This & That

It's been a slow month for blogging. So I decided to post a little of this and a little of that. Just to give myself something to do. It's either blog or clean, and I'm just not in the mood to clean right now.


The night before Gracie's birthday we had a surprise "get together".(Because technically she wasn't going to have a party this year) The girls came in their pj's. They ate and played and watched a movie, and went home at 10:00pm. It was my kind of party. No games or prizes. I didn't have to entertain them. And they still had lots of fun. Short and sweet!

For Christmas Gracie asked for an American Girl doll. But she got an ipod instead. I figured she would forget about the doll after Christmas, but she didn't. I just have a hard time dropping $100+ on a doll. But that was all she wanted. She begged and begged. So She finally got the doll for her birthday. I'll never forget the look on her face when she opened it. It was way worth the money.

Then we took her to Red Robin for lunch, and went to see Hotel for Dogs. Which is a really cute movie and she loved it! Overall, I 'm pretty sure she had a great birthday!

Gracie & Hadlie enduring the long, boring winter months. Curling up in bed watching a movie.

They were super proud of this baby snowman they made all by themselves!

I met up with some old friends for lunch. Jaime Sommer and Angela Rasmussen. I hadn't seen them in over 10 years. It was so good to see them and catch up. We need to do that more often.

On Valentines we had a candlelight family dinner. I made everyone's favorite dinner. (lasagna) and decorated the table with rose petals and candy hearts, and set candles out everywhere. I made them wait downstairs until everything was ready. When they came upstairs they were all surprised. Gracie thought that was the neatest thing ever. She kept asking "Can we do this every Valentines Day?"

When Hadlie came up she said "Is it my birfday?" All she wanted to do was blow out the candles and make a wish.

The most fun they had was when dinner was over. They gathered up all the rose petals and threw them everywhere, buried each other, and had rose petal treasure hunts (where the petals were the treasure, I guess.)



And yesterday since Gracie was out of school, we went and saw Coraline in 3D. So here we are in our goofy 3D glasses. They left big dents in our noses too. But the movie was awesome. I think I liked it better than Gracie. It was kinda spooky for kids her age. She still liked it though. I know it's a thumbs up when she says "Can we buy that one when it comes out on DVD?"

So that's a little of what's been going on the last month. I can't wait til spring!

Gracie turns 7!

I can't believe it! She is 7 years old. (On Jan. 24th) It seems like forever ago that I had her, yet it doesn't seem right that she's 7( going on 17)!!

Ahhh... Where to start? Gracie is such a sweetheart! I'm so lucky to have her as my daughter. And Hadlie is lucky to have her as a sister. She is an awesome big sister and loves that role. Gracie is one of the goofiest kids I've come across, especially around just her mom and dad. Sometimes I wonder if she's really mine?
She is a perfect mix of a girlie girl and a tomboy. On one hand she loves to dance, dress up, paint her nails, put on make up,and usually throws a fit if I try to dress her in anything except pink or purple. Then on the other hand, she likes soccer, camping, riding 4 wheelers, hunting with her dad. In the summertime she could live in our trailer in Schofield (where she could care less about what she wears or what color it is).
I got a little carried away with the slideshow. I got looking at all her cute baby pictures and couldn't narrow it down to just 10 or 20.

This is Gracie's favorite song, This Is Me from Camp Rock! Then of course, Love Story by Taylor Swift.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LULU! WE LOVE YOU!

Family pictures

Now that Christmas is over and all my gifts are given, I'm going to post the rest of our family pitures. Here they are....

















Oooo.. Did we scare you? Whitney "cullenized" us. This is what we would look like as vegetarian vampires. Cool huh?

This is the real one

Tis the Season

I've got to say a BIG thank you to Whitney who made our Christmas cards (above) and took our family pictures. I'm saving them for Christmas presents, so I'll post them after Christmas to show off what a good job she did. Thanks again!


