Friday, November 27, 2009

Thanksgiving!

This year was really busy for us as we went to two houses, it changes when you have children (all you parents can agree with that!). But both dinners had family from out of town and so we got to visit and show off our little one. Allie was a trouper, but she is getting three of her molars at the same time and we forgot the Tylenol like rookies! Thank goodness the convenient store we stopped at happened to have it, Whew! Both dinners were wonderful and my mom made great pies too. My favorite thing on Thanksgiving and Christmas is not something for dinner but the Sparkling Apple Cider. You can get it year round but we don't buy it unless it's a special occasion.


Here is Allie just after getting her holiday dress on.

Super cute.

Looking for Dada outside

Getting all the attention from the boys.

Matt's uncle and family from California

Mmmm

Our picky eater picking at her food. Her favorites were roll, cranberries and chewing up green beans - chewing not eating.

"Hmm I don't know about this turkey mom."

She loved playing with my uncles dog. Although she loved to pull on it's face. Thank goodness it's a nice dog but I still had to pull her away often.

This is dinner #2. There were about 25 people jammed into my grandma's house.

My mom and aunt

My uncle Doug (in yellow) flew up from Brazil this year and so my other uncle Greg drove up from California to surprise everyone. All of my moms siblings (six in all) were together this year. It was great.
My sister and our cousins

Passed out on the way home. Such a tired girl. Too much fun!

Sunday, November 22, 2009

New Moon Part 2

Dinner + New Moon (again) = Awesome

Friday, November 20, 2009

SYTYCD

Tonight was our annual So You Think You Can Dance show. My mom and dad give me tickets for my birthday every year. I am sad to say I forgot my camera though! The show was amazing. As they always are. The show ended months ago and I had forgotten my favorite dancers and my favorite dances that they did so it was really great to see and get to relive them all. My favorite dance still is the addiction dance with Kayla and Kupono. Always brings me to tears. As does the breast cancer routine. It was so much fun! Thanks mom and dad! Can't wait to go next year too. :)

Thursday, November 19, 2009

New Moon!

Okay so you all know by now that I love the Twilight series. My sister begged me to read them and I was hooked. I watch the movie in March and was slightly disappointed by the acting and the movie as a whole but I was willing to stick it out for the next one because I love the books so much. and I should mention my sister is a super fan with Twilight t-shirts and Twilight makeup so as the summer went on the anticipation for the next one began to build because of her enthusiasm. We got tickets for this Saturday months ago but a mutual friend of ours heard about a fan website that does work with a charity got a theater to do an advance showing today! So she got us tickets and we headed up to Vancouver. My sister got off work early expecting to have to stand in line for forever but she was the first one! I got there shortly after and snapped a few pictures for you guys. The movie was amazing! It was an actual movie, with great acting, and amazing action. With this one being so great it just makes me mad about the first one. Why couldn't it have been like that one! But I did not think driving up to the theater that the actual theater would be a highlight in itself but it totally was. I will explain with pictures. We had a really fun time. :) and we will get to see it again in just two days. :)

Thought this was cute

My sister in one of her three shirts. If you have seen the movie or read the books then you should get the meaning behind her shirt. If not Edward the main character can read minds. Except for Bella, his love. :)

We got to choose any seat we wanted but we couldn't have chosen wrong. They all had a great view and these amazing leather seats with ottomans. and pillows!

Every other seat had a tray like this. and they actually had waiters that came around before the movie to take our order! We were in the over 21 theater so we could order alcohol if we wanted.




Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Allie's First Steps!

Allie took her first steps tonight! After she did it we set up the camera to catch some of the action. Click here to see!

Guitar Hero

Today I got to play Guitar Hero with my niece (6) and nephew (14). While Nathan was playing Brynne and I were dancing to the music. :) I am still learning but I can't go past easy. My nephew should join competitions or something because he is amazing. I don't understand how his brain works that fast! It makes me feel really old.

Sunday, November 8, 2009

Allie's Baby

For her birthday we gave Allie a baby doll and the other day she was playing in the living room and I looked up to see her hugging and kissing the baby and putting her safely in her stroller. What a good little mommy.






Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Allie's Big Day

We started the day off with opening a few presents in bed! We didn't want to overwhelm her with so many at once so we spread ours out during the day.


Her favorite gift from us was the card we got her. It was doggies singing happy birthday. All day she would open and close it and do her little shimmy shake dance.

At the party we had everyone dress up. Here is my mom as a mental patient. You can see Matt as Red Sox Manny, and my niece as Hannah Montana. Don't worry thats not her real butt. :)

and Super Man!

My sister was an 80's rocker chick

Nonna Donna was a clown, when she kissed the birthday girl she smeared makeup on her. :)

Auntie Amanda and the b-day girl

We opened some presents and my grandma painted this stool for her. So special.

The cupcake table, with sweet pictures of my Allie.

She got to dive into her cake. The cake was made by her daddy. Impressive huh.

She decided to give herself a cake bath.