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I was reading this cute blog and she asked these eleven questions.

1. Raise your hand if you're excited for the Hunger Games movie. BOTH hands are raised!! I'm going to see the midnight showing tomorrow night with my girl friends in Alpha Phi. I even bought a Hunger Games hoodie!

2. Favorite vacation ever? Mine and Matts cruise to Cabo

3. Semi-sweet or milk chocolate? MILK chocolate

4. What is your favorite ice cream flavor? probably cookies and cream

5. If you could be on any reality TV show, which would you choose and why? Minute to Win it or Family Fued.

6. What is the weirdest baby name you've ever heard? Abcde (pronounced ab-city)

7. What color are your bedroom walls? white---boring. we rent an apartment.

8. What's your favorite blog? My new favorite is six sisters stuff. I also love Dating Divas and nienie's blog. And momestary. Geez there are so many that I love.

9. Perfect temperature? 60

10. Guilty pleasure? donuts. I could eat a whole dozen from Krispy Kreme or Banberry Cross.

11. Happiest news of the week? City Creek Center opens and I work right across the street from it!

What we've been up to...

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Eating rice cereal

 Mommy loves baby!

 March 9th- first time sitting up!!!

 Fun date- snowboarding at Sundance

Sabrina's Bachelorette Party

BRIDE TO BE and me

My little sister is growing up. How exciting. My parents youngest daughter is getting married in 5 days!! It kinda makes me feel old. I love her. I'm excited that she starting this part of her life.

 Her cute friends from high school gave her a "bachelorette" party on Saturday night. They were nice enough to invite me, my mom and sisters. We had a fun girls night out! We ate dinner at Texas Road House, played games, opened presents, laughed, talked and ate dessert.

 We played this cute Bridal Shower Memory Game with Candy Bars-

Bride- Hot tamale

Groom- Big Hunk

Bridesmaids- Airheads

Groomsmen- 3 Muskateers

Flower girl- Junior Mints

First date- Snickers

First Kiss- Starburst

Nick names- Sweetarts

Proposal- Pay day

First exam- Butterfingers

Wedding Ring- Ring pop

Honeymoon- Nutrageous

Honeymoon night- Skor

Male Body Parts- Whatchamacallit

Sex- Good & Plenty

First fight- Rocky Road

Birth control- Lifesavers

First meal- Idaho spuds

First apartment- 5th avenue

Bills and expenses- 100 grand

We even had a male stripper...........KEN

 Wahoo! How cute is that!?!? She painted a little thong and a bowtie on Ken. We had so much fun! It was fun to celebrate with Sabrina and I'm really excited for her and Tim.

Milestone Weekend

Juliette is so smart, cut and funny! I'm sorry I post so many thing about her but it is just an exciting stage and this is a good place for me to "journal" events. She is so precious and growing fast. We love and adore her!

Friday, March 2 (Juliette is 4 months, 3 weeks old)

• She rolled over! She could roll from her tummy to back since Feb 10 (day before 4 months old) and now she can not only roll from her back to her tummy but she just loves to roll over and over in a row across the room. She likes moving around. I have a video but I cant get it to upload (and to be honest its probably more exciting for me than for anyone else lol)
• She loves playtime with her toys, dolly, entertainer/bouncer, books, musical toys, and music or videos on the ipad.

Saturday, March 3

• She drank from a sippy cup! and was loving it.

Sunday, March 4

• She loves the mirror! and laughing. I think she is starting to recognize that baby girl in the mirror. Although I feel a little badly when she gets too excited and head butts the mirror---maybe she's a little too close. haha

Monday, March 5

• This morning I saw her suck her thumb for ht first time (instead of a few fingers or whole fist)

Mrs. Wiggles

At church on Sunday our Relief Society lesson was on the talk "Children" from Neil L. Andersen. I honestly believe that being a mother is my calling. I feel like motherhood gives you so much purpose. It gives you an opportunity to show selflessness, compassion, love and patience. I absolutely love being a mother. I know that having children is an important part of this life. I am thankful for my parents and Matt's parents.  I know that it is important to teach our children. I'm thankful for families and I know that through our Savior Jesus Christ we can have eternal families. I know that with God on your side, all things are possible. I'm so thankful for that!

Juliette is at such a fun stage. She is starting to entertain herself with toys and sucking on things. She is such a wiggler. She loves to arch her back and roll over. She doesn't like tummy time very much, so she quickly learned that if she rolls over she is on her back and likes that better.

We got out this baby entertainer and she loves it!

It was VeRy sad...last Wednesday Juliette go her first fever and sickness.

 I was super busy at work that day with 2 events and helping my boss with some stuff so Matt stayed home with her Wednesday and I stayed home with her Thursday. We didnt take her to the doctor cuz her fever was ranging from 100.3 to 101 and then went down after some baby tylenol and stuff. She was a ScReaMer! We were glad she was feeling better by Friday and both ready to get back to work.

