Watch out WORLD

I thought this day would never come. Vanessa is finally walking!!!!!! She took TEN steps today. Her official first step was January 24th. She even shook her booty with Grandma White. Part of me was really hoping that she would wait until she was 18 months so I could just walk her into nursery but I am so happy to not have to carry anyone for a while. She loves the attention and even cheers for herself. Good Job my sweet baby girl.

Two Sisters-one Heart

I don't know these girls but my heart really feels for what a hard situation they are in. I couldn't imagine what there parents are going through. For those of you who haven't heard of these gals yet they are conjoined twins that need to be seperated in order to survive. As you can imagine they need lots of help. So I thought I would post about there up and coming fundraiser. They have their own blog at http://twosisters-oneheart.blogspot.com/ and you will need to go there to register if you want to run or donate to the silent auction. Some of the details are as follows>>
Valentine's Day, Saturday February 14th, 2009
Walker Butte Elementary in Johnson Ranch
Queen Creek, Arizona
8 am - 2pm

3K, 5K & 10K Walk/Runs
Followed by post run celebration with food, activities & fun!

$4 Denny's Pancake Breakfast
Silent Auction
$3 Wrist Bands
Bouncy Houses
Rock Wall
Crafts & Activities
Vendor Booths
Music & Entertainment
Raffle Drawing for AWESOME Prizes!
Silent Auction
Several FREE Crafts & Activities
Food: El Rico's, Paradise Bakery, Cold Stone Creamery, Jamba Juice,
Concession Stand and More!!!

Darn You Stiletto HILLS!!!!

Well Brad took me to go and see the Lion King on
Broadway. The costumes were so awesome and the
show was pretty good. I was the post game show though.
Brad was walking me down the stairs and I was
freezing so we were going kind of fast. So I slipped and fell still holding on to Brads hand. In which case he held on to me and spun me around while my legs flew up in the air and by doing soI bacame a moving panty flasher. I did an entire 360 turn. The entire theater was coming outside just as I fell to make matters worse. It was a pretty good fall if I do say so. Brigg noticed right away when we got home and he told me to go sit down. He is so sweet!

Shout out to my cuzzz

I found this picture on my camera and I was so happy that I did. I LOVE this girl!! She is incredible. She sometimes answers NO to any question I ask her or she rolls her eyes but I know she loves me. I think she is an angel. I lived with her for a short while when I was in college and she brightened my days. She would peek in on me in the morning to see if I was awake enough to come play soccer with her or go swimming. She also was the best singing coach I have ever had when I tried out for the pageant. She still helps me sing that song and we laugh and laugh. She helped me get over the heartache of a dumped boyfriend. We turned the radio up in my car and opened the sun roof and danced like no one was watching. I'm telling you she is the best. If you ask her if she did any of this she will probably tell you she didn't but I just wanted her to know I love her and think she is the most beautiful girl in the whole world!

What did one tomato say to the other when it fell behind??

KETCHUP!!!!! Life has certainly been crazy and I feel like I have fallen behind. I realized how wonderful this blog thing is when I tried to think about what in the world did I do this past year. So I thought in order to get all caught up I need to do a photo journal of some happenings that were missed.
I know this isn't a big event but brigg was so cute with these flowers I had to post about it.

Vanessa in her princess tutu. If you notice this tutu is terriable. I finally figured out how to make pretty tutu's and was in a few boutiques before christmas.

Brigg fell off a wheel chair and beat up his face.


Brad finished his first school project and was so proud. He finished his second one too but I didn't get to go to that one so no pics but I am sure they would look about the same.


Brad also got to go to Florida with his class and had a great time. He went for an entire week!!! Our longest time apart since we've been married.


I was so happy to have him home!

Lance's birthday he was spoiled rotten as ussual and a fire truck came to the house and he got to sit init. They also have him his very own fireman hat with his name onit. That was so cool and we will never forget it.

We Celebrated Halloween in casa grande with Brad's brother. Brigg was a pirate and nessy had several different costumes that she hated. We went trunk or treating at the church.




We have been seeing my grandma Lilly a lot so I thought I would post her beautiful picture. She is so crazy active and is so beautiful I hope I am just like her.

We went to Colorado for Christmas this year. It was -5 on the coldest nights but we had a great time with the fam.

Here's me and my two kiddos christmas morning. I don't think any of us look awake despite that it was like 8:30 before we opened gifts together.

We also got to see our Grandma Lena. I love her. Her maiden name was Mortensen and she always tells me "us Mortensen's have got to stay together". She is wonderful.

Poor vanessa has been sick (well we all got sick in colorado but left it there thank heavens!!) and hated being in the car to and from colorado but who can blame her I hate that too.

and finally I came up with a really cute new blog called theredpolkadot and have been working on some bows to post on there. Check em out at www.theredpolkadot.blogspot.com

Kids!!!

What the heck!!!! Who lets there kids do this???? I normally don't like to post about kids that aren't mind but this cracked me up and grossed me out. Thought I'd share. Merry Christmas!!!!!

My Crazy Mama

Here are a few photo's of my mother. Let me just tell you she is nuts. She just got into a car accident but you wouldn't ever guess that. She is just like my grandma, in fact I could see my grandma crawling on top of the roof without thinking of the danger, these gals just don't wait around for nothing. She really wanted her lights up as you can see. The last photo is Lance's costume for the ward Christmas party. My mom was trying to get Vanessa used to someone wearing a beard so she wouldn't cry with the real Santa. It didn't really work but we like to torture our children. Brad just played Santa for an elementary school. He loves doing it as much as I think he feels a little silly sometimes. What a wonderful man I have and what a wonderful time a year!

I have started a new site called The RED Polka Dot. I am really excited at what it can become and I hope others are interested in shopping at it and also posting there homemade items. So many of us are so crafty but it's hard to rent out a space at a boutique and then have to sit there all day hoping people show up. SO I started The RED Polka Dot in efforts to help everyone. If you would like to sell some of your stuff then just let me know by commenting and I will give you all you need to know to be apart of this. It has just started and I am still working out some bumps but I wanted to get the ball rolling before we miss out on some great buys before Christmas. You can click on the link at the top of the page or go to www.theredpolkadot.blogspot.com/

Happy shopping and I look forward to seeing your cute stuff.

Oh Chrismas treeeee

So I am constantly on the look out on crafts that are great ideas and don't cost a lot of money. I loved this idea as soon as I saw it. I was thinking even if you did it in all red or black glittery paper this little tree would be beautiful. I'd like to do one on a large scale and put it as a decoration in my home. I have listed the tutorial link below for anyone interested. Oh and sorry for the Christmas stuff even though we haven't had thanksgiving yet.

http://taylordesign.wordpress.com/2008/10/30/curled-paper-christmas-tree-tutorial/