Photo Challenge Day 30/30 - Family

Today as I was thinking of something that made me happy, my family kept coming to my mind. I am so grateful for them. It is not always roses and romance, but we laugh a lot, love spending time together and really do love one another. I couldn't do it without Dusty or Kinley. I love my cute little family!!

Hope you guys didn't get too bored this month with all the posts, but I enjoyed really thinking about the stuff that makes me happy and hopefully you all got something out of it too.

Wedding Day: July 8, 2005

Kinley is welcomed into our family

August 1, 2010

Photo Challenge Day 29/30 - Tangled

I LOVE Disney movies and I am so excited that Tangled comes out today! This movie goes on the list of my favorite Disney movies that includes Hercules, Beauty and the Beast, Sleeping Beauty and Aladdin.

Photo Challenge Day 28/30 - Kinley

I knew that at some point during this challenge I would be doing a post about Kinley because she makes me so happy and I love being a mom. But after a weekend away, I was so excited to see her. I love her smile, laugh and everything about her. I love being a mom to this cute girl!

Dusty loves to put Kinley's pants on her head

Photo Challenge Day 27/30 - The Temple

I love the temple and the blessings that it brings.
I am also so grateful that we have temples so close to us.

This year we are working on trying to go to the temple more often, so this is a good reminder!

Photo Challenge Day 26/30 - Wicked!

My mom, sister and I are going to this tonight!

So excited!

Photo Challenge Day 25/30 - Audrey Hepburn

Audrey Hepburn is one of my all time favorite actresses. She is a classic beauty with amazing style. She is also in some of my favorite movies (Sabrina, Roman Holiday, My Fair Lady, Charade) I have loved her since I was little and still do to this day! I can't wait to watch her movies with Kinley when she is older

Photo Challenge Day 24/30 - Grey's Anatomy

Thursday nights are a good night in our house. It is Grey's Anatomy night. It might be ridiculous to get so excited over a show, but this show holds so many memories. Dusty and I started watching the show when we were dating, so it has been with us through so much :) If you have never watched the show, I highly recommend it!

This is a promo pic from the current season

Photo Challenge Day 23/30 - Red

I love the color red! It makes me happy. I love to decorate with it, love fruit that is red, cars that are red, dark red hair, red nailpolish, red clothes, rosy red cheeks from the cold, red leaves in the fall, red flowers, etc.

It is my favorite color and makes me very happy!

Photo Challenge Day 22/30 - Breakfast for Dinner

One of my all time favorite dinners is breakfast. I love it! I love breakfast food but rarely eat it because I don't like to eat much in the morning. So tonight I made breakfast for dinner. Dusty was also happy with the choice! I also made my first omelet! It was delicious and actually looked good too! I will for sure be trying different combinations.

Photo Challenge Day 21/30 - Spring

So pretty much this cold weather is starting to make me depressed, so today I had to think of Spring to make me happy!

Dear Spring;

Please hurry and come and visit us. You can also stay awhile.

We would love it. Thinking of you!

Love,

Ali

Photo Challenge Day 20/30 - California

I love vacations and one that has become my favorites in the last couple of years has been California. We have created a lot of great memories there and next weekend I get to make another one with my mom and sister! I can't wait. I am going to be a happy girl all week!

Photo Challenge Day 19/30 - Babies

Today with a HUGE help from my mom, we did Kitani's baby shower. We are so excited for Jeff and Kitani and that they are going to be having a baby boy!! They are going to be amazing parents.

Babies make me so happy. It is just an exciting time for the new parents and I love doing parties for them too! So here are 2 pictures from the day. I will get other pictures posted later :)

The table - It was a Jungle theme
Kitani and her adorable belly!!!
She is so cute pregnant!
Can't wait to meet Baby Anderson :)

Photo Challenge Day 18/30- My Hubby

This weekend was so busy and I didn't get a chance to post yesterday so I will have to do 2 today.

This weekend would not have been possible without my amazing hubby! I did a shower for Kitani on Saturday and I had stuff to get done and Dusty took time off of work on Friday so that I could go shopping for everything on Friday. When I got home my house was also cleaned and he got our outside ready as well. Friday night was spent cleaning up some more, keeping me company and doing anything that he could to help. And he didn't stop there, he woke up with Kinley last night so I could sleep and woke up bright and early and ran the last minute errands, hung the decorations and helped build the parfaits. And when it was all over he played with Kinley while I took a nap! (Sorry to go on and on, but I just had to let everyone know how amazing he is!) I don't think that I could ask for a better husband and that is why this post is dedicated to him. Dusty makes me so happy and I am so lucky that I have someone like him. He is always helping me with everything and is so supportive. He loves coming home to his girls and Kinley and I love to see him when he gets home. So thanks babe for making me so happy!!

This picture is from our wedding day.

What a hottie!!

Photo Challenge Day 17/30 - Holidays!!

Holidays are a days to do a little something extra that makes people happy! I love taking advantage of all of them. That probably comes from growing up in a house where my mom always made it holiday so fun! I hope that Kinley grows up to love the holidays as much as I do.

Today was St Patricks day and we all dressed in green! And had some green food to eat. It wasn't a lot, but it just made the day a little special. Hope no one got pinched today!

Kinley in her Kiss Me I'm Irish shirt

(I am sure she has a little Irish in her somewhere)
For dinner we had shepards pie. It seemed Irish to me, just without the corned beef :) And I made the potatoes green. Then a green salad and green kool aid. Jeff and Kit joined us for dinner and I think that they enjoyed the holiday as well :)

Photo Challenge Day 16/30 - Cupcake Chic

I feel like everywhere you look you see a new cupcake store pop up. They are the new craze. There are tv shows Cupcake Wars and DC Cupcakes (and yes I do watch them!) that talk all about them and how amazing they are. I like cupcakes just like the next person, but have never really LOVED them. Enter Cupcake Chic. It is a cupcake store that is in Orem by Costco. I happened to go in there one day to check it out and I was pleasantly surprised. They have DELICIOUS cupcakes. They actually taste homemade, not mass produced like so many other cupcake places in Utah. I have tried the Red Velvet, Chocolate, and Vanilla with Strawberry Icing. My fav has to be the Vanilla Strawberry. Today I converted my mom as well. She has never been a fan of the cupcake stores, but she agreed that they are amazing. So today I am happy that I have found a delicious cupcake store to satisfy my sweet tooth. If you want an amazing cupcake visit http://www.cupcakechicutah.com/ and go get one!!

This is the Vanilla Strawberry