A bit of Halloween

So Friday night was the annual So. Utah Symphany concert, so Michael and Haleigh played in it again (may be our last year though) but it's always a good concert with lots of "movie music" aka 'familiar'. Then Saturday Daniel and Michael had a scout pow wow and we did lots of chores... window washing etc. Then I took the kids out to the WCCC to check out their halloween carnival. Glad we got there early... it was totally lame and by the time we left there was a line a mile long to get in. They did however have free cotton candy which Haleigh had about 20 of, so we got our $2 worth. Then on Sunday Julie came out and tried to figure out what she was gonna do for her costume (next post) and we carved pumpkins etc. to get ready for Halloween!

This is going into the wccc

Here they are ON Halloween just before the annual trunk or treat at circle park!!

Red Ribbon Week

It's been red ribbon week at school this week. That's drug awareness week if you didn't know. So they kinda do a theme for each day. These two pictures are from crazy hair day and nerd day.

Somebody's been sleeping in my bed...

I couldn't sleep in this morning, due to the fact that I had no place left to lay...

Let the Haunting begin

So what if Halloween is actually a whole week away still. Tonight was our ward Halloween party put on by the youth. I suggested at Chili cookoff and they went with it. It was a ton of fun and a ton of people showed up too! Michael is Brett "The Diesel" Keisel ("fear the beard") Haleigh a clown (circa 1982ish) Mya is a princess (although when it was time to get ready she said she didn't want to go, she was just going to stay home and take a nap) and Jaida is just in her cute shirt from aunt Ju that says "Mummy's little Monster" and her cute leggins and hat. Daniel wore his Wyoming shirt and hat and although it didn't really count as dressing up, he was a Wyoming Cowboy fan. I didn't have time to dress up... and even forgot my nursing pads... wanna guess how I remembered? :)

Haleigh and Greek Goddess McKenna

Mya and Tinkerbell Lily

Mya and Lily spent the entire evening walking back and forth along the trunk or treat line, and they were just so darn cute everyone just kept giving them more candy!

Haleigh all divided up... pretty small piles compared to Mya!!



Jaida's 1st trick!!

I can go from This:

To This:

All by myself!!



The Girlses

Between sessions

After the morning session of conference this morning I decided to record the specials inbetween to watch later and enjoy some time with the TV off! So out came Charlie's Angles and a little laughter from Jaida. We have a video of Mya losing a nerf battle to Michael too, but we don't want to post such detrimental displays. :) It was still a ton of fun.

2011 St George Marathon

After our 3:15am wake up call (actually we just set our alarms) we got up and headed out. I drove the "3rd Uhaul" out and Julie drove my car with the girls. Only Jaida stayed asleep. Haleigh and Mya didn't want to miss anything! At the starting line with mom...

With Julie waiting to fill the 1st truck with bags...

About 5800 people standing around waiting to run 26.2 miles. All these people and only 13 learned the flash mob dance and were actually dancing!! Kinda a bummer, oh well.

Someone said something crazy to Julie and she didn't get it. I swore I would remember what it was and was going to put it with this picture, but stuff that happens at 4am doesn't sink real deep into my rememberer.

Daniel, Michael, and Troop 489 came out again. They used it as a camp out and a service project all in one. Gotta love two birds with one stoners...Peter, Daniel, Kyler, Karson, James, Ethan, Austin, Michael, Channing, and Aaron.

This is what my volunteers do... good job ya'll!

At least someone got some sleep! Jaida, just going along for the ride...

I went home about 11:00 and fed Jaida and got some stuff done while Daniel and Michael finished putting stuff away from their campout. Michael mowed the lawn. And I was gonna go back to the park at 1:00... but I dosed off... so I figured I'd go back about 2... plenty of time I thought since last year we started loading everything up to take left bags and clothes over the rec center about 3. Well at 2:15 the bags were at the rec center and the athlete recovery area was TOTALLY empty and the finish line area was well on it's way to being torn down. So Haleigh and I helped sort what bags there were in the gym and then headed to the store on our way home. The end. :)