ARRRR!!!! Our little pirate girl...

Yesterday was our ward "trunk-or-treat" and Kylee finally got to wear her pirate costume. She's been begging me to wear it ever since I bought it a week ago. Here she is at home, all ready to go to the party...

I straightened her hair and sprayed it black. HUGE MISTAKE!!! That black crap got all over everything. She is having regular hair color on Halloween night. She looks clean and fresh in these pictures but by the end of the night, her forehead and cheeks were chalky black!

Here are some pictures of her and some of her friends in the ward. This is her and Londyn sitting in the back of our Explorer eating candy as we handed some out to the trick or treaters. Londyn was the prettiest Tinkerbelle ever!

Kylee and Londyn again...

Kylee and Patton....he was a cute little monkey!

Most of her pictures turned out like this one below. She couldn't smile normal this night for some reason. Crazy girl!!!

Happy Birthday Jaime!!!

You always hear that there is a reason why people come and go in our lives......well....Jaime is someone that I know came into my life for a reason. We met not even a year ago but I feel like we have been friends our entire lives. In relationship terms...."we hit it off" from the beginning! She is not only my closest friend in my life right now, but she is someone that will remain a life long friend forever. Today is her 30th birthday and I have to give her a shout out! (she might kill me for posting how old she is to the world - - hahaha). But Jaime, I just want you to know that you are such an amazing person and you affect everyone's lives that you come in contact with. I hope you have a great day today and I can't wait to take you to lunch!!! :)

PS.....I'm SOOO glad that we don't have to coach against each other again. That was too hard!

No Title.....Too Random!

I've been "collecting" pictures and haven't posted them yet so they are all being grouped together in one random post! To start out, David and I had date night on Friday with the Walkers. The picture quality is really bad because we all forgot our cameras and I had to use my camera phone to document our crazy night of fun!!! It started at In and Out Burger for dinner, then we headed over to Golf Land, and then back to the Walker's home for more games! Ya....we're crazy like that!

Here's some golf shots... (David is trying to pose in the backgroud and Nick is trying to stick his head around but he was too late getting in the shot!)

The cute Walker couple sitting in hole 10 in the big volcano!

The Pew couple being all Indian in front of the tent!

The losers had to go inside and play "Dance Dance Revolution". As you can see, those losers were Tanya and I! The boys CHEAT!!!!!

Everyone ended up taking a turn playing this STUPID game! Ya....I said it! It was horrible!

Here is Kylee being a big sister to Londyn. She is changing her diaper.......well.....attempting to! She did a good job! All I had to do was tighten the diaper after Kylee strapped it on. She did a good job! I'm very impressed! Hopefully she'll be able to practice on her real sisters soon!

And last but not least, last night I played in a faculty volleyball match. This was the 2nd year of doing this. The faculty of my High School (Higley) plays the faculty of our rival school (Williamsfield) for a fundraising night of fun! We won last year and guess what......WE WON AGAIN THIS YEAR! Wahoo!!! It was fun but I'm feeling it today! Sore, sore, sore!!! It was worth it though!! Go Knights!!!

Random Things - - Tag

It's been a while since I've done a tag and I saw this on Jami's and Tausha's, so I'm doing it!!!

8 Favorite Shows I Like To Watch:

*24

*Friends

*America's Best Dance Crew

*Dateline

*Oprah

*Game Shows

(Um.....I can't think of anymore. I don't like to watch tv really! I just watch DVD's of past shows!)

Okay 2 more....um

*The news :)

*and I used to love Grey's Anatomy!

8 Favorite Restaurants:

*Cravings

*Costa Vida

*Red Lobster

*Olive Garden

*Texas Road House (for the rolls)

*Applebee's

*Sweet Tomatoes

*Denny's

8 Things That Happened Yesterday:

*Kissed and Hugged Kylee

*Jaime came over and brought me my most favorite meal from Cravings! Thanks again sooooo much!!! That made my day!

*Worked online selling Ebay (business as usual)

*Talked to David about 5 times on the phone

*Did paperwork and other important things at Higley High School

*Coached my volleyball team for a win against Tempe High School

*Talked and played pool with Tanya online (and won 4-0!!!) :)

*Talked and deliberated over our weekend plans with David (that took a long part of my evening.....so it's meaningful enough to put on this list) hahaha

8 Things I Am Looking Forward To:

*Rescheduling our Disneyland Trip

*Thanksgiving

*Christmas

*Watching Kylee learn new things and grow

*More children!

