Aaliyah's Birthday

Aaliyah just had her third birthday on Monday. My little girl is growing up way too fast! In Oakley every year they have the tradition of sleigh riding down Christmas Street and seeing Santa Clause. This year it fell on Aaliyah's birthday so we thought it would be the perfect way to celebrate. She thought Santa came special for her birthday and to this day she is telling me that "it was the best birthday ever!"

Both of them were scared of Santa that night which surprised me because just the week before we saw Santa at Dallas's work party and Aaliyah went running up to him, but there was a little girl ahead of us that was screaming when she was on Santa's lap so I think that made Aaliyah a little nervous.

So I took one for the team on this picture. I look awful, but everyone else looks good! Besides I had to show a picture of us on the sleigh ride.

I think Adeline was just as excited as Aaliyah was about opening presents!

I love how little kids have to really concentrate to hold their fingers up. It actually does take some coordination.

I'm three!

Here's Aaliyah and her friend Kaylee. They are the cutest little girls!

Addie is enjoying her cupcake!

Aaliyah and Adeline's Christmas Pictures

Twilight

So I have to admit I am a total Twilight series fanatic! I have never got so involved in a book! Which surprises me because my favorite books usually have some kind of meaningful life lesson in them and these ones are purely entertainment. Stephanie Meyer writes in a way that really gets you connected with the characters and makes it really hard to put the books down! So when the movie came out, even though I had low expectations for it, I had to go see it. I went and saw it Friday night with some of my friends and actually ended up liking it. It of coarse is not as good as the book, but what movie ever is. The biggest reason I thought I was going to be disappointed with the movie is because of the Edward they chose to cast. He just wasn't the Edward I imagined in the book. Especially if you have seen the picture that Stephenie Meyer had put on her website of the way she had originally imagined Edward. She took the picture off her website once they decided to make the movie, but here's a link to the picture if you want to see it.

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The picture is on the very top of the web site and you can click on it to enlarge it.

I do have to say the Edward in the movie did grow on me and I thought he played the role well. The rest of the cast, for the most part, I ended up liking also. I do wish that they would have shown that Edward does have a humorous side to him and that he isn't always so intense all of the time and not made it look like Bella and him fell in love over night, but I guess they only have so much time to fit it all in. All in all the movie turned out better than I thought it would, but if you haven't read the books yet reed them before you go and see the movie!

Halloween

For Halloween we went trick or treating on Main Street in Park City. It has definitely become a tradition of ours. Main Street gets so filled with people that you can't even drive up and down the street. It's really fun to see all the ways people dress up!


Here's Aaliyah and Adeline dressed up as Little Bo Peep and her sheep.

Carving Pumpkins

Last night for family night we carved pumpkins. Dallas was trying to convince Aaliyah to stick her hand in the pumpkin and pull the guts out.

It took some convincing, but she finally did it and I don't think she liked it too much.

Addie just liked eating it.

Happy Halloween!