She's A Hoot

Sometimes I'm not sure what to do with my girl. The stuff that comes out of her mouth is priceless. Like when she doesn't want to go to bed and will find any excuse to come out of her room. 10 times. Here was the dialogue she gave me tonight.

Savannah comes out of her room, into mine.

"The light is on downstairs."

I know, I'm going to go down there later.

"Well, it's pretty dark outside so are we going to get some pa-corn and watch tv or a movie or something."

No.

(She went on to talk about some other things like her hi-hos (7 dwarves) while putting them all over my keyboard.)

You need to go to bed.

"....we have to go downstairs together. Please. Please!" (with a big sweet grin)

How am I supposed to resist that!? So, Savannah came downstairs and did pilates with me. For a few minutes at least.

And can I just say, Carter and I love when she adds, "or something" to the end of her sentences. The way she says it is just too cute.

Peak-A-Boo...I See You

I took these tonight and I just thought they were so cute I just had to post them. He's learned peak-a-boo and it's pretty cute. Sometimes he covers his ears rather than his eyes, which is pretty funny.

Some pictures of our 4th celebrations

Twilight Triple Feature

On Tuesday evening, into Wednesday early a.m., I was with these ladies. Watching 6 hours of Twilight Saga flicks. We ate lots of bad food, like pizza, caramel corn, cookies, nachos, hot dogs and pretzel bits. And soda. Definitely soda. Lesli made us these cute VIF badges (very important fans) with our pictures on them and other fun vampire stuff.

Someone came in before the first movie "Twilight" started and had freebies for the movie premiere. Sweeeet. They said to let the people who had be waiting the longest to come down first and get what they wanted. They had shirts, hats, and buttons. So, we saw a group of girls go down there and then lots of other people started to as well, so we figured we'd jump in the line. More of a huge cluster of girls. Anyway, we got up there pretty fast, no pushing involved and were looking at what was available. Kacey got a shirt and was asking me if I wanted one when I saw the hats. I said I wanted one of those. They almost seemed like they were off to the side or something and that their weren't that many. Anyway, so the guy handed all three of us one and we walked away. Kacey went back a minute later as the big stuff ran out and got a few buttons. Within a few minutes we had people "talking" about us and our hats. Some young girls called Kacey a choice name because she got a hat. Ohmygosh. Then we had a number of people come up to us to "see" our hats and show their friends. We watched our hats like hawks because we seriously thought maybe someone would try to take them. This one Mom came up to us and was talking about how her girls didn't get anything and they'd been there for most of the day. I'm not sure why they didn't get something, maybe they left the building at the wrong time. But it's like these people thought we'd just hand over our stuff because they didn't get one. Wrong! It was just so funny to see people getting all jealous over a hat.

Above; me and Kacey. Below; Lesli and me.

We watched all the movies in a row with short intermissions. I never saw Twilight in the theater so that was kind of cool. The newest one, Eclipse, started at midnight and it was awesome. I can't wait to see it again. I got home about 3:40 am and the kids were nice enough to wake up at 6:30 am. All worth it though.

As you can see, she is being groomed.

Here's a picture of the cute badges Lesli made. The glare is bad, but you get the idea.

Now we all get to wait until November 2011 to see Part 1 of the next movie, Breaking Dawn. I'm guessing Part 2 won't be out until June 2012. At least I hope it's that soon. But still, how are we supposed to wait a year and a half for another movie?

This time tomorrow night I will be in the midst of my Twilight Triple Feature. Just thought you should know. Now you can be jealous. So excited!!! Team Edward!

Well, We Tried

Last week we took the kids to get some pictures taken because we had a free certificate to Olan Mills for signing up for the newspaper last summer. I decided we should try to use it since Cooper hasn't had any professional pictures taken since he was two weeks old. Their were all kinds of "rules" for our certificate so we were pretty limited as to what we could choose from. I wasn't about to pay $12.99 a sheet for one that was better than this. This is as good as it gets. Taking a 14 month old to a portrait studio is an all around bad idea. He doesn't "sit" or "stand" in one place for more than 2 seconds, so lady who is trying to pose him, don't ask him to do that. So, we get Savannah with a forced smile and Cooper and his serious face. I should have known it was a bad idea from the start when right when we got there Savannah decided to hide under clothes racks and upon coming out her hair was a disaster and all over the place. Hence the "stuck to her head-static look". We've got another certificate which I'm trying to figure out what to do with now. Suffer through another session like that, or maybe leave Cooper out and try a cute cousin photo with Savannah and Acacia? I'd say a family photo, but I'm really not a fan of portrait family photos, especially when I know a certain little man probably won't be looking in the same general area as the rest of us.

Carter's Birthday

Of course I have to start it out with these two adorable girls!

And my little man who almost always has a cookie in his hands!

This cake was delicious by the way and the homemade chocolate frosting was oh so yummy.

Hubby is a whopping 38 this year. Pretty funny since most people think he's way younger. I wonder what he wished for?

Carter really wanted to play a game for his birthday; one that no one ever wants to play, and you need a lot of players. So, most agreed to play it but he had to read over the rules beforehand. So Aunt Lesli had the brilliant idea to take the kids outside and play their own games. They raced down the sidewalk and touched trees. Then they played red light, green light. That was really cute.

Cooper explored the puddles.

Their was hopping and twirling involved.

I was loving my little girl saying, "green light....STOP!" It was so cute and she seriously loved playing that game.

It was awesome that almost everyone could be there. Shelby and Steven obviously had a great reason to not be there....I think Sierra coming the day before Carter's birthday was probably the best gift he could have received.