Katniss Braid Fetish ~

Confession time...ever since I saw the movie Hunger Games I have been Obsessed with the Katniss braid! I do Faith's hair almost daily! I am a crazy fan!

Lessons~

My cousin got to meet Elizabeth Smart today...she wrote the below~

 

I got to meet Elizabeth Smart tonight. She is a lovely young woman. She told her story at the Tooele Healthy Woman event.

It was great to hear her speak even though it was really difficult to hear her story.

The day after she returned home, her mom gave her some advice that has guided her life and I think it is worth sharing.

Her mom told her that what "that guy" did to her was horrible ...and evil and there weren't words to describe it. He had taken 9 months of her life. Then her mom told her to not let him take any more. Her best "revenge" would be to be happy and move forward and not give him one more day of her life. She thought about it and agreed. She would live her life doing things she loved with the people she loved around her looking forward not back.

As I was talking with another attendee aftewrard we talked about how so many of us hold grudges over stupid little things and we let those who have hurt us continue to hurt us. We CAN let go and not look back. We can't choose what happens to us but we can choose how we act/react. We can choose to live in the present and look forward.

Ear's Pierced ~ so painful :(

Unfortunately there was only one person working and she had to do each ear seperately.  Faith knew it would hurt, and was a brave little peanut!  She stood still for both ears...even after she felt the first ear.  So proud of her.  She also is into rainbows and picked a colorful flower for her studs. 

The sucker didn't seem to help :(

But all is well!  About 5 minutes after it was done she was asking me to tell everyone in the mall to look at her pretty ears.  And at home she was all smiles in her pj's!

~ Faith's 1st Soccer Practice~

Faith has been wanting to play soccer since she could speak English.  Her older brother Dallin plays.  We finally got her signed up and she was so excited!  Here is a picture on our porch in her practice gear.  Practice was entertaining to say the least.  She was pretty distracted by the snow mounds still left on the field, and when the coach told her to dribble the ball, she had no idea what that meant and would just kick it really hard.  She also had to go potty in the middle of practice and there was no bathroom unlocked...so we had to drive home and drive back.  Add to that the cold,wet, windy,rainy weather and you can imagine how fun this 1st practice really was :)  She didn't complain once!  I did, but then again I am a sun worshiper and Seattle is the wrong state to live in~  she is a cute little thing!

Mother ~ Daughter trip to Florida!

We had a wonderful loooong weekend together in sunny Florida!   Faith stayed home with daddy and the brothers while Kylee and I had some girly bonding time.  We got to visit Cocoa Beach, Universal Orlando and Disneyworld. We were there a total of 120 hours of which we only slept 25 hours. ( Yes we need a vacation from our vacation) We played non stop! Here are some of the highlights from our trip. They are not in order because I am too tired to mess with blogger at the moment.

Some cute pictures of Disney and Kylee

We met many characters, and Kylee almost killed her boyfriend Spidy's nemesis, Green Goblin!  Go Kylee! ( and yes she really does have a huge crush on spiderman...watch out MaryJane!

Driving from Miami to Orlando, we stopped at the Ron Jon surf shop!  So fun.  Also we had a great rental, a Nissan that was an automatic, but shifted like a stick...so fun to drive!!!

Harry Potter, Butterbeer, and the best fish and chips I have ever tasted...and that is a big deal since we live in Seattle and have the freshest fish around!  They win!  We got to eat in this really cool wooden cottage ( The Three Broomsticks)  that had a spiral staircase.  It was lovely!

Universal Studios - I thought I was going to die on that red rockin rollercoaster!  You can program whatever music you want playing in your seat during the ride...I listened to Glamorous by Fergie and Kylee listened to Stronger by Kelly Clarkson. It was amazing by the way!

Disneyworld never disappoints!  The Tiki Room, Splash Mountain, Pirates, fireworks, a magical light show on the castle, princesses, the Electric Light parade and us!  It was Magical!

Here are the few pictures I happened to be in.  I carried the camera the entire time, and we just never got many opportunities to get someone else to take a few of us together.  We did make some attempts with our reflections.  OH and I got to feel Captain AMERICA'S Muscles! 

See I told you Kylee had a crush on Spiderman ~  We were shopping in his store when he snuckup from behind and surprised her! He threw a football and she caught it ~ He took a quick picture then went off to his duties of saving the world.  Kylee stalked him, and found him taking pictures against a green screen, got another 5 minutes with him, where she told him to leave Maryjane for her ! 

Cocoa Beach and our Ron Jon beach blanket ~  Loved the beach,and the weather !  Perfect !