I had to take some picture of the chillens so I thought I would share them with the world. This was actually the last picture we took and I had to bribe Ty to smile normally one last time and then I would let him pick a movie for us to watch.
The whole time I was making frog and chicken noises to get them to smile normally instead of Laney's closed-mouth-drunk-person smile and Ty's eyes-closed-huge-open-mouth smile.
I totally forgot to post this little video of Laney learning how to jump-rope. Please don't listen to my pathetic voice....and if anybody tells me that that is really what I sound like......I will dig a hole and bury myself.....or become a mute!!
Tiff (my sister-in-law) went to the midnight release partyat Barnes and Noble for "Breaking Dawn". The fourth book in the "Twilight" Saga by Stephenie Meyer.
This is what the line looked like when we got there around 8:15pm. 3 hours and 45 minutes before the book was released. I couldn't fit the whole line in there. But I would think there was about 40-50 people there.
After a while this is what the line looked like behind us.
Our wristbands that we got at the door. The "A" means that we were in the first line....YAY!!
Lots of games going on to take up time before midnight. There was also a scavenger hunt where everybody was running around in the whole store looking for stuff. Lots of fun.
At 11:30pm, we could all start going outside to line up, in the order that we came.
Walking towards the door, we saw the stacks of Breaking Dawn books inside. The funniest was when the people up ahead could see them taking the boxes of books out and started screaming. And when the doors opened and everybody screamed again. Fun, fun.
It was so cool to see so many people at a bookstore at midnight. And about 5 clerks working in double time to get everybody through.
And here's Tiff and I with our books. Tiff asked a lady working there if she could take a picture for us, but she just glared at us and didn't say anything, so Tiff hurried and asked another lady.
We wanted to go watch the Days of '47 Parade but you have to sleep out to get a good spot. So Ben casually suggested that Laney and he could sleep out on the road....I don't think he thought it through or maybe he was half joking....i don't know, but Laney heard him say it and was all for it. And since he had said it, he could take it back.
So Ben and Laney ended up out on the sidewalk on 9th south and 4th east.
Ben said they didn't get to sleep very much since there were a million cars driving by all night long. And the people in a tent next to them played loud music and had a visit from the police (I don't remember why...). But they had a fun daddy/daugther experience.
Laney playing games on Ben's Palm (little e-mail as Laney and Ty call it)
Ben bought a cool light sword for Laney that she loves and holds every night before she falls afsleep.
Then in the morning, Tiff picked Ty and me up and we brought some donuts, chocolate milk, water, grapes and other yummy stuff that we ate for breakfast.
Laney eating her donut.
Here's President Thomas S. Monson. He was turning his head the other the whole time he drove past us, so Laney didn't see him. Ben took Laney and the ran up ahead so that she could see him.
Governor Huntsman and his scary looking wife.
My favorite float - Noah's Ark. It was so cute, with water coming out of the elephant's trunks.
Ty wanted to be wrapped in a blanket for some strange reason....the rest of us were sweating bullets.
Tiff being stabbed by Laney. Braiden watching as this horrific event is taking place...
Laney and Ty playing on the blanket.
Laney and Braiden chillin' while the rest of us were packing our things up.
A couple of weeks ago Laney, Ty and I meet up with some old friends that we knew from the first apartment we lived in. All of us have kids the same age. So there were three 4-year olds, three 2-year olds, and 3 mother, two of them being pregnant. (No, I'm not one of the pregnant ones....I can read all of your minds...) Anyway, it was a lot of fun catching up, playing, and eating.
First we went to the petting zoo with goats, llamas, ponies, ducks, a HUGE pig, and probably other animals I don't remember.
We were waiting for the petting zoo to open and I saw this huge thing out of the corner of my eye, a little bit away, and i thought to myself, that it must be a calf or something because of the size. (Please bear in mind, that there were several fences, animals in between and I was NOT right next to it.) Anyway, when we got in there I saw that it was the biggest pig I have seen in my whole life. Believe me, the picture does not do it justice. I'm still in chock.
There was also pony riding there, and Ty really wanted to ride but Laney didn't. So Laney was watching the gigantic pig while Ty was riding the pony.
I don't know if I wrote this before, but Ty is a little cowboy. When Laney is riding I have to keep pushing her little bum back onto the center of the saddle, but Ty sits like he was born on a horse (which I assure you, he was not). Anyway, when I'm walking around in meaningless circles with him, I always wonder to myself why I doing it. He could do it by himself.
