Tuesday, October 30, 2007
The Trunk or Treat, I won for best costume.
We had a busy day, with a great ending! We played the Grim Grinning Ghosts from the Haunted Mansion from our trunk and passed out a lot of candy. The Johnson's won for best trunk and rightfully so. They did a great job! I won for best adult costume, which Hayden helped me with. The best kids costume went to the Corpse Bride, she was so cute.
Schnepf Farms
We had a blast at Shnepf Farms! We went with Curt's sister Marisa and her family. Marisa's Husband, Jon, and their kids; Kelsey, Emily, Jacob and Brooke all had a great time. I think that Curt's and Jon's favorite things were the Lemonade and the Road Rally. I know that Aaron loved the slingshot and the big slide. Emily was picked to be a pig helper for the pig races. Hayden and Brooke seemed to survive the heat, it was 97 degrees. We all had a wonderful time!
Myra's Halloween Party
The Johnson's had their Halloween Party last Friday night.
The games were fun, the weather was great and the food was wonderfully yummy.
I love it when mummies get to tie up their children for fun!
Brooke with TMNT Leo (Justin) and Human Torch (Tyler).
The games were fun, the weather was great and the food was wonderfully yummy.
I love it when mummies get to tie up their children for fun!
Brooke with TMNT Leo (Justin) and Human Torch (Tyler).
Here are the Currys, with their new pet lion Stanton.
Actually, they have had him for a year, so cute.
Tyler is so cute as this little bug, Lynnae did a great job making him mummified!
Here is Aaron getting his buddy Bill wrapped in toilet paper. How often do you get to TP a friend? Bill's name that I gave him for the night was "Nacho Peabrain".
What a cute Eeyore! Here is his mommy, Crystal the Fairy. Isn't Chandler cute?
The "Medival Lilli" in her wonderful costume
The goal was to be the first person out of toilet paper on your mummy,
but I think Rebecca gets the prize for the neatest wrapping job.
Actually, they have had him for a year, so cute.
Tyler is so cute as this little bug, Lynnae did a great job making him mummified!
Here is Aaron getting his buddy Bill wrapped in toilet paper. How often do you get to TP a friend? Bill's name that I gave him for the night was "Nacho Peabrain".
What a cute Eeyore! Here is his mommy, Crystal the Fairy. Isn't Chandler cute?
The "Medival Lilli" in her wonderful costume
The goal was to be the first person out of toilet paper on your mummy,but I think Rebecca gets the prize for the neatest wrapping job.
Poor Pirate David, he was an innocent by stander. It was a drive-by wrapping.
Well, it WAS neat! Beth looks awesome here standing by her real "mummy"
Ha Ha! Get it? "Mummy"?
Alyssa and her costume, she is Silver Fairy from Tinkerbell's Fairies.
Monday, October 29, 2007
Sunday, October 14, 2007
More pictures of Alyssa's party
Here are the girls in Gena's Theater RoomFront row: Lilli, Alyssa and Lorelai
Back row: Sydney, Mikayla, Paij, and Tiffany
They are wearing the crowns they have made.
Alyssa wanted a Princess Barbie Cake. The girls had to guess how many dots were on it. Mikayla won with her guess of 100. There are 157.
This was just after Alyssa walked in the door. She had no clue that herfriends would be there!!!!!!
What a party
We had Alyssa's 8th Birthday party at my friend, Gena's home. Alyssa was completely surprised and we had so much fun. Her birthday was the 10th and she wanted a party that night. I told her that she would have to wait a few weeks until we could find a good time to have it. She pretty much planned the party herself. I would ask her what she wanted and what she wanted to eat. She told me that she wanted to have a "barbie" cake and eat meatball subs.
I had Curtis bring her to Gena's to drop something off, she didn't know that the something was her. We invited Lilli, Tiffany, Mikayla and my nieces, Sydney and Paij. They were all dressed up as princesses and made tiaras for themselves and a frame with a group picture inside to take home. What fun we had. We also watched some of the Barbie: Island Princess. A quick apology to all the parents on getting your daughters home after 10pm. I'm surprised they let me bring them home, some of them wanted to stay the night!!!!!!!!
I had Curtis bring her to Gena's to drop something off, she didn't know that the something was her. We invited Lilli, Tiffany, Mikayla and my nieces, Sydney and Paij. They were all dressed up as princesses and made tiaras for themselves and a frame with a group picture inside to take home. What fun we had. We also watched some of the Barbie: Island Princess. A quick apology to all the parents on getting your daughters home after 10pm. I'm surprised they let me bring them home, some of them wanted to stay the night!!!!!!!!
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
HAPPY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY CURTIS, DEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YEP, IT'S CURT'S BIRTHDAY! He is 37! Why is it that we don't feel our age?
