Squirrel Mama

Okay, BAD picture of me... but here is one of my little squirrel babies... Thomas and I were sitting at home when we had a knock on the door... A tenant of ours said "Um, Thomas, we have a squirrel problem out here... they keep following us around and won't leave us alone". So, Thomas and I go outside and these cute little squirrel babies were running around in the grass. When I stepped out in the lawn, one of the little critters turned and ran straight for me. The little guy scampered up my leg... It was adorable and totally frightening.

So, we had to catch the three little babies and put them in a cat carrier, so that they would stop following the neighbors around. We put them in our office, with a little bowl of water (against my judgement cuz I thought they'd spill it)... When we checked on them that night, they had spilled the water and were like three little drown rats... completely soaked and huddled in a ball. It was so sad, and we were worried that we had killed them... So we hurried them over to our apartment and put the cat carrier in our bathtub.

I put on leather gloves and long sleeves and took the little ones out one at a time and hand dried them with towels. Then I dried out their cage and put fluffy towels in for them to snuggle up in. Luckily, in the morning they had fluffed back up and were looking healthy :o)

My friend Steph found me a lady who rescues orphaned wildlife and takes care of them, and releases them... So I took the babies to this lady, who told me that they were too young to have been released into the wild because they should have been still nursing off of their mother. (A few days before the babies were found, there was a dead adult squirrel near the lawn...)

Thankfully the lady said that the babies were healthy, though a little dehydrated, but had no parasites or visible diseases... :o) which is good, cuz I was so worried about getting sick, or having our kitty Bella get some parasite... So I got to be a Squirrel Mama for a day. Squirrel babies are better than no babies at all... hehehe :o)

Here is the baby scaling the Allison mountain...

So tiny!

An Update about Updates :o)

Yo!!! I know that I haven't added anything to the blog in a million years... I have so much to say and do on here. I just haven't loaded all the pictures to show you all. Anyway... I just wanted to say that I have updates... and they are coming. I hope to get all caught up soon. BUT GUESS WHAT????

I am leaving tomorrow to go on vacation. SATURDAY is my birthday and I will be at Disneyland! WOOOOOOHOOOO!!!!! I also get to see a lot of my family that I have missed and not seen in ages. I also get to meet my new nephew Caleb and my new niece Abigail! Yeah! I will take loads of pics and post those when I get back.

Also, the best movie ever (TWILIGHT!!!) comes out on my birthday! Me and Twilight are a match made in heaven. I am so totally stoked. (The store "Hot Topic" in the mall has all the necessary Twilight merchandise for any fan slash birthday girl... *hint hint... hehehe kidding! But not really......) :o)

Now all I have to do is conquer the mountain of laundry that has taken over my bedroom! eek! And then I will be ready to take off for a week and a half!

Hope you are all doin' well... love ya! xoxo
-Alli

Too Funny!

I saw this little cartoon (that is entitled "Thanks a lot black licorice") And about peed my pants. Even though I do enjoy black licorice... I thought this cartoon was awesome! hehehehe!

CHRISTMAS TIME!!

Okay here are a few pics from Christmas, with more to come soon!

hehehehe, maybe we got 3o movies for Christmas! Everyone knows we love movies... And we got GOOOOOD ones!

Thomas bought me these beautiful Pearl and Diamond earings that look antique-ish... And Lauren made me this beautiful necklace too... We got so many great gifts, we were truly spoiled.

Here's our little tree, so cute!

Here we are... give us a break, it was Christmas morning and we weren't looking our best :o) And our snuggly little Christmas tree.

Here is my sweet little peanut, Bella in her Christmas sweater which coincidentally matched my shirt... She loves it!!! (Not really, she skulks around in the sweater and lays down a lot. She gets very confused with it on).

So Cute pink argyle girls!

Twilight-- Oh my gosh!

Have I neglected to tell everyone about the best movie (and my experiences with) TWILIGHT??? Oh dear me, how could I? Okay, I went and saw the movie on opening day at the 12:01 am showing! My friend Leanne and I made shirts the night before to prepare! ((and may I toot my own horn here a bit? I drew the design and hand-wrote the "twilight" for the shirts freehand)) And all we did was use spray paint... and some little iron on sparklies.

The front of my shirt...

The back of the shirt...

Leanne SO EXCITED!!! Thank goodness for my dear obsessed friend!

Here we are in our seats with pal Kristen. We were about the fourth and fifth people in the theater!
Waiting in line over 10 hours is really hard work ;o) Luckily hubbies will bring treats and toys to keep us busy! Here we are with Brann in the back!

These are the people who were in front of us in line... and there were hundreds of people BEHIND us in line! There were 3 showings just after midnight, and they had us all line up together. It was so much fun! The movie is great! I have seen it 6 times, Leanne=5x, Brann=2x, Thomas=2x (or 3, I can't recall), Kristen=2x.... Twilight=goodtimes

And to all the lovely people out there who like to hate on people who wait hours in lines, and see movies repeatedly, (and obsessively read books, and make t-shirts) I say unto you I DON'T CARE! I am sure you all have things that you LOVE that make you happy. (and that you spend lots of monies on...) This last month has been about one of the funnestestest of my life! TWILIGHT FOREVER!

Hmong Christmas

Did you know that Santa is not a 'Whitie'? Nope, he is HMONG! I saw him make an appearance at an LDS Hmong Christmas party (which, p.s. had the most divine food ever!!! And we totally got stuffed cuz Hmong people love to feed us... and we love to eat it!) And Elder Vaj had to sit on Santa's knee again this year. He wished for world peace, I think. I really don't know, cuz it wasn't in English.

Merry Tacky Christmas!!!

This is my little Christmas set up on my desk at the office. Cute huh? Christmas is not quite complete without tiny trees and a musical snowglobe nativity.

This is me and my friend who shall remain nameless (apparently he may be wanted by the mob or something) wearing our UGLY CHRISTMAS sweaters. Mom bought these sweaters 2 for a dollar in OROVILLE. I had to classy mine up a bit. And I won 2nd place in the ugly sweater competition.


Here is Rebecca's classy little number! She got 3rd place in the contest... but truly, that is a dang ugly sweater!! We had a really fun time getting tacky for Christmas!