Confessions.

Don't worry, they are the light ones!



1. Ella admitted to wanting to move back to Las Vegas today...again. "It's too loud and dirty and busy." I keep trying to convince her of how lucky we are and how wonderful the city is, but she just doesn't buy it sometimes. We think she'll thank us later? She's my little nature, run free child..."but there is a place for people like you here too, darling!"


2. Sometimes, we just want Olive Garden. Did you know you could eat at a different restaurant, every meal, of every day of your life in the city and still not get to them all? That stresses me out. There are so many places we want to try...and we just go to Olive Garden?! We just crave bread sticks and salad and the Tour of Italy! And Andes Mints!

3. Every Thursday. The well-known Treats Truck is outside of our apartment building. Nuf said. :/ It's turning into a tradition, fast.

http://www.treatstruck.com/

4. We walked by this today.

No, we didn't go to the preview. We opted for the play one block west from there instead...Freckleface Strawberry, which was A-dorable! More on that to come. But I read this article in the Salt Lake Tribune and thought it was informative and good!

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/51314880-78/mormon-lds-book-mormons.html.csp

Oh, and the other confession is that Scott and I cry at every musical that we see. Even Freckleface Strawberry.

5. I should really be doing laundry right now.

6. We started watching Jonas LA on Netflix this week, during the girl's midwinter break from school. And I like it!

Daddy Daughters Date! :)

Scotty took the girl's to a Broadway Night that their school puts on every year, as a fundraiser. They invite different local entertainers to participate. A few of the performers included Boq, from Wicked, The Chef from Little Mermaid on Broadway, and last year, Mr. Noodle from Elmo's World was there! There were also performers from Billy Elliot, Jersey Boys and several other well known plays and circus'. They had lots of fun together!

8...on Thursday.

1. Today I stopped by a new shopping center that opened about a year ago. Target, Costco and Old Navy...all in the same shopping center. In Manhattan. Heaven. Scott would say, "Best Buy, Game Stop and Costco...all in the same shopping center. In Manhattan. Heaven. (Those are there too.) :)" The only downfall is that parking in the garage is expensive and it's not the best area, although it's getting better. I refused to pay for parking to take a dress back to Old Navy, so I found a parking. Only 4 blocks away. As I walked back to our car, with my box of Costco goods and of course some Target treasures, I noticed an apartment window right by where I had parked that said,

"The drug dealers that deal outside my window, live in Apt. 213."

and

"I haven't slept in 4 days because I have no heat."

It looked like their own Facebook status updates or something, on their window. :)

There were a few other signs in the window and I wanted to take a picture, but I was kind of scared to and...I was carrying a box of milk, strawberries and target bags. Only in New York.

2.

Heart hair. I told myself never again as I did the girls hair that morning. Ella's had some form of heart hair every day since. It got easier and prettier!


We had a fun Valentine's day. We did a book theme for Valentine's this year, so Scott and I got a new cookbook and we got the girl's some of my favorite children's books...Love Ruby Valentine and Falling For Rapunzel. They also got the new Hello Kitty perfume that I redeemed my Sephora points for. A friend (Christina) showed this blog that was SO funny! It made me feel normal, as we had similar experiences in our household that day. Enjoy.

http://themeanestmom.blogspot.com/2011/02/rejected.html

Scotty and I had a yummy lunch at Patsy's Pizzeria! (My first time!) It was really good. Put it on your list for next time, mom! Then we got Pinkberry! Thanks for the Valentine Date Scotty!

3. I love going through the girl's backpacks after a day at school and look at their work and upcoming events. I do not however, like receiving a note of a lice break-out in the classroom. I was up at 11 pm last night, with a flash light going through my children's hair. We have not been cursed just yet...wish us luck.

4. We have a Trader Joe's in the city! I'm so excited! But I am blaming their Triple Ginger Cookies, Peanut Butter Goodies and their Cinnamon rolls for my 5 lb. winter gain. Boo! Go get yours today! Oh, and their pizza dough that I make rolls out of.

5. A few weeks ago, Scott was looking at Fail Blog. He loves him some Fail Blog. I can't find the one now, but there was a fail about a child explaining what a hypothesis was. The child made some funny, non related answer and picture and the teacher marked it correct.

Scott said to me, "That's how Ella would explain it, and laughed." I yelled from the kitchen to Ella, in her bedroom, "Ella, what's a hypothesis?" Pause...."It's like...when you make a prediction!"

I was only looking for the word GUESS, if anything, Mariella, seriously! :)

She proved her daddy wrong. ;) LOL.



6. I went on a walking field trip with Ella's class to the Post Office. We saw a Dalmatian in a fire truck!!! There were almost tears of excitment.

Flat Stanley, on his way to Auntie Jen, in Vegas!!

While we were a the post office, the 1/2 of the children I was with (along with the assistant teacher) started getting a little rowdy for my liking. Let's just say there's nothing that me and a little primary song of "My hands upon my head I place" can't fix. ;)

7. We went to Elise's Middle School Winter Concert! She did such a fantastic job, playing the flute! We had to give her this sucker for having such good flute playing lips! Have I mentioned that she's like 18 inched taller than me now?! It's not fair.

8. Lastly, look at this little girl's handwriting! So cute.

Happy Mid-February!

Paisley's Publishing Party.

We all got to attend Paisley's Publishing Party last week. Her book was titled My Flower Counting Book. The children read their books to other students and adults and then they leave comments about the book.

And of course we had to steal her big sister from class so that she could be there.

We love your flower garden book Paisley!!

Our favorite comments were-

"I could almost smell the flowers!" -Daddy

and

"It was nice to see a beautiful flower garden, in the middle of this cold winter!!" - Michael's Mom

We LOVE our new Apartment! Did I forget to tell you we moved?! 10 days before Christmas? 7 days before we went to Vegas? 2 blocks away? Only a few more boxes to magically find a place for! :)

Snow Princess after school in the school playground.

The girls like sitting in the windows.

We had a playdate with favorite friends.

And we wish, wish, wish, that we lived in the same city...or at least across the Hudson from each other.

(Which would actually be way closer than taking the 215 all the way around or the 1-15 all the way out!) ;) I'm working on it.

I didn't get any pictures of the cute boys!!

On Christmas Eve, we went to visit Grandma Thelma and sing her Christmas Carols and Songs. Special times. Then on Christmas Day we came to spend time with her. The nurses and workers at her home were so sweet. They brought the girls out a yummy snack of all kinds of fruits and veggies on a silver tray.

Scotty Dog.

This is our one family picture from 2010. Enjoy! :)

Ahhhh....I love it when she can find her chi. Comfortable and calm, all by herself.

Joe was kind enough to let Ella show him her chess skills. And vice versa! :)

Joe-Jen-Jube-Jas

Grandpa Dressing Strawberry...or is that Cherry?!

It was this kind of Christmas morning...

Meet Molly.

...and Cherry and Strawberry! (named by their mother of course!)