Jenny's Baby shower!

I am finally getting to update my blog these past couple days. I have been busy working and planning Jenny's Baby Showers.

She had one in queen creek and the next week here in goodyear.

It was a lil' pumpkin themed shower.

Jenny got a lot of things she needed. We had great food and played fun games.

It was a pretty fun two weeks, just a lot of planning.

Thanks to all those who came!

Cutest Nursery Ever

My friend Jessica just had her 1st baby. I was able to go over there right before she had her and take pictures of her belly and her beautiful nursery. It is the cutest nursery i have ever seen. And she did it all herself. I am so impressed with it I had to share it with everyone else.

I can't wait to go and meet the baby and take pictures of her.

Welcome to the world Aspen!

Veteran's Day

This year we went to the Phoenix Veterans Day Parade. We had so much fun last year we went again this year. But this time Scott(my brother) was marching in it with his high school band. I brought Rachel(my sister) with us as well. It was just another warm november day. Me and Tori even got a little tan.

Here are some highlights.

waving high to everyone.

One of the highlights of the parade.

Suncity cheerleaders.

Scott's band.

Scott and his girlfriend.

The Cow Says.....

This just proves how cute she is. (not that anyone was questioning it)

I finally took a video of it!

Can you tell that I am proud parent.

I am sad I didn't ask her about a duck or chicken. She flaps her arms when I ask her about them.

Her favorite thing to say is "Mommy" over and over again.

4 for 4

I hope everyone had a great Halloween. We sure did. We are very busy with parties to attend. My the time Halloween night actually came Brett and I were all Halloweened out.

Tori as you can see was a clown. She won two costume contests this year one at Brett's work and at the ward Trunk or Treat. Last year she also won two, at University of Phoenix and the ward trunk or treat. So that makes her 4 for 4!

But how can you resist this face?

First house she came to.

after she walked away and realized what she got she tried going back to the same house for more.

After a couple houses her purple pumpkin became to heavy and she would only carry around a little tiny pumpkin that could hold maybe one or two candies. Everyone laughed when she tried to hold it up to get candy. She would mostly grab the candy with her other hand and give it to me.

About the go trick or treating with the cousins.

(Don't they look so happy)

my niece Brooke.

(This was Tori's costume last year)

Michael Jackson

The Ghostbusters were out on patrol

Thanks Ghostbusters for protecting us!

Trying to wash out her hair

Doesn't she look like she could be the cotton candy lady from the state fair?

Her hair sure felt like cotton candy

I was super cool and rocked my new tattoos.

I sure got some funny looks at my ward party

At Brett's work it was the cool thing to dress up like each other.

Brett was GK (one of the managers)

Bob was Jon

She was so happy to hang out with dad at work

She cried when she saw her reflection for the first time.

typical sunday

I took pictures (of course) of our typical sunday.

Here is Tori getting mad at me for either doing her hair or trying to take another picture of her

Trying to be a big girl and put on her shoes by herself

yeah finally a good picture

coming home and eating a good meal.

This time it was Turkey burgers.

road trip to Utah

In October I went on a road trip with my Mom, Tori, and my sister Rachel. My mom had off school for fall break so we wanted to see her family and friend who was terminally ill. We had a wonderful journey. We got to see a lot of scenery and stop by FIVE temples to take pictures. I think I took my fair share of pictures for the month of October.

We stopped by my mother's best friend from high school and visited with her the last day she was awake and responding before she passed away 3 days later. We were glad to go when we did.

Here are some pictures of our adventures.

The many moods of Tori on our trip.

(Happy, being herself)

(screaming and crying for no reason)

(being adorable but not getting her way)

Zion's National Park

4 generations

(and my great grandmother is still alive but lives in California, Man I'm going to live along time)

Tori with her great grandma Kay

me and my cousins and sister rachel

love to see her like this

my cousin charity just had twins two weeks before we came so we got to visit with them

my other beautiful cousin Sefia

The newest temple to be dedicated.

Oquirrh mountian temple

Jordan river temple

best street to live in Utah

(I should have stole these signs)

beautiful creek by my grandma's house

Tori's great Grammie showing her how to feed the geese

draper temple

staying warm at the st. george temple

zion's national park

rachel and I

Visiting Nate at his house in flagstaff.

update

Here are some more pictures I found that I wanted to share.

Scary spider that we found in the bathroom. Scary!

We all went over to Jenny's house in September to help her celebrate her 23rd B-day.

Dang she's getting old.

hope you made a good wish

rocking chair my parents gave her.

I had to give her old maid cards now that she is one.

My two favorite people

hanging out at the Olive Garden Park Party

She kept track of herself.

adorable!

quotes and poems

I was flipping through my old EFY book and some random poems and quotes stuck out to me and I wanted to share them.

"You have to be different in order to make a difference"

I think this will now be my life's motto

My son's a CTR.... I go to PEC.

I work for CES... I study the TG.

I read the B of M... I probe the D&C.

