Jeepers Creepers

Halloween is so much fun. It's the only time of year that you can dress up weird and get away with it. We had a family Halloween party on Saturday night and had so much fun! Chet and I were Dorothy and the Wicked Witch... as you can see he makes a beautiful Dorothy does he not?!

Kylee is Yasmine the Bratz Doll, Makayla is a cheerleader...that's my old JV uniform when I was a Junior. Scary thing is it fits her PERFECT in the waist...didn't have to take it in a bit. (no I was not anorexic in High School!) As most of you saw Talon is a skeleton WITH the bloody mask this time and Hunter is a scary vampire as he calls it...yet he won't let me put any make up on him because it's too scary!


I made some really fun cupcakes to take to the party. I thought they turned out quite cute! The kids LOVED them.




Just a fun slide show and preview of some of the costumes and fun we had! I'm not sure why the pictures are so blurry on this slide. Maybe because it's moving so much...SO SORRY! Have a HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!

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Which Witch?

We decided to take advantage of the wonderful weather today and head out to Gardner Village. They have their Witches Festival during October and decorate the whole place with witches and pumpkins! We went with my friend Sonda and her kids. She has never been and we thought it would be fun to do together. I love that place. It's one of my favorites!


The Gang!


The three musketeers; Hunter, Davis and his future bride, Tiara. Sonda and I have already pre-arranged their marriage! (you can't tell that Hunter has to go to the bathroom can you? Must be all that water behind them!)


Hunter and his partner in crime, Davis! Watch out for these two once they're older!!! Heck, watch out for them when they're together NOW!


The "Jack -O- Nacle Choir"...one of the very cute pumpkin displays they have. This one is right outside my favorite store...Sweet Afton's! Can anyone say "FUDGE"!?


It helps to go with somebody else because let's face it...mom's never get to be in the pictures...they're always behind the camera! So here's a rarity...a picture of me with all my kids (Just letting you know in case you thought it was another witch they were sitting around)

One Lump or Two???

Makayla was invited to a birthday "tea party" today for her cousin, Jade. She was instructed to dress up for the occasion. Thanks to her Aunts and their clever idea of giving her dress up clothes for her birthday a couple of years ago she had the perfect dress. It was the classic "Victorian" with lace look and of course all of the accessories completed the whole ensemble. They had a little tea party with wassail and Makayla wasn't sure what it was but she called it "apple-something". She did want me to know that she didn't drink real tea and wouldn't if it were! She had fun and looked too cute! How I wish I were a little girl again.


This is the back of the dress...had to get the whole look, ya know!

OOOPS!

My fingers got antsy and I forgot to add a few things to the post below before I hit publish! Just revised it a bit...sorry to make you re-read if you've already done so!

Sneak Peek!

Well, Talon had his Halloween party today at school so you all get a sneak peek at what he's going to be! I had to post it now because for Halloween night he wants an actual mask so I doubt if I will be doing the face painting again. So, I guess you all get to see the face painted version now and the mask version later.

I do need to get a black turtleneck still to go underneath and that way you won't see any skin. A few minor details yet to take care of. Every time I would go to take his picture he would smile. I told him that he's supposed to be scary....Scary people don't smile!!





Now THAT'S a scary face!!! Although it does seem as if we've picked out the wrong costume for Talon. I should've dressed him up in a white puffy shirt with lace cuffs and black knickers. At his class Halloween party today it was brought to my attention by another mom that my little Casanova has been writing love notes to her daughter. It turns out that she isn't the only one, either! I found out from other little girls that he has been writing quite a few love notes to them also. The whole time they are telling me about it he is sitting across the table just a giggling away. As his mom I am just shocked at my little 6 year old boy! He's only in First Grade. Chet, however, is a very proud papa!!!

Share please!

I love it when my kids share with each other. Sometimes nothing makes me happier than to see them share without having to be asked. Except for when it's their sick germs. Poor little Makayla woke up about 1:00 am on Thurs. morning just heaving her guts out. (all over the floor I might add!) She was up about every hour after that and all through Thursday until late evening throwing up. I used Lysol and disinfected everything I could think of. She was feeling so much better on Fri. but we were not so lucky. About 2:00 this morning Hunter woke up screaming and I could hear him yelling, "I need to frow up!" I got there just as he started to throw up and got him to the toilet. (He's still in a crib and can't get out as quick as it takes to get to the toilet!)
We save our ice cream buckets and that's what I use for my "puke bucket" so I gave Hunter one to use. Poor baby was up about 4 times after that throwing up and each time I ran in there he had already grabbed the bucket and was using it as intended! Thank goodness.
About 6:00 a.m. we heard the unmistakable sound of "sick" and more crying. Chet got up this time and ran in....well, it was Talon this time and he didn't make it to the toilet either. So, as Chet was in a frantic trying to help him cute little Hunter held out his "puke bucket" and said, "Here Talon use this!" So not only do they share sick germs but they share puke buckets as well...Lol! Hunter was so concerned about his brother "frowing up" and was so excited to see that they had TWO buckets now...one for each of them. I hope this is the last of it!!! Did I mention that I just LOVE flu season.

CRAZY!

It's "Drug Free" week at school and each day the kids get to wear or do something fun. Tues was canned food day, Wed. - pajama day, Thurs. - hat day and today was CrAzY hair day! As you can see the kids had lots of fun with this one!




Talon wanted a mohawk with spikes on the sides and in back. He reminded me of Bobo the Clown from the Simpsons! Too funny.


Makayla had a bunch of ponies all throughout her hair with big scrunchies and bows!

















