Halloween - Oct. 31, 2010

 

Halloween 2010
Brian: the Groom - Dalia: the "Wedding Girl" (Bride) - Tesila: Cinderella (Bridesmaid) - Britni: Mother of the Bride (Dalia's mom!)
Halloween!  We love to dress up!  This year me and the girls went to our halloween playgroup party!  We ate yummy halloween lunch, hot dog mummies, and halloween desserts!  We ran around with our friends and showed off our costumes to the moms!  Each kid got to walk across the stage at church to show off their costume.  Dalia walked across the stage slowly, pausing in the middle to spin around and bowed.  Then slowly walked off to the other side, smiling from ear to ear the entire time!!  Tesila walk straight across the stage with her head turned to the side to look at the moms,  she didn't walk too fast, but not slow and she didn't stop for a bow.  They were both so cute!

A few days later we had a Ward Halloween carnival and Trunk or Treat!  We all dressed up as a family and went to the carnival.  We played games and then collected candy at the trunk or treat.  On the actual Halloween i was terribly ill.  I layed on the couch the entire day.  Evening came and neighbor kids started to come around trick or treating.  So i began to get the girls all dressed up in their costumes.  Then Brian set off with the little wedding girl and cinderella down the street for Trick-or-Treating.  As i layed on the couch awaiting their return i made my way to the door every so often to pass out candy to the few trick-or-treaters that come to our neighbor hood.  My last trick-or-treaters were my favorite of all.  Little Dalia and Tes!!  I opened the door and let them in.  Tes had fun eating as much candy as she could.  As soon as she had one piece of candy in her mouth she was grabbing another candy and getting ready to open it to eat it!  Dalia enjoyed sorting her candy into piles of the kinds that matched!  Happy Halloween!  It was a good holiday even though i felt so awful.  I'm glad my girls were still able to enjoy it!

Video: Dalia after Trick or Treating, sorting her candy. - Oct. 2010

Oct. 2010 Videos

Video: Dalia dressed as "Halidida" an old lady, to take pictures with Alycia for Preston's Firefighter pictures.


Video: Mayor asks Tes - Oct. 2010 - Tes says a line from the meatball movie. so cute!!


Video:Dalia & her "Animal Rescue Computer." There is a dessert, sandstorm, to the pyramid, a camel which uses its eyelashes to go through the sand storm. - Oct. 2010


Video: Tes sings "Happy Birthday" to herself! then eats her yogurt cake that she made. A breakfast ritual. - Oct. 2010


Video: Tes in Time out crying for Grandma Carolyn over and over the entire 2 minutes! - Oct. 2010


Video: Dalia after Trick or Treating, sorting her candy. - Oct. 2010

Halloween! - Oct. 31, 2010

Groom, Bride, Cinderella, Mother of the Bride (Brian's Mother-in-Law!)

All dressed up for our ward halloween carnival & trunk or treat!

Brian's, Eric's, & Emily's
Eric & Emily invited us over to carve pumpkins!
I don't let my girls carve pumpkins yet, but they sure love to paint pumpkins!

Tes painting her pumpkin, pink, purple, and shiny gray (silver).

Dalia painted her pumpkin red, black, with purple glitter. She also painted her name in shiny gray.

We sad "See you in about 6 months!" to Uncle Eric tonight! We will sure miss him. He he going to work in the UK for awhile.

Brian saying so long to his brother. This is the closest i could get them to each other for a goodbye picture. And they are showing off their pumpkins.

Brian's Car! Which he owns a sixth of!
Him and some friends are entering a car race next March or June.

Halloween night as i sent my trick or treaters off.

The cutest Trick-or-Treaters i got all night!

Dalia enjoyed matching her candy! Tesila enjoyed eating candy one after the other.

Pumpkin Carving - Oct. 30, 2010

Emily & Eric invited us over to carve pumpkins!!  I was so very sick that day, but i wanted to get out of the house.  Brian drove us to their house and i walked right in and layed on the couch pretty much the entire time.  Emily, Eric, & Brian carved pumpkins and Dalia & Tes painted pumpkins.  It was the first year in awhile that i hadn't carved a pumpkin.  Notice Brian's "cute" carved pumpkin!  Cute heart nose and cute smile!  So sweet!  (He usually carves scary pumpkins, it must have been because i couldn't carve a cute one so Brian carved it for me!  At least i like to think that.) 
We then sad our see you laters to Eric.  We are leaving in a few days for Utah and our month long trip to the middle east and Utah and won't be back until after Thanksgiving.  Eric will be leaving to work in Wales after Thanksgiving so we won't be seeing him for awhile.  We think he will be back sometime in the spring of 2011.  We will miss you eric!