Why I love my Curtis...
because he loves me too...
Why I love my Curtis...
- He's Cute.
- He can make me laugh at the weirdest moments.
- He likes likes me and my strange sense of humor.
- Have you seen his big blue eyes?
- For special occasions, he buys me a Godiva Dark Chocolate Raspberry Bar! (and sometimes dark chocolate truffles).
- When he bends over to brush his teeth, water drips from his nose. Can your spouse do that?
- He makes Hayden, Aaron and Alyssa laugh.
- He loves his family.
- He eats jalapenos to try to win his wife a date night. (Ward Party)
- He NEVER leaves the seat up.
- He likes to vacuum...
- He indulges my cravings and lets me have my way...
- He has been there for all of my surgeries and was always one of the first people I saw when I woke up.
- He keeps me humble. He reminds me of my flaws and that I need to be patient with others and their flaws. (especially his!)
- I love the way that he rubs my neck and back when I have a headache. I don't think I have had a headache for longer than an hour since we got married...
- He mostly stays on his side of the bed at night, he knows I like my space.
- He is unquestionably there when it really matters.
- He puts up with my temper tantrums.
- He tries to make me a better person.
- He eats leftovers.
- He plays piano in his sleep. (when he is asleep, his fingers move as though he is playing piano).
- He brings Hayden to me in the morning, so I don't have to get up YET.
- I am a priority to him, and he will even NOT fly his airplanes when I really need him.
- He got a raise big enough that I could quit my job to be "a mom".
- He loves green grass as flowers as much as I do.
- He likes my cooking and always tells ours friends how good my food is.
- He proposed after we watched a "Beavis and Butthead" marathon.
- He loves seafood, steak and ribs as much as I do. He is my "food twin"!!!
because he loves me too...
Monday, October 8, 2007
When do we sleep?
I feel that after that last few weeks I have had, I Need an answer!!!!!!!!!!!
I have dedicated myself to losing my baby weight and at the same time getting to know the neighborhood kids. So, on Friday, I snagged my kids and the neighbor's and we headed off to the park. I have such fun with them whenever I walk with them. We have been taking walks around the Sienna apartments so the kids could look for stray golf balls that were shot from the course across the street. Then, we head over to Riverview park for an hour to swing, run around and feed the ducks. This has been a weekly event and I know that all of them look forward to it. (I have pictures, but I need to figure how that works.) I have such fun the Eriacho and Slim children, they always make me laugh and are such good friends with Aaron and Alyssa. Junior(5) and Anthony (3) love Hayden and are "Goofy" around him to get him to laugh. Anthony has many nicknames from us: "Peanut", "Peanut the Potty-mouth", and "Peanut the Killer". We all have been working with him to not use wrong words... I have told him that he is welcome to come with us if he dosn't use bad words. Everytime he sees me, he tells me "no bad words, can we go?"
That night, we went to ARBY'S for our free Combos! It saved our little family $27.00. The funny part was that Alyssa always wants the Chicken fingers, but we don't let her beause it is too expensive. So, she got them! When she got back into the car she told me that it was the best meal that she has ever eaten (Blow to my ego), until she remembered that she loves my cooking and added quickly, "at Arby's". I had a good laugh over that one. Definately a good weekly tradition, and Hayden loves curly fries!
I am so happy that my parents are coming home! I wasn't happy about changing all my plans this last weekend to go clean their home, but for them, it is worth it... I finally got into their home about 10 am and my first thought was, "so, this is what a house looks like after people have been gone for 6 months". So I spent a few hours cleaning with Andrew, Rich and Lindsey and throwing things out... Man! Is mom gonna be mad! I guess Dad is doing better and I am glad. I think that having more family around him will help him quite a bit. He remembers more, but I guess he is still having problems with his sight. I am just grateful that the stoke didn't damage him more physically than that...
I Love Curt's Job. I have more fun at the Family events that they throw. On Saturday afternoon was the party at McCormick Stillman Railroad park. We were able to ride the train, eat food, and hang out with some of the people Curt works with. The Chairman for the Commitee let us in on some of the upcoming events. I can't wait for the Christmas Party.
Conference was wonderful. The kids actually listened and we were surprised at how anxious they were about some of the goals that we need to work on. They followed along with the last Conference Ensign to see who could spot the speaker first. They liked talks about families and kept saying, "we do that". I feel better knowing that they understand some of the principles of the Gospel that I teach, but I always thought they weren't listening.
Karla, Happy Wedding Day. Send me pictures so I can post them and share them with people we love! (Yep, like I said before, I'm gonna figure it out!)
