Pumpkin Carvin' and Halloween Night

We carved pumpkins for FHE and Bryson was way into it, for about 5 minutes. Then he was done. He did not like the guts at all! Who knew that my boy doesn't like to get messy!?! He was seriously crying until I cleaned his hands. But he loves his spider, and daddy's "U", and mommy's witch, and baby's happy face. He has to go out and look at them atleast 5 times a day. On halloween we went to a few of our neighbors and then over to the in-laws to do trick or treating. They have a very "established" neighborhood, and he got several regular size candy bars, one house gave him like 4 regular candy bars!? He was very into this year, which was fun to see. He would wait a minute at the door and then say "no one home, next house, more candy" He knew what he was doing! I don't know why we went, I guess just for the experience and tradition, it's not like he needed, or will actually get to eat all that candy, which means more for us:( I better hide it from myself!

Halloween weekend

Last weekend Bryan had his annual Halloween parade at work that we took the kids to. These men don't hold back with the candy. Bryson's bucket was so full he couldn't even carry it. After that we headed up to Logan for the weekend. My aunt throws this HUGE Halloween party every year. This year's theme was "Ghoul and Grim Bros. Carnevil." It was amazing, they had this huge carnival tent covering their entire front lawn and front door, I wish I would have got a picture of it. They had all sorts of carnival games for the kids, complete with stuffed animals and other prizes, cotton candy, popcorn, churros, carmel apples, hot dogs, nachos, everything you could think of. Every inch and nook of their entire house is covered with some sort of creepy crawly thing. It's so fun. Well of course costumes are required, but Bryan and I hadn't even thought about what we would wear oh until the night before. So I thought I could just wear my witch costume and then whip him up a wizard costume. It always seems to happen like that, that I'm just starting and finishing the costume like the day of. It was the same with the kids costumes, I started them the night before our trunk or treat. Anela's didn't get done, but only because I had to get new fabric. The fabric I originally had was like sewing on butter, it was so impossible. But Bryan's was pretty easy and looked so cool! The wig and beard, which we had to cut hair from the wig and glue to his face, totally made the costume! Although he only had the beard on for about a total of ten minutes it was so annoying and he couldn't eat.

Bouncin' Off the Walls

Last week we went to Bouncin' Off the Walls with some of our friends in the ward. We hadn't been there for a while, but Bryson loves this place, and so do moms. It's just this big enclosed room with all these inflatable toys to let the kids run loose and the moms chat. It has this big slide, which Bryson was scared of this time for some reason. But I took him up it, kick and screaming (literally) the whole way, because I knew he would love it, and I really wanted to go down it too and it would look kinda funny doing it without a kid. But mainly he was interested in the basketball hoops the whole time, this boy LOVES hoops! He's such a baller! And funny story- for some reason that day I wore my favorite pineapple necklace that I've had since I was 16 and got in Colonial Williamsburg, VA, and I hardly ever wear necklaces or dangly earrings because I have a really good grabber, but I did. And of course, Anela grabbed it and broke it and I couldn't find the pineapple pendant anywhere. I took off Anela's jacket and pants and looked down her shirt, I looked everywhere and I thought I saw it just drop, not fling somewhere, and I was seriously about ready to cry. Well later that day when we got home and I changed her diaper I got a very nice suprise! There was my pineapple pendant in her diaper!!?! Don't know how that happened, but I was happy!

Bryson and Anela Photoshoot

My darling friend Liz did Bryson and Anela's pictures today, and I could not be more happy! I can't say enough good things about her, she's just amazing, and makes my kids look just amazing! Check out her site and see all the other amazing things she's done, dillydallyart.blogspot.com It was seriously the least stressful photoshoot we've ever done. Thanks Liz!

New and Improved picture

My wonderful sister-in-law made my picture nice! Now there are beautiful fall colors!

Witches Night Out

For the last couple of years I've gone to the Witches Night Out at Gardner Village. It's a girls night only where everyone dresses up like witches and there are lots of fun activities, dancing and great sales in the cute little shops at Gardner Village. It's a ton of fun, and this year I think was the best yet! It was a little crazy getting us there and some couldn't make it. But we started the night off with a yummy meal at Macaroni Grill (thanks Beth!) and then hit the Village. It was great weather, shopping, food, with tons of laughing! Looking forward to next year already! Plan on it! Thanks girls! Love ya!

And then last week both the kids had check-ups, Anela for her 9 month and Bryson for his 2 1/2 years. I figured it would be quicker and easier to do both together, especially since now I have to drive 45 minutes to get to their dr., cause I like him so much and haven't wanted to change since moving. Well we are almost through getting ready for our flu shots, have already been there 1 1/2 hours, and for some strange reason there was a step ladder in the room and Bryson was climbing on it trying to get on the dr table and slipped and fell and cut his lip and just under his lip open. Yeah, well let me just say that I've never had any stitches, never broken a bone, never been to the hospital, except to have my babies, nothing. So to say the least, I freaked out. It was so scary, I was hysterical. Seriously crying probably as much as Bryson, I think I freaked him out a little even, he stills says "Mommy cry at the Dr." But good thing the nurse was in there and knew what to do. And the Dr. came right in and decided to do the glue instead of stitches. So all in all if it had to happen anywhere I guess it couldn't have been a better place. But it's just so scary to see your baby go through that, but he's healing so nicely and everything is OK now. He liked that he got lots of popsicles out of it;)!

Events

So we've had a few eventful things going on lately. To begin, Bryan's birthday- such a fun day for the family. We went up to Sundance to ride the tram and see the pretty fall colors (and snow!). We also ate at the deli. It was really fun and really pretty, but again (we did this last year too), we were about a week late, so all the colors were a bit muted. Especially at times like these I wish I were a better photographer and had a better camera. It was a great picture spot. I just need to bring my photographer friends along everywhere I go so I can have great pics of my family. That evening we went to a pumpkin farm in Pleasant Grove. It was such a fun farm, they had a corn maze, and a huge slide in the middle of the maze, and a hayride, and train ride, a hay tramp, pony rides, pig races, I definitely recommend it for anyone in this area. Bryson still talks about this day several times a day. I love it when they have that much fun!

Sick and Tired.

Ok, so last week wasn't a very good week to start a blog. First off, Bryson was sick all week with a fever, I ended up taking him to the Dr. and he said he had a virus in his throat, nothing to do for that except tylenol,ibuprofen and rest. AND our internet was down all week, just got up again last night. I HATE digis, don't ever EVER go with them if you can help it. I seriously know them all by name, I just have to say "Hi it's me" and they know who it is, that's how often I have to call about my stupid internet. And then Anela got sick, which is so sad to see her miserable, she's always so happy, but I think she's getting over it now. And we also had conference, which was very good and uplifting and Bryan's BIG 28th BIRTHDAY! YAY! We did some fun family stuff for that, I'll post some pics tomorrow. Anyways, I'm going to try to keep more up to date from here on out.

The first time

Ta-Da! We finally made the leap and are now official bloggers! Can you believe it? Well I hope it's not too boring from here on out.