*Starting a new season of club volleyball with the most amazing girls ever! - Go *HAVOK

*Jodi's wedding

*Twilight the Movie coming out next month!!! Yay!!!

8 Things On My Wish List:

*More children....first and foremost!

*Helping my High School team make it to the State Tournament

*David's job being secure

*The economy getting better

*Health for all my "ailing" family members

*Being debt free

*See my sister get married and start her family

*For all of my family to be an eternal family forever!

***I tag: Jaime, Tanya, Mikalie (new blogger!), Heather Brown, Brandi, Gina, Brooke Allen, and Kimberly Baker!

"Dig Pink" Event for Breast Cancer

Yesterday at Williamsfield High School for our volleyball match, we all had a Susan G. Komen breast cancer awareness theme. It was titled "Dig Pink". We all made pink shirts that read......."Rivals on the Court......United in the Fight". It was really neat!! I have close family members to me that are breast cancer survivors and I also have a very close family friend and dearly loved one that lost her battle a little over a year ago. So this meant a lot to me as well as some of the girls on my teams who have mothers and loved ones who have battled with it as well. It's so common to know someone who has battled with this disease and it was so awesome to see all these young girls wearing pink to help in the cause. It was an amazing evening...........plus.........WE WON! Wahoo!!!

Here are the Freshmen warming up in their cute pink shirts!

Freshmen huddle before the big game!

Freshmen doing their little "cheer" before the big game!

Me and my JV coach Martie sitting on the bench, looking all cute in our pink shirts!

And here our the JV and Varsity girls waiting to cheer on the Freshmen for their big game!

I don't have any action shots of my JV or Varsity girls because I put my camera away after the Freshmen game and forgot to take it back out! I really wanted a big group shots of all the girls together in their pink shirts but I "blew it"!!! O'well! It was a great evening and one that I'm sure none of us will forget - - - - - mainly because my varsity team had a crazy match and barely won!!!! INTENSE!!! - - - GO KNIGHTS! (I always have to throw that in)

Friend Time

These past couple weekends have been great! I've had the opportunity to meet up with old friends and to hang out with the close friends that I've always had! Jodi is getting married next month so it brought a lot of us back together.

To start, Jami "Weinberg", Christina, Jodi and I all got together for some yummy lunch at Paradise Bakery over conference weekend. It was great to see Jami again after 7+ years!! Wow!

Jodi had her shower this past Friday so we all got together for that of course! Here she is getting the "goods"!!! Woo hoo!!! (I love Tausha's face in this picture) Hahaha

And here she is getting her new initial for her new last name! McGill baby!!! Ya!!!

And here she is in her true form! We love you Jodi!

Here is most of us! We are missing Heidi, Kimberly and Heather. I love friends!!!

And on Saturday, Jodi's finance (still weird to say that)....had his birthday barbeque at their new apartment. David and Kylee were the only ones to go swimming. Thanks for being a team player Daddy!!! :)

Here's the fun group!!! Christina, Tausha, me and Jodi!

Christina, Tausha and me..........FREEZING our booties off! It was so cold this night!

Me, Christina and Jodi! Not sure where Tausha was for this one!

And here is a big picture of all Jodi's close friends. We all came to support her and Jon in their last single party together! Happy birthday Jon!

First Hair Cut......I FINALLY Cracked!

So I have been asked by many people if I have ever cut Kylee's hair and my answer has always been, "NO WAY.....I don't want to cut her curls off!!!". I respond like that because I've had people come up to me throughout Kylee's life and say, "Oh my daughter used to have curls just like that but then I cut her hair and they didn't grow back". So I've been terrified to even TRIM her hair. Well, I finally gave in and had Tanya TRIMMMMMM a tiny half inch off the ends of her curls. They were just getting to rough and dry so I knew they were damaged. Kylee was so excited to sit in the "hair cutting" chair because she has seen me and David sit in it many times. Here she is all ready to go!!

Here is what Tanya probably would've chopped off if I weren't there!!!! Yikes!!!

Here is what she actually cut off! Hahahaha! Just a little less than what she wanted to do! :)

Kylee did such a good job. She looked like such a big girl in this chair.

I don't have an "after" picture because, well......I forgot, but all you need to know is that it looks the exact same! Curls are intact and it doesn't look any shorter! Hey.....baby steps! I don't think I'll EVER cut her hair. I want her hair to be long and thick and curly forever! Trims are all for now!!! Thanks Tanya!!!

New Presidential Candidate - VOTE NOW!

