Anadel's Bath-time Prank

Anadel loves to play pranks on people. When she was a tiny baby she used to pretend she was asleep in our arms at church and then when people would come to look at her she would wake up quickly with almost a boo sound and scare them. Then when she learned to crawl, she would hide by the side of our couch and reach up and tickle our feet and scare Ben and I. She is such a happy funny kid and is constantly on the move all day long, finding new joys in her life to laugh about. The other day I was giving her a bath before bed and I was sitting on the edge of the tub washing her down. I let her have her little cup we wash her down with to play with and then turned around and leaned over to pick-up her cloths on the floor in front of me. Anadel then grabbed her cup full of water pulled the back of my pants down and poured the water down my britches and laugh. She is only 16 months old, I couldn't believe it! Funny Kid!!!

Easter Weekend-Pixie Playland Day

We celebrated Anadel's first real Easter by going on a family trip to Pixie Playland together. She doesn't like candy at all so an easter egg hunt was out of the question. I was thinking of filling her plastic easter eggs with gold fish crackers for her to find but we decided that taking a trip as a family would be just as special. Maybe next year we will have a better chance and she will be old enough to decorate eggs and talk with us about the true meaning of Easter. Pixie Playland was a great family outing and the weather was gorgeous. Anadel had a blast and loved the rides. Her favorites were the carousel horses, riding the small train, spinning in the tea cups with mommy and driving her first car with her daddy around the miniature electrical car track. We then went to the duck pond outside the gates and watched Anadel play with the ducks. I think she thinks that she is a duck now because she pulls both hands behind her with fingers flared like the back of duck wings when she walks now. I will have to get a picture because it is very cute!

My New Creative Blog-If Life Should Give You Lemons...

I know I am getting Blog crazy, but this one is for my own creative therapy as a mother. It is called, If Life Should Give You Lemons...! I have collected tips and creative ideas for years and have wanted to share them, so starting this blog is a dream come true. I hope it will help a lot of people since a lot of the ideas have to do with saving money or helping others in these hard economic times. If anyone has any ideas they would like me to share I would be more than happy to post them. I am loving this blog! Please check it out and pass my link on to your friends http://iflifeshouldgiveyoulemons.blogspot.com/

Our Killer Fondue Birthday Party-My 31st Birthday!

Last Night I celebrated my 31st Birthday. Ben and I threw a Killer Fondue Birthday bash at our home. We invited a few of our friends and filled our little home wall to wall. To the Left is the invitation I made for the Party. We had chocolate fondue with all the fruit fixings, white chocolate Fondue, A meat fondue with little smokies and spinach dip with sourdough bread, lemonade and some assorted puff pastries. It was quite the spread of food! What an amazing way to celebrate another year of life with some wonderful families and awesome food to go with it!

Benjamin has a Music Blog now! I Think I Was Born To Blog! :)

Last week Ben gave me permission to do something I have always wanted to do for him and that was to built another blog to help Ben share his music with others. His blog is http://benjamincassani.blogspot.com/. This has been quite the learning curve for me to start this blog for him. Not only have I had to sort through hundreds of his songs he has recorded over the years, (which is quite a pleasure I may add) I have also had to learn how to format them to fit into a play list on a blog since they were recorded different ways. We have also set up a facebook group for him and has quite the following within just a few days. We are so thrilled with how many people have taken an interest in his beautiful music. We both hear wonderful comments each day about his songs from everyone and I really hope that we are able to at least get one CD of his works out into the public.

I think I was born to Blog!!! I manage not only Ben's blog and our family blog, but also an exercise blog too. I started a ladies exercise group at church with the ladies called "Slim Sisters" a few weeks ago to help me and all the other mothers get into shape without having to fight their children to exercise for an hour. We meet on Tuesday and Thursdays now to workout together and it is going so well. Anadel even enjoys having an hour to play with all the other children too to socialize. I am sure it must be lonely being the only child all the time so we try to go to the parks and meet with other children as much as possible. This program has really been a blessing for all of us and I am so thrilled that there are a lot of other ladies who are excited to do it with me and keep me motivated. We are even weighing in every 4 weeks and the Sister who has lost the most weight gets to pick from one of the local restaurants where we will take her to celebrate and treat her for her progress and dedication in the program.  Here is the blog for this program at  http://slimsisterprogram.blogspot.com/.  I have been busy each week providing the ladies with healthy tips to loose weight, healthy recipes and new updates on all our classes. All of these little projects have been so great for my need for a creative outlet and social outlet each week.  I am so pleased that I too like Ben with his music have been able to share my talents and service to benefit others through these blogs and programs. What a blessing talents are and I am so glad the Lord has given each of us these to Serve and lift one another during this life. :)

Banana Ana-Girls Just Want To Have Fun!!

Here is our little Banana Ana-del in our kitchen. Ben took a picture of her this morning sitting (I may add dangerously :O) ) on the kitchen countertop like a little monkey. She was getting a kick out of being somewhere she knew was forbidden usually to sit and enjoying munching on her little banana teething cookies. Anadel finally slept through the night two nights in a row for the first time in Months. Boy are we so happy about that!! This little girl just wants to have fun all the time, even in the middle of the night when she wakes up she is giggly and wants to go play or read her books!

Sparkling Toes

Ben surprised me on Friday and scheduled a special birthday gift for me. He took me to get a wonderful 1 1/2 hour pedicure/wax/message. The experience was amazing and I got to relax in a zero gravity massage chair while she scrubbed, massaged and dipped my feet in paraffin wax oh and who can forget the wonderful smelling lavender eye pillow to really put you at ease. I haven't had a pedicure since I was in Cosmetology school and that was quite a different experience than this papering.  I told Ben that I understand now why there are so many high matinence women out there who get pedicures, massages, etc all the time because once you get this royal treatment it is hard to not want it again. Ha Ha! This was quite the ultimate gift for me since my feet have taken a beating since my mission and having Anadel. Thank you my love for treating me like a queen and for the wonderful birthday surprises! I have sparkling toes now! Yeah!!