Deep Thoughts

Dear Blog,

I have lots of entries to make, but can't find my dang camera to upload pictures. My hubby has pictures on his hard drive, but that is currently in a far off place in the lands of the oil fields. How I wish you could see them, but you can not, so until then please keep praying for this nice weather to stay because I am sick and tired of crappy weather! Today was so amazing. I could have worn shorts if I had shaved my legs. I will say, that is one great thing about winter! Not having to shave on a daily basis is amazing! It is so time consuming!

I digress, Until I find my camera I will tell you about a dream I had. First let me premise this by letting you know that I have bizarre dreams. I have several dreams in one night and I usually remember most of them. They are very vivid, crazy, sometimes steamy, sometimes make absolutely no sense, some disturbing in more ways then one, and some... well I'll just tell you of the latest. I dreamt that I had a hot date planned with Joel. But I kept feeling a tooth wiggling. I thought how odd it was, and so I pulled on it and it just popped out! It was one of the back bottom teeth, so I thought it was no biggy. How did my dentist not notice this when I was in last week! So then another tooth felt that way and before you knew it, I pulled it out too. So here I am looking like a crazy woman with a half-toothless grin trying to look sexy for my husband. I said to him "Joel do I still turn you on even though I look like this?" I'm pretty sure you could imagine his reaction. It was so disappointing. So when I woke up I felt in my mouth to make sure nothing was missing. Hallelujah, I have good strong teeth! Thanks for all the dental work Mom and Dad!

Here is the definition in my dream book for loosing teeth: When you have a dream in which your teeth fall out, it might be a sign that worries are passing.

It's crazy it says that, because I was full of worry when I was having that dream!

Christmas Pics... Finally!

Here's a short blast from the past. As you all know I've become a blog slacker. So here are Christmas pics, 2 months later.

Temple Square with Joel's Family

Gorgeous!

Marvelous, Simply Marvelous



Classic Gianluca craziness!


Christian you are so funny! Hardy har har, I love having moose ears behind me! Actually I think it is really funny!

Oh Christmas Tree

Joel and I have this ginormous fake Christmas tree that a neighbor gave us in Texas. It is gorgeous (as gorgeous as a fake tree can get). Anywho, it was going to take up over half of our living room, so we got a real tree. I LOVE real trees. They smell incredible! Joel's family helped us decorate. It was a lot of fun. The pine needles...not so much, and our vacuum broke!


Allegra put most of the decor at the bottom. What can I say? She has mad decorating skillz! (Yes I just ended that with a Z, because I'm a gangsta yo!)


Allegra and her best friend Allie


The Crowning Glory

Christmas Morning
The kids big Christmas presents were for Allegra, her talking doll house and RV, and Gianluca's was his TRIO castle.


This picture cracks me up of Allegra because she totally has a Garth smile from Wayne's World (90's movie that was really popular).




Here is Joel opening his tickets to the Muse concert we are going to.


The Dude, he looks really thrilled huh!

The Toothless Monster & Special Me Me Tribute

Well, I just wanted to show some pictures of Gianluca's mouth! Here is a self-taken picture that he's very proud of before he lost his teeth...

I know it's scary! He looks like a gremlin! Well a few days later (after Thanksgiving) his tooth was so wiggly that it was barely hanging on. He was afraid for me to pull it, but I finally convinced him (by saying I convinced him I mean that I wrestled him down and yanked it out!) and voila, there was a tiny tooth in my hand. He was so proud he ran around showing Los Abu's and Tio Christian. And anyone one he meets, gets to see his missing teeth and is also informed of his upcoming birthday. The big 6 years! Here are some after shots.




A few weeks later, he lost his second bottom tooth... yes wrestling me again, while trying to bite my arm. It's a new wrestling move of his. He's got talent, what can I say! Coincidentally, his favorite Christmas song this year is the Chipmunks rendition of "All I Want for Christmas is my Two Front Teeth". Gotta love this kid!
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Farewell Me Me!

Well, it's happened. Allegra has finally given up her "me me". That is what she and Gianluca both called their binkies. Right before Christmas we went out on a date and she had lost it in her room. I said, "Maybe you can be a big girl now and not use one anymore. Do you really need it?" And Allegra said she didn't need it anymore. I was shocked! She did amazing without it. For a couple weeks she would say she wanted to go to the me me store and buy a new one, but we never did. Little does she know I still have it in my underwear drawer. Poor thing. She's had the same one ever since she was a baby and it is hanging on by a thread. There's no suction or anything to it. It was time!
P.S. Don't forget to push pause on my music on the left hand side so you can hear the tribute music! It's perfect.

