Busy Halloween Week

Halloween week is always crazy busy for us. Katelyn's birthday is two days before Halloween and Nikosha has a Halloween piano recital. Both of those things on top of all the Halloween parties and stuff going on make it a very busy, but fun, week. The girls wore their costumes so many times with parties, dance, school, etc. that today Katelyn said, "Mom, why do we have to wear costumes every day." By the time the actual trick-or-treating comes they are already worn out and don't really care all that much about how much candy they can get. (Believe me, I am DEFINITELY not complaining. I love not having a ton of candy in the house for mine and my kids' sakes.) I want to send out a little thanks to whoever came up with Trunk-or-Treating. Nate and I LOVE it! We're done in about 30 minutes time and it's wonderful! We're really not the Halloween Grinches, it's just that we're pretty worn out too when it comes time to trick-or-treat.

Nikosha's piano recital this year ended up being on the same day as Katelyn's birthday. So we went to her recital first, where she did a wonderful job memorizing and playing her song called "Trick-or-Treat." Then after the recital we all went to Arctic Circle. Katelyn didn't care what she did for her birthday. All she cared about was that she had her best bud, Ashlyn, there with her, so Ashlyn came with us to the recital and Arctic Circle. Those two, as you can tell in the pictures, are inseperable. They just love being together and they are so cute together too!

This year for Halloween we had a cheerleader, a ballerina, a butterfly, and a superman! I think it is so much fun dressing the kids up for Halloween. I'm not a person who just likes to go buy a costume at the store. I like to mix and match the costumes we have and kind of invent things and then buy some extra accessories and stuff. That's about as creative as I get.

And then we had Nate

The girls are always scared of him when he wears this mask, but Kyler loved it!

Trip to Utah

We had a great trip to Utah this last weekend. We left Thursday after Nikosha got home from school. Roman (Nate's brother) and his wife Roberta are always nice enough to let all 6 of us crash at their house for a couple of nights. It was so great to see them! Their kids are growing up so fast! Friday Roman, Roberta, and Nate all took the kids to a Halloween party while I went to Salt Lake and went shopping and had dinner with some friends. (Even though I had Kyler with me it was still fun to have a girls' night out.) Then on Saturday, my brother, Eric, took Kenzi to a Halloween party and the rest of us went shopping at a furniture store and the mall. Let me tell ya...after about 2 hours of that, we were all ready for a nap! That afternoon I went grocery shopping with my "poor college-student" brother. It was a lot of fun!

Roman and Alyssa (his 18 month old daughter)

Roman found some sort of leaf bug and everyone was totally amazed by it.

This is the best out of about 20 pictures of all the kids. We finally just put Caleb's bike in the picture to get him to stay, but then he about rode it right off the porch.

This is most of the kids before the Halloween party. As you can (or can't) see Caleb didn't want his picture taken here either, but he was a very cute spiderman.

This is my brother, Eric, and Kenzi. He's going to make such an awesome daddy someday because he is so good with his nieces and nephews.

Vinyl Party

Cheryl and I are trying to get some vinyl parties booked for our business for November and the first part of December. If anyone is interested in hosting one let me know and I will get you a list of the dates we are available. (We only have two spots left before Christmas) Now is the perfect time to host a party, just before the holidays, so you can get some ideas for Christmas gifts and earn some free vinyl!! If you host a party you will receive a hostess gift (a vinyl quote up to $5 in value) and 10% of the total sales from your party in product. Even if you don't want to host a party, check out our website. We are adding new pre-designed quotes and ideas every day.

Nate's 30th birthday party

I threw Nate a suprise birthday party for his 30th birthday. We had it at the Teton Spectrum Raceway and it was a ton of fun!! It was sooo perfect for all ages that I think everyone had a blast. There were go-carts for the adults, go-carts for the kids, a couple of the huge blowup/bounce toys, and a bunch of arcade games.

This was the crew that was the welcoming surprise committee. (Thanks you guys for all of your help setting up and everything!)

Nate was surprised! He had no clue. And as you can tell I was pretty excited too!

You can't see it from this angle, but there are actually two cakes and he blew out all 30 candles on the first try. (So full of hot air.) They were ice-cream cakes from Reed's Dairy and very, very good, but don't try to feed 50 people with just two cakes. (Sorry everyone only got little pieces.)

Nate's brother, Austin, helping cut the cake.

Nikosha racing go-carts.

Logan and Katelyn racing

Aubrey, Paige, and Hailee

This is me driving the go-cart. Apparently I won the "worst driving award" because there was actually a go-cart pile up that the guy in charge said was my fault since I didn't hit my brakes. No, seriously, my sister's go-cart ended up on top of my go-cart. Luckily everyone was okay. I guess nobody's going to want to ride with me from now on. (I didn't know I was supposed to use the brake. Ha-ha! But I learned my lesson.)

Nate with his baby boy. (Jenny, notice the shoes. Very appropriate for the occassion!)