My little pony

It is official, Malia, at 12 months old, can wear a full blown ponytail! Can I possibly be the happiest Mom in the world? I have waited my WHOLE LIFE and spent my whole life practicing for this moment. Isn't she just the sweetest little thing?! Well, I am excited... if you couldn't tell.

D-land, Take 5... with a little LA mixed in

Beep Beep... a new text message from my cousin Carol a few weeks ago... saying she and her daughter Sam are coming to visit from Missouri!! Yippee!! I immediately begin planning the fun.
The first outing... Disneyland of course! Can I just tell you how busy it was! We OF COURSE still had fun, but man! Who would have thought so many would have the same idea to go to D-land on St. Patty's day! This is the only photo I got of the day. I took my nieces, Hannah and Allie, such a treat!
Carol and Sam wanted to go to LA and go shopping on Friday, so we set the navigation in the car for the Grove, and off we went! My Aunt Martie joined us and we had such a fun day of shopping and silliness. We ate at this great little Greek restaurant, it was such a beautiful sunny LA day.
This is a shot of this cute little street we drove past in LA. Why did we stop there you ask? Because my Aunt Martha pointed out quite an interesting little sign that we just HAD to take a photo by.....

SPEED HUMPS!?!?!?! Who says that! Well, we quickly flipped a Uey to get this little beauty. I felt the need to show off a hump of my own to complete the photo.
Thanks girls for such a fun time! Hope we see you again this summer for a little surf sesh!

ZOOOOmars

AS you ALL know, I have a job. My job is EASY... Ok, not really... it is pretty hard, but easy in the way of getting to spend time with the cutest little 3 year old girl ever, Gracie Bell. Her lovely parents informed me that she loves this little petting zoo in San Juan that we just went to for the first time last week. It was awesome! You get to hold bunnies and guinea pigs, and ride a train, and hang out with goats, it was a blast!
Well... we had visited the bunnies, swung on the swings, ridden the train, and our final stop was to visit some goats. One of them took a liking to me and was rubbing his head on my leg the whole time we were in there. It was kind of cute and king of gross at the same time.
I was busy snapping photos, as usual, when I realized what I was looking at through my view finder. Gracie was bent over picking up pieces of goat poop and asking me, "what is this Auntie?" Agggg... ewwww! Needless to say we sanitized our hands like crazy. But, it made for this funny picture! Thanks for the laughs Gracie. Sorry if I startled you with my heeby geebies as you held a piece of goat poop in your hand! I love how my kids are also all smiley and like, "oohhh, what is that!"

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A tripple threat: Gabe's birthday, take 1

At first I felt badly that Gabe was not going to get a big birthday party with invites and cake, but little did I know! I said take one in the title of this post, because, in actuality, he had 3 birthday celebrations this year!
For our first shindig, Gabe shared the festivities with his Auntie Michelle and Grammy Laurie. Auntie's birthday is just before his, and Grammy's just after, so it seemed the perfect way for the Roberts clan to get all the celebrations done at once.

Here is Grammy licking the spoon from her scrumptious secret cupcake frosting!

My favorite shot. Look at Michelle's face, so classic...


P.S> that strawberry cake was A-MaZiNg!!




Gabe had a batman themed party at Grammy's. He was so excited to wear this new "batman outfit" as he called it. I love how he was sitting in full superhero pose here.















Daddy got Gabe a new big boy skateboard!! He was so excited. In fact, he is outside with Daddy as we speak skating his ramp.


Happy birthday my sweet little boy! I love you with all my heart.




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Everybody's working for the weekend

Proof that Mrs. Jones might be on the computer too much!
Malia has recently learned how to climb up on chairs and this is where Mr. Jones found her this evening. In Gabe's room, at his desk, on his computer... TYPING AWAY! He quietly shhhhed me over to see what she was up to. I had to get it on video. I was about to pee my pants. Yeah, she is 1 going on 20. She seemed so into it, like "don't bother me, I am working!" Here is some video of her in action. Love this girl, just like her Mommy!!

