Doritos Commerical

So back when I lived in Utah almost 9 1/2 years ago, I worked at a law firm with my friend Kristy. Her husband is pretty amazing with his videography skills. Well he's entered a Doritos commercial contest. The commercial that he did is incredibly innovative, fun and well amazing!

How this contest works is the Doritos judges will pick 5 winners to compete for 1 million dollars. The top 5 commercials compete for first place with open voting some time in January.

Right now they are just trying to make sure that it gets noticed amongst all of the entries and they are trying to find their way into the "most viewed" arena.

If you don't mind taking a peek at the video that would be so great! And heck....if you're bored, feel free to peek at it again, and again, and again and....well you get the point.

Also if you feel comfortable in spreading the word that would be great!

Here is the address to his video. You'll have to copy and paste into your browser.
http://www.crashthesuperbowl.com/#/gallery/video/971/

Baby Steps

A couple weeks ago Alyssa took her first step. Last week she could be seen pushing her brother around the house on the little scooter. So with a little coaxing she started walking across the room on Saturday night. This is what I was able to record this morning.

Way to go Alyssa!!

Halloween 2008

Way too much candy!!!

Zach hiding behind Emilee

Alyssa dressed up as Belle

The three kids after trick-or-treaing.

Our Minnie Mouse pumpkin

Halloween this year was interesting. Everything was going along great during the day of the 31st and even into the early evening. Emilee went on a field trip during the day to a farm and came of exhausted. She got home from school and went to take a nap. Since the house was quite, Zach and Alyssa also decided to take a nap. The three kids were asleep during the day at the same time. That never ever ever ever happens...ever. Life is good. I first woke up Emilee because she was dressing up as a cheerleader and we needed time to curl the hair and apply make-up. Then I woke up Alyssa to get her fed and dressed. I woke Zach up last and he seemed to be doing fine. At 6:00pm my cousin Barb came over to hand out candy at our home so we could go out trick-or-treating as a family. I went back to Zach to get him dressed in his pirate getup and he went ballistic. It was the tantrum to end all tantrums. Robert came home during the midst of the tantrum and took over. Emilee, Alyssa and I started out trick-or-treating and I soon realized that even though Alyssa is only 17 1/2 lbs. she gets heavy after holding her for 20 minutes. We turned around so I could get the stroller and ran into Robert and Zach a few houses away. Apparently after the girls and I left the home Zach realized he was going to miss out on all the fun, finished his meltdown and quickly got ready to go out. Children and candy, gotta love it!

Picture Time

Ok, so I know this is the time when the Halloween photos are suppose to be displayed...and I will get to them. Actually, I am downloading the pictures off the camera as I do this blog so hopefully I can do a blog about halloween soon. Then maybe I can get to the Disneyland pics from fall break, but I digress.

Emilee just had her picture taken at school and we just took Alyssa in to get pictures for her first birthday. So it's picture time....

No More Training Wheels

Late last spring Emilee asked her Dad to take the training wheels off her bike. So summer came around and we didn't go outdoors unless it was absolutely necessary. Needless to say when we went on a walk a couple weeks ago Robert was still holding on to the bike as Emilee wobbily made her way down the street. Then last week Robert went out to the garage to clean out the car after our trip and Emilee pulled out her bike. She just started riding around like a pro.

Zach with his scooter.

Emilee is now taking a pom, cheer & tumbling class. I signed her up because she wants to learn how to do a cartwheel. Since she has a friend in this class she thought this would be the best class to take in order to learn how to do the cartwheel.

Alyssa now 1

Alyssa turned the big 1 today (Friday). It was sort of a crazy day because Emilee had a short day of school due to parent teacher conferences. So there was a lot of going to and from the school today. Luckily the weather has started cooling off. We are now in the low 90's. A couple weeks ago Emilee told me that she knew that Alyssa would be turning one this month, but she wanted to know when she would be 12 months old. Kids says the funniest things. Alyssa opening the gift on her own. I think she would have been able to open it entirely on her own but her older siblings had other ideas.


The cake before Alyssa got her hands dirty.
I don't think I have ever seen a one year old enjoy their cake as much as Alyssa.




See Alyssa in action.

Zach now 3

Zach is now the big THREE. We had some pictures taken for his birthday. He is just so photogenic that we have to show off his mischevious smile with everyone.