Disneyland 12-19-07

Brandon and I gave Elli a Disneyland pass for Christmas, and I wanted to take her before Christmas before all the decorations were taken down. We had a blast! We walked on all the rides. The only one we had to wait in was finding nemo, and that was 30 minutes. So it wasnt too bad. Her favorite ride's were splash mountain and Hollywood Tower of Terror.

Here she is with her churro, gotta love those churro's. They are seriously the best!! And she thinks they are called cherrios.

Here's Elli with Santa Claus. Everytime we see Santa, she tell's him something different. Most of the time it is a pink guitar, but this time it was a piano.....i bet you didn't know she knew how to play all these instruments huh? pretty talented. j/k! she also asked for a silver star...Isn't this the cutest lil santa you have ever seen....disneyland always has the best santa....

Here's Santa's reindeer. She thought it was pretty cool that his reindeer were here too.

And oh my goodness, this as Elli would say is Santa's wife...She was the sweetest lady ever. She so fit the part. And Brielle took in all the sweetness from her, she kept talking about santa's wife all day...It was pretty darn cute.

And here is Elli with the Alice in Wonderland crew, except the Queen. And Brielle just had to wait for her so she could say hi to her. I really didn't want to wait there for her to get done talking to people but Brielle was so adament about it, so I did. And it was pretty funny, the queen was being so funny with her, she was trying to play her mean part and Elli wasnt too sure she liked that.

She also saw the wiked witch from Snow White, and kept telling me how nice that wiked witch was...

We went on Finding Nemo for the first time, and enjoyed that. Here's Elli in the submarine...

Here we are in front of the huge beautiful Christmas tree....my favorite part of Disneyland at this time of year....sorry so blurry, just what happens when you ask someone to take a pic for you

After Disneyland, we went to California Adventure to watch the Aladdin show, and Elli made a friend in line and they just had to sit by eachother, and kept eachother entertained while waiting for the show to start. But she had a major probelm when she had to leave and didnt understand why we couldnt just hang out with her the rest of the night. But much to my luck she found another friend in the line of tower of terror who was her age and they kept saying hi friend and giving eachother hugs and playing. When the ride was done, Elli yelled hey friend did you love that ride...she said yes friend i did.. Kids crack me up...

Here's when we were leaving, everyone was taking pictures next to the letter's in front of california adventure and Elli just could not be left out so she went and stood by the L and some kid came up to her and said get a picture of me too. i was like oh honey can i get a picture of her please, he said no me too, and wouldnt budge so i just snapped the picture, then he wouldnt leave us alone, so i asked wheres your mommy, he said i dont know i dont have one, so i started thinking maybe i should help look for his mom, but eventually i found his aunt or something taking pics of her kids and not even worried about this other kid shes in charge of... gotta love all the many types of people that come to dland. We had a great mommy daughter date and Elli was asleep before we even got on the freeway. She was a trooper!

Elli's 4th Birthday Party

THE PARTY GIRLS!!!

Brielle turned 4 on November 25th. I let her choose what kind of a party she wanted and she chose a princees party, of course no surprise there!! We got her a princess bounce house, which she was completly estatic about (i dont think i spelled that right) The whole time they were setting it up, she was just standing there watching, and completly shaking, half from being so excited and the other half from being so cold! When they were done she was so in there with Aisley and Bri, they all were laughing so hard beccause they were having sooo fun!

When all her friends arrived, they decorated princess crown and wands with stickers,diamonds , and other fun stuff i got for them...they really enjoyed that, and it kept them busy for awhile too,

Next, came face painting done by my ever so talented sister, Jessica, she did an awesome job! oh by the way in the above picture thats keleny and bri helping with the decorating of the crowns and wands....loved the awesome help! Anyways, here are some pictures of Elli with some of her friends after they had their face's painted....

Abby & Elli, friend from mum's church!

Elli & Aslyn, friend from church!

Elli & Addi...friend from church!

Rachel and Elli...friend from church!!

Elli and Chloe...friend from dance!!

Elli and Alyssa....friend from dance!!

Talent Factory Girls!!!

Aspen and Elli...friend from church!!

Hanna, Elli, Brenna...the 3 cousins!!

Elli and Taylor...the BFF!

The girls before musical chairs...

Brenna was the winner!!

Opening the presents was insane! Every single one of the girls was in a huddle so close around Brielle, I dont even know how they could breathe. They all had to see what she got and wanted her to open their presents first. It was really funny to watch.

She made a wish (out loud) that all her family could go to disneyland together and have alot of fun! It was a crazy, but fun day! She slept excellent that night by the way!

