A New Baby

My good friend Brittany had her baby yesterday November 27th. We were so lucky to be close enough to go to the hospital and meet little Lilly!

She is so tiny and beautiful!!

NEW MOON...

I saw New Moon tonight. It was good; but I do have some issues with it. First, why does Edward have to be constantly depressed? Yes, i know he is going through a lot- and he has some emotional stress and trauma, but still?! His eyes are always red like he is on drugs or something. And he is SO white and pasty! I know he's supposed to be white...but does he need to be practically see-through?! Gross!

More problems; They didn't build up the relationship at all of Edward and Bella in the beginning. If you read the books or saw the first movie you know how in love they are, and how cute they are together. In this movie- that wasn't shown at all!! I felt no passion, no love between them, so when he told her he was going to leave I didn't even care!- I wasn't even feeling any emotion!!

I have been a debbie-downer so far, so i will state some positive- I can't think of that many, but here are some key things I liked:

• I am totally team Jacob, he is a way better actor then Edward and is awesome
  
• The werewolves were awesome
• Bella's acting was better this movie
• The 'Voltaire' were SO cool!
• Edward's family are all great, and they are all good actors

Point of this blog:

GO TEAM JACOB!!!

Winter Wonderland

We had a dumping of snow today. It is actually really fun, and it is really pretty. It does make it a little to cold for my liking, but I am just trying to toughen up. :)

I kind of tricked Brett into helping me take the trash out, so that i could throw a snowball at him, and record it. It was a mistake though...he got me back way worse then i got him.

Introductions

We did an introduction recently, it involved Brett and an Artichoke. I came home from the grocery store with two artichokes, and i was astonished when Brett stared at the two little green things like they were two talking pigs! (meaning he was staring very oddly). Come to find out he didn't know what they were!! So i cooked them, and we tested them.

This is how i feel about artichokes

This is how Brett felt before he tried them (Good pose, don't you think?)

testing...

They didn't pass!!

We really like the Winger's sticky fingers, but to save money i searched for a recipe online. We found one here that is super close and really yummy.
Brett was a little bit happier about this meal!

The Happiest place on Earth

We had such a FUN weekend. Disneyland was the perfect break from school, work and the cold.
I love Disneyland- it's magical! It really is just like the commercials that show the little kids smiling and glitter gliding through the air, it's just so happy!

The best part about Disneyland are the smells you smell when you first enter the gates. Friday was there first day celebrating the holidays, so they had their HUGE Christmas tree up and all decorated, and they had glittering lights, and pretty wreaths hanging everywhere, I am ready for Christmas! So back to the smells of Disneyland- these are what you smell;

• the yummy, mouth watering smell of cinnamon-sugar Churros
• The Peppermint from candy
• Popcorn form the popcorn stands
• the MAGIC in the air ( not really a smell, but it's there)
  

It was fun having all the kids there to make it even more exciting. Audrey and Caitlin's eyes lit up when the princesses came out, and at all the glittering and lighting trinkets. When he saw Mickey Mouse, little Alex stared at him and whispered in a breathless whisper..."Icky mouse..." Little Alex was star struck.

We also had fun swimming in the hotel pool and spa- Dev and Cam loved getting "Rocket-launched" by uncle Brett in the swimming pool

On the shuttle, on our way to Disneyland!

This is one of the BEST pictures I have ever seen... Dad looks like Mr. Cool and Travis' face is priceless

Alex really has a bond with uncle Brett. He LOVES to wrestle brett, and gets a huge smile and yells, "HI BETT!!" Whenever he sees him. Alex is such a character, and is so entertaining...although he is rambunctious.

