The Showdown

Ok so...who watched America's Best Dance Crew last night and was BLOWN AWAY?!! Last night's elimination determined who moves on head to head for the finale next week. At this point I can NOT choose! This is my first year watching this show faithfully and from the beginning these have been my two favorite dance crews. So America DID get it right in my opinion but now whoever wins I will be very happy for and very sad for who doesn't. They are both incredibly talented groups AND this is the FIRST time a FEMALE dance crew has made it this far in the history of this show! Pretty amazing! Even if you don't watch this show, you should tune in next Thursday just to be entertained by some incredible dancing! Good luck to both crews!

Very late birthday post

My birthday was about a month and a half ago now but I forgot to bring my camera out that night of all nights so luckily my friends Heidi and Posey both brought theirs and were kind enough to take pictures. I had a great day...couldn't have been any better. My mom made breakfast for me at her house that morning so we ate over there and had the chance to say goodbye to my grandparents who were leaving back to Utah that day.:( Brian suprised me with the jeans I'd been DYING to get and a cute shirt to go with! Also some software for my computer that I wanted...yeah! Good job babes! Annie was a doll and treated me so well like she knew it was my day and even have me a nice long back tickle! My mom watched Annie while we went to Olive Garden(mmm, love it) with a few of our good friends...Brian did all the planning, it was kinda a suprise. Then we headed out to go bowling and my sister Jade was able to join us. It was so much fun! It was a perfect birthday!... Since this was the first birthday that actually sounded a litle old to me...it was a perfect distraction to that thought. Thanks to all who participated in making my day so special and memorable. And thank you SOOO much for the overwhelming amount of phone calls and texts. It really meant alot to me.

Chad, Brian, me, Posey, Ben, Heidi and Clay at Olive Garden
Me and my special delivery chocolate cake!

Me and my hunny who pulled the whole thing together:)

So proud of my AWFUL bowling! ha ha I'm not any good and don't really try to be, but I sure have fun doing it!

Me and Jadey pie

Too cool

The battle was mainly between Posey and Jade. Posey was feeling a little defeated at this point.

Oh and I HAVE to mention all three guys that bowled(Brian, Clay and Ben) all did amazing and all three got turkey's right in a row in the same game. It was the most unbelieveable thing I'd ever seen!

REGIONAL CHAMPS!!!

Last night I attended the most amazing game I've ever been to in Jordan's toro basketball career! They have been doing AWESOME this season and last night's victory determined the regional champ so it was intense. We pkayed Red Mountain...a very tough competition this year. They've beat us, we've beat them. I had no idea what would happen but of course had all my hope for the Toro's! I walk in, during the second quarter and we are trailing by 15! At one point almost twenty. We caught up a little better and were down 6 or 8 at half. The rest of the game we trailed by 6-13 points and all of a sudden had a remarkable flip at the end of the game and Charlie Meo swished a 3 to tie the game with one second left and we went into OT! The Toro's DOMINATED over time and we ended beating them by like 8 points! Jordan did awesome, especially in OT! The whole team did great and we are so proud! We made awesome signs(pic's coming later). Jordan made the all state team! Congrats Toro's! You deserve it!

Well let me tell ya' 'bout my best friend!

Anaston and I are bestest buddies. We are together every day all day and have loads of fun together! There is never a dull moment with her! I Love my little Annie so much and am so thankful for her in my life!
Always sneaking to try Mommy's shoes on

Always being a nut

Gotta love her silly faces

And cheesy smiles

Can't get over her PERFECT TEETH!!! We always say let me see your perfect teeth and she does this big smile for us. Her two front teeth are the whitest, straighest teeth you've ever seen! It almost looks impossible! I've never seen such persect teeth on a kid! They're perfectly square, not all rounded and awkward, NO GAPS, and so white...I don't get it! Especially for a girl who loves her passy so much but hey, I'll take it! It cracks me up.

Such a pretty little girl

And silly two seconds later

"Annie's bottle"...she still likes to make me play baby Annie with her and give her the bottle she had in the hospital as a new infant and hold her like a baby. It's hilarious. She even does this little baby talk.

Sneaking chips in her room of course! That is her little hideout!

Girl's night! My mom bought Annie a new Dora movie and rented her a few others and got us a bucket of popcorn so we got blankies and stuffed animals and watched the movies and had popcorn! It was a blast!

Our little set up

The end!

