The Roberts Family: 2010

Sunday, October 24, 2010

Spooner Farms 2010

With Halloween books and stores and Halloween talk at daycare, Elli has been getting very excited about the season. Elli talked a lot about a "pumpkin patch" since it's in one of her books. So Wednesday morning this last week, we went out to Spooner Farms.

Here's Daddy and Elli sitting on a "cowch"

Eating fresh donuts

So Elli got a little tramatized in the animal barn of which there are a few videos below. So after that, she was afraid of everything especially the pumpkin house.

Daddy trying to show her how to be a pumpkin face, but again she was too freaked out to do anything he asked her.

Very cautiously watching the pumpkins

Here she's handing me a stem she pulled off a pumpkin.

Her prize and joy: a baby pumpkin. Notice how in all the photos she's carrying her baby (named "Peaches"), and so naturally she held her baby pumpkin and rocked it.

Giving her baby pumpkin a kiss:

This is a great look : "Come on Mom! More pictures?!?!"

We couldn't go in the pumpkin house, but it was okay to stand by it.

Monday, October 4, 2010

The Hunger Games

So if you don't know what The Hunger Games is, you need to go pick up these books. It's a trilogy by Suzanne Collins and the third and final book, "Mockingjay" just came out in August. Mockingjay was the September book for book club and so in honor of the movie that will be produced based on the first book, I put together a poster of all my actors that I would pick to play the parts. Okay, I know I'm a dork! But it was a lot of fun because you know how you get a visual image in your head of what the character looks like while you're reading a book... well it was fun to pick out who I thought fit the image in my head. Yes, that's right... you're getting a peek what's inside my head and that's what Elli would say is "Scaaaarrrryyy!"

Here's my poster:

front -

back -

Katniss - Emma Roberts, Okay, so as I was posting this, I realized that I don't like any of my Katniss suggestions on the poster, so I found a new one that I like better. She kind of an awkward pretty which is perfect. But she would need grey contact lenses to lighten her eyes.

Peeta - Sterling Knight, This is my favorite Peeta! Isn't he soo cute! Blonde, blue eyes, can't you picture him baking you some bread! YUM!! You might know him from "17 Again" and the Disney channel movie "StarStruck"

This is the second runner up. Alex Petyfer is his name and he's a dreamy blonde too.

Gale - Ian Somerhaulder, Awww man.... this man belongs in every movie. Dark hair and light eyes - he is the perfect Gale. He played Boone in "Lost" and is currently in "Vampire Diaries". I will watch anything this man is in :)

Primrose - Elle Fanning, cute and innocent

Primrose second runner up is Abigail Breslin, but she's getting kind of old now.

Rue - Madison Pettis, In the book, Rue is has dark skin and dark brown eyes, so I assume her ethnicity is probably Hispanic since it takes place on the North American continent as far as I can tell. So Madison Pettis isn't hispanic, but I think she'd make a good Rue.

Haymitch - Jack Nicholson, Atleast how he looks in this photo - that's how I picture him in my head, but the modern day Jack is probably too old and too flabby for what I picture Haymitch to be.

Hugh Laurie would make a good Haymitch too. He can do the grouchy drunk thing well.

Cinna - Hugh Dancy, I can totally picture Hugh Dancy as a moderate flamo. He'd be perfect.

Effie Trinket - Kristen Chenoweth, With a pink wig, she'd be perfect.

Also a very good Effie - Amy Poehler

Avox Girl - Danielle Panabaker, I don't know why, but there's something about her wide forehead and narrow chin that makes her look like the Avox girl in my head.

Fox Face - Emma Stone, It might not be the most pleasant thing being called fox face, but doesn't she look like a fox face?

Depending on the source, the movie could be out in 2012 or 2013. Still toooo long to wait. I hope they do the book justice and they put enough funding behind the movie to really make the special effects good.

I almost forgot, the theme song... yes I picked a theme song. It would be "Help I'm Alive" by Metric. I love the band Metric, everyone should totally check them out. I'm going to try to see if I can get a player to play the song on my blog, so you might even be listening to it right now :)

Monday, September 13, 2010

Family Fun Day

Sunday, August 29, 2010

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Quick story to share: Elli loves all books, but lately she's had a "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" book phase. So it wasn't one that we were reading tonight before bedtime, but she sat down and grabbed it as I was turning her music on. She was sitting there on the floor counting the five oranges. And yes, she can count - I think the highest she's ever gotten has been 14. It was so cute, so I let her carry the book with her to bed. So I was thinking as soon as I turned out the light she would lose interest in the book, but at least it would be there in the morning when she woke up. As I headed for her lamp to turn it off, I heard "chocolate cake, ice cream cone, pickle, cheese, lollipop, dog hot (that was the sausage), cupcake, watermelon." She was laying down with the book propped up in front of her. I was shocked that she remembered that part of the story and could identify all the food. I turned off the light, then she says "Wait! Wait Mommy! Just a second! Just a second!" So of course that was so cute, I turned on the light and went over and asked her what all the items were so that I could hear her cute voice again. Then finally I said good night, gaves kisses and then turned out the light. And even in the darkness she was still holding the book in front of her like she was reading.

I love being a MOMMY!

Monday, August 9, 2010

Girlfriends

We are very lucky to have a great family live across the street from us and they have a daughter Elli's age. This is Adrianna and whenever Elli sees her outside she runs towards her yelling, "Adri Adri - anna" and then they embrace just like in the movies... it's very cute. So this summer, we've had a lot of playdates.

Elli and I went shopping today at Target and she found these froggie galoshes and wanted to wear them right away. I couldn't resist so she wore them around the store with the string still attached between the two. I even had to hoist her up so the cashier could scan the tag. When we got home, she ran into the house yelling, "Daddy Daddy, new boots! new boots!" I just hope she doesn't want to wear them to church.

Here's a cute video of Elliana and Adrianna playing in her bedroom.

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

SEASIDE 2010

I apologize to my sisters that I haven't created a blog post in over 3 months ... it's probably been longer. You know the crazy my life has endured these past months. But now I feel strong and healthy again and life is getting back to being fun. There is so much to update about, but I figured there will just have to be numerous back posting, so bear with me.

But the funnest thing we've done lately was going to Seaside with my parents, sisters, bro-in-law, and some aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents.

Here's Elli in her car seat ready to go, can you see her excitement?

Here's Elli up on Daddy's shoulders. And there's actually a little blue sky! It was a rare sight while we were there.

I love this expression. The water was COOLLLLDDD!!!

Andrea and UNCLE DAVE!!! We were so happy to see them. They live in CA and it's been months. They brought Elli a talking Elmo doll for her birthday so they easily won a place in her heart :)

Tossin' the ball around on the beach on a during a cloudy morning beach walk:

Aunt Bev getting in on the action:

Elli wanting to join the fun:

This is Elli's Lifeguard sweatshirt that she got last year. It fit a little better this year.

Her favorite person to hold hands with:

David continues to wear this ridiculous "i (heart) hot moms" t-shirt:

I love this picture:

And of course here's our sand castle - naturally it had to be bigger than anyone else's on the beach. But it just so happened to be the only one on the beach that day. But still - it was the biggest!

Elli did well as making sure nothing dried out:

Elli is standing in the moat but you can see the castle is twice her size. We had a lot of visitors come over to watch and comment. Even the police SUV patrolling by stopped and complimented our masterpiece.