A Fantastic Idea

I know I'm not the only one who thinks that "New Moon" was made much better than "Twilight". There was a bigger budget to work with, and a far better director. It followed the book more closely, the acting was better-- not so schizophrenic in Kristen Stewart's case. So, I have really been wishing there was some way they could just re-make "Twilight". And then I had an amazing idea. How about Stephenie Meyer stops sitting on her hands, finishes "Midnight Sun" (the story of "Twilight", but from Edward's perspective, for those of you not in the know), and then they make a movie of that! Am I brilliant, or has everyone already thought of that?

Three Showers

We're getting to the home stretch of this wedding business. We've made it through all three showers, and are coming up on the week of weeks. Valentine's Day Sunday (and teach Sunday School), Liz birthday Monday, temple Tuesday, dad birthday Wednesday, deep breaths Thursday, reception Friday, wedding and luncheon Saturday, collapse Sunday. We can do it.

I thought I'd post a few pictures of the showers. The one I was most involved it, the friend one, was at my house, and was a Fancy Nancy themed shower. Riley went to a FN birthday party a while back, and Liz was jealous. So we threw her a FN shower. It was tres fancy. (Everything in French is fancier.)

Fancy Nancy herself

Three very fancy friends. These lovely ladies were the ones who helped me with decorations and food. Many thanks!

You can't see very well, but the girl in the center made herself a headdress out of pine cones and needles. She won the "Best Costume" contest.

Lizzie (or Theodosia, as we call her) and Joan

Joan brought about a dozen purple feather boas, which were given to guests not dressed fancy. Afterwards, Riley tried them all on, and was almost buried.

Then we had the ward shower, which I was supposed to help plan. But the good ladies in our ward just took over, and I only ended up bringing chips and salsa. Everyone is so nice!

Not very flattering, but we can't be too picky.

And tons of thanks to these wonderful women for taking the ball and running with it. You're great!

I don't have any pictures from the third and final shower, Lad's families shower. But they were all very nice-- I'm glad to know Liz is marrying into such a great family.

Well, wish me luck, everyone! Don't know why I'm up so late-- I have to get up early to put together 20 Valentine's for Riley class party. Need sleep. But I do need to know if anyone has an idea of where I can get a dress to wear to the wedding. I need it to be sage green, sandstone/ rust, or possibly brown. I guess I could find a skirt, but I'd really rather a dress, and I'm having a devil of a time. Suggestions? It's getting down to the wire here.

Snow Day!

Our play group is so cool. It snowed quite a bit last week, and we decided to go sledding. I'm thinking we mom's may have had more fun than the kids.

Ivan and Riley

Tanya, so adorable

me, Katie (the Unibomber), and Alyssa

Me, and yes, I am standing up on the sled. I'm cool.

Kyson, Melanie, and Brynlee

Katie and Coleman

Alyssa and Tanya

Josh, who joined us part way through, Katie and Coleman

Brynlee, Melanie, and Kyson

Ivan, Alyssa, and Tanya

me and Riley

the whole crew

We all have so much fun together! For this week, we went to the aquarium in Sandy, which was awesome! Of course we didn't take any pictures, but take my word for it--we had a blast!