17 Again

I know Zac Efron is like 16 (not really, I think he's like 20?), but seriously, can he get any cuter??

Hli and I 1/2 chipotle chicken sandwich & a cup of chicken wild rice soup'ed (Hli had the Greek salad instead of the soup) at Panera on Saturday night. Yum. I love that place. And I think I'm going to low-fat Greek salad it for a couple weeks (I do these little stints as part of my wedding-diet... bad, I know-- I'm so sick of lean cuisines)-- so if anyone has any good Greek salad recipes/renditions, pass them on over :)


Anyway, we went and saw 17 Again. I'm such a tween at heart... cause I <3'd the movie. haha. It was cute, funny, and really feel-goody... and again, Zac Efron... hot. haha.

I'm dragging Chris to go see it at some point... or renting it anyway. He's so excited if you had to ask... (not really. At all.).

I met the cutest little blond girl in a pink dress and yellow rain boots yesterday. She was absolutely adorable.


And the cutest little boy evAr.


And then discovered an entire playground of antique cars out in the country.




You can take the girl out of the city, but you can't take the city out of the girl.

**All images from To the Moon & Back Photography

Lahhdeedah!

How was your Christmas? Can you believe we're on the LAST week of 2008?? Geez, where did 2008 go?!

Christmas was pretty low-key, but good. My brother was in MI with his fiance this year which is a little sad (me being selfish, sorry) being that this is my last Christmas with my family as a single woman, but he'll be home tomorrow and we'll have New Year's together. He missed out on the waterpark hotel though. We booked a night there for our family with the nieces and nephew. It was fun! I didn't get a whole lot of pictures since we were busy hot-tubbin it up and water-slidin' galor-ious, but good times, good times. My nieces received a chest full of dress up clothes and squealed with glee, it was so cute! I love these little girls and they're growing up way too fast for my liking.


Here's Anela and I before heading downstairs-- it was 8 am! They were excited and woke EVERYONE up to go down to breakfast and then swimming. She's hilarious cause she talks SOOO much-- AND is way smart. Funny story about Anela-- The girls aren't supposed to say words like "crap" "stupid" "dumb" etc, and they're really good about catching anyone who does. She was sleeping in my bed last night because her parents dropped them off for the night and it was about 2 am and she had been sleeping for a good 4 or 5 hours so she's pretty dead asleep. Well, Chris called and we were talking and I said something was stupid and Anela mumbled something so I leaned over her and was like "Anela? Wha?" and she's still asleep, but goes "Don't say that bad word, Auntie..." *snoooore* Awesome-- she's even correcting me in her sleep.


Here's Meya. She's so freakin cute. & talks in 3rd person. Me: "who's going swimming?" Meya: "Meya!"


This is her stink face. And me trying to copy her. Hilarious because she's totally serious about stink face!


freakin cute.


Kayla is getting so big and spells EVERYTHING she sees-- she just started kindergarten this fall, but has learned SO much. There was a poster of a gorilla smiling and there in big letters above it reads SMILE. Kayla sat there and spelled it out going "S-M-I-L-E." We asked her what it spelled and she shouts ever so confidently-- "MONKEY!" hahahaha!



Oh life goes by so quickly and sometimes I wish it would just stop long enough for me to be able to catch up and then decide when and how it can/should proceed. I suppose that's the beauty of trust though... that I don't have to be the one who worries about those aspects of my life.

*P.S. My dress came in and I picked it up yesterday! I am SOOO in love!