Guitar Hero World Tour!

Ok I'm really going to try hard at catching up on my posts! I PROMISE!

So when we where at my parents, they decided to get Guitar Hero World Tour for Wii and it was lots of fun playing it with my family. Everyone got in to it even my mom. So I got a video of her ROCKING out!
Please take note that she switched the drumsticks in the middle of playing....as though it made a difference.



Needless to say...My Mom is the COOLEST!!!

Making cupcakes!!

While I was in Utah, my cute niece Ellie was there is one night we decided to make cupcakes together and Ellie was a great helper!!

YAY!! Cupcakes......


First you add the dry ingredients...


Then you crack the eggs (for some reason this really made Mommo nervous)
Then you mix everything together. ( Ellie really was very good at all of this, and she's just barely 2)
Then you taste it!!! ( I would like to point out that Elli has 3 different types of spoons. We each got one to take a taste...and somehow Ellie ended up with all of them.)

As we were tasting the batter I asked Ellie if she thought this was tasty. She told me that it was delicious! I couldn't believe she used that word, so I got my camera and tried to make her say it again. Then the inner thespian came out......




I know I'm a little bias, but this girl is soo adorable!! I love her enthusiasm!!

Christmas Decor

I know these posts are way overdue but I'm going to try and catch up as best I can.

So...we have a great little apartment and we have inherited or bought or been gifted some lovely items to decorate our house for Christmas, and I thought I would give you a glimps of what that looks like.

Here is our house before Christmas....

Here is our house when Christmas comes!!


I love Christmas!!!

Halloween

For Halloween Daniel wanted to be an 80's rocker...I thought. But then of course the day of, he doesn't have a costume put together. I already had a costume (compliments of Plano Senior High School Music Corp!) so we went to our friend's house. In their basement they have 4 rows of costumes. We looked through a little bit and didn't really see anything that caught our eye. So we went upstairs and raided his closet. Now there is something you must now about our friend Victor....he is not afraid of color. There in his glorious closet we hit the jackpot! Daniel got the shirt, socks, fanny pack, and sunglasses all from his closet. We did manage to find an old Walkman too. When we got to the church party nobody knew who Daniel was supposed to be and a couple of people even thought he was supposed to be Victor. But then Daniel slumped back and started walking like it was to a beat and suddenly he was Bernie from Weekend at Bernie's!!! It was perfect.

P.S. I had forgotten what a long time it takes to crimp your hair!!!

What happened to November!?!?

So I have a lot of catching up to do, and I promise I will do it soon. I don't exactly know what to blog about. So I need opinions. Would you like to hear about my job, halloween,Twilight, Black friday, my thoughts about the election, or any other suggestions. I just don't know where to start.

Thanks for your input. LOVES!!!

My Saturday Night

So This is basically how I spent my Saturday night. With 4 kids, the average age of 8. I was invited to play Rockband with the kids upstairs from where I live, then more kids came over and we had a base, guitar, drums and vocals. I know this might be really lame...but I really had fun!! I was really good at the vocals right of the bat, and I've played guitar hero so I was pretty good at the guitar and base...but then we rotated and I had to try the drums. I was not so good at all, but surprisingly the kids were really nice. Usually, this group of kids are brutally honest. But they all said that it was OK that I only got 50%, and that was really good for my first time.
I know this might seem really weird, but Daniel and I are poor, we don't have any kids, and when the Austin's are out of town we really don't have much to do. And I really like Rockband. I might have to revise the policy that I have set up about video games.

REAL SIMPLE

So, my favorite magazine is now a TV show.

To begin, I had this really cool roommate while I was going to school at BYU. This cool roommate introduced me to REAL SIMPLE magazine and I got hooked (thanks a lot Tamsin, now I'm an addict). So Daniel got me a subscription for our first anniversary and I get so excited every month when I walk in the door and see it waiting for me at the top of the stairs. If you have not seen this magazine you are really missing out, it has everything. Style, cleaning tips, organizing ideas, the best products to use, recipes, life stories....it's wonderful.

About two months ago in my magazine there was an ad for their new TV show on TLC. When I saw this I had mixed feelings. I really love the magazine, but was this show going to be all about one component of REAL SIMPLE? Where they going to make it really cheesy? Was it going to be too boring? So I tivo'd it to see what was up. I love this show. It has everything. All the experts, the stylist, the life coach, the organizer(Colleen I think you should write to them and try and be one of their organizers), the chef, the decorator. I am sooo happy. So for those of you who want to watch, check your local listings...REAL SIMPLE REAL LIFE comes on, Friday on TLC.