Kylee... well, she didn't look much different than normal =) haha. Her hair was just a big, ratted mess! her bangs were pulled into a mohawk in front with some colored streaks in it although it's hard to tell from the pic. Pretty fun week they had!

Music to my ears

Kylee had her piano recital the other night at Sandy Riverton Music. She is doing so well and absolutely loves to play. She is actually teaching Makayla how to play also. The only bad thing about that is because it's Makayla's sister teaching her she gets upset when Kylee tells her she's not doing something right and then won't do it at all...sheesh! I've tried to tell Makayla that Kylee is volunteering her own time to teach her and she needs to be respectful of that and listen to her. She's not telling her stuff she's doing wrong to be mean but to "teach" her. It's still not going over well...but then again, I can't say that I would be any different if a sibling was teaching me something. Anyway, here is a clip of her piece she played at the recital on Tues. night.

Yee Haw

Star in Your Own JibJab! It's Free!Who says we can't square dance?!

Dance Lessons!

Star in Your Own JibJab! It's Free!A couple of years back Chet and I took dance lessons. I've found a video of us and thought I'd let you all see how well we did in class!

Happy 30...Something!

Being thirty - something isn't that bad is it? I mean a lot of people say it's the best years of their life. Frankly, I don't feel like I should be in my 30's and I know 33 is actually quite young still. But there's something about your oldest daughter going into Young Womens and having all of your nieces and nephews getting married and having babies that makes you start to feel old! (I just keep reminding myself that my husband is almost the youngest of 7 and I'm really not THAT much older than our nieces/nephews!)

It also doesn't help when your kids make certain "comments" like Makayla did just a few days ago. Last Sunday I was making apple crisp with some fresh apples. I pulled out my awesome Pampered Chef, all in one, apple peeler-corer -slicer (which I happen to LOVE very much!) and started...well, just what it says... peel , core and slice the apples. Makayla was watching me and she said, "That reminds me of a typewriter." I said, "A typewriter?" because I just wasn't seeing the connection. And she said, "Yeah, you know those things people used in the OLDEN DAYS for computers." Ha ha....I said, "Hey! They're not THAT old. I wrote many a report in middle school on those things!" SHEESH!!! I think it was the way that once you put the apple through the corer, slicer thingy you have to push a little lever and push the rod back to the right to it's starting position that reminded her of a typewriter. But man... if that doesn't make you feel old then I don't know what will. It's quite funny how kids see things though. I wonder what they would think and say if they ever saw the video games I used to play like PONG or Atari. Is it pretty sad to admit that you witnessed the evolution of video games? And what would my kids say if they saw a record player or 8 track for that matter? They live in a time where CD's and CD players are on their way out thanks to digital music players.
It's crazy to think that my mom was only 2 years older than me when she died. It makes you realize how young she really was. I am deciding to make the most of my 30's because each year just goes by faster and faster and before I know it I'll be FORTY....YIKES! (no offense to all you 40-something year olds out there!) It's been a great day...Chet has been so good to me as always and spoils me rotten! I'm so blessed to have him and the kids that I have and I'm looking forward to many more years with all of them! HAPPY 33rd BIRTHDAY TO ME!!!

Beauty of Nature

Fall is here and I have to say it is my favorite time of year! I love everything about it...the beautiful red, orange and gold colors that start spreading across the mountains, the autumn smells, the cooler weather. All of it! (not to mention it's football season!) I feel so blessed to live in a place where nature shows off it's beauty year round. We get a real taste of every season she has to offer. Yesterday for family night we took the kids up into Big Cottonwood Canyon to see the changing colors of the leaves. It was well worth the trip...or so Chet and I thought! I'm not quite sure if the kids appreciated it as much as we did, yet. We took some beautiful pictures and I thought I'd share them. There are so many so I just compiled them into a slide show...besides it gives me a reason to play around with all the fancy things I can add to my blog ;) Enjoy!

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Crack-me-up!

Oh what fun it is having a 3 year old boy around the house! Hunter is such a funny and weird kid he just totally cracks me up. He is so shy around people but at home it's terror on the loose. I keep telling Chet that he's definitely HIS son because Hunter thinks and KNOWS he is so funny. He's also no dummy! He won't eat his vitamins. He absolutely HATES the Flinstone kind so I got the gummy kind (I even picked out the Disney "Cars" kind thinking it would help) and tried telling him that they were gummy "cars" and fruit snacks. He ate a couple of them and that was that! So, I've come up with a brilliant plan....or so I thought. When he wanted a fruit snack I went and got it and spied the bottle of vitamins I had sitting on top of the stove. I thought I'd try and put a couple of them in with the fruit snacks so they would "blend" in with the others. He'd never know right? Well, he ate a couple of packages like that for just a couple of days and I was patting myself on the back thinking what a great idea that was. Then this morning I tried it and he immediately picked them out and said, "Mom this is cucky!" and will NOT eat them. So much for my brilliant plan!

This morning I walked into my room and he's laying on my bed watching TV wearing nothing but his underwear. I said, "Hey, you're naked!". His reply was, "No I not...I HALF naked!".....Thank you so much for that correction, Hunter! Ha ha. OH MY GOSH!....LOL Okay, just so you know what goes on in his mind. As I was just now sitting here blogging I feel this round, warm, cushy skin against my cheek. I am thinking it is his cheek against mine and he is giving me a hug....well it WAS his cheek...his BUTT cheek! He's got his underwear pulled down and his "bum cheek" against my face! The whole while he's got this mischievous grin on his face snickering! It's a good thing I didn't kiss it like I was about to thinking he was pressing his face against mine. What a crazy little kid! He is definitely Chet's son!