Haunted Family Night

For family night we decided to do a scary theme...have I mentioned that I love anything scary....I do....I can't seem to get enough of the scary shows on TV... like the "Haunting" or on the travel channel they have the Friday night "Most Haunted"....love love love....creepy right? Well... we started off our haunted family night by going to Lehi to a restaurant called Porter Place. It is very old and very creepy but has great food. Look at the wallpaper, that is scary stuff.



We then made our way to Cold Stone for dessert...OK...not so creepy but we had to buy some time before the real fun began...



We then made our way to the Haunted Forest in American Fork...seriously...this is the best haunted anything I have been to in a long time.

Don't let the boys smiles fool you....they were SCARED....

I took these pictures right before we entered the haunted forest...I wish I would have whipped out my camera during our tromp through the mile long trail but I must admit...I was too busy covering my ears and laughing hysterically as my boys turned into.....GIRLS....yep....they can scream like the best of em...fun night!!

Happy Halloween

Today my boys had their halloween parade and parties...hoo rah...


Connor was "Crazy Wig head".... I was lucky to get him to be that...of course the "wig" came off right after this picture. BTW...the kid next to him is his best friend and older then Connor...let's just say Connor is slightly tall...

Jackson wanted to be scary this year so we got him the costume of the "gauze mummy"....notice all the gauze...and the face that looks like a mummy...hence the name "gauze mummy"....are you scared?

Ethan wanted to be Annakin from Star Wars...after his little accident last week I renamed him "Annakin...after a battle"...no makeup needed today.

Question for ya

Whose child has ever gotten a really great bruise or cut or I don't know...a massive head injury right before school picture retakes....this ones a beauty isn't it? For all of you that have girls out there try not to gasp...this is a day in the life of boys. You see...Ethan had to ride in the neighbors little car...and the neighbor and Ethan thought it would be really fun to push one another down our hill into the road...you heard that right...IN THE ROAD...Well thanks to the curb and a little plastic car rollover and his head stopping the rest of his body from hitting the pavement we didn't have a head on with a larger car...The best part is when I asked Jackson to grab my camera after I got Ethan all cleaned up...(yes...it is clean)... Jackson responded by saying to Ethan...ooh yaa...mom is so taking your picture and blogging this... GUILTY

Whats a mother to do?

So...let me explain this picture...to your left is Connors football team playing at 9:00 today....to your right is Jacksons football team playing at 9:00 today...See the track?....that was where I watched both games. My neck hurts and I don't think I saw any of either game cause I was too worried I would miss something important which made me miss something important...do you follow?

Cool license plate

Check it out!! This person lives on my street but I've never met them before...hmmm...I'm thinking I must get to know this person...I bet they could do great things with a blog...

birthday bash

Dinner at Crab Shack for Cheris birthday...$88.00





Getting our picture taken in the kitchen (can we say health code
violation)...free



Shopping at Target after dinner ...$150.o0








Watching Cheri spell Happy Birthday to me with her bottom while standing on a chair....priceless

Happy birthday sis

Happy Happy birthday to my big sis Cheri... You have always been there for me through thick and thin, good and bad, fat and ugly (me not you) and just when I needed someone to tell me how it really is. I love you...

Nice one...

So I have been sitting here the past ten minutes wondering what I could blog about. I have been PMS ing for the past 5 days...you know...the kind where you hate the world, your kids, husband, and anyone that looks at you. As I sat here pondering I decided to check my e-mails and this little beauty sent by my sister popped up... hope y'all enjoy it as much as I did...

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tag

Thanks Jill for the tag...I have never done one before but here goes...



Q. Best thing you cooked last week


Chicken stuffed with butter, rosemary and swiss cheese..yum yum..thanks mom for the recipe...I served it with rolls and broccoli


Q. If money, time and babysitting were no object, where would you go and with who?

I would take Kevin and Connor to Europe and show Connor all the sites from World War II..He is such a WWII history buff right now and I would love to see his face when he sees everything he has read come to life.


Q. When was the last time you cried

Three weeks ago at my baptism..I was overwhelmed with how many people showed up to support me and the boys. Before that it had probably been a year or longer...I am not very emotional..



