Jessica Simpson and Madagascar 2

Now you would say what do these two have in common? Well, this is what happened during my weekend. My sister works as a assistent PR person for the new Snoqualmie Casino. They had their opening weekend this last weekend and she got my parents and me each a set of tickets to see Jessica Simpson. Now I am not a huge fan at all, but I figured you can't pass up free tickets. Also, I wanted to see what the Casino was like. Ty didn't want to go, so I invited my great friend Sommer to come with me. The ballroom at the Casino where the concert was seating about 900 people so it was a smaller crowd. Jessica had this group open for her named Gloriana. They haven't had a CD come out yet. There were two brother and two girls in the group. They actually sang really well and their harmony was amazing! I have to say that Jessica isn't a bad singer at all. She is a little weird though. She told us stories about ex boyfriends and told us all about her and Tony Romo(her current boyfriend). She also couldn't stop playing with her hair and touching herself and pulling up her pants. The kicker was she couldn't stop grabbing her stomach. She was wearing a baggy shirt and we have concluded that she is pregnant. Lets just say we wouldn't be surprised if in a few weeks or months a announcement was made. If not, she sure has put on a few pounds.:) After the concert we walked around and checked out the Casino. It was overall a fun night. Thanks, Sommer for always being great company and for keeping me laughing!:)GlorianaTummy grabbing!:)A couple of years ago my mom, sister and I tried to take Issy to the movie theatre to see Happy Feet when it came out. She lasted all of a half hour and so we haven't attempted a movie since with Issy. A couple of months ago when we found out Madagascar 2 was coming out in November we started talking to Issy about it. She loved the first one and watches it a lot. She was so excited to be able to go see it with us at the theatre. So we bought tickets last week and on Saturday we were joined by our friends the Hadleys and the Reynolds(plus mom and dad Sundwall) at the movie in Issaquah. Ty and I weren't sure how Issy would do but she did a amazing. She sat through the whole movie and laughed and would ask me questions like, "Mommy did he loose his daddy?" and "Mommy are their happy?". It was so cute to see her enjoy the thrill of seeing a movie in the movie theatre. I think the popcorn helped out as well. It was a pretty good movie and Ty and I really enjoyed sharing that moment with Issy. Afterwards, us and the Hadleys headed to McDonalds for some grub and let the girls play in the big play set they have there at the Issaquah McDonalds. It rounded out a great night with family and friends. It also rounded out a great weekend!:)

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!:)

We had a great Halloween this year. Now that Isabella is 3 it makes it a lot more fun for her and us. We mostly just hung around the house during the day anticipating a fun night of Trick or Treating. This year I took Issy to a few stores and let her pick out her costume. She wanted to be a skunk. She got a baby skunk stuffed animal with my sister and her boyfriend Mikey a few months back and loves it so she was on a little skunk fix. Boy did she look cute it in. She even was going up to people and saying I am going to spray you. She would then turn around and make a spraying noise with her mouth and pretend to be spraying everyone. Gotta love kids! We went trick or treating around our neighborhood with our good friend the Hadleys. Then we headed up to our friends the Flowers and Reynolds and went around their neighborhood with all of them and their kids. Issy sure loaded up on the goods. After a few hours of trick or treating, my parents(who had come along as well) and us got some pizza and ate some late dinner. Then my parents were kind enough to stick around for a few more hours while we ended the night with playing some games with our buddies the Reynolds. All and all it was a great day! Happy Halloween everyone!:)

Another week and some more memories!

It has been another week of lots of fun times. The week started last Wednesday when there was a special documentary that aired on Discovery Health of my brother-in-law and sister-in-law, Tor and Mandy and their kids. They have conjoined twins and Discovery followed them around for a few months. It was such a real and touching special about what they go through on a daily basis. We were able to spend the last couple of weeks with them and we are so grateful for that and for them. We love you guys!:)This last Thursday evening a bunch of women in my ward and in the neighboring ward got together to celebrate 3 special ladies birthdays that were in October. Jen Simon, Marlo Flower and Deborah Barnard. We went to a restaurant up here on the Ridge called Mike's. There ended up being 23 ladies who showed up. It was a amazing turn out and we all had so much fun. Thanks everyone for making the night such a blast!The Birthday GirlsMarloDeborahJen

Our weekend was fun with Ty and I having a date night on Friday night. Best Buy for a TV stand and dinner. Saturday was errand day. Then we decided to go to the Mount Si pumpkin patch and get a couple of pumpkins to carve. It was a beautiful day and we had a fun time!:)Saturday night we had our good friends the Reynolds and Simons over to hang out. We made a cake and celebrating Ben Reynolds birthday which was the next day. He turned 33! Happy Birthday, BenJAMMIN!:)Yesterday Issy, my mom and I headed out to our great friends sons football game. Jacob is 12 and this is his first year playing football. We had the opportunity to go to a few of his games. We even got to see him score a touchdown and it was his last game yesterday. Our friends Teage and his kids were also there and I got some great pictures of Issy, the Flowers daughter Olivia and Teage and Erin's cute little boys. I love all the leaves and colors of fall and I love football!!Issy and her auntie Heidi who came too!The kids all loved the leaves!Lucas sharing a leaf with IssyHurray for leaves!aren't these two the cutest!Finally, I have been working on Issy's room for over a year now. It has been a work in progress. Last year I painted the bottom of Issy's wall. A couple of months ago I finally painted the top half of her wall and made my own chair rail out of paint. It took me two days to do. I then found all the pictures I wanted for her room. My wonderful friend Sommer took shower curtains that I had gotten to use as drapes and sewed them for me. They turned out amazing! Last night Ty and I put the finishing touches up and it is finally finished! I am so happy with it!:)

A Week of Fun

We had a great week full of a few fun activites. Last Monday, I took my neighbor and good friend Jen to see Americas Best Dance Crew Tour Show for her birthday. We love watching our dance shows and we already got to see So You Think You Can Dance and so we were excited to see ABDC as well. It is a show with dance groups instead of Indviduals. Our favorites were the Jaberwakeez, Supercrew and Break Sc8. They were pretty amazing. We couldn't get the best pictures but we got some good ones. They show was at Comcast Arena in Everett and Jen and I had a blast!:) Thanks for making the night so fun, Jen!:)All last week Ty headed up to Whistler for a work convention. He had a lot of meetings and things up there but in the middle of the week they got a break and he was able to go ziplining. He said it was so amazing and he for sure wants to take me up there next summer to go ziplining and see Whistler for myself. A person got these pictures of Ty while he was on the Zipline. They turned out pretty amazing!:)
To round off our week, when Ty got home on Saturday we headed to Remlinger Farms. Living up here on Snoqualmie Ridge, we get a few perks from our Home Owners Association and one of those is a day at Remlinger. We were very excited to go since we weren't able to last year. We had a great time. We got a free lunch, were able to go on some rides, Issy got to ride a pony, etc. It was also fun to go around with different friends as well who were there too. At the end of the day, Issy even got to get a free pumpkin. It was great weather and we couldn't of asked for a better day!:)