This year my mom & Lane had a pumpkin carving contest.  We sent in pictures of the 3 pumpkins from our house.  They each got prizes and money.  Of course the first time i can't carve a pumpkin because i can't even sit up from my horrible pregnancy sickness is the year that i would have got a prize.  Needless to say i'm a little sad.  But i'm trying to be glad that i was sick.  It was horrible!  i threw up on the car ride home and wondered why i even went. 

Happy Halloween! - Oct. 28, 2010

Happy Halloween!!!

from Cinderella & the Wedding Girl

Dalia drew this great picture and wanted everyone to see it! It is a picture of Jasmine's city!

Dalia dressed up her kitty Abigail as Princess Tiana!

Dalia's.drawings.Tes.yogurt - Oct. 25, 2010

 

Dalia is becoming a great artist!  She draws some great pictures.  She also has a great imagination. Here she drew this picture and called it her "Animal Rescue Computer."  The top part is a picture of a desert and a sandstorm.  There is a camel who she said has eyelashes to keep the sand out of its eyes.  She also drew a pyramid and water pools for the camel to drink because the camel drink lots of water and eats thorny plants (she learned it all from a Dora the Explorer movie).  I love how she found this toy turtle to be her "mouse" for her computer!
Another day she drew what she called "Jasmine's City!" and requested that i take a picture to post online.  She also tried on her halloween costume and dressed up her kitty Abigail in a party dress and crown as Abigail's halloween costume!  good mama!
Last is a picture of Tes with yogurt at breakfast.  Lately the girls like to stir their yogurt and say they are making a cake.  Then they take turns singing happy birthday to each other and me and we pretend blow out the candles and then they stir their yogurt again and sing again.  I got Tes singing on video below.

Video:Dalia & her "Animal Rescue Computer." There is a dessert, sandstorm, to the pyramid, a camel which uses its eyelashes to go through the sand storm. - Oct. 2010


Video: Tes sings "Happy Birthday" to herself! then eats her yogurt cake that she made. A breakfast ritual. - Oct. 2010


Video: Tes in Time out crying for Grandma Carolyn over and over the entire 2 minutes! - Oct. 2010

Cake & Computer - Oct. 25, 2010

Dalia came to Young Women's with me the other night! We were decorating cakes! Dalia was so excited to decorate "wedding cakes!" That what she kept calling them. Dalia frosted most of the white layer frosting on herself. Then i helped her pipe on her name. She insisted that her cake say, "Dalia is getting married!" So i helped her pipe that on too and a flower! she was so proud of her heart shaped wedding cake!

Dalia made herself a computer!

She drew this great picture and calls it her "animal safari computer." And her computer is complete with a turtle mouse! She drew a desert, with a sand storm, a pyramid, a sun, a camel, water pools for the camel to drink.

The back of the computer!

Mukilteo Beach - Oct. 19, 2010

 

It was another beautiful day here in Washington!!  We made our way to Mukilteo Beach for a picnic and to play!!  I felt reasonably well.  I'm so thankful to my mom for always having yummy food ready for everyone to eat!!
We enjoyed a picnic and playing on the playground.  The girls of course loved walking up and down the beach, collecting rocks, finding a feather and trying to make a boat, and wading in the water.  We missed Brian as he was at work.
Back at home we took a group picture of us being pirates! before Jer's fam and my mom leave in the morning.  We are so glad that you all came!!  Next time i hope to not be sick.

A. Fam! - Oct. 19, 2010

Family!

Tes, Brian, Dalia, Brit, Erin, Ava, Grandma C., Jer, & Brennan!
We are so glad they came to visit!!

Early Birthday Tea Party for Ava!!

Tes loved sleeping on the floor with Grandma Carolyn! (Grandma loved it too!!)

Dalia & Ava loved sleeping in the little tent!

Dalia & Ava playing at the beach!

Brennan & Tes

Ava Sleeps Over - Oct. 17, 2010

 

I completely wore myself out on our day trip to Seattle.  The next day i felt so sick and rested on the couch the entire Sunday.  Ava's birthday is next week, so we had a birthday celebration Tea Party for Ava!!  Grandma Carolyn made cute little hot dogs and cute little cookies!  We sang to Ava and she blew out a candle!  The girls enjoyed their Tea Party and then Ava opened up her present from Dalia and Tes.  Dalia was so excited to give Ava the "Rapunzel" barbie!!  It was a little hard for Dalia to realize that it was for Ava and not her.  They all loved playing with the barbie!
We later watched "How to Train your Dragon" for the first time.  The girls were all scared at first and were hiding under their blankets.  But at the end Dalia sat up and said, "That was COOL!  I love that movie!"  and now she wants to watch it all the time.

Ava & Dalia had fun sleeping in Dalia's little tent in her room!!  Grandma Carolyn and Tes had fun sleeping on the floor in the girls room!  Such a fun sleepover for these four girls - Grandma, Ava, Dalia, & Tesila.

Ava, Dalia, Grandma, & Tes eating lunch in the Space Needle!  (They ate Space Needle Macaroni and Cheese!  and Yes, the noodles are shaped like the Space Needle!)

