We went to St.George on Friday to meet the new baby of the family, MiLLiE KaTe. She is so SWEET and so TEENIE TINY and we just love her! I of course forgot to pack my cam (which was setting right by the door! ARR!!!) So I just snapped a couple of pics with my phone! We LOVE Millie!!! We then headed up to Parowan and stayed the weekend there. We had alot of fun but meeting MiLLiE was the BEST!!
Brook turned a whopping 9 years old on New Years Day!!! Yes its true folks, I have a 9 year old! Just typing that makes me feel so old! Anyhoo, we usually have a big family party for her bday since it falls on a holiday, but this year it was just us and Brook's cousin Stacia came over. We went to dinner at Brook's favorite restaurant, CARINO'S on New Years Eve. We had lots of yummy food and lots of Italian Soda's! Then we all stayed up till about 12:10 (exept Dave, he crashed early) and we rang in the new year! We told B she could go anywhere on her bday, roller-skating, ice-skating, bowling, ect. She decided she wanted to go roller-skating and then she changed her mind and decided she wanted to go sledding at Mt. Charleston. So on her bday we started off the morn by going to her favorite breakfast place, DUNKIN DONUTS! Then we headed up the mountain and went sledding! We had alot of fun but it was very crowded and very icy! Then we came home and recouped and then we went to another one of Brook's favorite places, PANDA EXPRESS and had dinner. We were very sick of fast food by the end of the day!!! Brook got a new cell phone and some ds games and a ds cover. Grandma Diane made her a very CUTE quilt and Grandma Gail sent her a way COOL lava lamp! It was a GREAT day!
HAPPY 9TH BROOKIE BOO!!
The girls at Carino's downing their italian soda's!
The pup-cake, Brook did the sketch, I did my best to make it!(supposed to be Anni)
9 Candles!!!
B and her new red phone
B and her pup-cake
Dave's sis Lyndi had her baby girl this morning!!! Millie was born 6 lbs 14 oz and 19 inches long. She was born at 2:27 am. Lyndi sent me a text and said she has tons of black hair! We are so happy for their family and we can't wait to meet Millie Kate Dunlavy!!!! Congrats Pat & Lyndi!!!!!
Well for the past few months I have been getting all of my Grandma Dotty's homeade-from scratch recipes. She is the best cook ever!!! I wanted to get as many as I could so I can pass them down to Brook and have her recipes long after she is gone. I finally got her homeade bread recipe and I am going to make it today. The only kind of bread I have ever made is from a bread machine so I am a little nervous and I'm hoping it turns out! If any one has ever had my Granny's bread (Jillynne & Mom) you know how good it really is. My grandma's mom died when she was very young and I had always thought she got the recipe from her, but yesterday she told me that she got it out of a newspaper. It is the best bread in the entire world!!! She told me she isn't able to make it anymore because its too much work, so I hope I can pull it off and take her some when we go to visit!!! Wish me luck!!!
Shelia, my WONDERFUL cousin, my AMAZING hairdresser, and my ONLY living relative here in Vegas is an AMAZING beautician!!!! Sheila has been doing my hair for about 5 years now and I just love her and her work!!! A few months ago when she did my hair I promised I was going to write a blog about her amazing hair work but I just got too busy and totally forgot! Well, this last Saturday she did my hair and I must say she out-did her self once again! I always tell her what kind of look I want to go for and its as if she reads my mind and does it exactly how I imagined! I swear she has magic fingers! She does great cuts and does a PERFECT JOB everytime!!! Sheila works at RAIN off of Decatur and the 2-15 so if anyone is ever in Vegas and wants a terrific do, give Sheila a ringy!!!
THANKS again Sheila!!!! And thanks for putting up with my thick, dry, un-managable hair for all these years!!! xoxoxo!!!! I'm not one to snap photos of myself, but I uploaded some pics from my cell of my new do!
So this year for Christmas we headed up to good ol Parowan, Utah. We wanted to have a "white christmas" and boy did we ever! It snowed on Christmas Eve and all day on Christmas! There was actually a very bad blizzard on Christmas night and it was a little scary! We thought we were going to be snowed in!!! Santa found us in Parowan and Brooklyn got some pretty neat things! She got the fur-real pet, "Biscut" who speaks and obeys to many different commands. She didn't know if Santa would bring him or not so she was super exited when she opened it! She also got the my little pet shop tail-waggin' fit club and the my little pet shop digital planner. She got Wii- Sing it & a choo-choo train and lots of clothes and jewlery!
We went to Grandma Dotty's house in Cedar on Christmas day for dinner and got to see lots of family and had some yummy food and pie!!! There's nothing like Grandma Dotty's cooking!!! We had a great christmas and it all went by way to fast!!! Here are a few pics from my cell phone ( I forgot to pack my cam!!!) I was so sad about it the whole time....
Santa made it!
Brook & Biscut
Brook, Dave and the choo-choo
Santa ate all the cookies and the reindeer ate all the oranges!!!
