The festivities

I woke up to this on my porch:


I have NO idea who did this, but have would just like to say "THANKS" to Chantelle and Crystal. I don't know why I'm thanking them, for telling everyone how OLD I am!

And then at lunchtime my door rang and it was my sweet husband holding balloons, and a cake from "Nothing Bundt Cakes".

Yummy! We enjoyed it after dinner last night. Jeff even bought ding dongs for the kids so I could eat more of the cake! I loved having it for breakfast this morning as well!


He also brought me flowers, with Lilies in it. I LOVE the smell of lilies in the house! I enjoyed a great lunch out with some friends, and loved all the sweet messages from each of you! Thanks for thinking of me!

Happy Birthday to ME!

Happy St. Patrick's Day to each of you!

In honor of my birthday, I've decided to post something (amazing, huh?).

I've already had so many fun things I've done for my birthday. I've gone for a pedicure (love them!), went to dinner at 5 guys burgers and fries (yum!), and went to see a movie. I also have enjoyed having Jeff's sister Aileen and her family in town this weekend, along with Jeff's aunt Marilyn and cousin Jenny in town.
Jane, Susan, Aileen, Aunt Marilyn, Jenny, and Aunt Carol and I had a day out. We had so much fun shopping, eating, and laughing yesterday. Read more about Marilyn here. Went to Tai Pan and found some treasures, then to Gardner Village for more shopping and lunch. It was great.

Then I hosted dinner last night and had Jeff's family over. We put the trampoline cover back on (took it down for the winter) and the kids had a blast bouncing all over the place. Here's the 11 cousins that were all together. We missed you Katie & Jack! They had a ball. I made "Herbed Chicken in Puff Pastry" for dinner. I'll post it on my recipe blog soon. It was yummy!

Looking forward to lunch with my girlfriends today - I'll post more soon!

makeup brushes

So I saw this on the morning show last month and decided that was what I wanted for my birthday. New makeup brushes. Mom & Dad sent me a little cash for my b-day next week, and I'm going to Target to pick out some brushes.

Click on this link to read about the must haves for brushes. Maybe you too will decide you need some new ones.

Cute

I just found this blog called "a print a day" and she has free downloads. Check out this super cute sheet of little girls dresses gift tags.

Spring Dress Party!

I am having another dress party on Monday! There are 1000 dresses to choose from, sizes 2T-14 and also infant dresses. They range from $20 to $37. This year she has a sale rack of $20 dresses from previous years. She will also have Baptism dresses available.

I have done these for years now, and always find great dresses for the girls. You can find matching dresses for all ages, and she can mail you any sizes she has out of stock. I always get many compliments on the girls unique dresses from the dress party.Monday March 9th

12:30-2:30 p.m.
In my driveway

If you need directions to my house, please email or call me.

Dress parties are going on all over the valley. From Spanish Fork to Sugarhouse. If you would like to attend one in your area, email me, and I'll find the party closest to you.

Of course there's a bonus to me if you can make it to mine.
I would love to see you there!

Can't I just have a little piece of heaven?

So, can you tell I haven't been into blogging lately? I've been keeping myself quite busy as usual. I've been working on refinishing headboards/footboards for the girls. Bella's is done, still working on Sofie's. I'll post photos when I'm done. I have much to catch up on, but not right now.

If you've seen the popular blog thing to do lately is to go into "google" and type your first name and the word "needs" after it. See what top 10 things you supposedly need. I did it, and kept coming up with other people's blogs that have done it. So I changed it to "Dawn wants"

1. Dawn wants a piece of heaven (how true is that?!)
2. Dawn wants a fish
3. Dawn wants any and all!!!
4. Dawn wants robo calls stopped
5. Dawn wants K-mart shoppers' attention
6. Dawn wants to rethink the way we treat animals
7. Dawn wants to talk about her feelings for a little bit
8. Dawn wants to make certain everyone in Nevada has the same opportunity to achieve his or her own aspirations.
9. Dawn wants to try it out
10. Dawn wants to start a family

It's pretty funny, you should see what it is YOU want out of life. Google will tell you.

Happy Valentine's Day!

The kids enjoyed a fun box from Auntie Di - always a treat!Loved putting together their valentines for their friends at school.

Woke up to fun Valentine's presents on their plates.

The girls got little Barbie MP3 players - which they LOVE!

Reed got a new truck which makes lots of noise - so fun!

We had our usual heart shaped pizza - the kids really were dressed and ready between breakfast and dinner, I just happened to take photos after baths that night.

And our yummy dessert was cake balls - mmmm . . . good!

It was so much fun!

The Buzz

So on the news they're talking about how Africanized Killer Bees have been found in traps in and Southern Utah. They want to alert Utahns that the Bees have arrived to the state, and to take some precautions. Don't panic, just make sure that your home is secure without any holes through the exterior walls, and call emergency workers if you suspect you have some on your property.

What do they expect? After all, Utah is the BEEHIVE state.

100th Day of School

Today was Bella's 100th Day of school. Her teacher had all kinds of activities involving them counting to 100. One thing was that each child was to bring 100 items to school. We decided to make cookies. Bella used some food coloring pens to number the cookies.

We had so much fun making them together, and she had fun counting them out again at school and distributing them to her classmates.

And the winner is . . .

Sarah!

I'll get it in the mail to you today - Congratulations & Happy Valentine's Day!

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

7

Timestamp: 2009-02-05 15:37:27 UTC

Silly Sofie

Sofie is a crack up! She can also be an absolute mess (thanks to being 3). Here are some of the funny things she's done lately.

Jeff told the kids it was time to take a bath, and Sofie responded while giggling "DAD! We don't have to take a bath, we took a bath last year!"

We were in the car, and Sofie was singing at the top of her lungs, (to the tune of "Jimmy Crack Corn") "Kitty Cat Corn, and I Care, Kitty Cat Corn, and I Care" over and over again.

She is constantly asking for her hair to be put in a braid, any kind of braid, and today I found out why. She likes to un-braid it at night when she goes to bed. She demonstrated it this morning just after I braided her hair.

On Sunday we were leaving Aunt Jane's house and Sofie was missing a shoe. I told the kids "whoever finds Sofie's shoe gets a quarter!" Bella and Julia were scrambling. Jimmy had no interest in a mere quarter. I decided we'd looked long enough and told the kids we were leaving. Sofie was still concerned she'd never have her shoe again. I reassured her that Aunt Jane would find it and give it to us the next time we saw her. Then she said "and Aunt Jane will get a quarter!".

Thanks WAMU!

Yesterday morning I had a call from our bank that they had declined my debit card that morning for an online purchase. They were wondering if we had authorized the transaction.

Come to find out, someone was trying to buy something from an Italian website (computer equipment, go figure) for $179. Our bank thought it was suspicious, and declined the payment. It was fraud, and they are reissuing us new cards.

Jeff and I were very relieved that they caught it, and hope that is the end of it. Now we are going to check our credit report and make sure it it still as it should be.