One night we were eating dinner in the hotel restaurant, and Alex was sitting in the chair next to me in a booster. He was rocking it a bit, but i didn't think much of it. I looked the other way for a second, and the next thing i know, Alex is on the ground! He had rolled himself out of his booster, and was lying flat on the ground next to it. It was sad, but he's so tough it barely phased him

Travis turned 30 on Friday!! and he was SO excited when the people at the restaurant came out and sang to him and gave him a big piece of chocolate cake. (As you can see, Dad is helping him, and that is Kate speed walking, with her spoon in hand, behind Trav to come try some)...As a discaimer to helping Travis eat his cake and dad and kate appearing rude, he had just finished a small ice cream before this :)

Rod was trying to pull a 'Mike face'

Traivs went on ALL the big roller coasters, and even wanted to do some twice. This was turing a new page for him... This picture was right before we went on California Screamin, he was showing me how excited he was.

Eating icecream before heading over to the Mickey Mouse light show. (Eveyone is really into their ice cream, except Brett, he had to split one with me, and it was already gone)

Abby looked like a cute little eskimo all bundled up, she is sooo tastey cute!

Lizzie eating ice cream very seriosuly

I wonder what Traivs was eyeing?!

Brett and Clark 'bored' on Space Mountain. That ride always breaks my neck, and i get a most ginormous headache afterwards. How come no one else seems to be feeling the whiplash on their neck like I am?! I must have a weak neck. :(

We were leaving California Adventure and Mickey came up and put his arm around us!! It was a fun suprise... he sure gets a crowd though, little kids were swarming him like bees on honey right after this picture was taken. I think that's why we're so awkwardly standing, there were kids about to stampede!

Sadey

This weekend Sadey, one of my very best friends, made the trek from provo to visit!!
She came with her boyfriend, Spencer and his roommate Nate. Who are both really cool :) And who both happen to be Jeff Chapman's roommates..small world!!

It's always fun to see Sadey, because she makes everything so exciting. The fact that i'm married, and now have an apartment was really tripping her out!
Sadey can always make me laugh- and she is so fun to be around! Sadey and i have been friends for as long as we can remember. We have so many funny and crazy memories. And so many weird, and dumb things we've done. She reminded me this weekend of the time i only had my drivers permit, we were home alone at my house, so we came up with the idea to take my mom's camry to get ice cream- and we did!! WOW! What the heck were we thinking? Were we thinking?

I'm pretty sure i already told that story to you..right mom and dad?!

Thanks for comin Sade!
p.s. it just solidified the fact that she is one of my best friends when the movie she picked out to watch was "Chocolat"!! My all time favorite movie...and all the boys rolled their eyes, i believe brett even walked away, and started getting ready for bed. I guess i've made him watch that one to many times. If you havn't seen it yet- you need to!

Oh and i got a haircut!! It's pretty short for me... i'm still getting used to it, and i'm not sure i'm crazy about it. But it's hair- it grows!

10,000 the Dice Game

The other weekend when they were up here, Kate & Clark taught us this super fun dice game called 10,000
It's a nail-biting, risk-taking, rambunctious game that is sooo fun!
We had a game night at Lorry & Dave's Sunday night with our other friend's Kelly and David. I had to post some pictures and videos of how exciting the game gets...

Lorry & Dave are so much fun..we love hanging out with them, we are sad they are leaving in December! But...I suppose it's better that they are getting their college education and moving on!! However...I think they should hang around at least one more semester, to be our neighbors and friends. I mean, Brett & I have been such great neighbors to them, don't you think they owe it to us to hang around for us?! We will miss them! :)

Kelly & Derek are great friends too. They were on our softball team, and are such a cute couple. Kelly is fun to play this game with; she tries to get everyone else to take risks and lose it all, but when it's her turn she stops at the bare minimum- no risks! It's fun to tease her about it.

Brett seemed to get into it the most. On every singe one of his turns he pushed his chair back and stood up, blew into the dice for good luck and rolled with all the enthusiasm he has. (which is a lot, as most of you know) He gets a little iffy though, if the dice hit a crack in the table he deemed he needed a re-do....pu-lease...

Here are some funny vidoes of our night