America sucks!

America is dumb. Results tonight for the top twelve were ridiculous! I could not believe who made the top and who was sent home! *tears*

He was one of THE BEST guys!! He may have a nasty mullet, but his voice was incredible! Never a bad performance! But now he is gone. =-(

He should have gone home instead! His performance was so unbelievably awful last night that we actually had to plug our ears. I really don't know who voted for him, other than all the ten year old girls who watch the show. I'm not sure I can suffer through another week of him!

She has an incredible voice, and so unique! But now she is gone.

She should be gone instead. She is adorable, yes. And I think she has a cute personality, but since being on stage, she has not had a single solid performance. But since the producers spent so much time telling her cute story and focusing on her family, america is voting for her because they have fallen in love. But Lilly gets screwed because they didn't spend as much time on her "story". (and because she looks like the albino from the princess bride. poor girl.)

He was awesome last night! He may have had some rough spots, but based on last night's performance, he should definitely be in the top 12!

He definitely should not! He sang Christina Aguilera's Genie in a Bottle. Yeah. And he didn't sing it well.

She had some good performances, and some bad. So I'm not surprised to see her gone, but she was still better than her

She has not had one single good performance in this competition. Not sure why people keep voting for her.

Okay, I feel better getting that off my chest. I'm all better now. Moving on...

Daddy's Hat

Snuggles

Every child "expert" talks about the importance of teaching your children to fall asleep on their own. Let them cry a little, and always lay them down groggy, but not asleep. Kalianna does know how to put herself to sleep. Almost every nap time and bedtime she goes to sleep without much of a fight. But every once in awhile she needs a good snuggle. I'll lay her down and she will cry and cry until I hold her and rock with her for a minute. Then she will return to bed just fine. And you know what? That's okay! In fact, I love it when she wants to snuggle with me! I figure I might as well take advantage of it now when she wants to be cuddled and loved, because in a matter of months, she will be running around and it will be hard to catch her long enough to hold her! So the experts might say she's spoiled. Then spoiled she shall be! Because I know and understand my own daughter better than anyone else. I'm her own personal expert, and this expert says don't ever pass up a chance to snuggle with your baby!

11 Months!

ZOOM!~~~ ZOOM!~~~ ZOOM! Oh sorry, that's just time flying by...

Can you believe Kalianna will be a year old in just one month?! Its weird how time moves so quickly, and yet so slowly at the same time. I can't believe how big my baby is getting, yet it seems like she's been with us forever! Kalianna at 11 months loves to explore new things! She is a pro at crawling and is now focusing on having some balance when she's on her feet. She likes to pull herself up and will occasionally walk along something, but I think she still has a little ways to go before she's ready to walk on her own. She loves to make us laugh and has this new fake laugh she does when we start laughing. Its really funny! She loves climbing up things and is a complete daredevil. She is the happiest when she is been thrown up in the air, or running through the parking lot in a shopping cart, or diving off furniture head first. I find myself more tired at the end of every day, but I wouldn't have it any other way! Kalianna is full of personality! She is not boring in the least!

Scary

I had an extremely terrifying moment last night, and I just feel like I need to share it. Or write about it, to get the weight of it off my shoulders. Kalianna woke up at 3:00am, which first of all was very odd. I waited for her to fall back asleep, but she just started crying louder so I went in to check on her. Something didn't feel right when I walked in her room. She was standing up in her crib and the moment I picked her up, she snuggled into me and was quiet. So I started rocking her. She remained quiet, but showed no signs of going back to sleep. She just starred at me with her big eyes and held on tightly. There was something very wrong. I have never had a stronger sense in my life of someone else being in the room. But it was Not a good someone. The longer we sat there rocking, the sicker and darker I felt. There's just no other way to describe it. The thought entered my mind to command the spirit to leave, and almost as soon as it did, I felt paralyzed with fear. I felt like how Joseph Smith describes the first vision and he is overcome by a dark feeling before the father and the son appear to him. I knew I needed the priesthood! So I went in our bedroom and woke up Matt and asked him to offer a prayer. The darkness finally lifted but at this point, Kalianna was completely awake and thought it was time to play. It took forever to get her settled back down, but when she finally did, she slept great and I felt good the rest of the night. I have never experienced anything like that before! It was really weird, and really terrifying at the same time! Has anyone else ever experienced anything like this? Matt said "maybe Kalianna is a really choice spirit", but either way I was really, really scared for my little girl! All I know is I am so grateful for the power of the priesthood in my home!! It is a tremendous blessing and protection, and I don't know how I would ever live without it!

