New Moon...again.

Last night was the girl's night out that I planned to New Moon. 26 of us met up and went to Cafe Rio. then to the movie. Afterward we split up into smaller groups and went to various places for dessert and chatting. It was so much fun, a little chaotic and crazy with that many women...but loads of fun. And the movie was even better the 2nd time around!:)


some of the group at Cafe Rio before the show.
The collector's cups I got from the two movies.

A few of us at the movie.

Mandi, Me, TeKarri, April and Terri

The whole gang after the movie.

of course TeKarri, Tanya and I had to pose with the cut out. and I covered up Bella's face cuz let's face it...nobody cares about her:)

TeKarri walked off with the cut out and asked if she could buy it but they wouldn't let her.

And coming soon...well, June 30th anyway!!

New Moon!

Why is that crazy lady blogging at 3:30am?! cuz she just got back from New Moon and is too wound up to sleep!:)
I am going with a big group of friends on saturday but it was just killing me to wait until then. I happened upon 2 tickets to the midnight show tonight, so I called Tanya and off we went.
It was so much fun. we got gift bags with all kinds of twilight goodies in them. souvenier cups and free drinks and popcorn.
the movie was SO MUCH better than the first one. I am a twihard but the 1st movie was lame. this one completely exceeded my expectations. and it only had one cheesy part that made me roll my eyes and go "really?" . and according to the movie theater there are only 222 days left til Eclipse comes out!!:)
now, it's 4am and lexi will be up in 3 hours so I guess I should try to get some sleep...I think there will be alot of dr.pepper involved in my day tomorrow!:)


They had an Edward look-a-like there.



The nice, foul-mouthed, lady with the dreads and fangs took a picture for us:) and I have to complain for a minute here. I went thinking all about comfort and how late it was. took off my make-up, didn't do my hair. threw on my comfy clothes...not fair that I look terrible and little miss I look cute even at 2am is in the pics with me!!:) same thing happened at MJ w/ anj. I should have learned my lesson....no more being comfy at movies:)

Happy Birthday Alexia!!!

WARNING: this post may have been written by a mom who is more than a little emotional about her baby turning two. there may be alot of pictures and reminiscing:)

My dear sweet baby girl turned two today. I did ok, I only teared up a couple of times! maybe it's cuz she was such a good baby, maybe it's cuz she is our last and we have tried to cherish every moment a little more...but these last two years flew by! I swear she was just a baby a few months ago!!
Lexi was born November 19th. weighed 7lbs and was 23inches long...and she is still long and skinny today! we love you so much Loo and are so glad you are a part of our family!!! You have truly made our family and lives complete!





The day you were born.



One of the nurses took a bunch of pictures for us for free since daddy worked at the hospital. this is you, 6 hours old.





You and daddy. this is the picture they hung up at the hospital with all your stats on it for daddy's co-workers to see you.

This is the first time your brother's saw you. I love this picture because I love the look on Devin's face. You wrapped them both around your little finger from this moment on!

Your dad told me daily that this was his favorite thing in the whole world...cuddling with you!

Your blessing day.

I made you take a picture with me...you weren't happy about it apparently:)

Hadley loved you to death! he was constantly bugging me to hold you. when he got home from school, you were the first thing he went to!

You were the best behaved baby ever. slept thru the night, always happy. TONS of personality. and you hardly ever cried!

Your first easter, and your first stuffed animal. your brother's named him TeddyPig for you. then they played football with him and hadley threw him into my candle and got wax all over him. so when you are older and want to know why it's on there...it's hadley's fault.

Your first birthday!

We went to Grandma's house last weeekend to celebrate your birthday. this is you cheesing it up for the camera.

we brought out the cake and started singing, you had NO idea what was going on!

but you figured it out and blew out your candles...then you clapped for yourself:)
eating your cake.

opening your present.

You wanted daddy to hurry and open it!

You started playing with it before we even got it all out of the box.

Feeding your baby.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! sweet Lexi, we love you!! (even if you wont stop growing up like I ask you to do everyday!)

Week...done!

Our house is finished!! we had our walkthru today and they will send the paint crew thru one last time to touch stuff up, and we close on Friday!!

from kitchen looking out at greatroom

from great room looking into kitchen.

close ups of kitchen

Master bath.

master bath.

Don't eat yellow snow.

We got quite the snow storm this weekend...totally awesome!! and I think it's here to stay since the high's are now in the 30's. Lexi doesn't remember snow from last year so she is rediscovering it. she loves to eat it:)

Silly Deviners.

He thought it was soooo funny to put lexi's hat and mitten's on.

Stop ignoring me!

Last Sunday I was making dinner. Lexi had been hanging on my leg and calling my name and crying and just wanted me to hold her. I kept telling her "just a minute" and to hang on. well, she got sick of waiting for me to pick her up so she drug a chair over, climbed up on it and put her arms around my waist. so stinking cute! of course, I held her after that. A good reminder to always take time for your kids...they aren't going to want you to hold them forever!







after I held her, I put the chair away and she got her blanket and laid by my feet while I finished dinner.

Good Times.

saw it. loved it. had a blast. MJ is the best!!!

ps. Andrea didn't like this picture...wanted another one so she could suck in her stomach. well, your face was blurry in that one so you are stuck with this one woman! also, for those who don't know Anj...she just had a baby 3 weeks ago!

Jazz.

My friend Mandi had tickets to the Jazz game last night. Her hubby was out hunting and wasn't going to make it back in time and Peter was at work til 11pm...so we figured we would go together!
I married into a Laker family, and rooting against the Jazz has been ingrained in me, but it was still fun. I spent most of the game watching the Jazz bear do stupid stuff and zooming my camera in on Kyle Korver:)
We went out to dinner, ate icecream and just had a fun time. thanx for inviting me Mandi!!


I took a bunch of pictures, including some of us at the game but I had my camera dial in the wrong position and when I switched it to the right one, it deleted all the pics I had taken. so all I have left is this picture of Kyle..you can kinda see him. in the suit behind andre...he had knee surgery so he didn't play.

Week 7.

We are almost done! We have our final walk thru on the 19th and we are closing on the 25th!

kitchen looking into the great room.
great room looking into the kitchen.

close up of the kitchen. I LOVE my cabinets...just ignore the ugly counters:) We wanted granite but to upgrade with the builder was $15k! we figured we could find it cheaper on our own later so we just had them put in the laminate that comes standard. I can't wait to get the granite in tho, it will really make the cabinets pop.

my cute stair rail going from the top floor to the main floor.

The back patio. they got the stairs on this week.

Halloween.

This is a poster that somebody had hanging on their door. I thought it was kinda funny so I had to take a picture:) I thought it was a little strange too...if they don't want trick-or-treaters, why can't they just sit in the dark and mute the t.v. when the doorbell rings like my dad did growing up:)

I bought Lexi a dog costume but she was terrified of it. Every time I put the hood on she screamed and clawed at it trying to get it off. she is going thru quite the scaredy cat phase right now! So, we just pulled out the princess dress from last year and she wore it again. Devin was GI Joe and Hadley said he wanted to be something scary this year...so he picked some skeleton thingy.

Lexi actually trick-or treated this year. she thought it was just fantastic that people were giving her candy! And she didn't have a pumpkin bucket like the boys so we had to improvise and use her little pink block bucket.