Feeling a little WICKED...

I can't get enough of the Wicked soundtrack, and I sit there and think about the play various times during the day. It is just so GOOD! I don't know 1) if there's really anyone reading my blog but me, and 2) if anyone else that's seen it was borderline obsessive with it like I'm getting. I am at the point that I want to be Elphaba for Halloween...and go around singing the tunes from the play...and probably get egged for singing...All I have to say is that they are coming to SLC in April / May, and I had better be front and center for it. If you ever have the opportunity to go, I highly recommend it. At least look it up online, you can watch clips of the play, my 2 faves are 'Defying Gravity' and 'Popular'. Let me know what you think! Also, notice that the font color is......Wicked Green! See what I mean????

She's on a roll...or maybe I'm just getting delirious!

I don't know if it is just me feeling slap happy, or if this little girl is just on one tonight, but I haven't stopped giggling since she said this. I am updating my blog, she is playing with our 2 dachshunds, Woody and Dozer. This is what she said: "Mom, I know that Woody is a man now, but I just don't know about Dozer. Is he a kid or a man?" I don't know exactly how to answer this, as he is neither, but I just told her their ages and hope that answered the question. I think that I really, really need to go to bed.

Marlee being funny...again!

Marlee just said something that caught me as funny, so I thought I'd share: Marlee is really missing her Texas friends. We were looking at Erin's, Christa's and Caroline's blogspots, and she saw all of her friends. She then asked if we could find her friend Max too, so I tried to see if Teresa had a blogspot. I didn't find one, and I said, "Sorry honey, I guess Teresa doesn't have a blog." She said "His name isn't Blog, it's Max!"

Took a bite out of the Big Apple...Or did it take a bite out of me?

Well, I'm back. I really had a good time with Heathie and Jed. They are just a couple of New Yorkers now, I'm very proud of them for doing so well there. I really don't know if I could manage as well as they are managing. Today was fun, we went to 5th Avenue. If only I had 14 million dollars, I could have bought everything I wanted to today. Sigh. It was great though, we went to St. Patricks cathedral, Fao Schwartz, had a dirty water dog (ended up taking one bite and chucking the rest) and went to Dylan's Candy Bar (didn't buy a thing, though). Some of these stores are so huge you could spend an entire day in just one. But, I am glad to be home, I missed my kids badly, I know that it was just a few days, but it was a much needed break. Thanks to Aaron, Hillary, Poppa and Grandma for making sure everyone was taken care of! Here are a few pics of NYC, I'm sure some of them are nothing you haven't seen before, but deal with it the best way you know how!

I have fallen in love...with NYC!

I think that I may have a new favorite destination on my hands. I really really REALLY love NY. I love the busy-ness, the restaurants, the plays, the parks, the almost getting run over by cabbies (OK, I don't really LOVE that, but it's happened enough that I am getting used to it), the mixed cultures, I could go on and on but I won't. Heathie and I went to see Wicked today at the Gershwin Center. Oh my word, I don't know if I could possibly love a play more. I want the CD so that I can belt out the tunes, it was simply wonderful. Thank you to my honey Aaron, for putting this trip together for me, Wicked was just the cherry on top of the cake. I really can't believe you did that for Heathie and I, you really outdid yourself and I appreciate it so very much. :)

We walked so much today, good thing because I feel like I have eaten all day long. We went shopping, went to Cafe Metro for a little NY Pizza (I got spinach, grape tomato and feta cheese pizza), walked, shopped, went to Dale and Thomas for gourmet popcorn (carmel and chocolate chunk), walked, went to Wicked, walked, went to Central Park, walked, went to Rue 57 for dinner (Yum, I had filet mignon, garlic mashed potatoes, it was garnished with pearl onions, peas, and shaved black truffles) and then we walked to Magnolia bakery for cupcakes and banana pudding. I really wish I knew if I've burned off all the calories or not! It has been drizzley and rainy all day, I look like a poodle. A big, frizzy poodle. It is really lovely here, though, and if I didn't miss my kiddos so much I'd be tempted to stay longer! I'll post pics when I get back!

Lainee starting her school career in Preschool!

Lainee is so thrilled to go to Preschool, she absolutely adores Miss Amber, and wishes she could go everyday! I know that these are a little late, but I thought everyone would love to see Lainee's darling school and how dang cute she looked on her first day there!

Marlee's First Day of Kindergarten! (And the pains it took us to get her there)

Uh-oh, I think we may have a problem here. Is there a support group set up for people who can't stop blogging? Hi, my name is Brittney. I am a compulsive blogger...I think I may just be making up for lost time. Anyway, on to the post at hand.

