Lola's First Dance Recital

My little dancing princess had her first recital this Saturday.  She had 4 routines (which in turn means 4 costume changes, which equals a lot of running around for me!)- 2 for her tumbling class and 2 for her dance class.  It was pretty precious to see her do some somersaults, walk across the short balance beam, and do some straddle jumps on the mini-trampoline.  For her dance routines she did pretty well at following her teachers instruction but during her second dance, she started playing with her tu-tu and looking under it and then started chatting with a friend.  It was hilarious, everyone was laughing.  I will love showing her that video as she gets older!

She went to Starstruck Studios this year and had a lot of fun.  I think we are going to put her in a different dance school this next fall because the preschool she is attending is also a dance studio (Shaw Dance) and they seem to be a little more disciplined.  I really want her to get a good foundation in the basics, terminology, and technique of dance.  This should be a good change for her :) 

Here are some cute pics of her on Saturday!

In one of her tumbling costumes

Chris's folks then my folks and 2 of my little bros with the crazy lady!

During dress rehearsal

1 of her cute dance costumes!

It brought back so many good memories to see her performing and love being on stage.  I feel like I am getting old now that I am the dance mom and people aren't coming to watch me perform!  I hope she enjoys dancing as much as I did.

Swimming in the Winter

We are lucky to live a couple blocks from the Clearfield Aquatic Center.  It is a great facility.  Chris and I both have passes there which gives us access to the work out equipment, a track, gym, classes and the indoor and outdoor pools.  The indoor pool has a kids play area and big water toy and slide so we took the kids on Friday and let them play for a couple hours.  It is only $1 a kid since they are 3 and under and I am free since I have a pass, so it's a fun and inexpensive way to entertain the wee ones.

Owen was out of there!


Lola making the cutest pose ever!


Aiden was way too busy for pictures


Jess and Lucas


Me and my kiddos


Owen boy making sheep noises, it is the cutest ever, "bah, bah, baaahh"

The Treehouse Museum

We had so much fun the other weekend.  We went to the Tree House Museum in Ogden with my friend Jess and her 2 kids.  The kids ran around (Owen crawled) and wanted to see everything!  Lola probably could have stayed longer but she started getting hungry and my arms were going to fall off from carrying around a 27 lb baby for a couple hours or so... It was so much fun and luckily Jess brought her camera and snapped away the whole time we were there.

Here is some of our day :)

Lola LOVED the nursery and kept wrapping up the babies, weighing them, rocking them and listening to their heart beats.  It was precious.


See, Owen crawling around, what a cutie!


The babies


Lola making a feather necklace


Comparing baby hands.  Owens were a whole knuckle bigger.  It is hard to make babies keep their fingers straight ;)


Mommy and Owen


Look at those baby blues




Lola running around


We have to get Jess' other handsome little guy in here as well.


If you live in the North Davis county or Weber county area, you should check this place out!  Plus until the end of February the yearly family passes are on sale for $20 off!  Which is such a steal!

I'm still alive

We have been very busy at work lately and with the holiday and what-not I have gotten behind.  We had a great Thanksgiving beside the fact that poor Lola had the flu so Chris opted to stay home (at my parent's house) with her while we went to G &G B's house for some good food!  My awesome uncle and cousin volunteered to take Chris's food to him in Payson before we were ready to head back and so he got some adult interaction that day as well. ;)

That night my mom, Nic, Janelle (my bro's GF) and I went to GAP at midnight to see if we could catch some great deals.  Well, it wasn't as good as last year's sale (read: 50% off everything) but they did have a bunch of stuff for 40% and some for 20% and even less for 60% off.  I got the kids some great stuff but nothing for me or Chris.  It was fun and ended up being worth it but not as awesome as the year before.  Later that day we went to lunch with my Grandma B and a couple of my aunt's at CPK, a tradition for Black Friday, and then we did some more shopping.  Owen boy came with us and was great!

We spent the rest of the weekend at my parent's house and had a great time!!

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Owen started crawling a couple of weeks ago and it is pretty much the cutest thing I have ever seen!  I will have to post some videos of his silly antics soon. 



Lola is loving her dance class and playing with friends lately!  She is such a big girl and is always saying the cutest and silliest things.  Today she asked,  "Why are the stars hanging on the trees?" (Christmas Trees) and I wasn't quite sure what she was asking so I said, "I don't know" and she said, "I know, it is so everyone can see them".  Yep, she is right :)

She has also been saying movie titles wrong lately like:

"Ramona and Jesus (Beezus)" 

"Barbie in the Nutcrapper (cracker)".

It makes me laugh so hard that I almost don't want to correct her.  You should hear her say "Abracadabra".  I posted that video on Facebook as well, I will have to put it on here.  She is such a joy!  I can't believe how beautiful she is.  I'm not sure where she got her beautiful facial features.  Chris might say from me (he is the sweetest) but everyone says she looks like him :)

These are some cute pics from my sis's wedding that I wanted to share.



Us with Nicole's friend Amy's baby, Brielle.  She is the cutest!  Also Brielle was crying at one point this day and Lola, out of the blue, says, "freakin baby".  Oh gees, not my proudest moment.  But it was hilarious!



This picture is Lola's personality illustrated to the T.  She loves to be the center of attention and is a little spitfire.


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I have been crafting a bit again and made a wreath a few days ago and love it!!