Like we do most every year, we went to Schofield to cut down our Christmas trees after Thanksgiving. Here is Hadlie after helping uncle Tyson cut down his tree. (That really is her under all that camo)


Hadlie & Aunt Lacey keeping each other warm

As soon as there are snowflakes in the air, Gracie is begging to go out and play in the snow. Hadlie is no different. Every morning when she wakes up, she looks out the window and if there is even a skiff of snow on the ground she is dressing herself (in dresses, I might add) and putting her boots on to go outside. It never lasts long, but as long as they get their daily dose of outside playtime, we're good!

Gracie making snow angels

On Saturday we went to a Christmas party at my moms. We ate way too much yummy food, made gingerbread houses and decorated sugar cookies. We all had lots of fun, especially the girls. Hadlie sat in the same spot for an hour just putting sprinkles on the cookies. Gracie helped Jayson build the gingerbread house, but then his perfectionist side kicked in and she got bored watching him have all the fun. Then we busted out the hula hoops and Gracie kicked all of our butts! She put us all to shame. She's been practicing all day and getting even better!

Hadlie & Aunt Carly. When I took this pic they both tilted their heads at the same time. It wasn't even planned. So cute!

Me, my mom, Kayla and Austin busy frosting cookies so Hadlie would have something to put sprinkles on.

Uncle Cory helped frost some cookies too. Under the rough exterior, Cory is a just a big teddy bear. Hadlie LOVES her uncle Cory!

Jayson putting the finishing touches on his gingerbread house. Way to go J!

The Twilight before Christmas

Check this video out. You might have already seen it, but this is beyond funny!
This is the website: http://www.take180.com/s/ep5l7

(I'm still trying to figure out how to post a video from the web or a link that actually works, Sorry!)

Twilight Time

If you can't read what that says, It's from Summit and says thanks for making Twilight the #1 movie in America and that they are moving forward with NEW MOON!!
Yay! So hopefully at this time next year we'll be doing the same thing!

So, I did this kinda backwards, but oh well. This is the 2nd night we went to see Twilight with all our hubbies. They were all really good sports and even liked it. Wade and Brandie were there too, but sat up above us and i totally forgot to get a pic of them. Sorry guys.

Brandon & Heidi (I gotta say you look HOT in this pic Heidi, you looked so cute lastnight, not in a gay way though)

Chevy & Amberlie

Me & Jayson (BTW, He finished Twilight and is now in the middle of Midnight Sun) What a guy!

Carly & Austin before the movie at Ruby River, such a cute couple! I love youguys!!

The midnight showing
Krista, Jessica, Ashley, me, Whitney. Right when they took this pic someone said " Haley, the line is moving" so I turned my head, and then the chaos started. Everyone was running, trying to get seats. Luckily we all ended up together, but when we first got in there, some of us were down on the front row. It was crazy!

Me & Sam:
Sam, I'm so glad you came with us! It was fun to hang out with you outside of "work".


In the theater waiting for the movie to start....




Waiting in line, all of us in red, black and white.


Outside of Red Robin where we ate we posed by this big sign, and a group of guys walked by us yelling "Yeah, Edward". We all know we are nerds, and freely admit it.

I went again on Saturday afternoon and took Gracie, but I forgot to get any pics. She has been so curious to see what all this Twilight stuff is about. She asked me to read it to her, but I didn't think it would hold her attention very well, so I told her I would take her to the movie when it came out. She sat there the whole 2 hours and didn't make a peep. She said she liked it, but I could tell she was a little bored. We went with my mom, my mom in law, sis in law Lacey, and Carly again. We saw it at Spanish 8 because Cinemark was sold out of every showtime, and it sucked! The picture was bad, the sound was bad. It made the movie bad. I won't go there again.
After 3 times, I love it! I didn't at first, but it's grown on me for sure. Kinda like Breaking Dawn.
If anyone wants to go again, I'm game. I don't know how many more times I'll go between now and when the DVD comes out.