Friday, November 14, 2008

School pictures

We finally got the kids school pictures back. They missed the first pictures because I was in Vegas for them and I am too crazy to let them do it with out me there. By the way, I'm not the only Mom who stands over the computer and tells them if it is a natural smile or not. At our school, that is the norm for lots of us. Still a little OCD, I know. All in all they turned out great, except for Blake's background was supposed to be the same as the girls, and I hate the dum arm crossing thing. It was that or hunched over your knees, which looked even more lame. I tried to let them do it with out their arms folded but the lady said, nope, that was the pose. Oh well, they look great!
Lex 10yrs. Fourth Grade


Blake 8yrs. Third Grade
Mallory 6yrs. Kindergarten




Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Why me............

Yep, you see it right. Brittan has a new do. It is quite possibly the worst child haircut I have ever seen, and I've fixed a lot over the years being a hairdresser and all. This one takes the cake though. My two older girls have done it several times to themselves. Alexa has cut her own hair at least 5 or six times, but never to where anyone could notice, a little snip here, a little snip there and then I would find it when I went to do her hair the next day. Mallory gave herself a pretty bad haircut two years ago, but it was totally still do-able and no one noticed unless they saw her at night after a bath. Both girls were around 4 to 6 in their haircutting years. Brittan is only two! The fact that she maneuvered the scissors so well around her ear, I'm surprised she still has one! The top 3 inches back is about a half an inch. The side has parts that show skin! It is so bad! We were having a quiet Friday night. Blake and Lex were at my friend Christy's house spending the night. Todd was changing the break pads on my car and Mally and I were watching Kit Kitridge in the family room while Brittan was on my bed watching a movie. She does this all the time and never gets into things. It had been a while since I heard her singing along to her princess movie so I called out to her and heard a very distant answer. I told her to come out and eat her "yoggies" (her orange cream yogurt). She came around the corner and sat just barely inside the kitchen, very far away from us. I looked at her and then looked harder. As I called her over and saw the chunks of hair covering her jammies, I just screamed. She was hysterically crying instantly saying "I'm sorry Mom, I'm sorry Mom". Mallory was crying, so was I. It wasn't a pretty scene. I put her on my bed and left her in there until Todd got home. I couldn't really assess the situation yet. When he got home, we went in. Hair EVERYWHERE!!!!!!!!!!! So sad. I told her it was hideous and that she looked like a boy. Probably mean, I know, but I thought I was being pretty calm at this point. She just cried and cried. She didn't stop until she fell asleep. The next morning I was hoping it was a bad dream, it wasn't. It was even more scary with a little bed head mixed in. It has taken me several days to take the pictures. I just couldn't do it right away. I was too sad. Now, everywhere we go everyone wants to see it. Word travels fast in our small community, and the gasps, the "oh Allison's", and the laughing my friends have bestowed upon me tells me how bad and funny it is. Here is my mullet, punk, W.T. kid...........
Right behind the ear is the worst, oh and on the very top, oh and I guess everywhere is pretty sick too. This wet pic shows just how many cuts there were, tons!
The look on her face says it all. She new we weren't taking happy cute pictures. It might not have helped the million times I said how sick it was. She apologized to me many, many times on Saturday. Especially when I was showing someone her beautiful work.
So now we are back to this. Baby headbands for the next two years. Oh, I also cut the back of her hair off. It helps a tiny bit with the mullet look.
I guess we still love her.
If I didn't do every hair accessory imaginable, I would not know what to do. Megan rushed tons of crochet headbands over and luckily I still have tons of lycra ones. Deb's fabric bands are really cute on her too. Thank goodness! I guess there are a trillion things worse in the world and in the big picture this is really quite funny. I do still think silly, bald girl is adorable!





Monday, November 10, 2008

Happy Halloween!!

We love Halloween! We pick costumes fairly early, (doesn't mean I have them ready early), but we decide what they will all be as soon as possible. I say "we", but I really mean that I talk all my kids into their costumes each year. Maybe someday I will give up all control and actually let Blake be the Star Wars guy he has wanted to be for years. Pretty sad, I know. The girls are usually pretty easy, and Blake really did pick this costume ( out of the 3 choices I gave him) so he felt great about it :). I made Lexa and Mallory's costumes, ordered Blakes and Brittans was a snap! Still, I am very glad it is over! After getting them all ready for 3 events in a row, I was done!!! Thanks to our personal make-up artist, Joc, the girls were fab, and she even does gladiator make-up! I am infamous for a billion props so the girls carried cool feather brooms, cauldrons, and they each had a pet spider, Candycorn and Peppermint! Brittan did not like anyone putting candy in her bucket, so that made for an interesting night. Maybe she'll get the concept next year. We had a blast and here are a few thousand pics to prove it!!
Lex was such a pretty witch. Can witches be pretty? I loved the spider earrings I made her!
Blake had no problem pulling off the tough guy look!
Cute little Mally
Britty was a funny little kitty. She was mistaken for Minnie Mouse more than once because I made her ears so ginormous!

After the school parade.
Mallory loved her vampire teeth.
Super Girl Gracie and Mally the Witch.
Brittan twirled and twirled all day in her "dancey dancey".
Lex at her class party.