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Crazy Holidays

Ok, so my life is like a whirlwind! And I am constantly amazed at people who update their blog religiously, yes that means you Lara and Laura! I always think, I need to tell about what Allegra said that was silly, or how Gianluca lost his first tooth... by the way, Gianluca lost his first tooth right after Thanksgiving, and I literally had to wrestle him down to pull it from his mouth. It was hanging by a thread, just dangling there, but he was afraid it would hurt. Then it just popped out and he was so proud. He has shown everyone his toothless grin. He lost his second bottom tooth, yet again wrestling me, but this time it was for fun. He loves getting money from the tooth fairy. I can tell braces will be in our future do to the fact that they are growing in crooked! He's still a handsome wild man!

Christmas was very laid back and a lot of fun. Joel got to stay home for a month because his rig got shut down. It was so nice just hanging out! I really enjoy him being around, although it seems my house is always messier with him there... crazy how that happens.Christmas Eve we went to my sister Darci's house and had fun with all of their guests. The kids were so excited to open presents and wait for Santa. We looked online to see where Santa was, and when we saw he was getting close to our house we maid a bee line home. Joel and I watched "A White Christmas" while wrapping presents. It's such a classic. Gotta love it... and of course "The Christmas Story". I love that show! The kids were so happy Christmas morning and I stayed in my pajamas until 5 that day. So relaxing and fun! We went up to Joel's cousins party and then to Idaho on Christmas night and had a lot of fun with my family hanging out and playing cards. New Years we spent with Joel's cousins Amy and Esteban and had a shrimp fry and other yummy treats. It was just a wonderful holiday season. Now we are back to the same old grind. So anywho, here are a few pics. Enjoy!

P.S. Yes I hijacked these pictures from Amy and Laura's blog since I never remember to bring my camera. And no I am not going to pay you guys royalties or anything else on them!!! But thanks for supplying the art work!

Uboldi Family Christmas Party

New Year's Eve

Fall 2009

Here's a video of this fall, but make sure to look at the blog entry below to see our new family pictures! Also pause the awesome music you are listening to now on the media player which is located on the right-hand side of the screen so you don't hear to songs at once. Thanks!

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Family Pictures in the freezing cold!

We had a wonderful last two weeks with Joel's family visiting. Joel's parents and his brother Christian flew in the day before Thanksgiving, I picked them up and we headed straight for Wyoming to spend Thanksgiving with all of my family. We had a wonderful time and surprisingly the 8 hour drive went by super fast! Thank goodness that I had extra help entertaining the kids, otherwise I would never had made it. Poor Joel was on the rig. I really missed having him there with us. Thanksgiving is a big deal for my family. We ate and ate and I'm sure had our whole weeks worth of caloric intake in two days, but I loved being with my family. I was also very happy to see where my sister Kim and her husband Syd live. It was a really fun town. On the way home we took the wrong road and ended up in Montana instead of going south! So that added two hours to our drive home, but it went by fast and we saw some amazing sights in the Wind River area.

We got home with Joel anxiously waiting and had a lot of fun just hanging out and spending time with Joel's cousins. We also took some freezing cold family pictures here in Daybreak. Thanks to my friend Kjersten who sacrificed her time and body to the cold weather! It was like 25 degrees not including the wind chill. She did great! So the pictures were not shall we say perfect, but it's a memory and there were several good moments captured, like when we were joking that Norby (my father-in-law who is really named Norberto) looked like Michael Jackson because he was wearing white socks with his dark slacks. We also enjoyed the lights at Temple Square that same night. Overall, we've had a lot of fun and have gone non-stop! Needless to say, I'M EXHAUSTED!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Witchapalooza!

 

One of the benefits of living in Utah are all of the fun family activities that are around. In West Jordan there is a shopping center called Gardner Village. There are many quaint little shops that you don't ever want to take your kids into, especially the candy shop! But it is an absolute blast. We've gone a few times this month. They have a big Witch celebration. There are tons of adorable witch statues all over the area that are so funny. There is also a petting zoo, hay maze, and pony rides. Of course, Halloween being one of my favorite holidays, I have thoroughly enjoyed going. One of the times I went with some girlfriends for Witches Night Out. You would not believe the amount of women totally decked out in their witch gear. You could hardly make it in or out of any store you entered. My friends and I were super under dressed, but it was a blast! Happy Halloween!