A Fancy Shmancy Day

Ever heard of Fancy Nancy? She's the spokesperson for all little girls in tutus, beads, crowns, and sunglasses. The book is adorable, and can be life changing (Marielle refuses to wear shorts now because only skirts are fancy). We're relatively new to the craze, but not so new that a Borders Fancy Nancy Party didn't sound like a great family outing. If you don't know the story, Nancy teaches her parents how to be fancy, dresses them up and they all go out for burgers and ice cream while calling each other darling and sticking out pinkies. The story fit us quite well since Nancy has a Mom, a Dad and a little sister. So at eleven o'clock today we looked like this:





After the festivities we went out for burgers and shakes at In-N-Out. They were pretty messy burgers for such a fancy family, but boy did they taste good! I out-ordered and out-predicted Ryan on shakes since he didn't think we'd be satisfied sharing two shakes amongst the three of us (none of us finished our shakes) and my Neapolitan shake tasted much better than his chocolate. Ryan was shocked to learn another In-N-Out ordering code and accused me of withholding secrets until he became a California resident. What can I say? I thought it was common knowledge. When we finally walked out we were quite satisfied. (That's a fancy way of staying stuffed.)





In retrospect, the party was a lot like my Junior Prom. The real fun was dressing up and then hanging out afterward.

P.S. Marielle ate every Froot Loop on her necklace once we got home.

Jenna Photo Shoot

Jenna was looking oh so cute the other day, so we got out the camera and got snappin'! In case you are wondering, yes, she is on her way to crawling. You go girl-- 5 and a half months and she's movin' and sitting up like a little lady. This girl is so easy to love, but hey, I'm just the mom.

Happy Halloween!

Well the costume dilemma was resolved and as you can see Marielle the ballerina was accompanied this Halloween by the cutest little hot dog you ever did see. Hope your Halloween was fun and we'll be checking your blogs for pictures of your cuties. :)

Marielle's Bible

Here at family housing we have a little gem called the Swap Shop. It's an empty apartment you can drop off your discards and pick out what you like...for free. Think Thrift shop minus the cash register. Marielle and I love bringing home goodies so I try to restrain myself from going more than once a week. To illustrate, last week as we left home to go shopping for Marielle's tennis shoes, she was surprised as we veered toward the parking lot and asked, "aren't we going to the swap shop?" On one such visit to the swap shop Marielle found a jumbo sized coloring book. Some of the pages were colored, but many still blank so we grabbed it. She affectionately calls it "my bible" due to it's large size. The other night when we called her for family home evening she ran to the back and said "I need to get my bible!" She brought it out and after opening song and prayer very solemnly told us a scripture story about Elmo. It was cute, but long, and Dad eventually had to cut her off. I taught the lesson that night and recounted Joseph Smith's first vision. It was cool to see her start to understand. After I finished the story she even asked, "what church did he go to?" I love teaching the gospel in such simplicity. It really brings the spirit into our home. I don't have a picture of her bible, so a bible sized pumpkin will have to do.

Jenna

Mom's still trying the Anne Geddes thing...