10/28/10

Please excuse the fact that Zak looks half asleep in this picture. lol. He's like me...he has a hard time taking a picture with his eyes open. It's a curse that comes from my mom. We always have to take pictures over and over again so everybody's eyes are open. Tonight we shaved his head so he can be an old man for Halloween. It's kind of hard to tell in this picture but the sides are quite a bit longer than the top. He's going to wear suspenders and old man glasses. It's hilarious!! Last night I played bunko with a bunch of my friends. We dressed up in costumes and had cafe rio burritos for dinner (YUM!). This is a picture of my friend Jenna...she's a fat tourist. I dressed up 80's style with big hair and acid washed jeans. I wish I would have gotten a picture! We had lots of fun and I actually won 10 bucks! Surprise!

A picture of Tiff and Jenn looking cute!

I spent today in Orem christmas shopping and hanging out with Jessica. Carlee is super hard to buy for this year. All she wants is a cell phone, but that isn't going to happen until later this year when Emery Telcom gets their phones. I was hoping that would happen before Christmas, but it looks like it will happen at the beginning of the year.

10/27/10

Last night we carved our pumpkins. Jared didn't get home until 7 from work and Zak was dancing around asking "when's dad getting home" over and over again. He was so excited! Carlee went for a simple Boo design and Zak wanted something more elaborate. He didn't want me to help carve his pumpkin. He kept saying "I want dad to do it. I'm afraid you'll mess it up". lol. Luckily, I did just fine! After the pumpkins were carved we made pumpkin seeds. I didn't eat any because I had an upset stomach, but Jared and the kids pigged out. Here's a few pictures of the kids scooping out the pumpkin guts.

In Orangeville the 6th graders get to do the haunted house at the Halloween Carnival. Yesterday we started working on our part of the house. We are in charge of the "kitchen". We are planing on having someone stick there head through a hole in a table and put a pot on top. When the kids walk by the chef will take the pot off and the kid in the table will scare them. We are also going to have body parts laying around and someone with a chef had and apron holding a bloody saw. Carlee and her friends are super excited. We actually had about 15 kids sign up to be in our area. It should be a lot of fun! I will post some pictures when it's finished.

Joe's Valley

Last weekend Jared took the kids up to Joe's Valley so I could get some scrapbook stuff done. They hiked up to a waterfall, fished, and found a geo cache. The leaves were changing, and Carlee took a bunch of pictures out of the car window. Some of them actually turned out pretty good. Here's a few pictures of the day.

Soccer!

Zak is a soccer star! Here are few pictures of his game last week!

Zak is so cute. I don't know if you can see it in this picture or not, but he always has a smudge of dirt on the tip of his nose. It doesn't matter if he's just had a shower 1 hour ago, he will always have a dirty nose!

Scrapbook Expo!

Jessica, Anna, Heather, Carlee, Brooklyn, and I spent a fun weekend at the scrapbook expo. We had a good time and found lots of deals. Jessica is the biggest geek out of all of us, and she brought a SUITCASE with wheels on it to haul all of her stuff around the expo. She actually filled the entire thing up! Brooklyn and Carlee had fun too. We let them walk around on their own, so they thought they were big girls. They got ice cream and spent a bunch of time at the Story Tellers booth. Leslie is always so sweet to Carlee. She always lets her and her friends make a page.
We also went shopping and ate at Mimi's cafe. YUM! I took a lot of pictures, but everybody was being picture poopers and making strange faces or doing wierd stuff. I am going to post some of them anyway because I'm mean like that! HA!

This weekend Anna, Jessica, Heather, and I all went to the scrapbook expo. I took pictures, but I can't find the cord to upload them. Soooo, I am going to post a few pictures of the kids at the wave pool in August. We spent quite a few afternoons cooling off at the wave pool. It is definately a favorite family activity.
Jennie Lin and I decided we'd better take the kids one last time before school started, so we grabbed a couple of 5$ Little Ceasar's pizzas and spent the afternoon swimming. Zachary has to wear a life jacket because he is so crazy. He spends the entire time trying to get into the highest waves he can. In fact, he has been fished out of the waves two different times by the lifeguard! He now knows that he is not allowed past 3 feet no matter what! Carlee is a little more timid, but everytime we go she gets a little bit more interested in getting out in the waves. Her favorite thing to do is get a creamie popsicle and layout next to the water. Here are a few pictures of Zak, McCoy, Carlee, and Maddy.