Ali's Blessing Day

So I copied my sister, Crystal and had a video running while we enjoyed brunch. It was such a beautiful blessing and a beautiful day filled with good food and family. A HUGE thank you to Mom Tomseth, Lia and Tiani, Angela and Emily for helping getting everything set up and ready to go!! OH! And a HUGE, HUGE thank you to my sis, Rebecca for the AMAZING, GORGEOUS blessing dress! It was all Silk with hand beading and hand done ribbon roses and french knots on the lapel!! She even sewed on buttons from my Great-Great Grandma Ardis' button collection!! It was perfection. She is so talented! The first half of the video was what was playing (I took some pics of her in her blessing dress before-hand) and then I added pics of the actual blessing day to it.

Spring Fling

Every year, at the end of the school year, the kids put on a "Spring Fling" at school. It's always fun to go and watch. Lizzy prepped me by telling me that she was "really good" at her dance...and she was. ;) Ryan cracked me up because he was trying SO hard to get under that Dragon!

I'm Baaaaack!

As you can see, there is a direct correlation with when I announced my pregnancy and the lack of blogging. Everything that had to do with blogging made me nauseous. In fact, even thinking about it made me completely exhausted! But...now I'm back and I'm ready to go. Especially for my Mother in Law. She's been dying for me to start up again so she can pics of her grand babies everyday! I'm gonna have to back track for a little bit and blog the past 10 months so bear with me and just skip through if you get bored of reading old news. It's for posterity's sake. :)

Starwars and Rockstars...

This year Jacob had it in his head that he wanted the whole family to go as a Star Wars group. I told him that I couldn't because I'm not a geek so we comprimised and the boys went Starwars and Lizzy and I went as Rock Stars (much cooler). Here we are proudly showing our "Fists of Rock". I went a litte 80's retro by sporting some neon orange fishnet gloves and stockings to match to wig. Jake was Han Solo ( I made his vest and hand-sewed a red ribbon stripe onto the sides of his pants) , Ryan was a Storm Trooper (and wears his costume every day!) and I made Trevor's costume in like, 30 min with as little sewing as I could get away with so he was a generic Jedi. :) Hope everyone had a great Halloween!

The Mamma Test...

This is one of those stupid e-mail forwards that I never read but I thought it was so dang funny (and short enough) that I had to post it so you could have a good laugh.

THE MAMA TEST
I was out walking with my 4-year-old daughter. She picked up something off of the ground and started to put it in her mouth. I took the item away from her and I asked her not to do that. 'Why?' my daughter asked.'Because it's been on the ground; you don't know where it's been, it's dirty, and probably has germs,' I replied. At this point, my daughter looked at me with total admiration and asked, 'Mama, how do you know all this stuff? You are so smart.' I was thinking quickly. 'All moms know this stuff. It's on the Mama Test. You have to know it, or they don'tlet you be a Mama.' We walked along in silence for 2 or 3 minutes, but she was evidently pondering this new information. 'Oh.....I get it!' she beamed, 'So if you don't pass the test you have to be the dad.''Exactly,' I replied with a big smile on my face.

All Natural!!

Yup...No more spending a ton of money on bleach jobs anymore! My amazing friend, Dena did my hair on Friday. I'm going back to my roots...get it?!..roots! Ha ha (wipe tear).