Peanut & Binki: April 2009

Monday, April 13, 2009

Twilight Girls Night In

I promise, I'm not like, way in to Twilight. It's good and I enjoy it, and I do spend time persuing other options, but, well, I also enjoy parties, so when my girl friends wanted to throw a Twilight party, I couldn't say no.

We had fun decorating, and decided that Italian food was a perfect idea. We we even had mushroom ravioli. We had about fifteen girls there.

I know it's close, but this is not the same picture, it's not even the same girls!!! Above is Allison & Camille with myself. (These are my work girls) And below is Sadie & Annie (sisters). I've been friends with Annie since moving to Utah. We both moved here the same year.

Yay!!! The moment of truth, here we are ready to start the flick, only one of us had never seen it before, and if I remember right, one of us had seen five times at this point.

Happy Easter

My mom bought some Easter hats for the girls in her daycare. Adrian saw them, and thought they were cowboy hats. I just grabbed my camera.

While I may not have had Adrian on the actual Easter day, we made sure to celebrate the days we did have with him. Here he is with has brand new bike he got for Easter.

I am so grateful for the Easter season, and the reminder it offers of the atonement and resurection of our brother and savior, Jesus Christ. Easter Sunday was a peaceful and spiritual day. The two boys in my Sunbeam class (one of them being Adrian) did not show up to chruch, so I was able to attend Relief Society and Sunday School class. A first for me in this ward, since I was put in the Sunbeams when I moved in two years ago. What a fantastic Easter treat it was. Then, of course, it happened to be Fast Sunday on Easter Sunday as well. It was uplifting to listen to the testimonies being borne of the atonement.

Peanut and Binki (How it came about)

I've had the nick name Binki for as long as i can remember. Now my dad is the only one who calls me by it, which I kind of like. It's a sweet connection that we have. Apparently the only brand of pacifier I would accept as a baby was Binki. So my parents dubbed me for it.

When I was pregnant with Adrian, Chris and I went to a Halloween party, I was about eight months along, and was trying to come up with a costume for a very pregnant woman, when I got the inspiration to dress up as an M&M and my pregnant belly would represent the peanut - thus I would be a peanut M&M. Chris and I had a good laugh about it, however, since we chose not to learn the sex of our baby, we began calling our unborn baby "peanut" to avoid the term "the baby". I don't call Adrian by it now, but I thought it was a cute representation.