The Chicks Have It!

We all have guilty pleasures. Mine is American Idol. On almost every season I have ever watched, I have preferred the boys to the girls. But not this year! There are some good guys this year, but if you have been watching, the girls are killing the guys in the competition! None of the girls completely bombed their first "big stage" performance this last week. But last night, the majority of the guys did pretty poorly. My favorites tend to change as the competition moves forward, but as of this last week's performances, she is my favorite. I just love her voice!

Target sucks & First kisses

Yesterday turned into quite the day. But first, I'll start with a cute story. Brian and Anna came up to hang out with us last night, so we all went to dinner. Kalianna was sitting in her high chair at the end of the table, eating french fries and minding her own business. When suddenly this little boy (probably 3-4) saw Kalianna. It was love at first sight! He couldn't resist. His eyes lit up when he saw her, he walked right over, and gave her a big kiss. It was so cute! And so funny! His dad was horrified, probably thinking we would freak out, but we all just laughed. Maybe some day she will find her first love again...

Target sucks! I don't know how many of you have had problems with them before, but I have heard lots of stories. Their customer service is AWFUL!! I typically prefer Target's products to Wal Mart, plus you don't run into the same shady people who seem to frequent Wal Mart. But at least Wal Mart knows how to treat customers! Matt and I were out running errands yesterday and one of our stops was Target. They made a good chunk of change from us. Well, we got home and realized we didn't have one of our bags. (Isn't that the worst?!) It wasn't anything terribly significant, a $5 muppet movie, a baby einstein movie for Kalianna, and a bag of oreos. So the bag probably totaled around $20. So Matt went back to Target and told them we'd left a bag there. Their response was "no you didn't". Ummm...okay...

So they looked in the area where we had checked out and found nothing. They even (apparently) reviewed the security tapes and said they saw us leave, and we had ALL our bags. So Matt came home and we tore both the car and house apart. No bag. We really did leave it there. So Matt called and asked them very nicely if they wouldn't mind checking the area again. He asked them about the alleged security tapes and the people at customer service couldn't answer his question, so he very politely asked if he could talk to a manager. So they put him on hold...FOR HALF AN HOUR! Then someone picked up the phone and hung up on him. Grrrrrr! Understandably, we were seriously annoyed at this point! First of all, do they really think we are trying to run some sort of scam?? We weren't lying about our two movies and oreos! They really did get left in the store! Matt even had his receipt proving we had paid for them. But the cheap A-holes at Target weren't willing to believe us and comp the $20 worth of products. Matt called back, and finally was allowed to speak to a manager. He asked what was seen in the video and the guy said they could see the exact products get placed in a bag, and then that bag was loaded into our cart. Matt asked the manager if he could see this "video" that was taken from the camera on the ceiling that was so good you could read the title on two DVDs. (catching the sarcasm?) And of course the guy told him no. Our guess is the bag probably ended up in another customer's cart by mistake. Not that big a deal, if the stupid jerks at Target would have given us copies of the stuff we'd bought and proved we bought with our receipt. $20 is like nothing to a huge corporation like Target, but its a lot for some poor customers like us. I don't understand why they wouldn't do their best to treat paying customers like human beings and give us the benefit of the doubt. Instead, they made enemies for life. Even Brian and Anna, who came over in the middle of this unfortunate incident, thought they were being absolutely ridiculous and don't want to shop there either. So, dear Target, I hope your $20 was worth the loss of four paying customers. =P