Funny Girl

I was going through Talitha's pictures today and found some really cute and funny pictures of faces she's pulled recently. Some of them just cracked me up like this one. I had taken it one afternoon after church.

Hello Michelin baby! I love her little baby chub. I thought this picture was hilarious!

I took these photos last night after feeding her rice cereal. I just love her little face! She loves rice cereal.

Okay, so I've been really slow and am just getting around to the "tagging." My cousin sent me this tag for Talitha and we are tagging Parker, Palmer, Jane, and whoever else wants to do this.

Ten Things My Parents Love About ME:

1: We LOVE her laugh
2: We LOVE her infectious smile
3: We LOVE how she cuddles with us
4: We LOVE how she laughs in her sleep
5: We LOVE how she moans when she's eating

6: We LOVE how she sucks her little toes.....its hilarious!
7: We LOVE her little hands and feet
8: We LOVE her beautiful eyes
9: We LOVE it when she gets REALLY excited and starts flailing her arms and legs.
10 We LOVE how curious she is and how much she's learning

11: We LOVE how she tries to put the charm on right before nap/bedtime
12: We LOVE how funny she is during playtime
13: We LOVE the fact that she's photogenic
14: We LOVE how much joy she brings to our lives
15: We LOVE the fact that she is a part of our family and could not picture our lives with out her!

I know that is fifteen, but we just love so much about her.

I'm back baby!

My one year old scooter has been having problems. I worked on it for months until I finally broke down and took the scooter into a mechanic. Unfortunately the mechanic worked on it for three weeks and wasn't getting anywhere. I gave up hope and picked it up from the mechanic. There's good news about all of this. While the scooter was in the shop it gave me some time to wrap my mind around the issues the scooter was having. When I brought the scooter home I opened the valve cover and adjusted the valves. The amazing thing is, I got the valve adjustments right on my first try. The scooter actually has more horse power than I'm used to now! While pulling into Sears yesterday I accidentally popped a wheelie. No worries I landed it back on two wheels without problems. I just have to say HOO HA; I'M BACK BABY!

Trunk-or-Treat!!!

Hey look everyone! It's Sarah Palin & Barack Obama!!! And look at who is holding our daughter!!! Last night we went to a Chili cook-off/Trunk-or-Treat with our ward. Sarah Palin & Barack Obama were played by our friends Martha & Jereme Schultz. They won best costumes of the night!

Here is our little family. Ahhhh! I am dressed as a sort of Maleficent (from Sleeping Beauty), Tali is of course a little kitty, and Brian is.....not a vampire. He's actually supposed to be a warlock.

As we were getting ready to leave I had to take this picture of Tali in her carseat. I thought she just looked so darn cute. It was harder than Hades to draw the whiskers and nose on her. I also liked this picture of Tali and I in our costumes.

And to close the night, our friends Brian & Chelsey Nelson came over to carve pumpkins and watch Halloween movies with us. It was fun. The pumpkins turned out AWESOME too!

Polls & Politics

With the elections right around the corner, politics have been heavily on my mind and so I decided to conduct a little poll of my own. Don't worry. I won't know who is voting for Obama or who is voting for McCain......unless of course you've already told me. You will only be able to vote once. I would like it if EVERYONE who views this blog vote.

I feel that with this election, it is crucial that people go to the polls and vote if you haven't already.

I have my own views and opinions. I just want to clear a few things up. As most of you may know we are voting for Barack Obama. There have been a lot of media that has come out defaming his character and even his patriotism. I had read a blog yesterday that gave reasons why you should not vote for Barack Obama. I believe you can't rely much on "hear-say."

I had been studying the issues and the candidate's stand on them. People are claiming that Barack Obama is for partial or live abortions. That accusation is false! Go to his website and look under "fight the smears." You will find all of the facts there!

First of all, he is NOT against the second ammendment. What he is against is having military weapons on the streets of our neighborhoods. Don't believe me? Look it up on his OWN website.

Second, his link to William Ayers and terrorists. OBAMA WAS 8 YEARS OLD!!! This is just my opinion, but if William Ayers was that big of a "terrorist" threat, don't you think he would be dead by now or in PRISON?!? How is he supposed to be associated with someone of that caliber when he was 8 years old?!?

Third, Obama wanting to talk to our "enemies." What is wrong with a little diplomacy??? We have learned over the last eight years that the lack of diplomacy leads us to unnecessary wars and too many lost innocent lives. It has been only recently that the Bush administration started to get it and has been using diplomacy (in some things). I for one am not willing to bet the safety of my daughter's future on a war-monger.