Check out the latest candidate in the presidential race. He's great and I think you should all take a look and see for yourselves! Go to this link....

http://www.tsgnet.com/pres.php?id=46832&altf=Ebwje&altl=Qfx

Story Time by Kylee Pew

Kylee loves to tell stories and they usually involve a princess named Kylee. She was in a story telling mood the other day so I whipped out my camera and caught one on tape. She gets a little "side-tracked" with the hot lamp but other than that, it's a pretty scary story! Beware!! LOL

I met a celebrity!!! Well.....kind of!

At a club volleyball directors meeting this past weekend, I had the opportunity to see and talk with Nicole Davis. For those of you in the volleyball world, you SHOULD know who she is. For those of you who don't know volleyball and didn't watch the olympics last month, then allow me to explain. She is the libero (defensive specialist) for the USA olympic team. She is amazing!!! She was a guest speaker at the meeting and she passed her medal around for everyone to see. They took silver.........lost to an amazing Brazil team. I was so excited to hold an olympic medal! I had Charlotte (club arrowhead director) take a picture of me with it. I was laughing so hard because I felt so dumb taking this picture in front of everyone..............so I look funny in the picture. But hey...........how many of you can say that you've held an olympic medal!!!??? That's what I thought! LOL

2008 Lady Knights!

The 2008 High School season is in full swing and I'm having a blast with this team! They are an amazing group of girls who work their tails off every practice. We had a rocky start to our season but things have been looking up this past week. The best thing about this team is that they all get along and love each other! Our chemistry is great and it shows when you watch them. We just beat one of our rivals yesterday and it felt GREAT! We have a tournament tomorrow (Saturday) and we are looking forward to getting all the practice we can get to help us get more region wins! These pictures are from our Chandler tournament a couple weekends ago. We didn't place very well in this tournament, but we definitely grew and learned a lot! And that's what these tournaments are all about!

GO KNIGHTS!!!!

Straight Hair!

If you haven't noticed already........Kylee has extremely curly hair. My friend Tanya, being the hair-stylist that she is, has been asking me to straighten her hair just to see what it would look like. Well, now I know! Look at these pictures below.............her hair is sooo long and blonde!

(She wasn't in the best mood when I took these pictures!!)

By popular demand.....

I have been getting requests on how I updated my blogger list to show when everyone has updated. It's really simple and it's part of the blogspot format. Just go to your layout and click on "add a gadget" (on the right side). Then a window will pop up and click on the first option called "blog list". You will have to input each address one at a time, which will take some time if you have a lot of friends! It took me about an hour and a half so make sure you have time! After you input all of your addresses, go through and delete your current list of friends. Otherwise, you'll have two lists of friends. Let me know if you have any questions or problems!!! Good luck!

Anger Management Here I Come...

Soooo...................I absolutely HATE crickets! They are ugly, yes, but I can't stand their annoying humming chirp! When I was a little girl, I used to wake my Dad up to go find the crickets outside my window because they would keep me up at night. The "average" person can't hear crickets the way I can. They just pierce the very "soul" of my ears!!! That's the only way I can describe my utter HATRED for those nasty insects. So onto my "anger management" spell. I got home tonight around 7:45pm (after a sweep win at Higley - go Knights!) and the first thing I hear is a loud cricket coming from inside the wall in our kitchen. It's so loud that it seems like it should be sitting on our island counter top singing away. But it's hidden somewhere in the wall and it's absoutely driving me crazy! So I kicked the wall off and on throughout the evening and it would stop every now and then. Well, it kept on going for about 30 mintues straight and it made me SOOOO mad. So i went into the kitchen and back kicked the wall with my heel and, um.........needless to say, this is what happened - - - -

Um, yeah..........I kicked a monster hole in our wall. And to make matters worse, the cricket started chirping all loud right after I did it - - as if to laugh in my face and rub it in!!!! Ahhhhh.......I HATE crickets!!!!

And here's the quick fix! Gotta love blue tape!

Goodbye "Man Patch"

I'm not a fan of chest hair and luckily David was "blessed" with very little hair for me! He has a tiny patch of hair in the middle of his chest. Our friend Tanya happens to have a hot tub with wax and we went on a waxing binge one day while we were hanging out with them. This video explains it all...............(the volume is a little off from what is happening but you can still get the full effect of what David is going through!!!) LOL - - -

GOODBYE MAN PATCH!!!

Here is a picture of the two "manly men" getting their hair colored! Nick colored his because he's got some style and wanted to switch things up. David, however, got convinced to get rid of his grays!!!! Don't they look so happy and handsome!? (I'm turning my husband into a metro man)