Ari's Valentine's Day

This is Ari's friend Macy. We went to a Valentine's Day playdate at her house. There are two little girls who are Ari's age, and they are all best buddies (the other girl, Emma, wouldn't let me take a picture of her).
This is Ari's future husband Blake at story time. They held hands almost the entire time. I had to inconspicuously take this picture.
I asked Ari if Mommy could take her picture of her Valentine's Day outfit, but she would not have it! What a mean face!

The Twilight Cast!

For all my fellow Twilight lovers, here are recent pictures of the cast for the movie. The top picture has the cast as they normally look. I don't like what they did to Rosalie and Jasper. They look like they're wearing wigs. I think they did a good job casting those people, but look at the dye jobs and cheap photo shoot? They need to re-do ALL of the make overs. Gah!

By the way... the guy who doesn't have a casting name in that bottom corner picture is Emmett. FYI

The best playground in the world...well where we live!

We have the best playground by our house. It's three levels! When Daddy comes home from school every day, he takes Ari to the park to spend time with her before he has to study, and so Mommy can unwind by herself. Today I went with them though.

This is her new smile. It's her pirate/see my Elkington gap teeth look. :)

Brad scares me some times! Ari will do anything he tells her to do. No hands on the teeter-totter? Killing me!

Future professional photographer

Ari got a hold of the camera the other day and took some great pictures! :)

My daughter blinding herself!
Ari's jeans and crocs shot
This is a very difficult angle to achieve. Our living room.
While she was sitting in the baby bouncer (she's way too big, but she asked for it, and of course Daddy got it out for her)...tv in the background
Another difficult angle of part of the bookshelf, Daddy's hat rack, and the entrance to our bedroom. I think I will submit these photos to a New York Gallery! :)

I've been purse tagged!

Okay, my sister-in-law Kerri 'tagged' me. I made fun of what she had in her purse before I realized what was in mine. So much stuff. I still carry around a diaper bag though, so that's my excuse. Let's see I have snacks, mine and Ari's cell phones, cough drops (I have streph :( ), I too have dramamine (love that stuff), a list of phone numbers from women in my ward (why?), note pad, lots of bobby pins, ...., oh,.... and I have to give kudos to my hubby, he bought me Chanel and Mac makeup for Christmas. I never leave home w/out it! What a good boy. My bag is boring!

Now I will tag Ashley, April, both Sara(h)'s, Katie, Heather, Bek, Tanya, Jess, Leo, Nicole, Aunty Dee, basically everybody. :) Is that allowed? Who cares? I wanna see those purses!

FUN!!

New First Presidency

Wow what a change in our First Presidency this past year. I'm very excited. I love President Monson. My favorite memory of him is when he came to Castle Dale, Utah, when I was little. My family was asked to sing 'Families are Together Forever' for him. Afterwards, he came up to me, hugged me, and told me that I had a very pretty dress on. I've loved him ever since! :)

I love ITunes

So the other day Brad was helping me burn and organize cd's for my Primary kids (I'm the Primary Music Leader). We were almost done when something happened to the ITunes program. I lost EVERYTHING! Every flippin song that I have purchased or imported; everything. I was so depressed. I emailed ITunes, and the next day, I received an email from Brenda (my new best friend). Apparently, it's my responsibility to back up all my songs; oops! But, she gave me a one time exception and re-sent every single song I have purchased. I almost cried. That's hundreds of dollars worth of music! So, I felt the need to publicly show my love and gratitude for ITunes. May they never go out of business. :)