Recent Happenings:

The neighbor had a pony over for their daughters B-day and invited my kids to come and pet her. I think her name was "Lolly pop." Both of my kids were scared to death...in fact, only Weston dared to touch the beast.

Next we went shopping for Aubrey for her upcoming 1st day of Pre-Kindergarten. I am so excited for her. There will be more posts of her adorable school uniforms and outfits at a later date. These are her new sneakers.

A recent trip to Target; I just thought it was cute how Weston asked Aubrey to sit on his lap.

Makutu's Island: So today I had to be out of the house for 4 hours. (We had an exterminator come and fog our attic....any how,) I didn't know what to do that long with 2 kids, so we ended up going to Chandler to Makutu's Island. I didn't get a lot of good pics, because the lighting was bad, but here is what it looked like.

Here is Weston on what he calls "The Bear." They were scared to do anything at first...it was a little intimidating, especially for Weston. In the end however, Aubrey was brave and Weston followed suite. They found a "zip line" that they loved. Weston says he went "40 times..." and actually it was close to that. We were there from 10 am till 2pm. Here is Aubrey right before she rode the "Zip line."

The food was even good by the way. They had the chicken nugget kids meals.

Funny Boy!

"Jack and Jill"

He sings this song so well... usually he isn't trying to be funny. He is funny though! Gotta love him.

Cute pics...

well.....you be the judge! I am having a boring Friday night, so I felt like blogging. However, I didn't think I had a thing to blog about. Then I looked at my camera and realized I had quite a few pics over the last week or so. First we have Jacob looking silly on the 4th of July. Next there are a few of last Friday, when Jacob's wonderful family came and and brought dinner and cookies...as well as gifts from their recent trip to Switzerland.
Tickle Time:
Gifts: Cookies we decorated: This is just last Sunday...no nap because we have late church. Weston fell asleep watching his dad play Mario Kart. Too Cute!

Today Carter came over to play. I am trying to get back into exercising to stop my extra weight gain. That is another blog....Anyway, it turned into the kids joining, (their cans are weights) and only Aubrey finished. I was pooped after 15 minutes.

Michael Johns: Queen

This one is for Molly: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRG6mB6jtMg

Brook White: Yellow

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlPHlvefVPU

"Apologize" by David Archuleta

This is for Normie:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ort3vi7tB4o

Here I am at 20 weeks.

I guess this should be fun to see how much I change every month or so. I am nervous this may get embarressing by the end though.

The 4th of July!

Or as Aubrey called it, all day long...."The 4th of July twentieth." She was confused. Anyway, that morning we had pancakes and played Wii all morning. I even tried to teach the kids about America and our freedom. They were really confused, but cute about the whole learning thing. Then around 1pm we went over to our ever faithful friends the Hayes family for a party. The food was wonderful, the company too! We had way too much food..., including "men love these beans" and smoked brisket and ribs. MMMMmmmm. Anyway, I just wish I would have taken some pictures of the whole thing. They have an awesome backyard pool, so we really just enjoyed the hot AZ day at it's best. We stayed at their house clear until it was dark, then headed over to the local park for Maricopa's firework show. It got postponed a little because of the weather, but at least we saw them. Aubrey danced and clapped throughout...while Weston held his ears, then fell asleep. It was all a little too much for him and a definitely too late. Lots of fun though! I am glad we went.

Before the fireworks:

During the Fireworks:
Aubrey dancing :
The End.

The end of Swimming lessons...

but not the end of Swimming. Here they are eating cookies at their last lesson. Then we have some cute videos of the kids learning to swim. They are getting braver every day and we are so proud of our little mermaids.

My review of The American Idol Live Tour 2008

Yes the title is correct. Last night I went to the American Idol concert in Glendale AZ. This was the first concert of the tour and I am here to tell all it was awesome. I almost decided not to go because I was missing a big family outing to a Diamondbacks game. However, I am so glad I decided to go to the concert. I went with my friend Molly and her hilarious mom Lynn. I was nervous that there would be too many group numbers and not enough of my favorite songs....I was wrong. It was perfect.
The concert all began with Chikezie: who was awesome live and he sang 3 songs....not from the show, but better. Then they went in order of who was kicked off. So next was Ramiele: who was definitely the worst of the show. She was flat and lacked stage presence. I felt sorry for her. Her 3 songs just drug on. Moving on....Next was Michael Johns. I still can't believe he was next to get kicked off of Idol. He should have made it farther. Here is a little clip of him. I am telling you....I fell in love with him at this show. Many of the songs he sang on Idol just didn't have time to build up in the 1 minute they had to perform on Idol....but here at concert he stole the show (that is until the David's.) I cannot tell you how good he sounded. You just have to get tickets and go.

OK, next was Kristy Lee Cook: who I was never a fan of. However, her rendition of "I am proud to be an American" still got me teary eyed. She just annoys me personally (I don't like the way she stands). Anyway, she sang well live and I enjoyed it. Next was Carly Smithson: I have always liked her and she was definitely good. For some reason the mic was turned up too loud for her and just that technicality made her a little less enjoyable. She sang all the best songs from her Idol time. So....next, was my favorite girl : Brook White: She was absolutely amazing. Her voice was so clear and she was even better live. She sang "let it be" and "yellow" which I loved. I could listen to her all day. Here is a little teaser of her too.

There was an intermission then we got to hear the top 4 perform. They got to do 4 or 5 numbers each. Jason Castro: Adorable. He really can sing and live it was amazing. He didn't seem as nervous or goofy on the big stage. He really just entertained. He sang all my favorites. "Somewhere over the Rainbow " and others. He was great. Then we have Syesha Mercado (who I wish went home before Brook) anyway, she sang beautifully. She chose to sing some more contemporary songs like that Alecia Keys song and Under my Umbrella. I liked her choice of songs and she does sound good live. Her outfit was atrocious (that is unless you like seeing excessive amount of breast), but oh well.

Moving on to David Archuleta: Amazing, what can I say. He sang a Josh Groban song that he didn't sing on the show and it was truly just perfect. He sang all my favorites (except Imagine.) He was flawless live. Sigh....you have to go hear him.

Last but not least was our great David Cook. He was born to entertain. He was great on the guitar...he sounded amazing (especially for a rocker) and he rocked out to all of our favorites.

There actually ended up being only 2 group numbers and all of the best individual songs packed into this show. I am so glad I got to go. I felt like a crazy teenager again. Funny being I am pregnant and almost 30, but oh well. Thanks Jake for understanding my Idol obsession this year. There were just so many good ones to love. Thanks Molly and Lynn for having as much fun as I did. :)