Look what I made!!

Amelia is very much into girlie dresses these days. She actually has a dress that we bought from Costco a while back that she tries to wear EVERY SINGLE DAY!! So I decided it might be a good idea to make a few more pink dresses to try and sway her from that dress. Here's how it turned out:



Perfect for adventures. Looking for turtles...


Spotting a turtle!


And perfect for plenty of twirling and dancing!










If this looks like something you'd like to try making, you can follow the tutorial HERE. It's pretty easy and a lot of fun to make! And just think how lovely your little one will look wearing a lovely pink dress. :)

Rango Premier!

So, Brad has this awesome ability to get premiere passes. Like the proper red carpet premiere. It is LA after all. :) Usually they are R rated movies that we don't feel like getting a sitter to go and star gaze to not even stay ant watch the movie.

Anyway, this time the tickets were for RANGO! Little Joely was a little bit sick so I wasn't planning on staying but then decided to at the last minute. Because we brought the kids along we got the red carpet "stand by" treatment! Bleacher seats!!! So we got to sit in comfort and watch all the stars arrive. Brad gets a little to excited at these things, (yes, he's a total groupie) so when Johny Depp walked over to where we were seated (the crowd obviously went crazy) and Brad grabbed Amelia and ran up to him shoving Amelia into his arms. The security guard was understandably quite angry with Brad and sent him back to his seat. Amelia then jumped into my arms scared to death, crying, and yelling, "I don't like that man." (That man being Depp.) It was great!

Us waiting for the stars to arrive.


The photo that we took of Depp. Yes, he was that close to us.


Photo that the press took. We later found this on one of their websites. :) Don't believe those blurs are us? Well, just trust us. :)

Valentines Day

A little late, but worth sharing. So, for Valentine's day this year I had a fun idea to completely embarrass Brad. :) The kids and I made a fun little sugar cookie bouquet (which somehow I didn't get a photo of. DARN!!) then I got the kiddos all dressed up. They were both going to be cupid's but Amelia wanted to be a super hero which I think turned out much better. Joel was a little cupid complete with bow and arrow and all. (I think Amelia is holding it in the photo.) And then we went and marched into Brad's work to deliver the cookies. He was mortified!! It was fantastic! All his co-workers came over to snap a photo because they said no one would believe them otherwise. AWESOME!! That was our goal.

Catch up post!

Life has been crazy and yes, gotten away from me a little bit. I've thought about my blog on several occasions. I promise. But my children seem to sprout 8 arms all of the sudden whenever I attempt to use the computer. So, my blog has suffered. Right now my kiddos are distracted by the good ol' television so I'm just going to throw a huge barrage of photos at you, in no particular order as quickly as possible and let you figure it out for yourself. :) Enjoy!

Happy Halloween!!

We had a fun little Halloween. I'll spare you all the boring details and just share with you the costumes. Because as we all know, halloween with kids is really all about the costumes. :) This is the first year that I can say that we had a "homemade" halloween. I made all of our costumes. Take a look:

Here is all of us at our Ward Halloween Carnival/Trunk-or-treat:

Ameliasaurus. She really wanted "dinosaur" feet as well, so she is the only one that got lucky enough to get the feet. :)

Joelasaurus

The "spike" view.

And here they are with our pumpkins too.