Blake and his friend Roni looked like they planned their costumes to match!
At the school carnival the night before Halloween.
Lex and her friend Madison
The pouring rain was horrible on carnival night!
Lex and Emi, so cute at the ward party.
And the cool boys!
The best treat ever!

So amazed with her good fortune!
All the treats at the party were so fun.
I'm looking forward to the year long break until next Halloween!




















Saturday Morning Fun

One Saturday morning, I was woken up to some seriously screaming and laughing kids! It was the first day of cold weather, sort of, and they were all bundled up like they were at the North Pole! I guess a science enthusiast would half to explain to me the whole static hair thing. I think it was a combo of the tramp and the crazy windy weather! They were having so much fun!
Britty and Faith
The whole gang.
Britty mid air!
Loving the hair!






Double Digits!!

Lex hit the big 10 this year. We basically did a repeat of Mally's birthday and went to the movies to see High School Musical 3, and the whole pizza thing too. These pics are from her actual birthday, October 11. We went to the mall to have Joc do our make-up. Well really mine, but Joc said she would to Alexa's for fun. Here she is getting her presents from her family.
A Nintendo DS from Mom and Dad. (Do you love Mallory's crimped hair?)
And no folks, this is not a joke. She has wanted a Swiffer Wet Jet for forever!!!!!!!! Every time we are in Target she begs for one. I always say no and thought she would really die to get one on her birthday. ( Although this was not the original plan, I just didn't want one!) So this was Mallory's gift to her and she was so happy! By the way, she has used it regularly!

Brittan gave her a Webkinz pug and a huge stack of her favorite underwear from LTOO. This was the best gift ever for Brittan to give, as she just started wearing her own undies a month earlier!
Lex and Faith after getting their make-up done, thanks Joc! We did get a few waitresses talking about them when we went to Chillis for dinner. I'm sure they thought I was crazy for letting such young girls wear full, and I mean full cause Joc is very thorough, make-up! Oh well, they must not have any cool aunts! They do look way too old, scary!
We did Alexa's friend/movie party on October 25th. So she kinda got a month long of birthday celebrations! How fun! We love you Lex and we would like you to please stay right here at 10!




Happy Birthday Mallory!

Sometimes it is hard to think of Mallory as only six! She seems more like 16 a lot of the time. We had about 24 of her friends to see the movie Beverly Hills Chihuahua. It was really cute and the perfect movie to keep all of those kids entertained. After the movie we went to Round Table to eat and open presents. Her dreams came true, she got a pet. With my permission, of course, my friend Sheridi and her girls Mallory, Kelsey and Kendal, got my Mallory a hermit crab. They know of my true desire to not have any pets, but they sure feel sorry for my kids! So I guess a hermit crab is the way to go cause we hardly know it is here! Mallory named it Ruby. My other kids feel jipped that Mallory being the 3rd oldest got the first pet, oh well. Here she is, so excited to get Ruby! Some of our party guests.
Megan gave Mallory 20, one dollar bills. She actually forgot about Ruby for a while and this became the coolest gift ever!
Jackpot!!
And now, squeezing Megan to death!
Mally's birthday was lots of fun. We were happy to celebrate her six, most entertaining, years of life!! We love you Mallory!





Friday, November 7, 2008

So if you think if you can Dance, Dance, Dance!!

We are obsessed with this show at our house! We have watched it since the very first season and we still give Mallory a hard time for adding the "IFs" in the title of the show. Season one, she was only 3 years old, so we have been teasing her for a while now. We try and get everyone we know to watch it each season as if we are solely reasponsible for the ratings. We have held many a "watching parties". The kids learn there favorite dances and do them over and over. (Blake doing Travis' part, (season 3), in the final four "Sexy Back" dance was priceless!) We have even met Nick Lazarinni, the winner of season one! We love this show! This was our second year going to the tour and it did not dissapoint! We got to go with our adopted fam, the Sinclairs. We love them almost as much as the show, just kidding, we love them 100 times more. We started the night by going to a yummy dinner at The Cheesecake Factory and then we were off to Oakland! This pic was before the show as we sat with anticipation, waiting to see if they would do our favorite dances. And they did, every single one of them! Here are Mally, Makenzie and Lex...
I was so happy to see my "Boo" dance in person. Joshua and Katie were my favs from the beginning, but by the third show when they did the samba to Baila Baila, I was hooked! I loved every dance they did. They never got it wrong! One fav for sure was Bollywood, so good!

They made us wait until almost the very end for the briefcase dance. It was worth the wait! Chelsea and Mark were amazing in this!
Almost the whole gang!Mallory was so excited to be here. She kept saying, "Oh my gosh, I bet it is so late right now!", and when Kherington did her solo she yelled out, "This place is on fire!". But she almost lost it when Mark and Courtney Gerianno, (as she says it), did The Garden. It was her very favorite dance. She has watched it over and over as we can't seem to erase them from our tivo! Her dreams came true when this music started, she just started screaming!
We had such a fun night, even if we missed getting cheesecake to go by 5 min.! We will most likely be counting down the days until next may when So If You Think If You Can Dance starts again!





Dress Party!

This Monday, Nov. 10th, I am having my dress party. For all those interested you may call for info or directions. Hours are 10am-1pm! Come early for the best selections on these dresses priced $20-37.00!!!