My date with Dallin

We were lucky enough to get to host 2 of the BYU Young Ambassadors, so we got free tickets to that night's performance. Todd didn't really want to go, and Maddie isn't very fun to take to live performances so we left them home and Dallin and I had a date.

It was weird sitting in the audience. I'm usually on stage. But it was a lot of fun to watch and then we got to bring 2 home with us.

What a fun treat to have them stay with us for a few hours. They literally were only here for about 8 hours, but it was still pretty neat to get to talk to them for a bit.

Anyone out there?

Good grief! I post 3 posts full of pictures and I got ONE comment (Thanks Heidi!). I'm not feeling the blogging love people! Come on! Leave me a little hello or SOMETHING!

*pouts in the corner*

My little Peanut Butter...

Maddie's cake was again, gluten free and egg free. She wanted Tinkerbell so I begged the lady at the Safeway bakery to let me buy just the topper. Maddie is STILL talking about her cake.

Snow Pictures!

We got a good amount of snow around Christmas so Todd and Dallin decided to take full advantage of living on a golf course. There are a few small hills that were perfect for sledding! Of course, it's warmed up and all the snow is melted now, but they had fun while it lasted.

Trying pictures...

My beautiful friend, Ruth is a hairdresser and she cuts my hair (and Maddie's). I'm SO blessed to have her in my life. She's so wonderful to have around!!





















I could NOT get her to smile in this one!!













Gotta love Target PJ clearance...of course they had NOTHING girly in Maddie's size!

















This one just cracks me up. The true talent of a 3 year old is her ability to dress herself. Here we have a purple shirt, her apron, NO pants, snow boots and knit gloves. Lovely, dear. Just beautiful.

And since I seem to be blogging for my amusement only...

I'm really having a hard time getting pictures to load properly so I'm heading to bed and I'll try again tomorrow. I've got LOTS of pictures!!

Some things I'm grateful for...

My kids have made me laugh so much today and Dallin's prayer included "please bless mama's foot, and please bless us to be nice". (I broke my toe a couple weeks ago, I didn't feel it was that exciting to create a post about it). He's so sweet to include me.

Todd is amazing. He works so hard to provide for our family and he's great with the kids. I'm so proud of him and so grateful for him.

My siblings. What a big year we have coming up! A wedding, a baby, a new house!

My parents. I don't feel like I need to elaborate much here. When you become a parent, you finally appreciate all the hard work that YOUR parents put into raising you. Thanks Mom and Dad!

I'm grateful for the church in my life. Our stake presidency gave us a "focus, challenge and promise" this year. The fireside Sunday night was wonderful, and full of hope and joy for the future.

I'm grateful for gluten free foods so Maddie can have pizza when the rest of us are.

I'm grateful for our home. Safe, secure and simple.
I'm grateful for cars that run. I never worry that it's not going to start.
I'm grateful for the scriptures and the counsel in them.
I'm grateful for our Prophet and his counselors.
I'm grateful for the snow, and rain.
I'm grateful for a sunny day in the middle of January.

I could keep going but I need to get her royal majesty to bed.