Grandma B.J.'s 77th Birthday

Here's my beautiful Grandma at her birthday party we had for her at Kris's house. Many of my "fondest" memories as a child are at get -togethers at my grandma's house with all of the cousins. She has been such a great grandma. She's always tried to keep all of our cousins close to each other. All of the older cousins (which I was one) were lucky enough to go on a senior trip with her. She flew us to Utah and we stayed with her for a week. She took me and my cousin Grant since we both graduated the same year. After having fun with her for a week in her small town , she took us to Vegas and we stayed at the MGM Grand. I know she would continue this tradition with all the younger cousins if she could, but I'm glad I was born early :).

She's a "Martha Stewart." She's always been great at decorating, house keeping, and cooking. She's a true women of the older generation of women staying home and taking care of their husbands and families. She still gets on my case about not ironing for Brett! sorry Brett :).

Taylor was so grumpy that day, and I couldn't resist taking these pictures for her to remember someday.

Here she is trying not to look at me.

Here's the cutest best buds.

Here's my best bud :).

Emmy was cracking us up with her finger up her nose.

Love you Grandma!

Tori and her first ice-cream sundae...

So we were at Superstition Mall the other day and its a tradition to get pretzel bites from "Wetzel Pretzel." Tori just loves them. I was feeling like something sweet and we were passing Dariqueen, so I asked her if she'd rather have an ice-cream sundae and she said sure. She asked me what it was and I showed her the picture because she had never had one. So as she was devouring it she starts talking to herself and says, "pretzels or chocolate sundae, pretzels or chocolate sundae. Who would ever pick pretzels, right mom? Oh, this is like heaven, right?" I love her.

Halloween Party 2009...

I love, love Halloween and decided last minute to have a small Halloween party.

My favortie dessert were the brain cupcakes that Tori helped me with. She added the blood on them all by herself :).

Here's our back patio and it turned out really good. I only wanted more black lights, but Leslie assured me it would be more appetizing without them.

Here's the Three Blind Mice.

Flapper gal and date.

My dad was so awesome he barbequed all the food for me and let me spray red in his hair and put make-up all over his face. :0)

Here's Cameron and Makenna being each other.

Eighty's couple with Dave's hott shorts.

The "Milk Man" and his bi-product.

Dog Bounty Hunter and his wife Beth. We were laughing the whole night about Leslie's "lady's".

Me trying to make a face that looked "old." I'm such a nerd!

I was at Goodwill trying to come up with a costume and a light bulb went off when I saw this lovely pants and coordinating jacket. When we sprayed our hair white, mine turned purple. :)

Brett and his creepiest face ever! I can't believe this is what I get to look forward too! :P

My little apple-dumplin...

So my last post I call Taylor a menace, but these pictures redeem her as my cute-little-apple dumplin. I've wanted to try out my camera and decided last minute after I dropped Tori off to take some pictures of Taylor. I've seen this old house on Ocotillo forever that I knew would be fun to take pictures in front of. So last second heading out the door I grabbed an apple. :) Poor kids legs look like they are dirty, but really she has bruises covering her shins. I bruise just like that. I remember when I was little counting bruises on both of my legs and having 30 of them. You never know with kids how they'll react to you trying to take pictures, but she was sooo cute with me.