I'm an actor

Here I am, practicing my acting faces.


Sad...

Pouty...

The Casual Hello...

Cheezy...


Rock Star...


Happy...


Vindictive...

Shy...
And yes, these are all real emotions we go through every night at our house. Mom doesn't usually have the camera when I'm crying at night. I've been REALLY whiny at night lately. Apparently my parents don't like it much. We'll see how long this phase lasts!

Pull Over

Here I am at The Little Gym. I did a pull over all by myself. I walked up the wall, kicked my feet over the bar and then pulled myself up! I did it all by myself! Then I do a little bit of casting and then a tummy roll (I flip back over). This is hard guys! It takes a lot of arm and ab strength. I'm getting good at it! I can do it walking up the wall, I still need to do it from the ground. That's the next step.

A little bit of video

Just a warning, the audio is loud, but that's how I like my music!

This little number was because I didn't go to gymnastics class today and because it's Monday and Dancing with The Stars is on. Also, mommy is horrified that she posted this video and our living room looks like this. Oy!

Kung Fu Panda

Mom asked me about a month ago what I wanted to be for Halloween. I said a princess. Mom said no (she's anti-princess). Mom wanted me to be Curious George. I love George, but I didn't want to dress up like him. She asked if I wanted to be Kung Fu Panda and I said YES! So for a month, I've been really excited about being Kung Fu Panda. I got the costume and put it on. I loved it...until Halloween. Halloween day, I wanted to be a witch (oh and I was, but not in the dress up kind of way). Mom said no, you're gonna be Kung Fu Panda. So, I threw a fit!

Here I am crying before school. Mom said I just had to put the head on for the parade at school, because the head is really cool!

But no, here I am in the parade. No panda head! This panda head is crazy cool!

No, really, it's super cool...look at this! Maybe it's just crazy like my mom.

Nope, it's crazy cool, but I still hate it!
I wouldn't wear the head. It stayed on for about 30 seconds for the picture above. So mom made me some ears out of a white headband, a hair clip, some black felt and some sandwich bag ties. Okay, MacGyver! I'll wear them!
After Trick or Treating, I allowed my mom to take one more picture!

Saturday we had a party at The Little Gym and now it's Sunday and I'm still recovering. I took a nap on momma...she's squishy.

October Beach Day

This morning mom, dad and I went to the beach. There is a park right by the beach and mom said if I was good while she took pictures that I could go to the park. I like taking pictures too!

I don't like the noise the train makes. It's really loud!

We had to walk through this tunnel under the train tracks to get to the beach.

But I was really good so I got to go to the park! My old teacher Miss Jessica was there with her little boy. I like to slide down the fireman pole!


This is me and Miss Jessica's little boy. We ran around a lot!After running around we went to Costco. I ate lots of samples and then we had lunch there too! What did you guys do today?

Wedding!

This weekend I went to Auntie Angelica's wedding. I was a flower girl. Here I am telling mom to hurry up!

This is my Grandma and me!

Here I am before the wedding. Mom thought I was going to go swimming!


Here I am after the wedding with my cousin. We were really great at blowing bubbles!

Here are my pretty Aunt Angelica and Grandma!

This is what mom calls the "I'm about to get in trouble look"!

I danced all night long. Everyone was impressed with how well I dance!

This is me and my cousins, Robert and Jaelyn, coloring at the reception.

And here we are again while Angelica was opening presents.

And here is a picture of my mom and dad. They're cute, huh!

My Favorite Song!!!

In real life on the radio my favorite song is Shake it, by Metro Station. I know the words and mom and dad think it's really funny when I sing it. It's on my little play list at the top of the page if you don't know what I'm talking about. But, my favorite Little Gym song is

One Little Monkey Swinging from a tree:

Teasing Mister Alligator, can't catch me!

No you can't catch me!




Along comes Mister Alligator, quiet as can be and snap that monkey right out of that tree!

Papa's 60th Birthday!

Today is Papa's 60th Birthday, but we had a big party for him yesterday. Maca had a Mexican Fiesta catered at their house. They had great appetizers, great Mexican food, great drinks and a fantastic group of friends and family!

Maca got Papa a 60 year old bottle of Cognac.

Then Papa almost dropped it!

But he didn't and he shared with everyone over 21!
I love my Auntie Sharyn. I hugged her and I think I hurt her cheek. Sorry!
Here is Maca's backyard all set up for the party.

Here is my little family!

Here is a cool shot of the rockin party!
Here I am as I convinced someone to let me in the pool!
I had so much fun! I can't wait until Papa turns 61!

