Breaking Dawn Party!

I've tried to refrain from posting about the Twilight series, because I don't want you all to know how truely obsessed I am. However, can I just tell you how excited I am it is coming out in 4 days!!! There are a lot of bookstores that are doing Breaking Dawn parties on Friday night at 12pm. In fact, Nick told me that Deseret Book is even having one! Some friends and I are going to the one at the Barnes and Noble on Baseline and Val Vista. All you have to do is call and reserve your book and they will e-mail you a ticket. I'm so excited!! We are going to be there around 10ish, so if anyone wants to come with us you're invited!! I can't believe I am saying this! I sound like a groupie or something. What's funny is that if I had not read it and heard someone saying this I would have thought they were really nerdy...oh well. One of the Barnes and Nobles is even having a Prom themed party where you are expected to wear prom attire. We toyed with that idea, but decided to go to another one. I'm not really sure what to expect, so we're mainly going to get our book and have a girls night out. I'm so grateful for an amazing husband that doesn't think I'm too lame and it fine with me going while he watches Allie. Thanks honey! Leave a comment or e-mail me if you want to meet up with us!

Reading Pooh Bort

Allie loves reading "Pooh Bort" aka Pooh Bear. Usually she has me read it to her, but yesterday she wanted to read it herself. The video cracks me up. Just click on the play button and turn your sound up. This is how she always reads whether its Pooh Bear, the scriptures, anything. She always has the same high pitch and says the same ramblings. Actually, at the beginning if you really listen you can tell she is saying characters names mixed in with the rambling. Is this how I sound when I read to her??

Birthdays again!

Last Sunday we celebrated Brittany and Steven's (Erin's husband) birthday at my uncle Kent's house! We also celebrated Erin graduating ASU! Whoo-hoo! Allie had a blast playing with her cousins, and the dogs and horses. After it was all over there were some sweaty kids and really dirty feet. I overheard Sabrina talking to Joshua on "tips for convincing your parents to get a dog." Emily's kids are dying for a dog and are trying everything they can think of to convince Emily and Russell. Samantha looked up a website on how to talk your parents into buying a dog, checked out dog books from the library, and the kids held a meeting the other night. They explained all the pros about having a dog and opened it up for Emily and Russell to ask questions. They had done their homework! For every con they had the kids had an answer for it. Each of the kids wore a pin they had made that said, "Dog lover" and then their name. At the end of the meeting the parents were promised that if they agreed to let them have a dog they too could have a pin. So cute! We're rooting for you kids!!

My uncles live next

door to each other,

so the adults stayed

and talked around the

horses, and the

kids played on the

new playground at
Paul's.

She looks a little

warm.

She kept climbing up all by herself.

She's getting so big!

I love this picture. I took it to show all the

kids climbing up the ladder together. It

wasn't until I got home that I saw Caleb

and Sabrina's goofy expressions.

Journaling...

I know that a lot of my posts are really wordy and long, but I'm hoping, like a lot of you, to use to as a journal too. I guess you can send in your blog info to Blurb.com and they'll turn it into a book. So, sorry if they're a bit lengthy!

Last night I was cleaning bathrooms and Allie was watching "Monkey Geek" (Monsters Inc.). I went out to check on her and this is how I found her...shirt, pull-up and shoes.

Poor Elmo

Our neighbors were packing up the grandma to move her back to New York last Saturday and our cute neighbor lady kept bringing things over and saying, "Do you guys want these? Would you use this?" They are really great neighbors. She at one point brought Allie a little elmo and asked if she could give it to her. Allie was of course super excited because she really likes Elmo and points him out whenever he is on anything. She has never watched him at our house so I was really suprised when she knew who he was, but I guess when she is playing with her cousins or at Grandma's house she sees him. When our neighbor saw how excited Allie was, she ran back to her house and got a tickle me Elmo too! Allie was in heaven. She now carries them everywhere and has to have "two elmos". Well, unfortunately on Sunday the Elmos got sick I guess. Allie likes using my stethescope to listen to her heart and mine and Nick's too. She points to her heart and says, "Mommy, ears a heart". Translation: She wants to use my stethescope to listen to her heart. Well, on Sunday it was Elmo's turn. She would scrunch up her face and say, "Mommy, Elmo sick" and then listen to his heart.

Locating the heart
before she starts...







What a good little
nurse she is!

Allie sandwich.

Allie's First Crush

I thought it was so cute, so I had to do a quick blog about it for journaling purposes to tease Allie later. Last Wednesday we had our SYTYCD party at Jess' house. Her little brother (going to be a senior in high school this year) stopped by to grace us with his presence. He's quite popular among the ladies at his high school, and we all thought he was a cutie. As soon as Allie saw him she wouldn't take her eyes off of him. We were all dying laughing because she was like mesmerized by him. He started talking to her and she still just stared at him. He got down on the ground and started coloring with her and was really sweet with her. Her drew her a smiley face and then told her to color something for him. She did a few scribbles and then quickley gave it back for him to color more. Seriously though, she was like in awe of him. After about 15 minutes she warmed up to him and was talking his ear off. At one point he walked into the kitchen and she ran over saying, "Here Scotty! Here!" trying to hand him her coloring book. (We were all calling him Scott, but apparently she felt they were close enough to use nicknames.) Nick and I had better watch out for this one...she's quite the flirt already.

"Scotty's" art

masterpiece for

Allie.

It irks me!

It irks me that I always post backwards! I explain why its been so long since our last post and then post all the catch up things. This, unfortunately, makes you read all our catch up things before you read why its been so long. Argh! So just know I should have posted the one titled "Way too long" last so that you would read it first. (If this just confuses you then disregard this post and start reading the rest...)