Halloween 2012

Here is a picture of all of us Halloween night. 

You're probably wondering why I have so many pictures of us
in our costumes. It's because I made them and my Maleficent
costume below (don't look too close at all the bad sewing).
But I've never sewed a costume to this extent before
and I was pretty proud of myself. Hence all the photos.
We are Mordecai and Rigby from a cartoon called
Regular Show. It's one of Riley's favorites.

Here's some of the kids in their costumes.
Carti as Katniss. Sadie as Jasmine (her second costume) and Bennett
as a pilot.

Alyssa was a Zombie soccer player (she loves soccer, can you tell)?
Cade as Yoda and Taylee is Dracula. Then there's Sadie in her
first costume Supergirl and then there's a picture of the
kids playing Just Dance at my halloween party.

Here's my homemade Maleficent costume. And I'm
standing in front of my homemade haunted house.
Thanks to Lynsey for doing my hair and makeup and letting
me use her house and to Kelli for making my horns.

Gotta have a treat table. This year I did owl cupcakes, chocolate dipped strawberries,
caramel apples dipped in oreos and butterfinger, reeses broomsticks,
frankenstein marshmallows, mummy juiceboxes, and gummy worms and spiders.

Here's a peek into my haunted house that only Cade was scared of. It was a
little scarier in the dark with the black light, fog machine, scary music, and witch head
telling you your fortune (or whatever she says).

Here's a group photo at my Halloween party. It was a lot of work
but a lot of fun with the kids. Definitely worth it.
We missed Kinsley, Kenyon, Beckam and Jude!
Hope you had a fun Halloween!!!!

Summer 2012

So I'm trying to catch up on blogging today. Time is moving to quickly.
I swear it was just Summer and now it's November!
Here is some pictures from this my Grandma's funeral this
Summer. It was great to see so many friends and family that
I haven't seen in a long time. The funeral felt so peaceful.
 It was fun listening to my Dad and his childhood friends
talk about the old days. 

We also got out and did some camping this year. My cousin Natalie
and her family came and My sister Kelli and her family. And my other
 cousin Teresa and her boys came and also Riley's sister Kaydee.
I was such a fun group. I'm so glad we went since we don't go very often. It was a lot of fun.

My whole family was here for the funeral and so we decided
to go out to St. George and stay for fourth of July. They have the best firework
 show that we watched from a cliff by my parents house. And
we went to Vegas for like an hour to pick up Skyler from the airport.
But I didn't get to the casino to win any money which was disappointing.
I guess when Laurie comes for Christmas we'll have to add that to
the agenda..... eh Lars :)

We got family pictures done on both sides of the family this summer.
As you can tell me and Riley's families are a bit different.
Mostly the noise level in the houses are different.