Here are a few belated pics of Marlee's first day at school. 2 days before school started, I came into the room and saw that Lainee had cut long pieces of the back of Marlee's hair off. I didn't exactly love that she did that, but we went up to Cookie Cutters in SLC and got a brand new cut for school. This happened exactly 1 week after we went to Cookie Cutters and got a brand new cut for school. I asked if they had an accidental cut by a sibling discount, but no go. So, here are the pics of the 2 haircuts and the end result for her first day of Kindergarten as a big girl!

(To the tune of London Bridge) Autumn leaves are falling down, falling down...you can figure out the rest

Well, people, it is officially fall. We took a drive up South Willow canyon on Sunday to check it out, and even though its just the very beginning of the season there were some gorgeous colors already! I have to say I didn't think the ol' minivan was up to the challenge, but it proved me wrong, way to go blue! We went up as far as you can drive, and passed a LOT of people going up and back. The kids were FREEZING, after all it was about 65 up there. My poor, poor Texas born children, they are in for a rude awakening this winter, aren't they? We played in a tiny creek, the kids thought that throwing the rocks in the water was the best thing ever. Marlee missed Lainee's head by about an inch with a really big rock, Laine bent down at the precise moment that Marles threw it so that was really really close. Woody hated the water and we couldn't keep Dozer out of it. I am so excited for fall, I really missed seeing the leaves turn!

Lainee's 4th Birthday!

I need to post some pics of the Chuck E. Cheese party we had for Lainee with Aaron's side of the family, all of the kids went crazy there, they loved it so much. Nana and Crappy were there, Aunt Nicole and Uncle Somebody (Robb), Hunter and Kailey. We had pizza and a Diamond Castle Barbie cake, per Lainee's request. Asher found a car to 'drive' and spent the rest of his time and tokens driving that, he probably used at least 3o tokens and still screamed when we had to rip his hands away from the steering wheel. Marlee loved the bike that you pedal fast and it makes the platform rise up about 5 feet or so...she got up there and was pedaling like a mad man and said "Look Mommy, I'm getting some exercise!" I never thought of Chuck E. Cheese as a real healthy place, but there ya go, another way of looking at things thanks to a 5 year old. :) Lainee loved a game that she and I played together, a lizard tongue that darts out and catches bugs. She cleaned up on presents, she got a darling tea set (from our good friends the Cummings', thanks you guys!) and from Nana, Crappy, Nicole, Robb and family she got a little book and tea set, a dress up box full of goodies, a darling puppy in a purse, and a Polly Pocket boat and tons of teensy tiny accessories. She LOVES those tiny toys! Thanks everyone, you did great and I'm sure that she was very excited and happy with her gifts. I'll post pics when I get home from New York so y'all can see her fun toys.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LAINERBUGS!

Yes, I am using the pink font because (big surprise coming up) pink is Lainee's favorite color! This is a Happy Birthday shout out to our big ol' 4 year old lambie pie... Althought it is only the 24th, we already had the Thompson side family party, we went to the Ringling Brothers circus and to Olive Garden for dinner. Laine got not 1, but 2 Diamond Castle Barbies, a new tea set, a book with her picture in it, a Disney Princess keyboard (thank you Hall family!), a little toy horse and rider, and a new Cinderella dress...and that is only the 1st party!

Here are some of Lainee's loves: Tiny toys, she has a thing about cramming as many toys into her 2 little hands as humanly possible. Preschool, reading stories, spicy foods (especially chips and salsa), pink, Barbie toys, horses, flying unicorns, her sister and her brother.

Hates: Getting her hair combed out (I would too if I were her!), sharing her extra special toys, feeling like she is missing out, having to stop whatever she's doing for a potty break.

Anyway, ya gotta be proud for 2 posts in 1 night. I think that I'll take a year off now, that did me in. All right, all right, I will post some more and get some pics up as well.

OK, OK people, I get it. Time to get on the ol' bloggin wagon already!

For some reason, I am having an aversion to blogging. I love to read other peoples, it's just that every time I have 5 minutes to sit down and put this together, I really, really, REALLY don't want to...and now it's been 1 year, almost to the date that I started this. And here is my 2nd entry. Here is the DL on what is happening with us.

We have: moved to Utah, failed miserably at finding a great house at a decent price (still have our fingers crossed on that one), and sold one of our Texas houses. Marlee has started Kindergarten, (she loves it one day and detests it the next) Lainee has started Preschool (loves it all the time and wishes she could go everyday), and Asher has started his terrible twos. Only his little phase is WAY worse than the girls ever were, mainly because the kid is a lean mean wrestling machine. Doesn't matter who, doesn't matter where. He just wants to take you down and take you OUT. He fights dirty too, poor little Marbles and Lainers, getting taken down to the floor by the hair, gouging eyes, whatever it takes. Luckily when Dad gets home from work he can give Ash a run for his money. I am going to try to figure this out some more and maybe we can get some cool graphics going here...we'll see.