date.

My dad was so awesome he barbequed all the food for me and let me spray red in his hair and put make-up all over his face. :0)

Here's Cameron and Makenna being each other.

Eighty's couple with Dave's hott shorts.

The "Milk Man" and his bi-product.

Dog Bounty Hunter and his wife Beth. We were laughing the whole night about Leslie's "lady's".

Me trying to make a face that looked "old." I'm such a nerd!

I was at Goodwill trying to come up with a costume and a light bulb went off when I saw this lovely pants and coordinating jacket. When we sprayed our hair white, mine turned purple. :)

Brett and his creepiest face ever! I can't believe this is what I get to look forward too! :P

My little apple-dumplin...

So my last post I call Taylor a menace, but these pictures redeem her as my cute-little-apple dumplin. I've wanted to try out my camera and decided last minute after I dropped Tori off to take some pictures of Taylor. I've seen this old house on Ocotillo forever that I knew would be fun to take pictures in front of. So last second heading out the door I grabbed an apple. :) Poor kids legs look like they are dirty, but really she has bruises covering her shins. I bruise just like that. I remember when I was little counting bruises on both of my legs and having 30 of them. You never know with kids how they'll react to you trying to take pictures, but she was sooo cute with me.

my little menace update...

So we took out our Halloween containers to decorate, and I still haven't finished the outside entry so I pushed them up against the back of the couch. This is now Taylor's favorite spot in the house. I come down the stairs to find Taylor chillin with her pillow "bobo" and eating a dog cookie. Right before this picture Brett found her with a chair pushed up to our hutch in the kitchen and she was eating all the dog cookies. At least they are all natural! She seriously gets into everything and is constantly making messes for me. And she is so devious about it! She has this little evil laugh she does when she knows she shouldn't do something she says, HaHa, and gives me this little smirk.

She's such a funny kid. She loves being onry (spelling?) to everyone. Every morning my parents try to say hello to her or give her a kiss and she frowns at them and says, "no GiGi (grandma), or ouch!"

Her absolute favorite show is "Kailan." If she even hears the t.v. say it's going to be on next sometimes she screams in excitement or comes running from wherever she is and gets ready for her dance. She imitates the characters as they wave, hold hands, jump, and growl, and dance. It's the cutest thing ever.

A funny thing about her is she has always loved guys, so wierd. She will go up to a stranger and sit in their lap at church if it's a guy. But if any of my girlfriends even try to say hi to her she tells them how she feels, so funny. At the gym daycare they were telling me how they tried for the whole time I was gone to just get her to smile and she wouldn't. But then the maintenance guy saw us walk in and said," oh, she's the one who follows me around when I go in there and keeps saying hi to me." I hope this doesn't mean she's going to be boy crazy starting at the age of one! I looked in her mouth and she's getting her final four molars, hurray! I absolutely hate teething. My kids always turn into little monsters, hence Taylor's sweet behavior. Lately, when I talk to her or someone else is and she's irritated she puts out her fists and started shaking or hits herself on her chest like Tarzan and says , "Uuuuugh!"
I remember that once Tori was done teething she turned into a little angel. So I'm crossing my fingers it won't be too long til I get my little angel back! :)

So Halloween is coming to town...

Halloween is my favorite holiday and I always pull out the decor early. So my girlies have been dressing like witches everyday since I have the Halloween bin opened up in my kitchen.

I of course was dying to make a Halloween outfit for them, and Tori's is complete below. Taylor's is still a work in progress. :)

My latest creations...

This is my favorite dress I've ever made. I made it to for my friends baby shower and it is about the size of a 6 month old. I think it's precious.

These are fun little onsies that I added stuff to.

And the matching skirts.

Tori Story

Wow, I suck at blogging lately! I just had to write this story down before I forget. So the other day we were leaving the gym daycare and Tori stops me and points to a little boy that was just getting there. She said, "See that boy? He's not an angry, crazy, wild kind of boy, he's a nice boy like for a girl kind of boy." Okay, I thought. So the whole way to the car she expressed to me how nice and awesome this boy was. She was so passionate about it! She tells me how one time she was trying to walk somewhere but he was in the way and that she thought to herself,"he's a boy, so I'll let him go first so he doesn't try to run me over or something." But then he told her, no you go please. Then with the sappyiest voice she tells me,"Isn't that soo nice?! Oh, mom, he's so nice, he's cute, I want to marry him." Huh? And then she said it a couple of times. I smiled thinking she liked this boy because he was such a gentlemen, and I thought that was so sweet. I asked her if she even knew his name and she said no, and I thought that was pretty funny.
So then I said, "Mommy married the nicest boy in the whole world, huh?"
And she said, "No, cause he never helps you do anything at home."
Oops, I better stop thinking out loud certain times of the month!

A.J.'s farewell party thingy

A.J. has been gone a week now in Brazil and it was so fun to get an email from him. He was telling us how wierd some of the other missionaries are (LOL) but also that he is happy he is there. I'm so proud of him for making this decision he's such a cute brother.

All five of us.

A.J.'s farewell party thingy

Taylor and Emmy.

My new camera...

I haven't even read how to use my camera, but I've been messing around with it.

I have a feeling they are gonna love these when they are older!

This is how excited Tori was to start preschool again.

cutie!

I turned 30...

I had a really good birthday. My friend Leslie took me to Costa Vida's for lunch, and a couple of friends brought me goodies and presents. You always hear people getting surprised on their 30th birthdays so I remember thinking all day that there is no way Brett would ever do that. Especially, since the night before I told him I wanted to use my gift certificate to Brio's. Anyways, on the way there he surprised me with wrapped present and a card. This is very rare for me, so I was kind of shocked. And then to open up a nice Nikon camera I was really in shock. He gave me some money earlier in the week so I wasn't expecting a present at all. So, then we walk into Brio's and he nudged me a little and said,"Who's over there?" Me being the sweet wife that I am responded,"Don't push me." And then looked over to see a table full of friends. What the heck? He also had my favorite desserts waiting at their house for afterwards. So my boo has really stepped up his game this year :).

Thanks, Bretty poo for helping me have a fun birthday now that I'm an old fart like you!

Weekend Getaway...

I had the funnest time this past weekend with my wonderful friends. We stayed in Newport in a hotel and had way too much fun.

Why is eating out so much fun?

We practiced our photograghy and modeling skills ;0).

The weather was sooo great, but a little windy at times. Badoomp, chhh! That's my imaginary drum.