Stephenie Meyer Support Day...

So... yesterday was a bust as far as 12 of 12 pictures go. It was pretty boring -- nothing I would want to subject you to. I did manage to get a few things for my 365 Photo Challenge list, but that was about it. Maybe next month will prove more exciting...

Well, today is Stephenie Meyer Support Day. She is the author of the Twilight books and in honor of today being the heroine, Bella Swan's, birthday, the huge fan base has chosen today for THE day. They encourage fans to wear a Twilight shirt or something red, black, or white and to do something Twilight related. I finished Eclipse again this morning... It's SO, SO good! My favorite of the 4 books. :)

I thought I would also include a link to the virtual support quilt that fans put together for her. I did a little square and it was kinda fun. There is some really creative work on it. I hope you enjoy it!!

http://www.twilightlexicon.com/quilt.htm

And here's my little square. It's at the bottom of the quilt. ;)



The whole dazzled thing comes from the book. Like I've mentioned before, Edward has this smile that pretty much stops Bella in her tracks and her mind gets a little fuzzy and she has some trouble breathing. I think the pictures in my little quilt square kinda show that. Anyhow! She tells him that he dazzles people and his response is "I dazzle people? Do I dazzle you?" and all she can say is "Frequently." So cute!! :D So that's what I went with for my square. Boy do I love Photoshop!! :P

That is all.

Happy Birthday Brett!!!

Happy Birthday!!!

Happy, Happy Birthday!!!

Happy Birthday!!!

Birthday To You!!!

Hey!!!

Today is my sweet baby brother Brett's 21st birthday!!! I still remember when he was born... At first us kids thought we were getting a puppy, but then our parents told us that we were getting a baby instead. We were excited, although we all thought he was going to be a girl, so when we found out he was a boy we were a bit shocked! But it turned out to be so much fun!! I was in high school when he was born and I remember taking him to watch high school baseball games and all the boys my age thought it was so cool that I brought my little brother to watch them play! :D I guess you could say he was my wing man! :P There has always been an endless stream of insects and pets with Brett around. And as a little boy I remember him carrying around his "Un-Un" - a little yellow plastic motorcycle that went everywhere with him! I think he also had a little plastic deer too. What a funny boy!!

I sure love you Brett!! And I'm so glad to have you for a brother!!

Let the birthday pictures begin!!! :D

Brett -- 1988

Brett -- probably about 1990

Brett -- again about 1990

Little story behind this picture... Beau, my brother, had a best friend who lived next door and his name was Kevin. About this time Guns 'n Roses was popular and had a song called "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" out. Brett didn't quite get the heaven part, so instead he would sing "Knock, knock, knockin' on Kevin's do-or..." Oh, the countless hours of him singing into his jumprope with any ribbon type bandana on his head... He sang that song everywhere we went!!!

Brett -- ? I have no idea when this picture was taken, but I love it!! He looks like a little blueberry. He reminds me of Violet Beauregarde from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory!! :D

Brett and his friend Danny, apparently giving themselves facials, with the cucumbers over the eyes and everything! Ahh, life is good when you have big sisters with lots of cool stuff...

Brett on what I'm guessing was a Halloween... More like I'm hoping it was Halloween! :P

Brett the party boy!! Wearing hats for Jorden's birthday in 1999.

Brett, doing what all good little brothers should do -- hiding in the tree in the front yard to scare a boy who was coming over to take his big sister on a date. Oh, he loved this kind of stuff!!

Brett skateboarding. For several years all he thought about was skateboarding. And he's got the x-rays to prove it!! How many bones did he break again... I can't remember! :)

Brett, being his goofy self. He's such a happy guy! And cute hat!! It's hard to think that he is the same age as several of the girls in my school classes! :o

Uncle Brett with Jorden - 1995

Uncle Brett with Jillen - 2000

Uncle Brett with Jayden - 2001 (No wonder Jayden loved wild animals so much!)

Uncle Brett with Jensen - 2002

Brett and Me - 1991

Brett and Me - 2007

Happy Birthday Brett!!!

We love you and hope that you have a great day!!!

Attention 12 of 12-ers...

So, tomorrow is the 12th of the month. What does that mean?? Charge up those camera batteries, it's time for 12 of 12!! You know the drill -- take 12 pictures throughout your day and then blog them. Easy as that!! Now let's see if I can find 12 things that are interesting enough to take pictures of...

Bri, this was your reminder. ;)

Okay, since I hate posting without a picture, here are a few of my favorites from this past week. Oh, I love big Hollywood events and the pictures that come from them...

Here are some really great pictures of My Boyfriend #2 and his cute wife. She is on the tv show Private Practice and they attended a dvd release party last week. So Cute!!