She still has a stuffy nose and a little cold, Matt and I both got the cold too :( But now I think we are finally all feeling better. We love to see her smile and laugh.

OH something else that is new- she is starting to recognize when I leave the room and she cries---do we have a momma's girl on our hands? I think so. But you can never be mad at this girl. She's too cute!

FRIENDS 

she loves dogs

and we love her!

DIY dresses and wedding stuff

My little sister Sabrina is getting married in a week! and I'm so excited for her. We had a couple showers for her the past few weeks. I didnt take any pictures of us but I did make her this "cake" out of towels and washcloths. http://www.thinkwedding.com/Art-Wedding_Towel_Cake.htm

We went over to my grandma's house afterwards. We get to keep some of her jewelry and clothes since she passed away. She was always fashionable and I feel lucky to keep some of these things for me to remember her. She always had lots of crazy big glasses! LOL

We are also making dresses for the nieces (our daughters) for Tim and Sab's wedding. There will be 6 cute girly girls. This is how they turned out-

I should have taken pictures as we went along but here is a try at a tutorial for these dresses-

Supplies for dress:

• White shirt (or onsie) from Down east, Carters or anywhere
• Orange sparkly satin for skirt and rosettes- measure from hip to knee plus 2 inches for casing [20"] plus 1" strip per small rosette on skirt (6-12) and 1 1/2 " for rosette on shirt
• 6" x 59" Plain orange satin for sash
• 20" Orange lining
• 2 yards Orange sparkly tulle (sew along bottom of lining and have it poke out 2-4" from satin)
• Orange thread
• Elastic band for the waist (1" smaller than waist)
• Metal pin brack (for brooch) to clip rosette on shirt
• Felt

First we measured our girls and cut the material accordingly. We serged the top of the lining and sparkly satin together, then we surged the bottom of the satin. Sew a casing along the top big enough to thread the elastic band through with a safety pin. Tuck the bottom and sew a hem on the satin. Cut the lining so that it is about 2" shorter than the satin.

Sew two strips of tulle with a wide zig zag stitch along one edge. Do not back stitch this part! Tie one end off and pull one of thead and gather the tulle to your liking. We ended up putting one gathered tulle in the front and a second in the back to make it look more full. Do a little trimming if the pieces are too long or uneven. 

For the rosettes on the skirt we cut 1" strips that we about 9" long. Tie a not in one end and then roll them up sometimes turning the material as twisting around. We didnt glue or sew anything and just lay it on the skirt and sew the rosette right onto the skirt. My sister glued the rosettes with the hot glue gun and then glued them onto the skirt.

For the big rosette on the shirt and headband you need to cut 1-1.5" strip that is about 2 feet long. Sew zig zag stitch along edge and then pull (gather). Then cut a piece of felt the size you'd like the rosette and hot glue (starting with the outside) and then go around the felt gluing along the way until you get the rosette on the until the center. Glue the metal pin on the back and pin it to your shirt.    

We kind of used this as inspiration for hte rosettes http://www.happytogethercreates.com/2011/03/ruffled-rosette-belt-and-top-tutorial.html.

and these are the headband supplies:

• satin material
• netting
• white rosette material
• felt
• headband

And... the dress is done! and on adorable on my baby girl.

Dating your Spouse

Matt and I try to go on a weekly date night. Even with a baby we have been doing pretty good! I love our dates. Sometimes we get a babysitter (one of our parents usually) and go to dinner, a movie or activity and sometimes we have a date night-in and rent a redbox and order pizza after we put Juliette to bed. I love this dating diva blog- http://www.thedatingdivas.com/date-night/all-dates/.

I think it is SO important to date your spouse and create fun memories and laugh together. Sometimes we get too caught up in the business of work, school, cleaning, cooking, etc and we just need to break out of those routine things and do something fun together.

Matt got a new gun last year and I didnt want to go shooting while I was pregnant so we finally went to Doug Shoot'n Sports and had a fun night!

We love going out to dinner too!

Here are some fun date ideas:

Hit a bucket of balls- Mulligans

Shooting- Doug Shoot’n Sports

Mountains- roast marshmallows, blanket, stars, hike- Big/Little Cottonwood/Millcreek

Print off cupon and try new restaurant

Trafalga- arcade, mini golf

Hot tub/swimming

Games- cards, board games, group

Jazz games- watch on tv or go

U of U gymnastics

Go get ice cream :)

Do a project together

Bowling

Dance lessons- some of my favorite dates at http://www.ballroomutah.com/

Bake together- or bake something for him

Shopping- we actually have fun and make a date out of grocery shopping

Concert

Planetarium

Movies

Dinner

Zoo

Feed ducks

Snowboarding

I love my hubby and we love dating each other. He is my best friend. Call me cheesy- i know, but I love being married and I love him!