The Hopscotch Hottie!

Memorial Day 2008: Annie proclaims herself to be the Hopscotch Hottie.

Apparently she won a hop-scotch tournament when she was in elementary... Well. Elementary was a long time ago SISTA!

Coincidentally, my grandma has a hopscotch court. The challenge was made and the game was on. Spectators gathered. It was quite intense! (I'm not joking, it really was... there are a lot of rules to hopscotch!) Austin played the part of the line judge.
The Hopscotch Hottie, although self proclaimed, certainly lived up to her title. She was tossing and hopping with great accuracy, it looked ominous for me as she was nearing the end of each set. I was struggling. It seemed every call in the book was made on me from tossing line fouls to double feet dismounts... but I knew I still had a shot, the game wasn't over yet!
As Annie was approaching her last set, I was behind by three. But due to a few hoppy taw sliding errors. I quickly caught up and victory was mine!

Earning me the title of Reigning Hopscotch Champ! Whahoo!

da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da...ya say it's your birthday....It's my birthday too yeah!...

We celebrated my birthday this weekend. Tony went over and beyond to make it a special day for me! ( Little does he know it doesn't take much to make it special... just him and my girls... and a card :).) But hey I'll take all the other stuff too! :) He put a lot of thought into the day and I feel completely spoiled and undeserving!

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This is my favorite gift! This is something each member of my family totally looks forward too: Where will crazy grandma hide the money?!!!

She usually gives us a couple pieces of candy and the money is usually wrapped in tinfoil or taped to string in a tick tack box or attached to the lid of something. As you can see for me this year it was wrapped in tinfoil and taped to the smarties... not both of the tinfoil smarties had money just the one, see she's a tricky one! $10 my favorite kind of gift card!

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I have to thank you all again for your phone calls and birthday wishes and special things you did for me... probably the only gift better than the hidden tinfoil money is all the love from all of you!

All About Ayla

mmm...! Can't get enough of this one either! Love her to pieces!

Tayvie Time

Everytime I set Tayvie down she pulls her head forward and tries to sit up. She's getting so big so fast! She is starting to get better control of her hands, she all of the sudden likes to hold on to toys and grab blankets or whatever is in her reach.
I've said it before and I'll say it again (and again, and again...) she is such a sweet baby. I just love every second with her!

My Little Piece of Heaven

I sat on my deck this morning.

The weather was perfect, a crisp feeling morning...slightly overcastish,

perfect for deck sitting.

The birds chirping, like I'm sitting in a forrest in the mountains

instead of in my neighborhood in the middle of the city.

What a nice morning.

I had forgotten how much I love it back there.

Maybe I AM excited for Summer!

A New Friend That Looks Just Like Me

A Day In The Life of A Princess

Ayla woke up the other morning and wanted to be a princess. She asked for each piece of her wardrobe individually. My favorite part is that this girl can walk around in her little plasic high-heels that are 7 sizes too big- she even does stairs like they're nothing. Honestly I can't even do that in heels that fit me!

The princess made a few appearances through out the day. First jogging at the walkway, and later at the store. She was so cute. One little girl at the store said "Mom! She looks beautiful!" another lady called her "darling" and another asked if it was her birthday. She brought a smile to a lot of faces. That's my little goofball!

So by the time we got home she was all tuckered out- hence the picture.

mmmmm.....

The other night Ayla and I made Chicken Enchilladas in homemade tortillas.

They got RAVE reviews from our number one (and only) critic.

In fact, he said it was one of his favorite meals ever

(must have been my little helpers magic touch)!


She helped with everything. Cutting up the olives (with the egg slicer- not a knife). Rolling out the tortillas. Putting the cheese on. She was there every step of the way.

Three Months

Hard to believe that my little

Tayvie Noon

is three months old today!

What a fun and wonderful three months it has been!

Look how much she has GROWN!!!

Good Times

Like Father, Like Daughter

I was just remembering when Tony first met my family and friends. It was a Sunday night and he had come for dinner, after licking the gravy boat (yeah, he seriously did), everyone was sitting out on the front lawn and he went around and gave everyone high-fives! About 40 people he had never met before! He use to give me high-fives for everything... sometimes even now I get high-fives for random things

This morning we were sitting at breakfast and Ayla suddenly looks over at me and says "I wove you!... high-five mommy!!!" As my hand is covered in ketchup transfered from her hand, I realize they express their love in the same way! :) High- Five Everyone!

All Things Archuleta

"I can't seeee my blue eyes!"
"My blue eyes not working..."
"I can't open my blue eyes!"

Ayla fell asleep this morning in my bed and when she woke up she couldn't open her blue eyes... until she heard the words "David Archuleta" on the news! Then they popped right open and she sat right up "Daydid Arwedda!" I told her that David Archuleta was in Utah today and she said "No he not in Utah, no he not!" and I said "okay, well where is he?" She said "He's on 'merican Idow!" Then when he sang a song, she was glued to the tv grinning and giggling and saying "Daydid Arwedda is singing!"

Two years old and she has a crush on David Archuleta.

She's kind of hard to understand in this video but we had left the news on upstairs and were playing with the camera downstairs when all of the sudden Ayla heard him singing again.

"I like David Archuleta Singing"

I Swinging With Taybie!

AYLA: "Mom. Where my other sticker go?"
ME: "ooh, I took it off."

AYLA: "It supposed to be blue one. Right here!"

Right after we put these wall stickers up in her room Ayla went around and put her own stickers up, just on the green circles. So it's been a while and a couple days ago I peeled one of them off. Well, that didn't go unnoticed! How does she remember these things?

Then this is what I walked in on yesterday "Mommy, I swinging with Taybie!!!"

Actually, these two had a tun of fun playing together yesterday. Tayvie's face would just light up the second she saw Ayla. She did a lot of grinning, and squealing, and talking to her all day. And Ayla was helping her roll over (which was hillarious), tickling her feet with her own feet, playing ring-around-the-rosies with her (just holding her hands and singing it). She just played with her all day long. Ayla was just cracking me up all day with the things she says and does. Then later last night Tayvie was fussing and then quieted down, when I walked in the room I discovered it was because Ayla was sitting right next to her with her finger in Tayvie's mouth. Tayvie was just laying there staring up at her all content. They are both so sweet. I love so much to watch them interact with each other, you can just see the love from each of them. I love that Tayvie knows who Ayla is and grins when she sees her, she gets so excited! And I love to watch Ayla "take care" of her little sister, and tell me what Tayvie wants or needs. I love to hear her say "I wove my sister Taybie!" They are so fun!

She's Married Now!

She's married now!

These are my sister Marci's bridal photos. We had a lot of fun doing these! She asked Trina & me to do her bridals the day before I left for Montana. That was a fun day! We ended up with about 1000 pictures so these are just a few of my favorites. She was really happy with them (I'm glad she doesn't know any better... he! he!)!