Fourth, taxes. Take a look at the bailout. Take a look at John McCain's plan for tax cuts for Corporate America. AIG asked for 84 Billion dollars. We bailed them out. One week later, their executives went on a week long trip to a luxurious spa and treated themselves to $440,000 of American taxpayers money. They then asked for another 38 BILLION dollars and what did they do? That's right! They took their executives yet again to gamble our money away in VEGAS!!! And we want to give tax breaks to Corporate America? Why, just so we (the struggling American people) can bail them out again from their frivolous behaviors and luxurious pampering? Does this kind of tax plan sound good to you? Does it sound like someone who is looking out for the American people? The fact is the plan will only help put money into those cushy pockets of big business executives while Americans are struggling to keep their home.
Obama's tax plan will give the majority of people (those earning under $250,000 per year) a tax break. Personally, I think that is pretty generous. Who seriously makes that much besides our good ol' friends at AIG? McCain says that he will NOT raise taxes one penny! Then again, he is the first candidate in history that wants to tax our healthcare benefits from our employer. That means more out of pocket expenses. Just think, he will give you $5,000 to purchase an average $12,000 healthcare policy though. So who pays the remaining $7,000? Hmmm........you do. That sounds good, right?

Don't even get me started on Sarah Palin and her knowledge of foreign affairs. This is someone who could potentially be our next President if heaven forbid something happens to John McCain! That's okay though because with her foreign expertise we'll all be safe knowing that she can see Russia from her house! And what about the "troopergate" scandal? Do we want someone abusing their power........yet again for personal gain? I think not.

People have questioned his character and said that he had admitted to doing marijuana and cocaine, but yet look the other way when McCain has admitted to having a drinking problem, his wife Cindy was struggling with a drug addiction herself oh and he was taking strippers to high class clubs when his first wife was at home sick and crippled. He was cheating on his wife!!! HELLO!!!!

Most of you probably won't even finish reading this blog but for those of you who do, thank you. I don't mean to come across as harsh or abrasive. I'm just very passionate about this election. GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!

Family Halloween Party

This weekend, Brian, Tali and I went to my family Halloween party.

Here is our little family at the party. Brian is dressed as a Warlock, Tali is a kitty and I of course am dressed as a witch. Here are some other pictures from the party.

This is my nephew Tristan and my brother-in-law Lucian. I really loved their caveman costumes!

This is my nephew Jordan. Doesn't he look AWESOME?

So so cute! Simmone looked so cute in her mouse costume. I had to take a picture of her and her brother Mossimo. Mossimo dressed up as Nemo.

This is my little brother "Scott" with Tali. He was dressed as "Edward." Yes ladies, he's single!

Where would a witch and warlock be without their little black kitty?

I just loved this picture of Tali! What an adorable little black kitty!

We played a lot of fun games including a doughnut eating contest, mummy wrapping, Halloween Bingo, a Halloween candy pass.

Brian won the doughnut eating contest!!! GO BABY GO!!!


We unfortunately lost the Mummy wrapping contest. We ended up wrapping two of my nephews. It was a lot of fun!


To end the evening we decided have a little "T.P." fight. It was quite an evening!

5 Months old!

I am now five months old! Can you believe it?
I weigh in at a whopping 13 lbs 12 oz!

I can sit up all by myself, see?

For my 5 month birthday, my mommy and I went to visit one of her friends. We also went to the store and she bought me some clothes that were on sale. She's teaching me to be a "bargain shopper"....whatever that means. She says I will look so cute in my new clothes.

Mommy also bought me this heart shaped teething toy because I started cutting my very first tooth on Wednesday (10-15-08)!

Here I am with most of mommy's friend's family. They were really fun to play with! Marion was telling me funny stories and Rais played "peek-a-boo" with me. They all said I was a "cute baby." They were all really nice. My new friends even helped me play with my toys.

Here I am with my mommy and her friend Lynette. I really liked Lynette and her family. They were a lot of fun! It was a very good day. I can't wait to go back and play with them again!

2 Worlds 2 Voices-WOW!!!

Last night my good friend and I went to see Reba McEntire & Kelly Clarkson! We had some AWESOME seats! We were in the center about 5 rows up from the floor! It was an INCREDIBLE concert! Chels and I were just jammin out the entire time! It was AMAZING!

Recognize her? Does she look familiar? Yep! That's right! It's "Barbara Jean" from the TV show Reba. She opened the show by doing a comedy routine that was HYSTERICAL! We were laughing so hard!