Valentines '09

Valentine's was a great day this year! We got up that morning and headed to my mom's. She made heart shaped pancakes and bacon! YUM! She had delicious cinnamon rolls too! We passed out our Valentine's to everyone...it's really neat, every year my family still all trades Valentine's with eachother! Annie had so much fun putting her Vaneltine's together the night before and was so particular about which color treat and which card and sticker she gave each person, it was too cute! She had sparkly Dora velentine cards that Daddy picked out for her and Fun Dip that I found to pass out. She got alot of nice things form everyone else as well! We just played all day and then my mom watched Anne for Brian and I while we went out to dinner at Outback. It 's a long story how we ended up there but I'm glad we did! It was delicious and alot of fun! Brian gave me a really sweet card that actually made me cry this year!

Annie giving Jade kisses:)
Jade and Anaston

Annie and mommy before my hot date! ha ha

Anaston biting into her marshmallow sucker form Jade...such a great idea and definately hit the spot with Anaston!

My mom hand made her cards(they were adorable)...this is Annie with her card from "Wa-ma" and the bag of assorted salt water taffy she gave her...sooooo good! She shared with mommy:)...eventhough I had some TO DIE FOR taffy all to myself from my mom! ha

Unfortunately, Annie's other Grandma and Papa were out of town on Valentine's so we didn't get to see them but her Grandma did send a really sweet package in the mail to her! A Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Valentine's book with stickers, a sweet Mickey card and a sucker! She loved every bit of it and was very greatful. She left Grandma the sweetest message on her phone that night thanking her. She is still carrying around that book every day!

Spontaneous Weekend Getaway!:)

Two weekends ago, Brian had a 2 day tournament way out in Phoenix. We came along this time and made a little weekend trip out of it! It was an absolute blast! We drove out Friday late afternoon and went to the ball games at Rio Vista. We stayed in a hotel that night, which was really nice and we really enjoyed! We watched Four Christmases finally! ha ha It was alright. Anaston LOVED the hotel! She had a blast there! She thought it was so neat to stay in a hotel for the night! The next morning we headed out to a game and grabbed lunch. Anaston and I had the opportunity to go to The Wildlife World Zoo next while Brian continued to play. It was the neatest zoo I've been to so far! It was a nice breezy, cloudy day so the weather was beautiful and there were so many neat animals to see! The whole atmosphere was really neat and alot nicer looking than other zoo's...kinda exotic. They have recently built on three huge aquarium rooms to walk through so we got to see that as well and it was incredible! I LOVE aquariums! Anaston LOVED the zoo and the aquarium. They even had rides there! A log ride, fairy boat ride, etc! It started to rain as we were leaving so it all panned out perfect! During B's last game, Anaston and I grabbed dinner at the NICEST McDonald's I'd ever seen! Leather couches...did not look anything like one! Then we cozied up in the car in the parking lot and watched Dora till Dad finished and drove home and slept like bears! B had the best hitting game of his life! I'll have to put his exact stat's down later. It was a great weekend! Thanks babe!

Rio Vista is an amazing park! There is the fields of course, a Starbucks, a HUGE gym, a splash pad, duck ponds and the hugest park I've ever seen with a giant covered barbeque are that was the nicest thing I've ever seen. Anaston was in heaven!
Wee!!!

Silly face!

Good morning, sunshine!

Of course we had to start at the petting zoo...Anaston goes nuts feeding those animals and they all flock around her and follow her everywhere! She's little miss Mary Poppins!

We were amazed by the giraffes and even got to go up on this dock thing and fee them and feel their long, black, sticky tongues! It was really neat!

As we were walking away, we saw a Daddy, Mommy and baby I'm assuming, walking out. It looked so neat!

Anaston loved how funny looking camels are! ha ha

This was one of her favorite stops...the zebra's!

I am always amazed by the flamingo's...they are gorgeous!

Annie had a front row seat and was talking to them! ha ha

My beautiful little girl:)

This poor rhino looked EXHAUSTED! it took a double take to make sure he was alive!

The monkey's were INSANE!!!

Anaston's other favorite was the tiger's. She was begging me to see them the entire time!

Anaston's first time holding a starfish! We also pet sting rays!

This crazy looking turtle is a dinosaur turtle! It was the most amuzing thing to watch!

You can't really see us here but I love the way the aquarium looks!

Annie amd the aquarium

Anaston and I at the aquarium

We were lucky enough to catch the penguins smoochin! Just in time for Valentine's! ha ha

How cool is this shot? We had really good timing!

Don't think I'd ever seen an albino crocidile before!

That's all folks!