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)

My Rising Star!!!

There is a video at the bottom of this page (scroll all the way down to watch it) and here is the explanation of what it's all about:

On Saturday night my ward had a talent show. It was so much fun! We weren't planning on entering but somehow "The Pew's" got entered on the list about 3 different times with talents such as yodeling and tap dancing...............................Come on now!!!! Everyone in the ward just loves to play jokes on the Pews! Anyway, on the way to the talent show that night, Kylee was singing along with her Disney songs and David and I both decided that since we probably will have to fill one of those spaces on the list, we signed Kylee up last minute. I was afraid she wouldn't do it but once I mentioned that she will get to sing into the microphone.....she was excited as can be! She kept asking me, "Mommy, is it my turn to sing yet?" David and I both didn't have our cameras so a friend of mine watching noticed this and taped it for us. Thanks Cody!

I'm still here!

For those of you who keep up with my blog, you know that I usually post at least once a week (sometimes twice) and it's been 8 days since my last post. That's mainly due to the fact that a new season at Higley started and I've been crazy with tryouts and our first week of practices. I haven't really done anything but that so I don't have any fun pictures to post. But since David keeps complaining about my song choices on my blog, I've decided to change them up a bit. I haven't gone country yet and for those of you who know me, I'm not a huge country music fan. But I started listening to country when I was a Freshman in college. My room mate was obsessed with country and all day long she'd have CMT on the tv and I hated it for the longest time. But slowly and surely, I started to like it. It's all I heard for the first 3 months of college so I guess it was bound to grow on me sometime! Anyway, since the year 2000 (my Freshman year at college), these are some of my favorites from good ole country singers! I still have to admit though that I'm not that big of a country music fan! I only listen to it when there is absolutely nothing else on any of the other stations.

Anyway, back to blogging.......I will post something soon! I'm sure something is coming up in my life other than volleyball that you all will be interested in hearing about! But I'm sorry if my next picture and post is about my high school team because I'm proud of them and excited for our new season! Until then..........

Good-bye Elli :(

Kylee is very sad that Elli is moving out of our ward. Kylee has so many "boy" friends and boy cousins her age so she rarely gets to play princess dress-up and do girly things with her girl friends. But Elli and Kylee are the exact same when it comes to playing. It's hilarious to watch them together. It's like one mind!!! Elli got to come over one last time yesterday while David went over to help the Baker's move. Kylee and Elli had a blast!

This is them playing in Kylee's little hutch. They would ask me to shut the doors and then they would spring them open at the same time and shout "surprise"!!! They thought it was hilarious.

And here they are dancing. Elli is twirling Kylee around in this picture. So cute!!!

Stopping to smile for the camera!

We are going to miss you Baker family! We hope you love your new ward and update your blog OFTEN so we can keep up with how you are doing. Kylee needs to see lots of pictures of Elli on your blog so she won't miss her too much!!! Thanks for playing last night Elli!

Kylee's Birthday Party

As you all know (from my previous post), Kylee's birthday was on Saturday and we threw her a "water" party. We rented a huge water slide with a little pool at the bottom, and we set up a sprinkler under the trampoline. So the kids had a ton of water fun outside. While the kids were outside playing, the adults were inside having some fun of our own. I'll start there.....

Here is my brother, Aaron, playing the Wii fit. Bill and Rachele were nice enough to bring it over! I think.......I THINK.....that I have all the high scores on almost every event! Just to throw that out there! Hahaha!

My Dad playing Wii. He crashed everytime on the ski jump. Hilarious!

Madeline making a snow cone. It came as a free rental with the water slide! Awesome and highly recommended!!!

The amazing cook............David! Hotdogs and hamburgers......yum!

And here is the amazing 5 hour fun slide. It kept the kids busy for the entire 5 hours! Non-stop action baby!

Here is Kylee and Sydney going down the slide with Madeline, Page and Abby not far behind. I love Sydney's face in this picture! My sister came and took some pictures with her crazy amazing camera so I'm sure you'll be able to decifer between my cheap camera's shots and hers. Hint hint......(below)

7 of the 18 kids attempting to go down at the same time. Watch out below!!!!!

Sam, Hanna and Page having the time of their lives!

Cute photographer's eye-view! Love these shots!

Page and Abby........best sisters!