Reba was AMAZING as ever! I absolutely just LOVE her! She sang a lot of my favorite songs with Kelly. She even sang some of her "old" songs like "That's the Night That the Light's Went Out in Georgia," "Is There Life Out There," "Cathy's Clown," "How Blue," "One Promise Too Late," "The Greatest Man I Never Knew," "Why Haven't I Heard From You" "And Still" along with some of my other fav's.

Here is Kelly singing "Never Again." She also sang a bunch of my fav's. She sang "Behind These Hazel Eyes," "Since You've Been Gone," "Miss Independent," "Be Still" and of course "Because of You" with Reba. It was totally AWESOME!!

Notice the shirt "Barbara Jean" is wearing? It has Kelly Clarkson's face on it. She was talking to a guy in the front row who she called "Big Mike." She slouched just a little and said "Hey Mike, Kelly's winking at you." Then later she was talking to Reba and slouched some more and said "I'm Kelly and I'm AAANGRYYY!" It was priceless! She was so freakin' funny! At one point in the concert, she even shhh'd, or rather said "BEEP" to Reba and held her hand up to her face. Then later, she had asked Reba to sing "I'm A Survivor" with her because it was the theme song to their show. Reba said she was singing it with Kelly, but would sing it if "Barbara Jean" would just sit quietly. "Barbara Jean" agreed and then towards the end of the song was up there singing with them and forced her way in front of them and had even broken out into a dance of her own. SO FUNNY!

I absolutely LOVE this picture! This was their encore performance. They had come up from the top center of the stage to sing "Fancy." It was so cool! We had such an amazing time!!! It was a BLAST!!! The concert was better than I thought it would be! I just wish we had backstage passes.

Look what I can do!!!

I cannot believe it! My baby can actually hold herself up in a sitting position! Brian was just playing with her this morning and called me in from the other room to show me this. I had to, of course, break out the camera.

I was going through her photos that I had meant to post but never did and I thought I would share them with you. I thought she just looked too cute not to share them.

I had taken this picture at Brian's friend's wedding a few weeks ago. I just loved her big beautiful eyes.

I had taken this photo of Tali one night when she was really making me angry. She was so tired, but refused to go to sleep. She had finally gotten quiet and I went into her room and found her like this. How could I be mad at a face like that?


I had taken these photos about a week ago and I just LOVED her little toothless smile! I just love my little princess!

This picture just cracked me up! I had given Tali a bath yesterday and let her play with her rag. When I snapped this picture, she just looked up and had this "deer in the headlights" kind of look. Priceless! I thought it was hilarious!

Changes at the Monson's house

First change: Yes, I chopped my hair. I was getting sick of having a mullet lookin' hairstyle so in order to even it all out, I had to cut it quite short. I don't think my hair has been this short since the third grade! I started freaking out when they had to use the razor to clean up my neck! Luckily it will grow back....in about 2 years.

Second change: This weekend between General Conference sessions, Brian and I had to go buy a cheap new washer and dryer set because ours decided to break on us. We must have been being looked after because before they broke down, we were blessed with enough money to pay for the washer and dryer as well as fix Brian's scooter.

Third change: Tomorrow....or rather tonight at midnight, I'm going to go to Walmart to buy Sleeping Beauty on DVD. WhooHoo! It was one of my favorites growing up.

Fourth change: Tali has been rolling over ALL OVER!!! It's quite funny. I would step out of the room for a second and when I got back into the front room, I would find her under our coffee table. Tali also LOVES grabbing her feet and playing with them. What a funny little girl.

Here kitty kiddy!

We bought this kitty costume at Walmart for only $8.99. Yes, that's right. Walmart special. We didn't want to spend a lot of money on a costume for Tali since she's only going to wear it once. I decided to put her in it to make sure that it fit and she just looked so dang cute, I just had to take pictures.

I thought the Snickers candy bar was a nice Halloween-y touch. No, I didn't have it opened. She was so funny!

With all of the excitement of Halloween, Brian and I are still trying to decide what we want to be. We'll probably just recycle some of our old Halloween costumes since we're too cheap to buy new ones. That and the fact we don't want to spend a lot of money on costumes. We're really excited to be able to take Tali out this year. Brian is already getting a head start on his sweet tooth. I think Tali's definitely going to be just like her daddy and granddaddy. She already seems to like the thought of candy. See what I mean?

After a long half an hour of pictures, Tali had decided she had had enough and decided to take a "cat" nap. What a little sweetie.