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!

Angelica's Birthday!

Today I went up to Grandma's house for a surprise party for Auntie Angelica. It was fun. Grandma got a new play set for me and Robert.

I ran around in this awesome duck sprinkler. It was nice outside and I played with my cousins, Robert and Jaelynn.

This is Jaelynn. I like her a lot. She got me a cool princess blanket for my birthday last March!

Beautiful Princess Dress

Hi Auntie Angelica,

I got a beautiful princess dress for your wedding. I know you will be the Queen for the day, but hopefully you're ok with me being a cute little princess in your magical court! Mommy is going to have the dress altered to fit me better. I'm so tall that we had to get a size too big so we have some strap shortening and we need to take the bodice in about an inch but otherwise it's just perfect. I wake up every morning and want to put on my "bootiful wipe pwincess dwess" (translated as beautiful white princess dress). I can't wait until your wedding!

Little Gym Article

My Favorite Meal

It's definitely breakfast. I asked mom if I could have pancakes for dinner last night. She said no. She's so mean. But, she got me pancakes from McDonald's this morning. Redemption is a nice thing. Daddy thought I was being really funny so he took this picture.

Happy 4th of July

I had to wait for Gigi to see me in my cute dress before I could go in the pool. I cheated a little. Mom wasn't happy, but she wasn't mad either. I find loop holes, apple...tree, come on mom!!!



Alas, I got in the spa. I kept making the ball fall from the spa into the pool. For those of you wondering, yes, the original dress and the swimsuit do go together! I really like red clothes. I spent the next 4 hours (no exaggeration) in the pool!


My Uncle Jeff (aka Tio Jeffe) helped me with my very first sparkler. It was pretty cool. I like fireworks, but not the loud ones. I hope you had a great 4th of July! I sure did.

Field Trip

So mommy has been feeling especially guilty lately about not spending time with me. I've mastered the whole guilt trip thing. I tell mom all the time that I want to go to the mall. Mom and I used to spend lots of time at the mall but, not so much anymore. The guilt trip works though because mom said if I was good yesterday that we could go on a special field trip...just the two of us! So last night I was great! I went to bed on time, I ate dinner, I didn't talk back (which was hard). So this morning mom took me to McDonalds and then we got to eat our breakfast at the table by the beach. We watched the Junior Life Guards and the surfers and some pigeons. After breakfast at the beach we went to the bank and mom took me to school.

Sunday's in Town

Today we went downtown. They were having a car show on our main street. My new thing it to have my dad take my picture in front of cars. Dad took quite a few pictures but, even with mom's nice camera, I'm still too fast to get a decent picture. This is the best we could do. We looked at all the cool cars and we stopped to get a drink. I got 7 up. We were there for about 2 hours. I was getting sleepy and it was crowded so I went home. Look how busy! The ocean is in the background but it's kinda hazy in the picture!

It's hard being beautiful!

Mom has been working a lot and her eyebrows were showing her lack of maintaining herself. Well, mom has some pretty sensitive skin and needs to have cucumbers in order to not have raccoon eyes for a week after an eyebrow waxing. I actually took this picture of my mom. I did it all by myself. But, after I was done I had to copy her!

Caden's Birthday

Caden's birthday was awesome. He had a face painter come to his party. At first I didn't want to have my face painted but after Caden did it, I wanted it done! I have some sort of lotus flower, a butterfly and a shooting star!
After lunch and face painting. Caden and I were playing, no desecrating the Mickey balloon!

Oops, sorry Mickey!
It was a fun birthday. Caden and I and some other kids played at the park. I like to pretend I'm "Super Stella" on the swings! Wheeeeeeee!!!

Monkey and Shelly

This is me and monkey on my bed. Mommy went to take pictures of my room last night. Daddy has a co-worker named Shelly. Shelly is going to have a baby boy and wants to paint the baby's room (well not Shelly, but her painter). So there are some pictures later just for Shelly and for those of you who haven't seen my room lately.

My new thing is to lay on the floor with my princess blanket and the pillow Gigi made me.

I still love my monkey after all these years!


Here is my bed, my bookshelf, my surfboard rug and my SWEET fan!


Here is part of my toybox, my desk (it was my mommy's desk when she was a little girl and the tiniest closet EVER!


Here is a close up of the paint. It's all one color with a translucent glaze for the stripes.

Mom's new Job

Mommy opened her little project today. I know some of you were waiting on pictures of what it looks like with stuff in it. Mom thinks the kids in the gym look better than the gym itself. The first day of classes was today and we enrolled about 80% of the people that came in for trial classes. These pictures were from my birthday party.

Bubble Time (I love my friend Caden's belly)

My Cake!


Parachute time!
Mommy Me and Caden

Bouncy! Look at me in my princess Jammie Dress!

Miss Shelby with Fabrizio (and Fabrizio's daddy, David, in the background)

Time to play on the bars!

Me, Taywere (Taylor... my former nanny) and her mommy Cindy in the back!

Me and daddy!

More bubble pictures!

Miss Krystle and Mia on the P-Bars!

Warm-Up (Dinosaur stomping thru the mud here)

My Grandma and cousin Robert

My favorite...the air trak. This thing is awesome!!!

My cousin Sheridyn on the bars.
Mommy and Daddy appreciate everyone's support during the past crazy 18 months of getting the gym open. We appreciate it! Thanks to Julie, Grandma and Maca/Papa for sending flowers to mom at work today. She was really nervous, but so happy she had the love and support of her family and friends!