I have dedicated myself to losing my baby weight and at the same time getting to know the neighborhood kids. So, on Friday, I snagged my kids and the neighbor's and we headed off to the park. I have such fun with them whenever I walk with them. We have been taking walks around the Sienna apartments so the kids could look for stray golf balls that were shot from the course across the street. Then, we head over to Riverview park for an hour to swing, run around and feed the ducks. This has been a weekly event and I know that all of them look forward to it. (I have pictures, but I need to figure how that works.) I have such fun the Eriacho and Slim children, they always make me laugh and are such good friends with Aaron and Alyssa. Junior(5) and Anthony (3) love Hayden and are "Goofy" around him to get him to laugh. Anthony has many nicknames from us: "Peanut", "Peanut the Potty-mouth", and "Peanut the Killer". We all have been working with him to not use wrong words... I have told him that he is welcome to come with us if he dosn't use bad words. Everytime he sees me, he tells me "no bad words, can we go?"
That night, we went to ARBY'S for our free Combos! It saved our little family $27.00. The funny part was that Alyssa always wants the Chicken fingers, but we don't let her beause it is too expensive. So, she got them! When she got back into the car she told me that it was the best meal that she has ever eaten (Blow to my ego), until she remembered that she loves my cooking and added quickly, "at Arby's". I had a good laugh over that one. Definately a good weekly tradition, and Hayden loves curly fries!
I am so happy that my parents are coming home! I wasn't happy about changing all my plans this last weekend to go clean their home, but for them, it is worth it... I finally got into their home about 10 am and my first thought was, "so, this is what a house looks like after people have been gone for 6 months". So I spent a few hours cleaning with Andrew, Rich and Lindsey and throwing things out... Man! Is mom gonna be mad! I guess Dad is doing better and I am glad. I think that having more family around him will help him quite a bit. He remembers more, but I guess he is still having problems with his sight. I am just grateful that the stoke didn't damage him more physically than that...
I Love Curt's Job. I have more fun at the Family events that they throw. On Saturday afternoon was the party at McCormick Stillman Railroad park. We were able to ride the train, eat food, and hang out with some of the people Curt works with. The Chairman for the Commitee let us in on some of the upcoming events. I can't wait for the Christmas Party.
Conference was wonderful. The kids actually listened and we were surprised at how anxious they were about some of the goals that we need to work on. They followed along with the last Conference Ensign to see who could spot the speaker first. They liked talks about families and kept saying, "we do that". I feel better knowing that they understand some of the principles of the Gospel that I teach, but I always thought they weren't listening.
Karla, Happy Wedding Day. Send me pictures so I can post them and share them with people we love! (Yep, like I said before, I'm gonna figure it out!)
Friday, October 5, 2007
Arby's Fun Night and Babysitting
or should I say morning???
About the Arby's thing... WE DID IT!!! I definately think that the kids will remember this memory.
Curt and I decided to try for the free combos for a year thing at Arby's. So, Curt got up at 3AM!! and headed out the door. I couldn't sleep for some reason and so I called Curt to see how quick the line was forming. He told me that he was #14. We talked it over to see if it was worth me coming down to get a card for the year. SO, I woke the kids up (not recommended) and asked them if they would like to go wait at Arby's with mom and dad. The overwhelming reply was YES! Hayden didn't want to go back to sleep, and we piled in the car and went. I ended up being #17. (Still under #25). We backed the car up to the sidewalk and the kids had fun staying in the van watching movies, getting out and watching the stars and playing with Hayden. Hayden took a 2 hour nap in the middle of the wait, so he wasn't too sleep deprived. Number 25 showed up at 4:00 and it was a really grouchy woman that tried to pick a fight with a group of guys who were ahead of her.
At approx. 7:15, the idea hit me that maybe the kids should get combo cards too. We weren't sure if there was an age limit, but we could always try. So that left the angry lady out of luck. She was convinced that we should all let her ahead of us for some reason. Didn't happen...
We got inside and the manager handed the kids a pen to sign their own free combo cards!!! This is great. No more paying for kids meals at Arby's!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Was it worth it? Duh, I think so...
We went home and took naps (all except Curtis, who went to work).
Later on in the day, I went to go babysit Jenny's three kids. Man, they are a fun group! I took my kids with me so Curt could get some sleep when he got home and we had a great time!
Wyatt is getting so big, well, not big, maybe I should say old. He is a little mimic. I would tell him "Down, Down" and he would repeat it back. I still couldn't get him to smile at me and laugh and I had tried all of my usual stunts. Finally, after many attempts, I changed his diaper to get him ready for bed and noticed that he had dirty feet, so I took a wipe and washed his feet. HE STARTED TO LAUGH! I can't believe it, he was laughing? It was the sweetest noise you could ever hear!
He and Hayden get along so well! when Hayden would be crawling, Wy would start crawling too. When Wy was walking, Hayden would sit and watch to try to figure out what he was doing.