Dancing with the Stars

So for those that asked here's the scoop with Dancing with the Stars! We had so much fun. Taylor (Stella's former nanny) got 3 tickets last week to the premiere episode which aired yesterday. Taylor invited Krystle, who works at The Little Gym with me and I was so excited and ticked all at the same time for Krystle. Excited that she got to go, ticked that I wasn't. So at the end of the day last Friday, Krystle told me that Taylor was going to invite me as her other guest. OMG! I was so excited. I immediately headed to the mall to figure out something to wear since all I own are gym clothes! Ughh! The moral of the story is to be nice to people who do or have worked for you :)

So yesterday we left for LA to head to the taping. While we were in line, we saw Mark Ballas. Krystle got a hug from him and his autograph. Yes, that's my business card!


He was really nice. While we were in line we also saw Joey Fatone (he drives a Cadillac DTS), Kristi Yamaguchi (drives a Toyota minivan), Courtney Kardashian (drives a white Porsche), and Bruce Jenner (drives an Escalade). There may have been more, but if you know me, you know I have NO MEMORY!

The taping was live. It started at 5pm our time. At 4:50pm we still didn't have seats and didn't know if we would get in to the studio. They called us in and we were so excited! I didn't get to sit with Krystle and Taylor which is really too bad because Krystle and I could have combined our vocal power to possibly get backstage passes. They promised backstage passes and tickets to the finale for those who were loud. I really can be loud. The lady sitting next to me was not thrilled that I could be loud. Whatever! I was not thrilled that she brought her cell phone in, so we're even! The taping ended at 7pm and we were hoping to go mingle and make new friends with the professional dancers. The stars are cool, but it seemed to be the general consensus that we were more enamoured with the pro's than the stars. But, no...there was no mingling. The studio did not allow cell phones or cameras into the show. So I have no pictures. We were not asked to be interviewed after the show. My favorites were Toni Braxton, Brooke Burke, Cloris Leachman, Lance Bass and Warren Sapp.

So we headed off to dinner at Maggiano's at The Grove which was right by the studio. While were eating we saw Lacey, one of the new dancers on the show and from So You Think You Can Dance, Cody Linley who apparently is on Hanna Montana (he made me feel old since I had no idea who he was), and on our way out we saw Derek Hough and his partner from last season Shannon Elizabeth. They are really skinny! Hopefully, they actually ate some pasta while they were in Maggiano's! I swear to you one strong wind comes along and both of them will be whisked away! I just want you all to know, Cheryl Burke is STUNNING in real life! The rest of them, need to eat a dang sandwich!

So here is Taylor with Shannon and Derek. Taylor decided to profess her love for Derek in a "completely non-stalker kind of way". Yes, she said this to Derek. Poor guy. He was really nice too. I'm a total moron and couldn't figure out how to turn on the camera. No, I wasn't all star struck! I borrowed my mom's camera because mine is HUGE and I don't have a little point and click kind of camera. So, I'm dumb and Derek said he was a "camera genius" and got it to turn on. So here is a picture of Taylor and her new best friends!



Well, for as many celebrities that I've met and gone into their homes, I've never asked for a picture or an autograph. I thought it was about time I did. Krystle and I had our pictures taken as well. Here we are. I swear, I'm not this fat. I mean I have some weight to loose, I'm not going to lie about that, but I swear to you that these "stars" are freakishly small. So, I'm going to go throw up my coffee now so that I don't feel like a giant cow.

It was a super fun night. Thank you Taylor for letting me come along! I had so much fun!!!

BREAKING NEWS!!!

I'M GOING TO THE FRICKIN SEASON PREMIERE OF DANCING WITH THE STARS!!!!!

THIS IS STELLA'S MOM...NOT STELLA!!!

OMG!!!!

Daddy's Birthday

Mom made a cake. This is NOT fat free!

It's two layers of chocolate cake sandwiching a layer of cheesecake with an amaretto chocolate frosting. YUMMY!


This is not the correct number of candles on daddy's cake.

I was so happy it was dad's birthday that I decided to dance!

This is the present we gave to dad. Auntie Sharyn drew it all by herself. Dad likes it a lot!

Cave

Stella made a cave underneath her table that she eats dinner on! Where is Stella?

Here I am!!!!

Trojan Football

Yes, football fans, it's been a long wait for Trojan Football. We have made it through the long Spring season and even longer wait through Summer but it is finally football season! In week 1 we beat Virginia in a 52-7 victory! We had to sit through a bye week for week 2 but it was worth it to have the 35-3 beat-up over Ohio State! News almost as big BYU annihilated UCLA. Not to rub it in but the score was 59-0! What a fantastic week 3! Hopefully, the adrenalin rush from last week will help us through another bye weekend this week!

I like cheese

So I thought I'd let you know my favorite foods:
Grilled cheese, quesadilla, string cheese, macaroni and cheese and the mess on my face was caused by cheese and crackers. Not the good kind of cheese and crackers either, that nasty pre-packaged crackers that you dip into cheese in those little individual trays. Other foods I enjoy are peanut butter and jelly and mint chip ice cream. That's really about it. Mom makes me eat some sort of protein and usually says I can't have some form of dairy product until I eat 5 pieces of chicken. Mom thinks I may be vegetarian. I'm definitely NOT vegan!