Sweater Vests

An old sweater from savers...

transforms into two sweater vests!

not nearly as cute as what she did here (I LOVE this blog)...but fun just the same.  charlie wasn't too happy about it...

a bit better...

oh, we're out, we're done!

Leaves, leaves...

...and more leaves!  The advantage to having a little yard with 2 HUGE trees (other than raking our brains out in the fall)- is to enjoy them before we rake!  It makes for a compact leave-filled play zone! 







(Ruby's school friend, Caleb, was over for a playdate)

When you wake up to this in the morning- how can you not take advantage.?!?

WE WON! MEGAMIND...

I entered a picture of my kids in a Superhero costume contest on KSL morning news...and we actually won!  There were 5 winners out of Utah.  I happened to be watching the last 20 min. of the broadcast while working-out one morning and saw that they wanted pic's of superheros sent in.  And then I realized I already had my kids' costumes made and they were superheros.  Sadly I missed the broadcast when they announced the winners.! But I got an email the next day telling me we had won and what our prize was.   

OUR PRIZE=  We got to go see the preview of MEGAMIND at Jordan Commons in Sandy.  It was in an IMAX theater in 3D.  It was SO great.  I have not seen a 3D movie in a really long time. And am usually not very hip on it.  The glasses are flimsy and annoying to wear, the kids never keep them on and it ends up being a blow.  But glasses these days are nice, comfortable, regular glasses.  You don't even realize your wearing them.  As for the quality of the 3D- it was so, so great!  The movie was very entertaining.  In fact so much so that  I didn't even let my 5 year old go the bathroom!(cuz I didn't want to leave to take her)  She was literally shaking in her seat, her legs were going 100 miles an hour just a  kick'in and shak'in - but I kept telling her to hold it!  Albeit she was in trouble for NOT going that morning before we left OR when I took Liam right before the movie started. I warned her and she said she "didn't have to!" I loved the movie and recommend it to everyone (especially in 3D).  I also loved getting special treatment.  When we got there, there was huge, long line of folks waiting to get in and were escorted past everyone right inside the theater.  We had 2 rows of seats taped off/reserved for us.  We got prize bags for our family which included  baseball caps, MegaMind masks, mega-sized pencils, sweatbands, tattoo's, posters, plastic jewelry, balloons, coloring books- all with the megamind logo on them.  It was a total blast and great memory for the kids...they loved it!    

   

if you want to be incredible...eat incredible...

 or just dress like them! 

black island farms- brrrhahahahaaa!

We went to this awesome, fun, expensive place last year too.  And I think my kids will demand to always return.  It IS a bit pricey but I found 50% off tickets online... hooray!  So we enjoyed it all the more.

The "jumpoline" was crazy fun...

Favorite thing for the kids was the slides...even the parents want to keep going!

Charles was SUCH a good baby to hang out for most of the night.! I seriously have an angel baby. 

Look at the pure joy on ALL our faces! Ha , so funny.

We had left over money on our certificates and bought them these 5 dollar plastic swords!! what the?! They surprisingly still work!  The kids are real careful to turn them off when not in use as to save the battery life! So economical.

Hello Kitty keeps jumping out at ya, doesn't she?  Kinda freaky, yet Ruby is obsessed with this outfit...picked it out herself.

I love this spooky time of year.!  The sunsets each night make everything just GLOW and all the bright fall colors of leaves is not comparable to anything else. I crave it, love it, need it.

Sweets

We made applesauce at my mom's the other day.  It was so sweet and yummy.  I love the smell of canning applesauce.And then (at their request) my mom fed the kids blueberry pancakes for LUNCH...right in the middle of stewing tomatoes and apples!  Talk about the love of a Grandma!

I had the chance to get together with my sweet, dear high school friends.  It is amazing that we still have this bond.  It's so nice to have people that you have known from the 'beginning'.  We talked about movies, books, kids, parenting, babies, shaving (the do's and don't's), hair (a trick I learned recently, baby powder OR better yet dry shampoo-you can buy at the beauty salon-lets you go one or two extra days without a hair wash!), food, health, Obama, the fear of raising kids in the world today, pregnancy, when to give a kid the sex talk, work, memories, etc... btw, Tash-how do you have not an ounce of makeup on and still look as beautiful as the rest of them!  Natural beauty - a wonderful thing I presume.

ten-ten-two thousand-ten

we tried to see the beautiful leaves on this awesome day of 101010, but alas, they were mostly spent. boo.

but we still love fall!