Q. Five things you were doing this month ten years ago

1. Just moving in to our new home in Murray
2. I was prego with Jackson so I'm sure I was getting ready for that
3. Remodeling our new home
4. Working at ACS.. I input stuff on my computer from home
5. Working in the nursery at church

Q. Five things on your to do list today

1. Play tennis at 9:00
2. Help Melissa decorate for her party
3. Pick kids up..homework...snack...blog
4. Jacksons football practice
5. Ethan's football game

Q. Five favorite snacks

I don't really like snacks..just big meals...seriously... but if I had to choose

1. Fruit drinks
2. cheese and crackers
3. chips and salsa
4. apples and fruit dip
5. trail mix

Q. Five bad habits

1. Picking my split ends
2. texting and talking on phone while driving
3. zoning out when people talk to me
4. picking my kids faces, ears, etc. you get the picture...I'm a "picker"
5. not returning phone calls...I hate talking on the phone

Q. Five favorite foods

1. chicken enchiladas
2. pizza
3. sushi
4. cake with thick frosing
5. green salad with Japanese dressing

Q. Five places I've been

1. Spain
2. Austria, Greece, Switzerland
3. Japan
4. Hawaii
5. Caribbean

Q. Five favorite memories

1. Finding out I was pregnant
2. birth of my boys
3. getting baptized
4. getting married...again
5. family vacations


Q. Four people I'm tagging

Carrie, Jennifer S., Melissa, (again) and Cheri

Girls night out...dedicated to Melissa

This is dedicated to my cute friend Melissa who decided to post a picture of me on her blog that makes me look like a really ugly hoot owl smokin a cig. So to repay my dear sweet friend I decided to post a couple of pics that I took of her that same evening. Love ya Miss:)

Yep..that is tissue up her nose...

She was laughing so hard she started hacking...

Melissa, Cassie, Rachel and me

We had a little girls night at the Sanctuary. We went there after it was closed and gave each other pedicures. A night chatting and laughing with friends is the best cure for a stressful day or week or month...thanks for the laughs.

Gorgeous...

We went on a drive after conference up through Guardsmans Pass..is this not gorgeous?


Of course I made Kevin pull over so I could take a picture of the boys in the snow...with their shorts on...




We kept driving towards Midway and came to this gorgeous view of the fall leaves..


I have to admit I am a total "love it to be warm" girl but today reminded me of why I love to live here...

Cold day of football

It was a cold cold day of football today

We were dressed for warmth..not beauty

Took this picture of Jackson after the game...loved the hat!

...man he's cute!

GO ALTA

SALAD NOT LETTUCE

OK...I just need to say that I LOVE MY ETHAN...I find him truly hilarious most of the time, except when he is beating the crap out of his older brothers..well that can sometimes be pretty hilarious too..but that is besides the point. With that said I have to say that he has a tad bit of a problem with reading..Ok a huge problem with reading...OK he can't read. This brings me to my explanation of my blog title "salad not lettuce". After school we read for 10-15 minutes in books that have been sent home by the teacher. Well todays book was titled "The Barbecue"... Ok.. yesterdays book was titled "pets" and the day before that was "mom"..so how did we skip from "mom" to "Barbecue". Anyhoo...we got to a page that said "the salad"...and for the life of him he could not figure out that word...not only that but he kept saying "the lettuce"...and so it went back and forth for the next 5 minutes...

Me: Ethan..you need to sound out the word

Ethan: Ssssaaalllaaaetuce...

Me: not quite...try it again

Ethan: Ssssaaalllaaaetuce

Me: why do you keep saying lettuce

Ethan: because there is a picture of lettuce

Me: ok lets sound it out again

Ethan: Ssssaaaalllaaatuce...

Me: Ethan the word is not lettuce so please stop saying lettuce

Ethan: BUT THERE'S LETTUCE IN THE PICTURE!!!

Me: ok lets take the picture out of this and just focus on the word...do it again

Ethan: Sssaaalllaaaaddd

Me: YES!!.. good job Ethan..so what did you just sound out?

Ethan: Lettuce

silly kid

This is Ethans bed...cute right? Doesn't look too hard or too soft does it?...Goldilocks would have taken to this bed nicely and slept her little heart out...trust me it's a great bed! Well... I took this picture after Ethan went to bed so where in the world could Ethan be? Hmm..lets scroll down and see shall we?

Yep...there he is...on his bedroom floor surrounded with what looks like a fort of pillows..Now I'm thinking this took quite a bit of time and resources(pillows, blankets, white long pillow thingys) to make...don't you think. So my friends why do you think he is sleeping on the floor? Do you think he worries about falling off the bed or do you think he has nightmares and wants to be closer to his mommy...well you would be wrong..sooo wrong. He sleeps on the floor so he wont have to MAKE. HIS. BED. in the morning. Yep you heard that right. He has come to the conclusion that it takes him less time to put his fort together and away than it would to make his bed in the morning... Sometimes I wonder where this little boy came from and then I look in the mirror and say...GUILTY!

Welcome Venus...I mean Jenn

So I finally talked my cute friend and doubles partner Jenn into blogging...woo hoo...Of course I had to welcome her into the blogging world by posting some amazing pictures of her playing tennis. Notice her amazing form and technique. She has been compared to Venus Williams many times and is truly a threat on the court and not one to be trifled with..isn't that right Jenn?

Just one word of advice for the new blogger.....when a fellow blogger decides to take some pictures of you playing tennis, you can be pretty sure that those pictures will wind up on her blog for all to see...hee hee...isn't this fun! Now blog away Venus!!