Girls' night out!

Last night, I went on a girls' night out with some of my friends. We went out to eat near the Santa Monica Promenade at an Italian restaurant called Frito Misto. Staci Heder (a girl in Kristen's ward) had us all tell an embarrassing story about ourselves so we could get to know each other. Arelia's was my favorite. I couldn't stop laughing. I even laughed out loud on the way home! You would too, I'm pretty sure. The people at the restaurant probably wondered how we eight girls could act so silly and laugh so much when no one at the table was drinking anything stronger than water! It was so fun!
Then went to see Becoming Jane. I hated the first part with all its unnecessary illusions to sex; and the bare bums scene was pretty gross too. But then the main characters met up at the dance and they stared intently at each other while dancing gracefully. *sigh* That was good. After that, it was great. It was just fun to be out on the town with friends doing fun things while our wonderful husbands watched over our kids.

our scrapbook page

Here's our family's scrap book page for Chris' Grandma. Chris' sister has a room in her basement dedicated to scrap booking and she helped (a lot) with our page.
The quote refers to Elle and her reflection in the watery sand. The effect is ruined by the flash that came up when I took a picture of the page, buy you get the idea!

Sunday dress

Here's Elle's weekly picture of what she wore Sunday



















and how her hair is fixed.

Me cooking my hard-boiled egg for lunch

Today, I am cooking my hard-boiled egg for lunch.











I am waiting for my hard-boiled egg.
















I am happily waiting for my hard-boiled egg.

I'll tell you how I cooked it. I have to wait until it's boiling and when it's boiling , I have to get a spoon, and gently put it in and gently take it out. When the egg is in, you have to turn it down to 4--I like on 4. And that's how I'm cooking my egg! The end.

The day Elle got her ears pierced

Elle and I went to the mall today to see if there were any sales on summer clothes. Elle asked if we could stop at "the girly store" which is how we refer to Claire's--ya know, the store with earrings, bracelets, hair accessories etc. After we bought a few clothes for school, we made our way to the "girly store". As I always do, I asked Elle if she wanted to get her ears pierced today. To my GREAT surprise, she nodded and said "yes"! Then I was the one to be nervous. I asked "Are you sure?" plenty times. She was. I wasn't.
But, we went anyway and looked at some of the fun "girly" stuff. After Elle spent all her money on some princess spray and make-up, we went to the ear piercing chair. She picked out her earrings and I had to sign a long form, and then she was ready! She acted brave enough, then the lady cleaned her ears. She was still o.k. until the lady drew a dot on her lobe with a marker. Then she jumped as if she had been pierced! When it was time for the real thing, she jerked her head a little and said "ow!" and started to cry silently :( The lady gave her a minute before she went at the other ear. Elle said "ow!" again, but was very pleased to see her new earrings in the mirror!
As we were walking back to the car, I asked Elle when she changed her mind about getting her ears pierced. She said she had a dream last night about piercing her ears and getting perfume and make up at the "girly store" So, I guess today, all her dreams came true!

The day I got my ears pierced

Last night I dreamed I got my ears pierced and went to the mall.
And that morning, my mom wanted me to wear my earrings. (clip on)
And that very same day, I got my ears pierced!

It hurt! She told me to count to three and then she would do it.
Then when she was done I said, "Ow!" the next one I said that too.
I get to sleep in my earrings and have showers. . .so, it'll be fun!

I think I want to show Connor and Kristen that.
I'm anxious to hear what they'll say. I don't know what they'll say.
That's why I'm anxious.
the end.

Nan's jam

Today, Elle and I spent the whole day at the Jenkins' house. Elle played while I made strawberry jam! Rachel invited us over to make the kind of jam you cook since she recently inherited "the stuff" you need to make it. We also made freezer jam. I ended up making five 12 oz jars of each kind, plus three more containers worth of freezer jam. I feel so domestic today!