Shine On!

The 13th Day of Spring

Happens to be a major Iranian holiday. Which we got to celebrate this year. My sister-in-law is 1/2 Iranian, and her awesome family invited us to celebrate with them. I forgot the camera though, so there is no pictures. There was lots of awesome food! The food was so good. Luckily I have kids who will try anything once. They both loved the food too. We had fun relaxing and playing games with my in-law-in-laws. (Is that a real term?) They are great people and it is always fun to hang out with them.
I love having a diverse group of friends and family because I get to learn so much about other cultures and I really enjoy it.
Conference was this weekend. I love conference. The kids were much better than I expected. There was only one talk I felt like I entirely missed because of them. :) I plan on re-watching that talk in the next few days. Conference is always such a great reminder of all the great things I have in life and the things I need to work a bit harder on.
Hailey started a toddler cooking class today. It is supposed to be 2 hour long sessions. The picture in the city catalog has two toddlers mixing up cookies. Today was the first of the two. By cooking they meant giving the kids a plate full of apples, bananas, chocolate, and sprinkles and telling them to dip the apples and bananas in the chocolate and sprinkles. Amazing.
Luckily I didn't pay a lot for it. It took all of 15 mins and was pretty much like eating lunch at home except we have dulce de leche instead of chocolate. (I'm a bad mom, I know.)
After the 15 mins the teacher said, "Well, that's pretty much it. I'll see you all next week." I started thinking I should complain to the city about the dumb class. Then on the way home Hailey said, "Mommy, I love my cooking class. Thank you for taking me." Makes it all worth it.
Here are more pictures than should ever be taken in 15 mins.

Gotta Dance!

For Valentines Day Alex got us tickets to see, "Singing in the Rain." My husband is the best! Tonight was the night! It was so good. Most of you probably know how obsessed I am with the movie. It was fun to see it on stage though. They even made it rain. (SO cool!) Anyway, I thought I'd share the love a bit. Here, a little bit of awesome for you.

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

(It won't let me embed it because of some dumb copy right stuff)

I'm So Glad...

So, I know I talk about how much Matthew laughs and smiles. So here's some footage.

He smiles like that about 95% of the time and laughs like that about 50%.
I haven't done a video of Hailey singing for a while. Rest assured she still does. She even writes her own songs. And sometimes they are pretty decent. I have yet to get a good video of a  Hailey original, so have a cute primary song instead.
                                       
Alex had a week off of work last week and a week off of school this week. We have been enjoying every extra second with Daddy. Here is some random un-captioned pictures from the week.

Overload

One of my friends got married in Vegas a on the 12th, so we went up for the weekend. I wish I could tell you I got awesome pictures, but I left my camera battery at the hotel. So I will tell you what we did and show you a picture someone else took of one of the most fun things we did. We started at the MGM Grand and saw the lions. The kids loved the cubs. Then we went to M&M world and saw a 3D movie, which Matthew slept through.
The most fun thing we did was the Coke Store. It's right next to M&M World. They have this awesome thing called, "Taste of the World." You get two trays of 8 sodas (16 total) from all around the world. My parents ordered one of those and a tray of floats made with all different sodas. We then got to try them all. Some were awesome, some were so gross. It mostly made me realize why Italians add ice cream and flavored syrup to their soda. The one from Italy was called Beverly and it tasted like death. My dad is a real man though, after we all tasted it, he chugged the rest of it down. Then he died.

Matthew's favorite part was the fountains at the Bellagio. He clapped his hands, danced, and shouted in excitement the whole time. I think I enjoyed watching him, more than I enjoyed the fountains. We also went at saw the light show at Freemont Street, I would NOT recommend it. Freemont Street is trashier than the strip and the light show is like an acid trip. Or at least what I imagine an acid trip is like.
We also walk around the Venetian. I am in love. I love architecture and the Venetian is breath taking. I want to go to Europe SO bad!
My friends wedding was at a gorgeous venue. She looked so happy and her husband seems like an awesome guy. I'm really happy for her.
We also had a leprechaun visiting us all month. He would leave treats and do mischievous things. On Saint Patrick's Day he left us a yarn maze all through the house, with rainbow yarn leading to some goodies. Needless to say, Hailey loves him. So was quite sad to find the note he left us saying he's returned to Ireland (or as she calls it, "island,") until next year.
My kids are awesome. We've been having lots of fun and they are growing leaps and bounds, but I'll save that for another post.
The rainbow cake we made to try and catch the leprechaun. This is before baking. I forgot to take an after shot.

The moth we recently, "grew," from a caterpillar. Hailey says his name is the very hungry caterpillar.

The kids crashed after our first day of Vegas. They were both SO tired!

Us at the wedding.

This is the face Matthew gives all the ladies. I think Alex and I are in trouble! ;)

Hailey has some mad sorting skills.

My little perfectionist did this by herself. I only applied the glue.

ONE!

As soon as I can figure out what to bribe Hailey with, I'll get some 3 year old pictures up. For now enjoy our cutie one year old.





Also, it's hard to get a non blurry picture of a one year old who thinks he should be running.

Happy Saint Patricks Day!