KRISTY IS 30!

Kristy surprised me by taking a picture of herself when she got ahold of my camera - so I thought I would surprise her and post it on my blog. (Kristy, I would not have posted it if I didn't think you looked good in the picture)

ALADDIN JR.

This week has been the school musical at Mike and Matt's school. It is one of my favorite things of the year. For the last three years Matt has had a leading part. Now that Mike is at the school he could participate too. I think Matt had a lot more fun this year having his brother in the play with him. Hopefully, if I get Bron's variance, Bron can join them next year. This year they did Aladdin Jr. Much to my surprise they cast Matt as Jafar. This was totally shocking to me as I see him more as a Prince Charming type than the villain. He did great and had an awesome wicked laugh. He also had several singing solo's and did a great job. Mike was one of the guards. His name was Benjamin. He had several speaking lines and loved doing his part. They both thought it was especially funny when Jafar calls the guards nincompoops.

The play was double cast. On their off night they were magical servants. They had fun doing this part also - as they got to sing and dance with the chorus. There were over 180 kids in the play and about 40 of them got to perform in both nights. Matt and Mike were glad to be chosen for these parts.

Kalia Update

. . . yeah . . . so I didn't do too well with my weekly, or daily picture posts of Kalia. I think it has been at least two months since my last picture post. Here are some new ones of her.
She seemed to enjoy her Johnny-Jumper for about five minutes one day, and never wanted to use it again. Atleast we got a happy picture from the one time.

This is the one and only outfit that Loren has bought for Kalia. I should have shown more of the shirt. The hoodie is one of those really short hoodies and then there is a long white tank under it.

Notice the piggies in her hair. This was a month or so ago. It is a little easier now to put the piggies in her hair. Last time she didn't even cry.

Our little leprechaun . . .

Kalia is getting more fun every day. The boys just adore her and will run to her crib first thing in the morning to look at her. She always kicks and smiles big when we get her out of bed. She can now say da-da-da-da, she loves to spit, wrinkle her nose and is starting to love to scream (not an angry scream, just a "look I can make noise" scream) hopefully the screaming phase will not last long. We think she will be crawling by the middle of April. We will see. . .

I have been tagged by several different people with different types of the "8 things". I was just on my friend Danni's sight and liked the one she had on her site and decided to finally write one.

8 TV Shows I Watch
Survivor
American Idol
24
Lost
Bachelor (only because I really like this one)
True Beauty (this is a terrible show - I blame Kristy for getting me started watching it, but it is pretty darn funny)
I can't think of another, I'm actually surprised that I watch seven.

8 Favorite Restaurants
The Cheesecake Factory
The Elephant Bar
The Mandarin
Cafe Rio
Training Table

8 Things that Happened Today
Taught preschool with 10 darling kids
Read stories to Bron
Played a card game with the kids
Watched American Idol at the neighbors
Went to Matt's basketball game
Hugged my kids and held my baby
Went to the gym
Stood on the scale - stood on the scale again, hoping the number would be lower the second time. (I have found that if you put slightly more weight on your toes the number will be slightly less).
Kissed my wonderful husband.

8 Things I'm Looking Forward To
Going to Disney Land in April (hopefully)
Seeing Matt and Mike in their school play in March
Kalia crawling
Summer and warmer weather
Going to bed

8 Things on my Wish List
A maid (copied that one from Danni - not a bad idea)
135 pounds(wouldn't that be an amazing weight?)
A year without any sickness
$30,000 more per year (I don't need to be rich, but $30,000 sure would make things easier)
Remodel the house and add a few rooms.
Go on another cruise with Loren
See each of my kids get married in the temple
Greatful, happy, kind, polite, sweet, loving wonderful children (we're almost there)

8 Things I can't Stand
Bodily noises (people chewing food, sniffing continously, etc.)
Ignorant people
When people don't do what they say they will do
Excessive emotions - over emotional people (not meaning friends here either, but like the people who were freaking out on American Idol lately)
Long talks (meaning long speakers - like at church, not talking to my friends - I love that)
Hard rock music
The smell of cigarette smoke or B.O.
When I don't check something close enough and I have typo's or spelling errors (I guess this couldn't bug me too bad because I do it all the time!)

The Giant Catch Up

I am not very good at posting on my blog. I just feel like I never have any time. Tonight I am spending the evening posting everything that I have wanted to for the last six months.

Kalia - Day by Day

Kalia has been such a fun baby! She is almost six months old - I can't believe it. Kali has an enormous wardrobe (thanks to so many people giving me clothes). The other day I was with my friend Sarah and she said that I should take a picture of Kali every day and then just put them in a little photo album that she can take to church when she is a little older. She said her girls love looking at pictures of themselves when they were little. She said they love looking at the clothes that they wore and it's also fun to be able to compare the difference during the first year when they grow so much. I decided to do this. I have been trying to do this. These pictures are from Christmas until now. (It's hard to remember every day). Anyway, I know this is fairly ridiculous, but it's also fun and free (now that we have digital cameras). She is also my last, and my only girl, so it's okay if I do this. (just because she has lots of pictures does not mean she will be spoiled) The idea is that I will post an update every week of Kali's week. (It might be every couple of weeks).

Kristy and Angela: Even though Kali has tons of clothes I still want you to send me stuff. I love dressing her and once she is a year old I don't have near as many clothes. Besides, you can look at these photos and remember when your girls wore these clothes.
I actually bought this shirt because she doesn't have very much blue and she looks really pretty in it. I wanted to have her six month photo in this shirt. Loren calls it her pregnant shirt and he won't let me use it in the photo. Oh well. I really liked it.

She is sitting . . .

She can be occupied in her exersaucer for 10 to 15 minutes at a time. . .

My friend Karlyn gave Kali tons of bows . . .

Ready for Valentines day. . . .

Yes, I have two of this exact same outfit. One from Kristy and one from Angela. It is one of my favorites . . .

Using a size 0-3 month dress as a shirt (my sister-in-law Alisa's idea)

WHAT?!? Loren let her suck on an Oreo! . . .

Utes Half Time Show

Loren is coaching Mike's Jr. Jazz team. They will be playing a scrimmage during the University of Utah basketball half time tomorrow. The boys are pretty excited.