Go UTES!!!

Andrey and I were at Maceys eating the steak dinner when he told me that a man he is working for had tickets to the Utah/BYU game and wasn't able to go. These tickets total were worth $1,100. HECK YA, we were going! The seats were so good and we had so much fun. Andrey wore his BYU hoody and I wore my UTAH hoody. Everyone on trax asked how our marriage was. We told them great, but once a year we battled it out. lol. It was funny to see how much attention we got with our opposing sweatshirts. Before we even walked into the stadium Andrey got a threat. A guy came up to me and put his hands on my shoulders and said, "Hey, nice hoody, go kill him." (pointing to Andrey). Andrey got "booed" at, people yelling at him, etc. I had so much fun. The most fun was trying to stay warm with only a little fleece blanket and our hoodies. We had our drink and licorice to entertain up when the game was frustrating us with the teams making bad plays, but overall, we had a fun time, and I loved being able to rub it into Andrey's face that THE UTES WON!!! It was so funny to seeveryone rush to the field after they repeatedly told them not to...even when the game still had 34 seconds+- to go. We had the best date night. Thanks mom and dad for taking the girls.

Raking Leaves

I found a new favorite past time of mine. I love raking and picking up leaves. My grandpa had all of us (my sisters and aunts and uncle) come over (Taylorsville) and help him with clearing the leaves out of his yard. He has about 1/2 an acre and a lot of trees. We all put on our gloves, grabbed a rake and a handful of garbage bags. We had so much fun visiting with family we don't see all that much, and getting wet in the rain. I loved every minute of it. I love the Fall!

'I' for Ice Cream

Emma really wanted to do school today and I have been slacking at keeping these activities going. Today we learned about letter 'I,i'.

Emma began by coloring her letter book. 'I' was for ice cream so this helped her attention last. We learned how to draw little 'i's and capital 'I's. Emma got side tracked and started making squares instead. Oh, well, at least she understands how to dot the little 'i's. That was her favorite part.

We then did a dot-to-dot game which ended up being an ice cream cone. It is funny to see her amazement that connecting the dots makes something. Silly girl.

We colored Elmo holding an icecream cone and put it together onto a toilet paper roll. Emma loves him. She has been carrying him all around the house all morning.

I talked about igloos, insects, and of course, we finished the lesson by eating ice cream from Wendy's. That is when Ellie joined us and made a MESS!!!

Disney On Ice

We are taking our little family to Disney on Ice tonight-opening night. We got really good seats so we are excited. The girls are way excited and Emma is off the walls. I love that she gets to have these fun memories and glad that Andrey got paid in order for us to have them. We had fun getting the girls dressed up as princesses.

We had such a great time. It was a long two hours...for Ellie any way. It was funny to see that 10 minutes before the show was over all the little kids were starting to cry, get wiggly, and get really fussy.

My favorite part was the Incredibles. Andrey liked Little Mermaid (as usual). It must be a shell thing. lol Emma liked the bubbles that came out of the ceiling. Emma's favorite was all the princesses with their handsome princes. They did a really good job with the production and we had a fun night.

Andrey was so cute to watch. He was more into it than the girls. He had this excited smile on the whole time.

Emma was scared of the big shark when he was chasing Dory. All the kids were screaming for her to swim away. It was so funny.

They did It's a small world and that was my least favorite part after many years of standing in line for hours just to hear the song 20 more times. That part of the show was really well done though. It was neat to see all the different cultures, outfits, and languages.

Andrey and Holli's Costumes

Emma playing on the drum set at our friend's house during the Halloween party. She loves drums like her mom.

My sister, Robyn and her husband dressed up as Rock stars. They did an awesome job.

Andrey's leaves were a bit off...he was hiding the whole night, handing out candy in the dark. Ha. ha. He was a good sport though.

Sorry it has taken me so long to get these on here. I left the camera at our friend's house when we had a Halloween party. Anyway, we were embarassed by what we wore, but it was so funny to see Andrey in his costume. We were Adam and Eve:

Avon saves Christmas

Christmas is coming soon and it's time to start shopping...well, I have anyway. Avon sells not only make-up and fragrances, but also christmas gifts. I bought my daughter tons of Princess items/toys because that is what she's into right now. Most items are less expensive with Avon than in the stores. And! It saves you a trip to the store. All you do is go online to http://www.avon.com/ and check out what they have. I can also get you a catalog if you would rather. You contact me by e-mail or phone and let me know what you would like (by each product there is a six digit number that I need). Every two weeks I submit my order and I deliver your products. Please take a look and let me know what you need for your Christmas purchases (thanks for reading my little plug).

That is a picture of my pretty sister (being silly of course). She uses Avon and look how beautiful she is...so she is saying to all of you, "Buy Avon from Holli....it's great."

Golden Corral

We wanted to do something fun Sat. night, so we thought, "Okay, we will go bowling. The girls will have a lof of fun. No, maybe we will go take them to Jungle Jims Playground..." We heard our tummys a rumbling, so we decided to eat dinner first. We passed Golden Corral and turned around quickly. We hadn't eaten there in a long time and thought this was the perfect time.

We were enjoying our plates heaping with food. I took a big bite out of my crab salad and was talking to Andrey about my day and his half day at work, when I looked down to get another bite and AHHH! No Way!!! Sitting there, on top of my crab salad was....

Guess.