the letter "s"

So my friend tagged me with the letter "s" and here is what I came up with

SHEARS: I couldn't live without my hair shears! It is my way to be social and hopefully make people feel better when they leave my salon.

SASSY: Those who know me, this is probably the first "s" word that came to their mind!

SODA: Can't live without the amazing Dr. Pepper! It's my security blanket with 2 crazy kids!

SISTER: I love being the big sister. My family means everything to me. I miss them being so far away!

SUPER SAVER SHOPPER: I love to shop for the best deals and I'm always so proud of myself when I find the really good ones!

I asked Dave to come up with "S" words that described me and here is his list. How good of a husband do I have?
sounding board, smart, savvy, sober, super, strong willed, scrappy, stupendous, sensitive of others needs and feelings, superb, suprising, service oriented, sharer (that really a word?), selfless, slender (love is blind!), spontaneous, squatter (living in china), suave, sweet, swift, survivor.
It got a little out of control, but he's funny!

my cake

So i've been taking a cake decorating class, and last night was our final class for this course. It turned out better than I thought, so I thought I'd share. I forgot to take a picture before I took a bite out of it! woops!

claire's eye surgery

Claire was such a brave girl today for her eye surgery. She had a stye that needed to be removed. Nothin too big. But they did have to cut the inside of the eye and the outside and scrape a bunch a gunk out. Ick! But things went well and she is enjoying Dora on the couch right now.

my first ballet recital

Who says 27 is too old for yoiur first ballet recital? One of the young women held a talent show for an activity and I thought I would be the comic relief! I did a water ballet piece to the "Nutcracker." If I must say, it was the hit of the show!

Halloween Parade

Claire had so much fun "marching like ants" as Claire would say, in our neighborhood Halloween parade. We got to follow the fire truck and it even parked by Claire's house! Her and her little friends had fun dancing and singing on the back of the truck.

rock the hat

this is my pal Jerri, me, and my cute beehive mckell rockin the hat

marshmallow throwing

i think the funnest part of the night, was mackenzie trying

to throw the big roasting marshmallows in my mouth. needless to say, we weren't very good! but we got one! and i haven't laughed that hard in a while. i don't know how many marshmallows with dirt i ate! i'm going to be sick! (but not sick enough to polish off an entire hershey's bar right after. who says you need to make smores with it?)

ym/yw bonfire

we had a really fun activity last night at our bonfire. now we just need to learn to use the flash!

very first bath together

I've been putting this one off in fear of claire trying to drown brevan, but we made

it without casualty! They might have even had fun.

OK, so i have to tell you about my neighbors. Alicia Kim, you can appreciate this. They're a cute youing couple that had their first baby a few months ago, but both of their parents are visiting from China. Yesterday one of them scared me half to death! I'm sitting on the couch sewing Claire's Halloween princess skirt and watching "Project Runway" while the kids are asleep. I look up out the window and there is this guy right there! I about screamed. He was looking at my garden, but the garden is right about against the house, so he is right in my window. Who does that? He has to know I'm there. Lately they all have been staring at me watching everything I do though. I'll be outside decorating the yard or doing something and they will just come out and assume the position to watch and stare. I guess it's a good thing I lived over there and know that's just what they do. But here in America it's a little wierd. Ok, I feel better.

30 going on 3

This is how I found Dave this morning. Parked in front of ESPN like a kid in front of cartoons!

Graduation to high chair

So my cute little baby became a big boy today and graduated to the high chair! sad! He's getting so big! This is his latest face--tucking under his bottom lip. He makes it all the time. I think it's hilarious!

Last weekend we took Claire to the nursery where they were doing a fundraiser. She had fun painting the WHOLE pumpkin pink. But her favorite part of the day was playing in the train with all the other kids. choo choo!

Fudgesicle

Yes, it is still warm enough out here to eat chocolate fudgesicles naked! It ended up EVERYWHERE!!! But Claire loved it and we hosed her off when she was done. I'm thinkin this is a once-every-now-and-then event.

Dave's big 30

While in Utah, Dave celebrated the big 30! I surprised him with a G.I. Joe party (his favorite cartoon as a kid). Everyone showed up in their camo and we had fun playing water "gernades" and other army type games.

Petting Zoo

On our last trip to Utah, Claire had so much fun hangin' with her cousin, Bryson. Here we're at the petting zoo at Thanksgiving Point. Even now, everytime we tell Claire we are going to see animals, she asks if Bryson is coming!

While in Utah we had a photographer take our pictures. Claire wanted NOTHING to do with it. When we asked her to smile, she screamed. I'm surprised we got one good one.