Tes, Ava, Dalia, & Brennan

Beautiful Tesi

Dalia's Self Portrait!

Her drawings of people are getting really good.  I like her toes!

Ed's fam. in Seattle - Oct. 16, 2010

My brother's family and my mom came to visit us in Washington!!
I'm so glad they came!  He was my last family member who hadn't come to visit yet (minus Callie's husband Rayson and baby Raylie).  Despite my being sick i was so glad they came!   

The first day they were here i actually felt pretty well.  We started off this morning with Donuts for breakfast.  Every Saturday Jer takes Ava out for donuts for "Daddy Daughter Donut Day!!"  So cute!!  Then all 8 of us fit in our Honda Pilot and headed off to Seattle for the day! (my mom stayed at home, went shopping, and made dinner!)  Ed has always liked the city of Seattle especially because Seattle is where Pearl Jam came from!  We had fun playing at Gas Works park and enjoying the Beautiful Sunny Weather!!  We ate lunch at Red Mill Burgers on Queen Anne.  Walked around Pike's Place Market!  Brian bought me a beautiful Dahlia bouquet!  Which Dalia and Ava enjoyed carrying.







We enjoyed the view from Kerry Park and playing on the sculpture and playground there.  We walked the Pier, visited Pirates Plunder, and rode the Carousel!  It was a great day in Seattle!!

October! - Oct. 16, 2010

October!All ready to take Dalia to Preschool!
Dalia dressed up as her Gigi!
My friend was having a photo shoot with her little boy as a fireman and wanted to have Dalia be an old lady who need her cat rescued. Dalia likes to get her picture taken and she had just received some great new dress up stuff that was her Gigi's! It worked how perfect! I think Dalia had lots of fun! And she looks so cute!! I think her Gigi would be proud!
Tes set up a Tea party for her and her Daddy! You can see sick Dalia laying on the couch! She had a high fever for about 5 days! Then it went away!

Brian completed Grand Turismo!! 100% Hooray!

Jerry's family came to visit Seattle!!
We are so excited to have them here for a few days!!
Ava, Jerry, Brennan, & Erin

Oct. 9, 2010-GT.TeaParty-Gma.Dalia

Check out this blog post i found in my draft folder that i never published.  I don't know why i didn't, it was even all typed up and ready to go.  I know my mom and sisters will enjoy it.  Here ya go...
 

Hooray!!  Brian completed Grand Turismo 100%!!!  He has been waiting for this day for a long time!  Maybe we will get to spent more time with him now!  Well i've actually been feeling so sick that i haven't been able or wanted to spent time with anyone.  So it is probably good that Brian had something else to do.  However, my friend Michelle D. was celebrating her birthday with a girls night out and i really needed to get out.  So i ventured out to girls night not feeling great, but it was good to get out of the house.  Happy Birthday to Michelle!!
Back at home we had a sick Dalia with a fever that kept spiking.  Tesila loves setting up Tea Parties.  Tesila had a Tea Party with her Dad while her sick sister Dalia lay on the couch resting.  Monday morning came and Dalia still had a fever and then started throwing up.  I called the pediatrician and they had an opening that morning at 10am.  This same morning at 10:30am was also my first OBGYN Doctors appointment for this pregnancy.  Brian usually comes to my first appointment with me.  And i always take Dalia to the doctor.  This time was different.  Brian got Dalia and Tes ready and headed out to meet our pediatrician with the girls.  I got ready and headed off to my doctors appointment.

My doctors appointment went fine.  Except i felt sick the entire time!  and i was sad to not have Brian with me!  However, the best part was that i got to see our little baby inside of me and see a heart beating!  Best news i could get!  I was sad that Brian wasn't there to see it though.  At the pediatrician's office the Doctor just figured that Dalia either had a virus that was going around or a bladder infection.  So Brian had to help Dalia pee in a cup to get her urine tested.  A few days later the results came back with a negative on the bladder infection and Dalia's week long fever was finally starting to go away for good. 

Grandma Dalia & Fireman Preston!
My friend Alycia was making a book for her son Preston of pictures of him being a fireman!  (the book turned out super cute!)  She asked to have Dalia dress up like an old lady and bring her kitty so that Preston could save her kitty from being stuck on the playground.  Dalia had fun dressing up!  And it was perfect because Dalia had just received some very neat scarfs from Gigi and Gigi's wig that she sometimes wore.  Dalia was the cutest little Grandma!  I know Gigi would have been so proud of her.  (Gigi was an actress herself and enjoyed dressing up).

Video: Dalia dressed as "Halidida" an old lady, to take pictures with Alycia for Preston's Firefighter pictures.


Video: Mayor asks Tes - Oct. 2010 - Tes says a line from the "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" movie. so cute!!  Tes says, "The Mayor asks me to cut the ribbon, save the town, are you proud of me mom?"