Pic 1 is KaDee Strickland and Jason Behr -- Pic 2 is Jason

(How much do I LOVE that hair!! And look at those pretty teeth...)

And on Sunday night was the MTV VMA's and the Twilight stars were there!! Little controversy too! They were presenting the band Paramore (Who is so great by the way!!) and each of the 4 stars took a turn with their lines, and as Rob started the final thing the host interrupted him and he didn't get to say anything! :o Let me tell you, I hope that poor host doesn't show up to any Twilight movie viewings because I think he may be mobbed by angry Twilight fans! :)

Here is my new Boyfriend #3, Robert Pattinson, with Kristen Stewart.

And here are a couple of pictures of Rob by himself. :)

(Wow, he has great hair too!! And what a jaw line!! Do I have good taste or what???)

Have You Forgotten...

Today is Patriot's Day so I thought it would be good to take a minute to remember what happened on this day 7 years ago. This is one of my favorite songs and I still cry every time I hear it. You'll have to turn off the songs on the playlist at the bottom of this page before starting this up, but it's worth it.

Have you forgotten?

Crush Alert...

Paging Dr. Shephard...

Paging Dr. Jack Shephard...

Um, Matthew Fox, where are you?



I just thought you might want to know that your status as my #3 boyfriend is in serious jeopardy. As of this moment Michael Vartan and Jason Behr as safe in their #1 and #2 positions, but it's been a while since I saw the doc's handsome face and a new certain someone is rocketing up the charts. It's only a matter of time Matty... You'd better get that Lost show back on the air pronto! I don't know how long I can hold out!! Just take a gander at your competition...

Oh. My. Edward. Here he is -- Robert Pattinson. He's playing Edward Cullen in the new Twilight movie, and he could not be more perfect for the job!! I know I said before that he might not be cute enough but I think my eyes hadn't fully adjusted yet to his amazingness. The more I see of him and the more I hear from him the higher he rises on my boyfriend list!! :D



He has the best smile and the greatest laugh!! His whole face lights up! And he's so funny and sarcastic...I love that!!!



Here he is showing his crooked smile in a scene from Twilight. He is with Kristen Stewart who plays Bella, and she melts everytime he smiles this particular smile at her. Can you blame her??? :o I love this little saying that I saw recently, it's so true!!

If you don't have an imaginary boyfriend then you haven't read Twilight. :D


And here they are in the Prom scene -- him in all his suit glory. I wonder how many keyboards shorted out from girls drooling on them while looking at this picture...


And here he is at Comic Con with Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner, who plays Jacob Black in the movie. Jacob is Edwards rival for Bella's affections, in case you don't know. ;) Gee, how did she land that job?? :D Oh wait, she was already cast and had some say in who the boys would be. Smart girl!!!


And here he is in a recent photo shoot with Taylor again and also Kellan Lutz, who plays his brother Emmett in the movie. The interview that they did was hilarious and just shows yet again how cool he is! It's from Cosmo Girl and I have never bought a Cosmo magazine in my life, but I might for this... Oh, did I mention that he's musical too?? He plays the piano, guitar, and I think the trumpet and saxaphone, plus he sings and writes his own songs, 2 of which will be in the Twilight movie, PLUS he will be playing Bella's Lullaby on the piano and maybe singing it a little in the movie. How much longer 'til that thing opens?!?!?!


So let's review, just to make things clear.

Here we have the #1 and #2 boyfriends, they are basically even in my book - neither one more important that the other - and they each have their own special qualities that endear them to me. :)
So here is Mr. Vartan and my Jason.


And now the #3 spot... It's not looking good Matty, I'll just warn you now. I don't think I can resist much longer, those eyes are just too much!! And that hair (which you can't see here because of the hat) and those teeth and that voice...


Oooops!! I think I just heard him jump up another spot. Sorry Matt! ;)

Labor Day...

Ahhh, the joys of being poor! :D Since we didn't do anything fun or exciting for Labor Day weekend, even though Tim took the week off to use up some of his vacation time, we decided to get out of the house for a little while on Monday and do something with the kids. We went and picked up my Twilight calendar, which is only available from one book store, and both of their Mesa branches were sold out and didn't know if they would get anymore, in Tempe (:D) and then decided to stop by The Bass Pro Shop on the way home and walk around. As we were walking through the store it hit me -- most of the people there that were wearing camo clothes probably did it specifically because they would be there that day. Not Jayden! He was in full camo, and that's just his normal everyday clothes! Could I possibly love this boy any more?? :) I posted a bunch of pictures from the day on my 366 Photo Challenge blog, so if you want to see more you can head over there. But for now, here was our day! :)

The item that started it all off. Oh. My. Edward. It's SOOOOO Pretty!!! I can't wait for 2009!!! :D

Of course, we started off with the boats. Notice Jillen about to be zipped up in the bathroom/shower stall. :D

Meanwhile, Jayden drives the boat.

