Sunday, September 27, 2009

Tiny Little Dancer

Look who's dancing now!



Such a cute little dancer!


Trying to figure out her tap shoes... and oh look, a run in her new tights already!

Once she figured out they made noise there was no taking them off.

Melia starts her class on Thursday, I'm not sure who is more excited, her or me! Oh and you know there will be pictures!

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

It's a Dog's World





It's an even score of humans to dogs over here, it gets a little crazy sometimes but we wouldn't have it any other way. Melia loves her dogs and it's fun to watch her interact with them.

There is the motherly Bella, who is just waaay to mature to play silly puppy games. She was our first dog we adopted and they told us she was a lab/shepard mix... who knows what mix she is she still has us guessing.




Next is crazy Annie our lab, she is Melia's favorite to play with because she fetches and runs around with her. They are partners in crime. You can tell she's just an obnixous little thing... always up in your business. :D



Lastly there is Midget, our rottie. She got her name because she was the runt of her litter and she was so skinny and looked like a midget version of her mom. She is growing like crazy so it's funny and ironic now. She is 4 months old now, she is our gentle protector who loves a good belly rub. She is such a sweet little thing.
Melia' s favorite thing is to run thru the sprinklers with them

In this picture Melia was telling Annie a story about how this leaf fell off the tree and how she shouldn't eat it or else she'll throw up. She is starting tell the funniest stories!



I've given Melia the job of helping me feed them and she gets mad if I do it without her.

Happy Fall

The weather is cooling (well sort of), the leaves are falling, and if there is ever an emergency and there were no more toilet paper left...we got that covered too.

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Lunch at Oak Glen







This week after I got home from work we headed up to Oak Glen. We were hoping to pick apples but I guess they only let you do that on Saturdays...boo! So we had lunch at Apple Annie's and then went to the petting zoo. It made my day though becuase I have a BAD habit of dropping my apple pies or ruining them somehow before I get to eat them, so we ate them there a la mode...can we say HEAVEN! :)

Bambi...

...got great reviews at our house.

there was happy times
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scary times
sad times

times of wonderment


and laugh out loud times too :)

I love watching Melia as she watches new movies, her reactions are priceless! She did get a little irritated in the end, she was trying to watch her movie and her mother was snap happy and in her way!! haha


Monday, September 14, 2009

Hangin with the Fam

The big bad 18! Woot! Happy Bday Austin!

Melia helping out


My sisters... so sad that my sister Ashlee will be leaving to live in Japan for 3 years (not until December though) she is 3 months preggo too!

Ummm...ew!
OK maybe I can get Bryce to take a decent picture...

Or maybe not! Ahhh I give up!


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The boys getting there grill on
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Saturday, September 12, 2009

I can't help it...

I have a new camera and I can't stop snapping!! My husband thinks I have a problem, and hey I'm OK with that! So that is my explanation for future random shots I might post on here :D





Friday, September 11, 2009

Friday Night Fun

Tonight I bribed Melia with cake so I could straighten her hair... oooh poor girl's got her Grandma Brown's hair! She looked so different without her curls but she loved it and kept looking at her hair and playing with it, so cute! It was too thin and wispy to wear down so I threw some bobby pins in the back.

Oh and by the way, Fresh and Easy has the BEST chocolate cake mix ever, so you need to go buy it right away.

Quick and easy recipe: Chocolate Fudge Pudding Cake

Chocolate cake, baked, cooled, poke holes, pour chocolate pudding over cake = a slice of heaven! I'm sure you can experimant with different cake mixes and pudding flavors, It's SO easy and tastes pretty amazing too.


Her reward


We had some fun playing afterwards too!







Friday, September 4, 2009

Finally!!!

My new camera is on it's way! I am just too excited :) Ever since my Kodak kicked the bucket 2 weeks ago I've been looking at reviews and watching videos of different camera brands and models. My dream is an SLR but do you how expensive those suckers are! So I found this happy medium, a Nikon L100. It's not as advanced in manual modes and lenses as an SLR but it is still compact, has an awesome 15x zoom I am looking to play with, and lots of extras a non-advanced point and shoot can't offer.

Hopefully it will be here in a couple days and I can be up and current again in the blogosphere, I miss taking pictures!