I search the KJV... I ponder the JST.

Today in BYC... we planned for EFY.

I stayed a little after... and had a PPI.

The YW and YM... are putting on a play.

It's the one I remember.. we did in MIA.

Before our oldest son... went to the MTC.

He helped the BSA.. complete their SME.

Soon our oldest daughter.. is headed for the Y.

Soon our oldest clothes... is going to DI.

Now, if you've understood... this alphabetic mess.

The chances are quite good.. that you are LDS.

"It is better to prepare and prevent than it is to repair and repent."

Temple Pictures

This past week I was able to go to Utah with my mother, sister Rachel, and Tori. We stopped by 4 different temples so I could take pictures of them. They are so pretty and very peaceful.

I had fun playing in photoshop today with all my temples pictures that I had.

Hope you enjoy!

Halloween Help

What should Tori be for Halloween? I can't decide. So I need you to vote on the left hand side.

Garden Gnome?

Clown

Fro her hair out and spray paint it?

Happy Teeth

After many trials and errors I have successfully found a dentist office that I love.

The office does everything there.

I had a painful tooth and I went if for an examine and to be told I will need to get a root canal.

Well I did need one as I expected but they did root canals right there in the office. Usually that is rare to find an office that does. (I had even made an appointment with an different office for a possible root canal.) So happy I got everything at my one stop shop.

So if you are looking for a super nice office, nice employees and be able to get help asap look no further.

Estrella Falls Dentistry

14441 W Mcdowell Rd # B106
Goodyear, AZ 85395-2519
(623) 536-3264

Master Bedroom

Have you ever loved a room in your home? I do. It's my master bedroom. Brett was kind enough to let me express myself in our room and I LOVE the results. I need a little more decor but you get the feel for it.

I finally got around to taking pictures of my bedroom today. So here ya go.

I got my inspiration from this room. Click Here.

Do you love the green?

Before and After

Before and After

Yes I painted all my furniture

Before and After

Before and After

The people who lived in my house before me left this dresser in the garage.

I am thankful they did

Love It!

I love being crafty!

This weekend we went on a spontaneous trip to San Diego. Seriously we talked about it on Tuesday and left Saturday morning. We needed a family vacation. We decided to go to SeaWorld because Tori loves fish and I have never seen a dolphin(even though I worked on a cruise ship in Hawaii). Here are some highlights of our adventure!

I love when they do this

San Diego Temple

Pooped out on the car ride home from all the fun!

Tori LOVED the sand. She just kept picking it up in her hands and throwing it in her hair.

I'm pretty sure I still haven't gotten it all out.

Random flower at the temple

The temple is so white it was hard looking at it in the sunlight.

So beautiful

My two favorite people

Waiting for the shamu show to start.

Crazy Tori chasing me.

She isn't always so cute and this proves it.

Tori doing her favorite thing

love this picture with Tori and her bear backpack and the sleeping polar bear in the background.

brrr...

silly sea lion show.

They had some pretty amazing stuff like this stunt where he jumps over the bar while holding the ball on his nose

Shamu(s)

People jumping off two different shamu's

Pretty cool to see. Even cooler that I caught it!

surfing on Shamu

Look how high these things can Jump. Amazing!

I wanna ride

What are you looking at?

Being good in her stroller

finally a dolphin

Brett was really hoping the dolphin exhibit was closed so I wouldn't see one. I Win!

Also another highlight or rather lowlight of the trip I tried hopping in the back seat with Tori when we got in the SeaWorld parking lot. When I did I snagged my flip flop on something and it totally came apart. Luckily Brett had an extra pair of sandals in the trunk and we found a little shop inside where i could buy some my size. Whew.

Jaxon White

My friend Tiffanie White had her baby two weeks. He was 3 1/2 weeks early so it was so much fun to take pictures of a tiny baby. Here are a few of my favorite. There were many more that I couldn't decide from. Congrats Tiff.

Some may say I am obsessed.

But how could I not be. Just look at that face!

Have I told you yet that I enjoy being a mom? I sure do!

Okay this one is a little scary but it just shows how crazy she is. She does these faces when she gets real excited.

Most Amazing Thing I ever saw...

This is the most amazing thing I have ever seen and I had to share my happiness with all of you.

I wish I had been there.

Check out this link.

http://www.oprah.com/article/oprahshow/20090908-tows-flash-mob-dance

I hope this makes you as happy as it makes me!

Check it out!!!!!

I final got my own photography website/blog to showcase all of my pictures.

You might recognize people or it might just be you or your kids.

Enjoy!!!

http://celestephotos.blogspot.com/

More Tori

Can't get enough of Tori!

I love her.... Can you tell?

Showing off her curly hair

Giving me the I didn't do it look.

playing with her bear

Every time she sees it she gives it a hug and a kiss.

Where's Tori?

There she is!

Introduction to facebook.

Pretty much how it went down when I introduced Brett to facebook. LOL!