Princess Party

Kaylee was invited to the cutest Princess birthday party today for one of her friends from school. There is a spa and tea room just around the corner from our house that the party was at. They had a HUGE pink princess party room with a cat walk, dress up clothes, hair/dress-up stations and more. I dropped Kaylee off and took Gabby home to eat lunch and Gabby kep insisting that she wanted to go back. Jessica's mom (Jennifer) had invited the parents to stay at the party or just drop off if they wanted. So, Gabby and I went back (armed with my camera this time) to see what they were doing. When we got back Gabby found a little table with a tea set right outside they party room that she was entertained with for quite a while. Then the amazing mom in charge invited Gabby to dress up with the girls at the party. She was so nice to include Gabby and let her dress up. Kaylee found a Cinderella type dress and immediately put that on, the "Fairy godmother" (person in charge of the party) did her hair up and curled it. Gabby found a Tinkerbelle costume and had me help her put it on. All the girls at the party LOVED the cat walk, especially since there was a big TV screen that they could see themselves on. After everyone was dressed up with their hair done the girls had a fashion show, followed by a tea-party with sandwiches, hot-chocolate, milk, and then a cupcake birthday cake. The whole thing was so adorable and tons of fun. Kaylee has decided that she wants her birthday party there and has been talking about it all day.

Photo Tag

I was tagged by my friend Miriam with a photo tag....so, here's the rules:

1. Go to your "My pictures" file

2. Click on the 4th folder

3. Go to the 4th picture and upload it
4. Tell about your picture
5. Then tag people (not required...but fun to see what other people come up with)

This picture is from the 2005 Christmas season (while we still lived up in Washington). We went to Target one day and Santa and the elves were walking around taking pictures with the shoppers. Kaylee (age 2, almost 3) is in the front middle of the picture, Gabby (age 8 months) is being held by Santa. Wow that doesn't seem like that long ago...but my girls are sooo little.

Now I am going to tag: Wendy, Nicola, Tiffany, Jess F., and anyone else who wants to try a fun tag.

Snowbird Ski Resort

Every year Snowbird Ski Resort has customer appreciation days during October where you can ride the tram up the mountain if you bring a can of food to donate. We went last year and there was TONS of snow and it was freezing cold. It snowed last weekend so we were geared up for there to be a lot of snow up there again this year. We were a little over prepared. We met up with everyone (there were 14 people in our group: My mom and dad, Wendy, Spencer, Roman, Paul, Me, Kaylee, Gabby, Brenda, Chris, Steve, Marla, and Tiffany) and headed for the tram ride up. When we got off the tram at the top of the mountain there were a few snow patches and lots of mud. We still had tons of fun. There were still snowball fights, and playing in the snow. Kaylee was sad that she didn't get to make a snow angel.

Here is the tram that we rode on to get back down the mountain.

My dad was checking out all the different views from the top of the mountain.

I think the picture looks like Paul is trying to hail the tram or something.

Since Steve couldn't build a snowman, he built a rock pile.

After we left snowbird we went to lunch with our whole group at "The Hungry Bear" located inside of "The Quilted Bear". It was really yummy. Kaylee found a HUGE bear dressed as a witch inside the Quilted Bear and had to have my mom take a picture of her with it.

Then Paul and I decided to go to a movie. Kaylee and Gabby were already riding in my mom and dad's car so we asked if they would take them home to their house and we could go to a movie. Marla was so nice to watch our girls and Paul and I went to see the new Nicholas Sparks book that got made into a movie: Nights in Rodanthe

Excellent movie in my opinion....but, the book is SOOO much better (but, books usually are so much better than the movie). We finished up our fun filled day at my parent's house for dinner and play time. Then we headed home at 8:00 when we should have been putting the kids to bed. If you want to read more about our fun day you can visit Wendy's Snowbird post

Pumpkin Patch

Today a HUGE group came down to my house to go on an adventure to the Big Red Barn Pumpkin Patch. After everyone met up at our house we headed for the Big Red Barn. We started off with the Hay Ride over to the pumpkin patch, then we all split up to find our perfect pumpkins.

Paul took Gabby off to the "little" pumpkin section to find a pumpkin and I set off with Kaylee to find her one. Then somehow I found the perfect pumpkin that Gabby had been searching for so Kaylee went off with Paul to find her perfect "BIG" pumpkin.
Here's a picture of us after Paul found us all pumpkins and we were ready to head back to the hay ride:
After the pumpkin patch we headed back to my house for pizza (thanks Wendy for dinner) and then to carve (and paint) pumpkins. I thought the garage was probably the best place for the pumpkin mess to be so we set up a table out in the garage and got to work with our creativity. Paul helped Kaylee carve her jack-o-lantern (she didn't want anything fancy, just a funny face like jack-o-lanterns are supposed to have). Gabby wanted to paint her pumpkin "like a pirate" so away she went with the paint and her pumpkin. Marla got REALLY crafty with her pumpkin and carved a spider web and spider.

