I'm a "Y"

So Hannah layed down on the floor and stuck her feet in the air in a poise like the above picture. She then said. "mom, look at me. What am I?" After numerous guesses I couldn't get it right and Hannah finally said, "I'm a Y." Well, I still couldn't figure out what she was talking about and just said something like ok honey and forgot all about it. Well, she kept doing this throughout the day and it finally clicked. Yesterday on Sesame Street the letter of the day was Y and they had a lady doing a handstand with her feet apart like a letter Y. Hannah was just doing her own version of the a human letter Y.

Inkheart

Today Hannah had her first movie theatre experience. We took advantage of the free movies up at the Regal theatres and saw Inkheart. Hannah did pretty well. She had to sit on my lap because she wasn't heavy enough to keep her seat down. She started to get bored toward the end but we made through the whole thing. When Brian asked her about it, Hannah said that she liked the "really, really giant TV!"

Viva La Vida

Tuesday night Brian and I went to our first rock concert together and saw Coldplay. It was that best concert I have ever been to (ok that's not saying much since I've only been to one other rock concert). We had so, so much fun. Let me tell you, Coldplay puts on a good show. The music was fabulous, I mean who doesn't like Coldplay, all the special effects were really cool, and the energy of the crowd was awesome.

"Yellow" was of course one of the big hits. Huge yellow beach balls (that appeared to come from nowhere) were thrown all throughout the crowd. It made for a really awesome effect.


The highlight of the concert was when the band left the stage and played in the crowd. They did it twice and the second time the whole band walked right past me. Yes, I was right on the aisle and all four members of Coldplay came within inches of me. This picture was taken right after I turned into the psycho fan that I didn't know I had in me and reached and touched all of them.


Here's a few more cool pics of the concert because I just can't help myself..
It was a great night and it made me feel young and cool (which I guess is a good thing considering the events of the previous day)!!!

Happy Birthday to me!

On Monday I turned 30!! I can't believe it. I still feel like I'm just a kid playing grownup. I'm not old enough to be married, have a two year old, or be 30. However, I'm not really too stressed out about the age thing. More than anything, this year I'm feeling really grateful. I'm grateful for my family, friends and wonderful life.

I had a fabulous birthday. The Friday night we went up to my parents' house and celebrated with them. We had my favorite dinner, homemade pizza and my mom made this fabulous, diet busting, six layer chocolate cake with chocolate cream filling. Doesn't it look yummy?!
We played games, my mom told the story of my birth (as she does every year), and we roasted marshmallows over fire in the backyard. We wrapped the evening up around 10:00pm and were headed to leave but could not find our keys. We spent an hour looking for them but with no luck. We finally took a flashlight outside to look around the car. We didn't find our keys but we did notice that our tire was completely flat. To make a long story short, we did eventually find the keys, Allstate Motorclub changed the tire, and we spent the night.

As a side note, I have a cautionary tale about Grandpas doing bedtime. So it was about 11 when we decided that we would be spending the night with my folks and that we needed to put Hannah to bed. My father offered to put her down so I brought in her blanket, gave her a kiss and left her with grandpa. Well, around 12:30 we were headed to bed and looked in on Hannah and found her like this....

Yes, grandpa had left the tv on and just assumed she would fall asleep which of course she didn't.
Here was the result the next day...

(I should give my dad a break because he has put Hannah to bed a lot and does a really good job. He tells the best stories of anyone I know!)

On Monday, my birthday started out great with a happy birthday call from my in-laws. In the evening , Brian surprised me with a birthday party at the park. It was my first surprise party ever and the first birthday I have spent with friends in a number of years (thanks to everyone who helped Brian pull it off). We had a great time just eating and chatting while the kiddies played.

To top it all off, Brian got me Coldplay tickets for the next evening (more on that later). All in all, one of the best birthdays ever.

I'm proud to be an American

We had a great 4th of July. We kicked it off our holiday with our stake's pancake breakfast. They have a great little band playing patriotic music (I'm a big fan of any holidays that come with music.) and we get to catch up with friends from our old wards. Everyone is sporting red, white and blue and it was a great way to start off the day.
We continued our celebration with some pool time.
In the evening, my family came over for a BBQ, ice cream cones and fireworks.

Apparently, the fireworks weren't exciting enough by themselves for the teenagers. They decided it was much more entertaining to jump over the fireworks.

Hannah made her hands like binoculars and watched all the fireworks that way.

I'm an Artist!

Laura C inspired me with all the super cute crafts she's been doing with her kids so Hannah and I did an art project of our own. I cut a head and two arms holes out of a paper bag and let Hannah paint it.

We used paint brushes first and then used a sponge to make a homemade stamp.

Everytime Hannah used the stamp she'd say "squish, squish, squish".

The only problem we had was stopping.

So here's the end result.