"Dennis Quaid is here!"

Okay ya'll.... some of you may have seen this before but if you haven't, you HAVE to watch it. Most of you know that I LOVE the Ellen Degeneres talkshow! I watch it when I can and youtube missed episodes. She never ceases to make me laugh. [side note: she is the sole reason that I am watching American Idol this season!] Anyway, about a year ago or so she had Dennis Quaid on her show. She had him go to Starbucks and do this prank. She sets up the scene in this clip so please just watch it! I laugh so hard everytime I see it. I had forgotten about it but she had him on her show again this past week and replayed this video so I thought I would share it with you. I hope you enjoy it. It's 3 minutes long but I think it is well worth it!!!

VOTE FOR BELLA!!!!

Bella has entered into the Bissell MVP pet photo contest. PLEASE click the button below to vote for her!!!!! The more people that vote, the better chances she has at winning. If we win she will be on the Bissell boxes!!!!!! How awesome would that be? We could also get a variety of prices like money donated to a pet charity of choice, Visa giftcards and more! Voting starts TODAY and goes until January 28. I am not sure if you can vote more than once.... maybe you can vote once a day! Feel free to get everyone you know to vote for her too! :)















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Kiddie Sleepover

This past weekend I got to babysit Camden, Ava and Claire during their sleepover!!! We had dinner and then decided to go ahead and get in their pajammas to have a pajamma party.

Camden arranged this picture. Look at him with the ladies!

Then they had a dance party!! It was so cute!!!!! I just sat in the chair and watched them dance!

And then we had a movie night with popcorn!!! We watched Pippi Longstocking, one of my very favorite childhood movies! These kids are so much fun and it was a great way for me to spend my Friday night! :-)

Birthday. Birthday, Birthdays.

In the past 2 weekends, I have celebrated 5 of my friends' birthdays. Woah! My friends Kathryn, Cara and Julie all have birthdays a week apart so we usually have an almost month long celebration. I love January! This year I also celebrated my friends Liz and Gardner's birthdays. It was easier because Liz and Gardner combined their birthday as did Cara and Julie! The celebrations came to an end this past weekend and it sure was fun! Here are my favorite pictures of all the celebrations!

Charlsie (my roommate) and I at Liz and Gardner's birthday. It was a combined party but a surprise party for just Liz..... Gardner was in the the surprise.

This is my friend Gina.... she moved back to VA at the end of last summer. Liz is her best friend and she came back for the surprise!

Liz was SO surprised!!



Then we celebrated Kathryn's birthday! We ate at the pit, went bowling and then went to sing karaoke!

Cara and her bowling ball baby!

Kathy and Carol.

And Kathy and Carol again. I love this picture of them!

Tay Tay and Kathy being loving friends.

The girls singing karaoke.... I sang 2 songs with them!




And then we celebrated Cara and Julie's birthday. We had a dinner party at my place for both of them with chocolate and cheese fondu. YUM.

Taylor and Cara: the lovebirds.

Cara and Julie blowing out their candles. Sadly this is the only picture I got of Julie all night! :-(

I am very proud of my happy birthday banner. I made it with all my leftover scraps of paper that I had used for my frames!

Here is a close up of Cara's name.

And then this is their "birthday cake." I made my mini cupcakes and homemade icing!

Virginia Taylor at 6 weeks

My friend Heather's little girl is almost 6 weeks old! I can't believe it. She is so sweet and SO cute. I have gotten to spend some time with her and it just goes by so fast. I just love her so much. She has started to smile a lot! The mommy and daddy are both doing well! I have lots of pictures but these two are my favorite!

The Great Wolf Lodge

WOW!!!!! Let me just say that if there is ever anyone out there who wants to buy me an expensive present, I WOULD LOVE TO GO TO THE GREAT WOLF LODGE. I am not joking nor am I trying to be funny. I sincerely want to go. Ever since they have been playing that catchy commercial 2 years ago, I have been obsessed with the idea of going. It is a bit on the expensive side but it is right up my alley. I love lodge/mountain type places and it has a huge indoor water park.... and I love water parks! Ahhhhhhhhhh. I just want to go. When Cara and I were driving home from Ikea when I was there, I saw it!!!! Anyway, its a bit of a small dream of mine to go. Yes, I dream big. HAHA.

NYE

For New Years, I went to Salisbury, NC! I missed my friends here but I also had so much fun visiting the town of several of my close friends. We went out to eat with a big group of people and then went back to our friend Devon's house where we ate some food and played games! We had champagne at midnight and then we had a dance party!! It was super fun. The next day I went with my friend Cara to a mall in Charlotte! I was so excited to go there and have only been once a long time ago so I don't really remember it. I went shopping and spent some Christmas money while Cara was getting her hair done. And then..... we went to Ikea. I mentioned this before. I guess it wasn't smart going after I had walked around a mall for 3 hours and because it was New Years Day. I would like to go back sometime because I felt like I had a negative experience.... it was just SO overwhelming and WAY too many people. Anyway, I hope everyone else had a great New Years too!!!!!