Kylee going solo for a change!

Classic Sam face! Nice!

And here is the yummy birthday cake. Kylee wanted a Belle cake but Costco didn't make those so we had to settle for the happy smily face flowers! She loved it regardless!

She is so excited! I love how all her cousin's are even more excited for her. She has the best cousin's EVER!

Here is Kylee the day after her party..........enjoying a make-up kit that she got. What a great present!!!! :)


And last but not least is a video of David playing the Wii Fit. He is doing a hoola-hoop challenge and it was too funny!! I had to catch it on video. He didn't realize I was taping him until the end. It posted sideways though so you'll have to tilt your head to get the full funny effects of the video. Hilarious!!!

And there you have it!!!! I know it was a lot of pictures but we had so much fun and couldn't help but take tons of pics! My baby is officially 3 and is incredibly sassy.......but a sweetheart in every way! I love you Kylee Princess Baby! (just one of her many names I have for her)!!!

Happy Birthday Princess!!!

My baby is 3 today......I can't believe it! Even though my heart yearns to have another baby, I'm so glad and thankful for the time I've had alone with my precious Kylee. She is such an amazing blessing in my life and I don't know what I'd do without her. Here's a look back at some of my most favorite pictures of her over the years:

2 WEEKS OLD

1 YEAR OLD

2 YEARS OLD

3 YEARS OLD - (almost!)

I love you sweetheart! I hope you have a fun birthday party today! (pictures of that to come)

Conversation with Daddy and the hidden cricket...

So I'm on the computer, which is in the room right next to Kylee's, and I hear this loud cricket coming from the back wall of Kylee's room. I go in there, move around all the furniture along that wall and the dang thing is still chirping as loud as can be. I pounded on the walls and all over the carpet but the dang thing kept on going. It was making me so mad!!! Kylee was watching me the entire time and knew that I was trying to kill this cricket. So in the mean time, David calls and I'm telling him about my frustrations with this cricket. Kylee then asks me to talk to Daddy. This was how their conversation went:

Kylee - "Daddy....there's a cricket in my room. It's loud and Mommy can't find it."

Daddy - "Oh really.....did you get it?"

Kylee - "No Daddy.....it's hiding."

Daddy - "Well go tell it to be quiet."

Kylee - (she walks into her room and says this) - "Cricket be quiet.......stay right there because we are going to kill you!"

It was hilarious! But to be perfectly honest.....I haven't heard the cricket chirp since and it's been well over 15 minutes. HAHA! That cricket must have been scared out of it's mind! Ha! Who needs a pest control man when you've got Kylee! Nice!

Couple's Date Night!

So I can't remember the last time I had been bowling..........that's why we planned a fun bowling night with a couple "couples" in our ward. It was so much fun! There is the funnest bowling alley in Gilbert that I never knew about. It was cosmic bowling for the first hour we were there. I probably gutter-balled my first 3 attempts but I must say that on my very last bowl of our last game, I finally got a strike! I foot-faulted just a little so it didn't count on the actual screen, but all the pins knocked down in one attempt and I'm calling it a strike baby!

Here's David showing off his sexy bowling pose! He had some other "nice" poses that were too......um........cute to post on here - - - - those of you that were there know what I'm talking about!

Below here is Nick and Tanya. Nick was getting "lucky".......woo hoo!

I only had my camera phone with me so some of the pictures came out blurry. Sorry Travis and Jamie! For some reason, your picture is one of them!!! Still a cute couple through the blurry-ness!

And last but not least......David and his beautiful, lovely, talented, non-competitive wife! Haha! Almost all true words!

Birthday party ideas...

Kylee is turning 3 in a couple weeks and I'm at a dead end of what to do for her birthday party. I know a lot of you have little girls/kids so please help me with some fun creative ideas that were a success for your birthday parties. Any ideas would be great! Now that Kylee is old enough to understand that it is her birthday and that we are celebrating for her, I want her to remember it and have tons of fun! Send your ideas my way!!! Thanks!

Ella Grace Montez - Newborn pic

Natalie took Ella's pictures the other day and this one turned out so dang cute! For those of you who didn't read up on my past posts, this is the newest member of the Montez family. Ella Grace Montez was born on July 5th. She's such a blessing to our family! Such a sweetheart!