Dancing with Ellen

I wanted SOOO badly to go to the Ellen De Generes show, so I applied online, and was chosen to get tickets! Woo Hoo!! I knew my neighbor, Lilta, LOVED watching Ellen so I invited her to go, my sister Michelle, and friend Brittany.
To our surprise, Lilta HOOKED us up with some VIP passes! Her girlfriend's husband works on the show. Let me tell ya, we felt like some "made" women. ;) It was so fun, but surprisingly EXAHSTING! Laughing and dancing for an hour and a half straight was tiring man! Anyway, we were SOOO on TV yesterday. We had like 3 close ups during the show and Ellen danced right down our row! It was good fun and good company.
OH... and we got a free DVD (the movie Milk, which I was not too excited about but still, it was free!) and we got the most delicious cup cakes!!
My favorite pic of the day- Michelle shoving the cupcake in her mouth while they drove us to the studio store. So classic. Thanks for the fun day girls!!

Disney Days

Some random shots from a Disneyland day.

Here is Gabe and our little friend Owen.











Malia and Owen are boyfriend and girlfriend.... they have already been to first base...











Some cute baby booties.....















Mrs. Jones, Gabe and Malia saying cheese with lightening McQueen...












Mrs. Jones' buddy Lisa with her daughter Barraget, and the Jones fam. I love how smiley Malia is in the shot.

Our Pink Monster Party

My baby girl is ONE! I can't believe it... where did this last year go?! Grammy and I put together one cute pink monster party for this little misses. It was so fun to create my own decorations and make everything PINK! Thanks to all of our family and some of Malia's close little friends, for coming to celebrate with us. We had so much fun playing in Grammy's back yard and eating our "monster mouth" pita sandwiches. And Auntie Michelle brought the PERFECT cake, and it was soooo yummy!

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My Butsy weekend

This past week was my best friend Betsy's 30th birthday. That is a big feat! So we thought we would celebrate together and show the world that we still know how to have fun! I flew into Vegas, took the shuttle to St.George, and Bet's Mom drove me up to Cedar City. We went out to sushi, and then back to her place for a fun night of "girl talk". It was SO nice to get in some quality Betsy time! There is nothing like a late night, talking to your best friend of a
bout 10 years. No one (except maybe my hubby) knows me like her or makes me feel more comfortable being goofy and 100% me.
The next day we woke up and headed for Brian Head. LET ME TELL YOU!! SERIOUSLY.... the BEST conditions I have ever been in. If you know me, I hate being cold, and get cold easily. Well, this was fresh powder, 6" of it from the previous night, and as we walked up to the lift (with NO line), the clouds parted and we had blue sunny skies all day long! I mean the snow was up to my mid calf as we floated down the mountain with each fresh powder run. It was like floating on clouds all day! ! We kept on screaming on the lift back up saying, "man, can you believe this! This is SO So sososososo fun!!"
And to top it all off, we had the most fun girly road trip, full of rocking out to Rhianna, 80's music, and getting truckers to honk at us (stop it, we were just moving our arms to motion them to honk... get your minds out of the gutter!), back to Las Vegas for a fun night staying at the PH hotel (planet Hollywood). As we arrived I was all ready to go, hopped up on licorise, funyuns, and code red.
We got all shnazied up and walked around Vegas for like 4 hours. It was so nice to go shopping and just take our time and enjoy the great company. What a blast. I really did not want it to end! But... I had to get back early Sunday morning to celebrate my little pink monster's first birthday so.. se la vie!! LOVE YOU BUTS!!!

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The helmet heads

My skateboarding fools. Malia is following right in her big bro's foot steps. She has been REALLY into the skateboard and loves the Gabe gave her his old helmet to wear. It is so fun playing outside with these two helmet heads... gotta love it!

Soy beans and sleepy dreams

Gabe loves soybeans, and what my sister lovingly calls "phony bologna" (it is bologna flavored meatless lunch meat) . Anyway, regarding the soybeans, he thinks it is funny when the random slippery little sucker gets too much force between the thumb and pointer finger and goes flying across the room. AND he does eat some too so Mrs. Jones is happy....
Malia is a sleepy little girl. She KNOWS when she is tired and will let you know she is ready to sleep. Well, the other day she did not get around to telling me before she hit the wall... or I was too busy laughing with Gabe about the flying soybeans. Either way I was feeding her and she CRASHED. Here are some photos and video of our sleepy pink monster, and our soybean loving little Mr.

Big bang last Tuesday night....

Anyone hear it? I could not sleep last night and was watching the news and was freaking out! They had a news cast on a "mysterious earthquake type thing" that affected a big part of so-cal. They said they could not get any info from anyone as to what it was.
WELL.... Mike and I heard it! We were watching TV and it sounded like either something really big hit the side of our house or that someone slammed our garage door shut. But, the ground did not move at all. It was SO weird!
I wanted to know if anyone else heard this..... and we need some answers, this is tripping me out right now!!