mom, look how many persons fit in this car

A few days ago in the morning Adriana and Annika were playing with Polly Pockets before we even got dressed or had breakfast. I was feeding Dallin and Adriana said to me, "Mom, look how many persons fit in this car." I just cracked up. If you think that was funny too, let me know. I guess they were all on their way to a wedding or something.

pumpkin carving

Annika's Birthday

The girls posing in their new dance costumes, (Annika joined the big girls for the picture).
Monday we went to Temple Square for family home evening after getting Ariel's blood checked.

rug rats

Annika just loves Dallin and tries to play with him any chance she gets.
Isn't he so cute holding his head up like that. But every once in a while I hear a thud as it plops back down on the ground.
She laid down by him all nice like that and said, "I wove u babi Dahli." In other words I love you baby Dallin.
Last Sunday I tried feeding him some rice cereal for the first time, and decided to wait a little bit more before trying again.

Well, there was my attempt at blogging for today just to inspire Erin, but I'll write some more tomorrow. I just got back from playing basketball and am all sweaty, I really just came to turn the computer off, but then I saw all those pictures that I posted and decided to at least label them a little. I am so excited that Emily is coming tomorrow because she is so with it and fun to talk to and I feel so much more at ease with her than most of the adults that I see regularly. Oh was that too mushy. And I am way excited to go to Lagoon on Saturday and do something "out" with the whole fam and it is free thanks to Give Kids the World and the AAPA. It really brought back to me how socially inept I am tonight at volleyball when I felt like joking with the other ladies but felt unsure at their reception of my attempts at humor. Only a few select people in this world get my humor and they are probably also the only ones reading this blog.. I love you guys. You know who you are. Now that was really cheesey, I better go take a shower and get back to my better half who is waiting for me.

COOL!

Wow, I haven't blogged in a long time, but I have to write down this really funny thing that happened today. I hosted book club this evening and the plan was that Nikolay was going to watch a movie with the girls in our room while I was having book club in the living room. Ariel asked if they could choose a prize from the prize bag if they were really good during book club. I agreed and they were all really good. So before putting them to bed we got out the prize bag and everyone chose something. Even Annika. She held up her eraser and asked "My prize?" and I said, "Yes, that's your prize." She got a big grin on her face and said "Cool!" Like kinda slow and really excited then she started bopping up and down because she was so satisfied. It was so funny! I had never heard her say prize or cool before.