I have had a few headband orders from people I know, so it has been fun making some headbands again.  I really haven't done much with the shop since I had Owen.  I have been so busy with work and the 2 kids and I don't want to stress too much.  I told myself I would only do the shop if it fits in with my life and I still enjoy it.  So I'm not too stressed about not keeping it up to date.  But if you ever feel like  you want me to make you something, feel free to ask :)

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Hope you are all doing well!!  I will try to get some more fashion posts up soon. (if anyone wants them...)  I feel like Pinterest has opened up a new realm of opportunities for what is in my closet!! I don't feel the need to shop as much (did I just say that?!) because I find a cute outfit on there and can recreate it from clothing I already have.  Pinterest= a Godsend.

Yo Gabba Gabba-Teaser

This night was more fun than I ever could have imagined!! I think I had {almost} just as much fun as Lola did!!!  We were so giddy when that boom box opened and the Gabba friends jumped out!  I am going to work on putting a little video together with the highlights but in the meantime, here are a few pics to hold you over until then ;)

Lola in her cute outfit for the show

The stage before the show

Daddy and Lola waiting for the show to start

 

Showing some of the cool shirts we got!

First Big Fall Weekend

Back in the first weekend of October we had so much fun!  I was excited to be able to be with the family and listen to General Conference for my church.  Saturday morning I helped my mom around the house while listening to conference and then we decided we wanted to start a new tradition and go hike (I use the word "hike" loosely, it is very easy and the perfect length for a 3 year old) the Grotto in Payson Canyon in between the sessions.  The leaves had just turned beautiful fall colors and the weather was warm and nice.  We had a lot of fun and are excited to do it every year now, with more family members too. 

My mom and Lola

Cutest fuzzy caterpillar ever!

Owen being the happiest little cheeser!

...again...

...and again :)

at the Grotto (the iphone had a hard time focusing with the moving water...)

Crossing one of the bridges

My sweetest curly-haired boy!

Me and my babies

Then after the Grotto we were lucky enough to be invited to Max's birthday party!!  His grandparents live 2 houses away from my parents and their family are good friends of ours.  Max had a train party and they rented a 'train' and everything.  It was such a cute party and the kids loved it and came away with loads of goodies!  Thanks Collette for letting us come!

 

Christi and Max

That night we had a girl's night out and of course Owen boy came too.  We did some shopping at Sam's Club for all the cooking my mom was preparing for on Sunday and Lou was being a ham as always.  It is so hard to get a decent pic of that child.

Lou with her fav aunt Nicole! (I love Lola's blazer, thank you boys section at DI!)

After Sam's we ate dinner at Los Hermanos (Owen ate a bunch of refried beans and avocado, such a big boy) and then got some frozen yogurt and headed home.  I had so much fun and love that I am so close with my mom and sis, they are the best!! 
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Scooter Adventures

 I'm not quite sure what to call this fun little contraption but Lola kept calling it a scooter and that works for me...

My mom bought this cool new toy for Lola to play with while she is at my parent's house.  She loved it and couldn't stop riding it around on their hardwood floors.  Well, Owen was a little restless that day and this boy doesn't crawl yet so we needed a way for him to get around and have fun so we put him on the back with Lola and would hold him up while they scooted around.  The only problem was that your legs would get really tired from bending down at a weird angle to be able to hold him up... then my mom came up with the best idea ever.  This is how the conversation went (paraphrased)-

Me- "Man, my legs are really starting to hurt and I am getting tired of holding Owen on the scooter.  But him and Lola are having so much fun."

Mom- "I wish there was a way to rig a harness on there for him..."

Me- "even if we buckled him, he would lean back and fall off..."

Mom- "I have an idea, we could buckle him to Lola.  That way he wouldn't fall backwards and would stay right against her.  There is a belt on the kitchen table we could use..."

Me- "ha ha ha... what a GREAT idea!!"

So I went and got the belt and buckled them together and they had a blast!!! We figured out that we needed to put the belt really high on their chests so Owen wouldn't lean back and scare the crap out of us.  When you watch the video, which is a little crazy, (blame the camera woman- read: me) you can tell I was a little concerned about my baby as evidenced by the scare toward the end of the video. "Ryker, Ryker!!" (my little bro) LOL

Here they are, happy as can be. Trashy-rigged together.

Busy and Exciting Week

I have fallen off the blogging wagon again.  This is a reoccurring theme for me lately.  My apologies... This week here are some of the things on my agenda.

• Finish Brooke's wedding veil.  She is one of my best buddies that I went to school with from Jr. High on and in October she is getting married in Vegas and I am so excited.  She will be in town this weekend so I need to have her veil to her so she can try it on and make sure she likes it so she can take it while she is here.  (these things always make me a little nervous...)
• I need to clean my whole house and prepare for Lola's 3rd Birthday party!!!  Can you believe it?? My baby girl is going to be 3 years old!! But if you ask her how old she will be chances are she won't tell you 3.  Answers I have received so far have been- 2, 3, 4, 45.  It depends on the day.
• Finish birthday present shopping, get the party supplies and cake ordered.
• Then I need to pack because we are off to Payson for the weekend!  You know what Labor Day means in Payson right?!  ONION DAYS, boo ya!  Which incidentally coinsides with my 10 year High School reunion.  Which I am not attending.  The hubby pretty much told me that is the last place in the world he would like to be and I don't have a desire to go either.  So we are ditching out.  I figure that the people I would like to stay in touch with, I still do through Facebook and real-life means. (is that a bad attitude to have?)
• We are going to have a second Birthday party for Lola while we are in Payson with my family, it should be lots of fun!  Lola is one lucky girl to have so many people around her that love her so much!
• I also have a bunch of laundry I need to do.
• Go to work...
• Last but not least love on my hubby and kids.  I hope I have time in between everything to have fun with them!

Here are some of the fun things Lola will be getting for her Birthday!  I love shopping for little kids.  Their clothes and toys are so much fun to pick out!!