The Little Mermaid Debate

Matt does not like Disney's "The Little Mermaid" for the following 4 reasons:
1. She is scantily clad through most of the movie
2. She disobeys her father
3. She practices witchcraft
4. And then she gets everything she wants

I love "The Little Mermaid"! I think the music is fantastic, the story is fun and everyone lives happily ever after. I keep trying to explain to Matt that little girls don't see the movie the way he sees it. They just think its a fun, happy movie.

The other day I turned on "The Little Mermaid" cause I hadn't seen it in a long time. Kalianna really liked the bright colors as the fish swam around on screen. I sent a text picture to Matt at work of her playing with the movie box. He was horrified. I still love "The Little Mermaid". Matt still doesn't.

First Solids!

aka rice cereal. And she loved it! Still getting the hang of eating with a spoon, but she was definitely ready for solids and gobbled it up!

Ice Blocking

Thursday I went down to Salt Lake for the day and spent the afternoon with Bryan and his girlfriend, Ricci. She was in Brazil doing study abroad for the last three months, so she hadn't seen Kalianna since she was just a few weeks old! It was fun to hang out with her again. We missed you Ricci! Anyway, the four of us went downtown and walked around temple square for a bit. We stopped by my mom's work so she could show off her grand-daughter a little first. And she also gave us a parking pass. Score! Then later we met up with Kristine and Josh and Ian and went to the park for a picnic of KFC and some ice blocking down the big hill at Flat Iron. Matt and Logan joined us after they got off work. We had a blast and the boys loved it! Hint: The best thing for ice blocking is a diaper! It keeps your butt dry and it sticks well to the ice! (Kristine is the mastermind behind that one)

Gotta Love This Face

Falling asleep on mommy's shoulder

Pay It Forward #2

I got another present from someone's blog offer I responded to. This one is from my friend, Ashlee. She made us an 'I Spy' for church! Thanks Ashlee! I still haven't finished my own presents, but I promise they are still coming!

Free Sunday

First of all, Kalianna rolled over for the first time this morning!! And it was right in front of me so I got to see it. I tried to get her to do it again for daddy, but I guess once was enough for today.

When Matt and I took Institute together, there was a girl in our class who had never heard of General Conference. She was raised in the church but her parents called it "free Sunday" and twice a year they'd go boating on that Sunday or something. Sad, huh? (And yes, also a little funny). Well that's what we've been jokingly calling today. With the Oquirrh Mountain temple dedication, all church meetings have been canceled. Matt and I didn't get tickets, but we are enjoying the day together before school starts this week. Sleeping in, naps, we just finished lunch and now we are going to go on a nice walk together. Its a beautiful day!

Sugar & Spice & Everything Nice

My friend, Aubrey, and I are working on a project together. Aubrey is a photographer and I am a writer, so we are combining our talents and compiling a book of stories and poems about daughters/sisters/motherhood/little girls. And Aubrey is doing photographs to go with our book. That's where you come in. If you, or someone you know, has daughters under the age of 14, Aubrey will be hosting a photo shoot day where you can come and get portraits done for a very small sitting fee. Then we will use our favorite pictures (with your permission) for our book. If you are interested in letting us use your daughter as one of our models, and getting some super cute pictures, please e-mail me your address (pinkstacy@gmail.com) and I will make sure and get you an invitation.

*Any questions or if you have any cute experiences or stories we could write about, please let me know!