Aaron and Cole are best buddies. Aaron played Legos with Cole for most of the evening. Alyssa and Kiley played House. They were so cute. I didn't know that Alyssa was dating. He's imaginary, so it's okay I guess.
We all got home at 8:30 and crashed. What a great ending to another adventure...
The
About the Arby's thing... WE DID IT!!! I definately think that the kids will remember this memory.
Curt and I decided to try for the free combos for a year thing at Arby's. So, Curt got up at 3AM!! and headed out the door. I couldn't sleep for some reason and so I called Curt to see how quick the line was forming. He told me that he was #14. We talked it over to see if it was worth me coming down to get a card for the year. SO, I woke the kids up (not recommended) and asked them if they would like to go wait at Arby's with mom and dad. The overwhelming reply was YES! Hayden didn't want to go back to sleep, and we piled in the car and went. I ended up being #17. (Still under #25). We backed the car up to the sidewalk and the kids had fun staying in the van watching movies, getting out and watching the stars and playing with Hayden. Hayden took a 2 hour nap in the middle of the wait, so he wasn't too sleep deprived. Number 25 showed up at 4:00 and it was a really grouchy woman that tried to pick a fight with a group of guys who were ahead of her.
At approx. 7:15, the idea hit me that maybe the kids should get combo cards too. We weren't sure if there was an age limit, but we could always try. So that left the angry lady out of luck. She was convinced that we should all let her ahead of us for some reason. Didn't happen...
We got inside and the manager handed the kids a pen to sign their own free combo cards!!! This is great. No more paying for kids meals at Arby's!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Was it worth it? Duh, I think so...
We went home and took naps (all except Curtis, who went to work).
Later on in the day, I went to go babysit Jenny's three kids. Man, they are a fun group! I took my kids with me so Curt could get some sleep when he got home and we had a great time!
Wyatt is getting so big, well, not big, maybe I should say old. He is a little mimic. I would tell him "Down, Down" and he would repeat it back. I still couldn't get him to smile at me and laugh and I had tried all of my usual stunts. Finally, after many attempts, I changed his diaper to get him ready for bed and noticed that he had dirty feet, so I took a wipe and washed his feet. HE STARTED TO LAUGH! I can't believe it, he was laughing? It was the sweetest noise you could ever hear!
He and Hayden get along so well! when Hayden would be crawling, Wy would start crawling too. When Wy was walking, Hayden would sit and watch to try to figure out what he was doing.
Aaron and Cole are best buddies. Aaron played Legos with Cole for most of the evening. Alyssa and Kiley played House. They were so cute. I didn't know that Alyssa was dating. He's imaginary, so it's okay I guess.
We all got home at 8:30 and crashed. What a great ending to another adventure...
The
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
I'm Thinking Arby's!
Hey ya'll.
Wow what a day so far.
I was up bright and early and headed out the door to Arby's. Yep, at 6 a.m.! I had heard a little rumor of a year's worth of free meals at Arbys. So, I loaded up Hayden and climbed into the van and headed over to the new Riverview Mall.
Just as I am driving up, I am counting heads... 1,2,...25. Oh, stink!!!! I then see my buddies, Em and Stacie. Well, they have just arrived and have been finding out what time the last people got there. They arrived at 5:30 a.m. There are even people sleeping in bags by the front door!
Forget this! I am going home, not to go to sleep, but to try to get the kids up for school.
I am still wondering, if I go back tomorrow at 4 a.m., will I still be too late, or should I make it 3? I know that Curt loves Arby's and it would be a great birthday present for him! His B'day is on the 9th... (He'll be 37! What an old dude he is!)
So, I get home and my wonderful Husband has the kids up and partially ready for school! What a guy! It makes my life easier when he does that.
Wow what a day so far.
I was up bright and early and headed out the door to Arby's. Yep, at 6 a.m.! I had heard a little rumor of a year's worth of free meals at Arbys. So, I loaded up Hayden and climbed into the van and headed over to the new Riverview Mall.
Just as I am driving up, I am counting heads... 1,2,...25. Oh, stink!!!! I then see my buddies, Em and Stacie. Well, they have just arrived and have been finding out what time the last people got there. They arrived at 5:30 a.m. There are even people sleeping in bags by the front door!
Forget this! I am going home, not to go to sleep, but to try to get the kids up for school.
I am still wondering, if I go back tomorrow at 4 a.m., will I still be too late, or should I make it 3? I know that Curt loves Arby's and it would be a great birthday present for him! His B'day is on the 9th... (He'll be 37! What an old dude he is!)
So, I get home and my wonderful Husband has the kids up and partially ready for school! What a guy! It makes my life easier when he does that.
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