The Hills

For all those you watch a silly reality tv show called the Hills... I want to hear your thoughts. Who started the rumor? My theory is that Lo started the rumor. She has always been jealous of Lauren and Audrina's friendship. She thought perhaps this would break them up for good. Ha ha ha. Maybe it will... maybe it is audrina's way of getting off of the show. (Justin Bobby said that is the only way they can be together).

My opinion is that Spencer needs to leave the show (although he won't because other than his daddy it is his only source of income). It's the same old story every episode. I am so sick of him whining "I hate everyone." "You aren't loyal." "blah blah blah."

Early Christmas Spirit

Sorry, I know I changed my blog before Thanksgiving. In my defense Thanksgiving is extremely late this year. And yes, I put my tree up early as well. We are leaving for Christmas vacation on the 16th? or somewhere around there and I wanted to be able to enjoy having a tree up for a little longer than 2 weeks.

Just because my Christmas stuff is up early doesn't mean I am going to skip being grateful and having the Thanksgiving spirit as well. What I am most grateful for this year is prayer. God has given us every tool on this earth to come home to Him. For some reason he lets us ask for more through prayer. I believe everything I have has come from Him. I see His blessings all around me everyday. For this thanksgiving week I am going to try and do as Elder Bednar did in his last conference talk, about prayer, and only speak of what I am grateful for. I do believe God has given me everything I could want or need through prayer. How lucky I am to see His miracles.

Twilight

I went to TWILIGHT this weekend. There is something about having a book you have read and loved come to life. While no movie has ever even comes close to as good as the book, I believe this stayed reasonably in boundaries of the book. I remember when I went to see the first Harry Potter movie and how disappointed I was. I was expecting to feel that way, but didn't. My only thought is that they did portray Edward a little darker in character than I imagined him. However, maybe this is because I have the knowledge of all four books. Perhaps I did view him this way after just the first book I don't recall. I really enjoyed the movie overall and would recommend it to anyone.

Addy's Birthday Party

There are a lot of new posts I haven't blogged for a while so we have a lot to catch up on. Addy turned two. Which has been crazy for me. It's a big milestone to not being a baby anymore. I am very sad, but also very blessed with such a sweet daughter.

This is the morning of her party. She was so excited she new something cool was going to happen. Sue came for the week and we had so much fun with her.

For her birthday we went to Jumping Joeys. All the kids had so much fun. About five minutes after we got there Addy jumped down the tallest slide just as an older boy was climbing up the slide (not the stairs) She ran into him and his teeth went into her cheek. Looking back now I am very grateful his teeth didn't hit her eye. But at the time i felt awful, because I went to all this work to plan her birthday party and I thought she wasn't going to enjoy it. I thought she was going to need to go get stitches.

Here she is drinking some tylenol.

We were able to distract her by letting her open a present early and bandage her up. Then she was off to keep bouncing.

She had lots of fun friends come.

The making of Addy's Birthday Cake

This year I wanted to make Addys birthday cake. I had a bunch of cake decorating stuff that I have never really used. Thanks to my friend Trecia, who let me borrow her skirt and flower cake pans and talked me through most of the process. Here we are clothing the naked barbie top. Addy was awed by everything about her birthday cake, which made it that much more fun to make.

I started with a dome cake. Frosted it and put little ruffle cake pieces and frosted it again.



Then I layed the fondant on top.


I added a bow to the back to cover up the crease where the fondant came together.Stuck the Barbie in the top.

Placed the barbie portion on the flower cake.


WhaLaa! Finished product about 4 hours later.
I am pretty proud in case you couldn't tell.

The Barbie Portion was supposed to be just for addy and the flower portion served all the guests of her party. But for some reason she just grabbed the cake pieces that we cut and I didn't really stop her.

Special thanks also to You Tube and expertvillage who taught me how to work with the fondant on a princess doll cake.

Family Pictures

Here are our family pictures. We had so much fun taking pictures. All photos are from Kelsey Call Photography. Thanks Kelsey, there are so many that I absolutely love. I am only posting a few, but we have more than a hundred that I like. I need to make book just on this shoot. Now every time we go shopping she looks for pretty walls and runs up to them and says cheese.

This picture says it all. Our life is so fun, but it is pretty much all about Addy right now.

Halloween

She absolutely loves her new tricycle. And will eventually use the petals to push it.

Here is Addy trick or treating with her friend Bella. She made the cutest little lady bug.