The Magic Castle

On Sunday night, when we were at my mom's for dinner, Rob asked us if we wanted to go to the Magic Castle. I had never heard of it before, so Rob explained it to me...I guess you have to be a member to even go in, it's in Hollywood, you go and eat at a 4 star restaurant, then go see magic shows. Rob know's a doctor through his school that has a membership, so he got guest passes through him....We were way excited and it was sooo much fun...The perfect date night!!!

Here we are walking to the castle on the walk of fame...

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and Jess and Rob...

My extremly smart (wink wink) brother in law, said ok follow me, well we ended up going down this deserted street with no light's and homeless people yelling weird thing's to us and we had no clue where we were, so he called his friend who was meeting us there and we got picked up, luckily none of us were involved in a drive by shooting or something, seriously that's how freaky it was....Thanks Rob!!!

Ok, so after we got way lost in the middle of the really bad part of Hollywood, we got to the castle, and they told me no camera's allowed in the castle, so the hostess told me she'll take some pic's before we go in, but I really wished we could take pics in the castle cuz there was some really cool things... but oh well.... here are the pics before we went in...

Me and Bran

Me and Jess

And the whole group...That wall behind us with the books, you say open sesame and it opens, then you walk into the restaurant....

Me and Brandon outside the Magic Castle after we were done...The magic show's were really cool and Brandon, Jess, and Rob both got picked to help out a few magicians....

This one is kinda a inside joke but still funny, Rob MADE us be rebels and go under this rope to get through to where we were park.....such a bad boy....haha, j/k rob, i know your gonna beat me up when you see this....haha

Love this one of Jess and Rob, they look so cute and happy....

And then here's me and Bran being dorks... I have lot's of pic's like this of me kissing him on the cheek, cheesy, right....oh well....

So once again good ol bro Rob says he know's where the car is in the garage, but he come's to find out, hmmm he doesn't after all....and jess and me are wearing heels and are soo bugged cuz our feet hurt so bad, so we finally say we are going to stay at this yellow pole and come pick us up when you find the car, so while we were waiting we got boerd and started snapping some silly pics, I told her this reminds me of high school, but we were both laughing so hard while we were taking pic's. Love my sis

We finally made it home like at 12:30, and it was the funnest date I'd had in a long time, Im so glad they invited us...and Aisley was so good for her Nana, She even took a bottle this time...Props to my father in law!!!

Johns Incredible Pizza

Monday, there was no school, so my friend from my church and I took our kid's to Johns Incredible Pizza...We had a blast! Aisley stayed home with daddy while he was working because she was asleep. So it was just me, Bri, Brielle, Bri's friend, and our friends from our ward. After the kid's were done chowing down pizza, we went to play. Addie and Elli wanted to go on these little car's that go around a track a few times. They were very into it....

This is my friend's baby, Amelia...had to take some baby pic's since my babe wasn't there....

These next one's crack me up. My friend had never tryed dance dance revolution, so we gave it a whirl, and had a blast! Addie and Elli really wanted to try it, and they were so funny, they were getting soo into it, and they really thought they were doing a good job, but at the end of the game, the score was 00000... It was soo funny!

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This is the last one..Look at Brielle's face and look how serious she is about this game...haha

My friend and her daughter....she was pretty good for her first time...haha

This ride took like all our tickets, but the girl's really wanted to do it, so we got Bri and Summer to go on with them and they had alot of fun on this one...it took you in the air and spun you around pretty fast

The group of girls..... Brielle, Brooke, Addie, Elli......

Last Night

Last night was pretty boring, for the kid's...we are redoing the kid's room, so we were painting last night, i ended up not even being able to help because I was trying to keep Aisley out of that room and of course that's the only room she wanted in. So me and her played her favorite game (on the bed, we roar at eachother and she jumps/crawls across the bed hoping I won't get her). She get's so excited when anybody plays this with her, and she get's so happy and has the biggest smiles, so I snapped some pics while we were playing it, so ya'll could see.....

My friend got me this cute little outfit for her so I had it on her, but of course when she figured out there was something on her head, it was sooo off...

Here's my handyman Bran cutting the baseboard's for the girl's room, he's also done the whole house, he love's being involved in project's and is way good at them too!!

And here's Ayes trying to help her daddy....

While all of this work was getting done you could find Elli in Bri's room at her desk, working on her "homework", (very important). She talks to herself, or her makebelieve friend's the whole

time she is "working". This is one of her favorite things to do....SO funny...