Thank you to everyone that came down and went with us! We had tons of fun and we are looking forward to our next grand adventure.

Sand Angels

Kaylee really wants to move to the beach. She has even shown that she doesn't need snow to make snow angels...she'll just use the sand. I just found this video from our camping trip.

My Week in Review

This week has been pretty crazy. I didn't get pictures of everything I wanted to, but I figured I would type up a quick review of the highlights of my week. After getting home from camping Sunday night I had great plans of getting my house all cleaned up and organized...well, that didn't happen like I had hoped. Here's a very brief overview of what did happen:

Monday: My parent's got home from there trip to Scandanavia (Denmark, Sweden, and Norway) and our dog was at Janeene's house while we were camping. Kaylee had school Monday morning, after we picked Kaylee up we stopped and got some lunch (Paul still had time off work so he was with us too), we went to Osh Kosh to find some new clothes for school pictures (we found Gabby an outfit), then we went to Boondock's (I got a gift certificate for my birthday a few months ago from Wendy and Marla). At Boondock's we took the girls on the bumper boats, to the kids play area, and played a few arcade games. After leaving Boondocks we went to my parent's house. They brought us some swedish chocolate, and an ornament from Sweden. They were happy to be back but completely exhausted after being up for over 24 hours.


Here are a few pictures from the kids playing at Boondock's:
Tuesday: Gabby had school pictures so I got up early and put sponge curlers in her hair. She wore her new outfit that we bought at Osh Kosh on Monday. While the girls were at school Paul went shopping with me to find Kaylee a new outfit for school pictures too. We found a cute outfit at Gymboree.

Here are a few pictures of Gabby that I managed to snap before leaving to take the girls to school:

Wednesday: Kaylee had school pictures. I had to drag her out of bed early (which she absolutely is NOT a morning person) and did her hair. It took me quite a while to get her hair completely done and the girls ready for the day. I didn't managae to get any pictures of Kaylee before running out the door to school. After I dropped Kaylee off at school I met up with Spencer to pick up Roman to babysit while Wendy got some stuff done around their house so they could list it for sale (anyone want a house? There house is on the market now!). Paul was excellent at entertaining Gabby and Roman. After we picked Kaylee up from school we met up with my mom and Wendy at the mall and went shopping again (I went shopping A LOT this week).

Thursday: Paul had to go back to work from his time off (he really didn't want to...he was really enjoying the time off, even if it did mean shopping with me.) I took him to work, and the girls to school and then....yep, you guessed it...I went shopping again!!! I have also been making the girls some Christmas presents. I'll post some pictures when they are done...so far they're turning out good.

Friday: I know...you're never going to guess...but yes, once again, I did go shopping. I went to the Making Memories warehouse sale with Wendy (after Kaylee was out of school) and bought a bunch of scrapbook stuff. When we paid it was time for their drawing...they drew out all the winners, and then had one more drawing just for people who were still there. Guess what?!?!? I WON!!!!! I got a really cool desktop organizer filled with $50 of scrapbook stuff. It was totally worth going to that sale! After the sale we went back to Wendy's house and Kaylee wanted to help Wendy clean up he house to get it ready to sell...So, I left her there. You can read about it on Wendy's blog here. Marla picked her up and brought her home and then watch "Made of Honor" with me.

Saturday: This morning Paul had to be to a meeting for work at 9:00. He had signed us up to clean our church today...at 9:00. I got the kids over to the church and they loved helping wash all the door windows. They liked even more that I bought them a gallon of chocolate milk for being such excellent helpers. Now, I am attempting to watch General Conference but with kids wanting attention and asking a million questions it hasn't been working out to well.

I hope you have enjoyed my week in review...Stay tuned for more exciting things to come (and yes, they will be more exciting than this post).

I got tagged...8 things

8 t.v. shows I love to watch...America's got Talent, America's Funniest Videos, Without a Trace, NCIS, The Biggest Loser, Survivor, CSI NY, CSI Miami

8 things that happened yesterday...I took Paul to work, took Kaylee to school, went to Wendy's house, went to the Making Memories Warehouse Sale, WON A PRIZE at the warehouse sale, went back to Wendy's house, Left Kaylee at Wendy's house Details here, Watched "Made of Honor" with Marla

8 things I'm looking forward to...Christmas, Paul being back on a submarine (he's in a MUCH better mood when he's on a sub...he loves it), The Twilight movie, Going to see "Nights in Rodanthe" (Yeah, I still haven't seen it and I wanted to a week ago), living by the beach, Going to Snowbird for customer appreciation day, Going to Boo at the Zoo, and taking the girls to a pumpkin patch

8 things on my wish list...Sleeping in later than 7:00 A.M., A clean house (for more than 5 minutes), a nap (yeah right...that's impossible), That my house will sell fast and easy when we get ready to move, finish my college degree, to be a wonderful mom and wife, that everything wasn't SOOO expensive, and did I mention...I really wish I could take a nap

8 people who I'm tagging...
Wendy
Nicola
Maria
Jess
Tiffany
Elaine
Miriam
Janeene