Fun With Pop-Pop and Charlie

The 1st Saturday of every month, my Pop (who is Pres. of the Palm Springs Cruisin' Association) pretty much single-handedly puts on a Car Show in Palm Springs. They get about 100 Old Hot Rods, Corvettes, Fire Engines, Muscle Cars, whatever, that come out each time so its a substantial Show. There are vendors, Raffles (money and prizes), Music (sometimes Live), a Coloring Contest for the kids and at the end they give awards to the owners of the cars who win specific categories. All the while my Dad is on the microphone, MCing and making sure everyone is having a good time. We decided to go to this month's show to support Pop and get in some quality Family time. Oh, I forgot to mention, my Dad has a 55 Chevy-it's got all its original parts-pretty cool! We thought we'd take some pics of Anso behind the wheel. She LOVED it of course! I wish I had a better picture of the whole car-you can kinda get an idea of what it looks like at least. My Dad got her the shirt she's wearing-it says "Grandpa's Little Sweet Rodder" (for STreet Rods, in case you didn't know)

Ansofie loves her Pop-Pop! :)

We always have a Fun time when we go out to the Desert. Too bad it's so incredibly HOT or else we might move back there! Anyway...my parents have a Bassett Hound named Charlie and we thought Anso might be scared of him but it was actually quite the opposite! She chased after him (I mean crawled) everywhere he went, tugging at his big, floppy ears and his quick, wagging tail. She had a BLAST-it's pretty funny cause when she's excited she flaps her arms like she's gonna fly away!

I felt so bad for Charlie-he was such a good sport though. I know he liked the attention at first but, then he finally had had enough! He didn't come around our little Monkey too much more after that!!

Ready For Her Close-Up Mr. DeVille

WAY back in the beginning of September (when Ansofie was 7 1/2 months), my friend Tracy was so sweet to do a photo shoot of my little monkey. She is a really good photographer (I personally think), plus, she has the most AWESOME camera-ever!!! So, for these reasons, we happen to capture some great shots! :)

The picture above Tracy photo-shopped to look "antiquey" and also made her blue eyes stand out. I LOVE it!!!

She snapped a few of us playing...

This next one is my Favorite...for a couple reasons...1. Because it's soooo CUTE and 2. I hope one day she will be a Dancer and this reminds me of a Ballerina :)

There were three other shots that turned out absolutely ADORABLE so I had to do something with them. Now, I'm not a "crafty" person-whatsoever-but for some reason I had this idea in my head of how to display these pictures. So, with some help from Tracy and then from our Ward-Meredith and Megan Fry (whose garage is Scrapbook Heaven) and even Matthew!, I was shocked that we actually were able to create this mental image I envisioned!! SO EXCITING!!! I hung it above her bed and had to take a picture to Post on our Blog-I know, I'm a Dork! Hey, it was a proud moment for me :)

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

Belated Halloween that is! Yes, I know it is now almost Thanksgiving but, like I said, I've been a Major Slacker and have been needing to post for quite some time, and, well, I just can't not post Anso's 1st Halloween! Halloween is FUN again-you know, now that we have a kid, the excitement of the holiday comes alive in a whole new light! We get to dress her up (even though it wasn't what we really wanted her to be-our moms threw a fit when we told them we found the CUTEST Whoopie Cushion costume! haha), we can all dress up so that we "go together" (even though we were lame and didn't do it b/c we weren't really going anywhere anyway) and, well, Trick-or-Treating of course, however we'll start that up next year probably! Anyway, it really was a fun day, but I bet next year will be better! ;)

We started celebrating the season with a trip to a Pumpkin Patch w/ my Mom and little brothers, Shane and Dylan. There were some great photo opps in the hay amongst all the pumpkins. So here's our Fall Family shot...

(If anyone could help me out and teach me how to turn the pictures I would greatly appreciate it-thanks!)

This is Anso's Pre-Halloween outfit her Aunt Lizzie got for her-it was so cute, I had to put her in it as much as possible! Of course not always sporting the kitty ears, though :)

Our little Ansofie was a Tulip Fairy. Basically, it was a hot pink tulip upside-down cause her headband had a stem on top and there was a green leaf base around her collar, plus she had wings and some adorable green curl toe shoes. It was a really cute costume, but just a little big on her. So, like I said was saying, Matt & I were pretty lame and didn't dress up cause we didn't have BIG plans. But what could we have been to match her? I told Matt it would have been AWESOME to see him dress as a Fairy in tights and a tutu with wings-haha :) Oh well, maybe next year! Here is our weak attempt.

Now this is what I'm talking about-dressing up so you "go together" with your child. Matt's brother, Jed & his wife, Gwen ALWAYS match Riley's costume (well, for all 3 Halloween's of his life so far at least). Last year he wanted to be the White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland and he wanted his mommy to be Alice and his dad to be The Door (remember the talking door Alice had to go through?) Anyway, Gwen found her and Riley's costumes and made Jed's-it was hilarious! This year he wanted to be Buzz Lightyear, so his dad was Woody and his mom, Jessie of course. Gwen totally made her and Jed's costumes-and they were SOOOOOO GOOD!!! Check them out...

I guess this picture doesn't really do them justice. It's hard to see the detail. She totally drew the stripes on Jed's shirt and even put a pull string in his back! And her hair is a wig of red yarn with a braid in the back-yep, she made! So CUTE!!! She is really talented!

Ok, I have one last picture I just have to include. It isn't really Halloweenie, but it's SCAREY, so it goes along with the holiday! It's my brother, Shane's, new Hair-Do, or should I say, Hair-DON'T?!!!!

HAHAHA I LOVE this picture cause it seems like Anso is wondering the question we all are..."What was he thinking???" hahaha

Well, I hope you're neck isn't kinked from looking at all our sideways pictures! Seriously, if ANYONE has some tips..."for the LOVE"!!!

Halloween at Disneyland-YAY!

The week before Halloween my brother-in-law, Craig, sister-in-law, Liz, and nephew, Roman came here to Cali on a spontaneous visit. So, of course we had to make a trip over to Disneyland with all the gang! Especially because it is Halloween time-LOVE IT! Here are a few pics from the day. Oh, and if you're wondering if we had fun...YOU KNOW IT!!! :)

SLACKER CHELSIE

Um, yeah, I know it's been awhile since I last posted...and I really actually have a few things I could post...but see, um, I finally discovered FACEBOOK, and uh, yeah...there's not much more time for anything else now...

No seriously, I will be updating this little, old Blog here in the next couple days...I PROMISE! :)