Next it was around the corner to the overgrown camo-golf cart/truck. Tim and Jillen sat up front while Jayden and Jensen played in the truck bed. They loved it!!

4 Wheeler anyone???

The best part of the whole store -- the animals!!! The kids loved that some of them are close enough to actually touch! That could be dangerous around these kids! I'm sure it's only a matter of time before Jayden asks to ride one of them... I wonder, can you be banned for life from The Bass Pro Shop...

And this has got to be the picture of the day! The kids took me into the Big Guns room and showed me the stuffed Rhino that was in there. They wanted a picture so I told them "Act Scared!" This is what I got... :D Oh that Jensen kills me!!!

Like I said, there are a few more pictures in the 366 Photo Challenge blog, and I tried to use different ones here, so check it out if you have an extra minute. The link is over on the right of this page. Boy, these kids are a hoot!!! :D

Bloggin' Link List Tag...

Another tag game!! I haven't seen this one either, so it should be fun! :D Sven and Olga tagged me, so here we go!!

1. When did you meet the 1st person on your list? I met the first person on my list, Jorden, on February 27, 1995 at 2:42pm. He wasn't very cute at the time, but after a bath he was all cleaned up and smelling all babyish. I've been in love ever since! :D

2. What do you like about the 3rd and 4th people on your list? What I like about the 3rd person, Brooke, is that she is a sweet, thoughtful girl who is so much fun to talk to! I love spending time with her and just jabbering on about nothing at all! And Elliott has always been so at ease with our family - I really love that about him! He seems to get along with everyone and he's always fun to spend time with. And the 4th person, Brianna, is so spunky and cool! I love that she has always been such a sweet sister and so much fun with my kids. And Justin is so quiet and laid back. Yet he can be hilarious and a total rockstar. :)

3.What do you like best about the 5th and 6th people on your list? The thing that I like best about Sven (Blake) is that he is so kind and giving. He is always trying to help others and he knows just about everything! And Olga (Laurissa) is just the best sister in law ever! Of course, she's my only sister in law from my family so far, but I can't imagine any other girls coming close to her wonderfulness! She is so fun to be with and so sweet, we are sure glad to have her in our family!! And John is one of my favorite brother in laws and Tim's closest brother. We don't get to see him often but when we do he is always fun to be with. And his wife Brandy is awesome just because of her name, if nothing else! :D But there is plenty more about her that is amazing! She is always so fun to talk to and she's such a great mom to all of her little kids -- so much braver than I would be! :)

4. How long have you known the 9th person on your list? I have known the 9th person on my list, Jennifer, since probably sometime in 1993. I am sure that I met her and all of her family before Tim and I got married, but I can't remember when. I do remember her being at our wedding, in October of 1993, so officially I will go with that - 15 years! And I first met her husband Sean in the summer of 2001, I think. It seems like he was at a wedding reception at her parents house. I could be wrong, but I think it was then.

5. What impresses you about the 12th and 13th people on your list? The 12th people, Brian and Paula, impress me because they always make the best desserts and then post the pictures on their blog. I am always so hungry afterwards! :D And since the 13th link is actually a family link, I will move to the 14th. Jennifer... What can I say about Jennifer... I'm sure you know how much I love her, afterall, she is the one who hooked me on Twilight! :D The thing that impresses me about Jennifer is that she is so brave and doesn't seem afraid to try anything! She loves exotic foods and she even went to school to be a mortician - how cool is that?!?! She's just the best!! And her hubby Burt is super cool too and always gave the best, funnest Pack Meetings when he was the Cub Scout Master. The boys loved him!!

6. What is a memory of the 16th person on your list? Melissa... Only one memory?!?! I guess I will go with this -- I remember as a teenager every time I had a boyfriend, which was only a couple of times, she was the first person to stick up for me and tell the boy how great and wonderful I was and that he had better appreciate that. I always thought it was funny because I didn't think of myself that way, but it made me feel good to think that my friends did. :) And her husband Chander, I remember him volunteering to watch all of my kids plus he and Melissa's daughter so that Melissa and I could go check on a friend and then go out to lunch. How sweet is that?! Melissa found a pretty great guy!

7. Something nice about the last person on your list. The last person on my list is my friend Rachelle. One nice thing that I always remember about her is after I met her we became fast friends and would spend hours on the phone everyday! We both had little kids so it was nice to have someone to talk to about all the crazy thing they were doing. And her husband, Kent, was always so nice about our extended phone conversations. I don't remember him ever complaining, at least not that I heard about. :D

Now I tag Melissa, Jennifer, Nicole, & Jenn.