Walk on the Wild Side!

You have to get the very end of this video... I think its the most hilarious part! Thank you 'YouTube'!

Guitar Hero?... No!

I have only two 'very important' rules I have asked my husband to follow... Rule #1: No singing!

Rule #2: No Dancing!
 He broke both the rules last night!

So Kasey was here all weekend and left right before the show started! For some reason Austin pulls out his guitar hero equipement (for the first time in the history of my life - EVER) and starts to rock out with Ryan!

But no... that wasn't enough! He had to get his dad involved!

Brent's argument: "The band needed me!"

Can you tell how determined they are?!

 I have never heard more annoying sounds in my life! 

 I decided to retire to another room in the house... very very far away!

(After I took all these pictures of course!)

Look at that consentration!
People I think I can feel a karaoke night coming on! Who's with me!?

This is the Place Heritage Park

This weekend the schools are having their UEA conferences so yesterday my friend, Meeja and I took our kids to "Little Haunts" activities at Heritage Park (they do this from the 14th to the 16th).

Heritage Park has a bunch of Pioneer homes in a village setting that resembles the time when the pioneers first settled here in the valley.  The first home we walked through had trick-or-treating and this witch telling a really cute story.  I was suprised my kids sat still long enough!

 Next we rode in a car that looked like a train.    (I thought that was wierd!)

 We started out eating the Trick-or-Treat candy... and didn't stop all day! (Gross!)

 This is Sam, Meeja's son who joined us.  All the kids at the park today wore costumes... it was so cute!

 Keala was the first to get her face painted... she wanted a spider! Of course!

 We walked up to the Indian Village where we rode on this 'real' train.

 We were instructed to follow three simple rules: #1 Don't lean over the sides! Duh!

 Rule #2: Stay seated at all times so you don't fall out. Hello!

 Rule #3: When we enter the tunnel, scream as loud as you can! (Btw...The valley looked awesome up here!)

 Here comes the tunnel and my kids are already practicing their screams!

 Mind you, there was nothing spooky whatsoever about the tunnel... but they still screamed!

 At the Indian Village we panned for gold. Down on Main street we played games and did some crafts.

 The boys got really good at throwing the bean bags into these buckets. I was impressed!  The Sister Missionaries were nice and patient with them... and with me!  They tried to scoot out of my photos and I yelled at them to get back in. We all laughed, it was funny!

 Then we found a home where you could practice washing, hanging, and ironing the laundry.

 For some reason my kids both loved doing this! How come they don't do the laundry at home!

 Kai really got into it, so much in fact, the rest of us were getting a little bored waiting for him to finish!

 Inside this home there was a ring toss that kids threw over witches hats... too cute!

Outside the kids played these toy games, practiced walking on stilts, rolled a wagon ring with a stick, and could hit a rug with a wire whip to get out the dirt. They tried all these activities and really liked them.

Eventually we made it to the petting pen where Kai was so cute with the animals.  He talks really sweet to them and gets right down to their level. Its a cute trait I've always noticed about him.

Then the kids loved riding the ponies.  We had lunch first cuz mean mom was hungry, but also so the lines could die down a little, which they did.  It was so short in fact we did this 2 or 3 times before a huge crowd came. But they only walked the ponies twice around before they got the kids off again... a little weird.

We had so much fun with all the activities today. Keala's favorite was panning for gold. Then you could trade in your nuggets to the Bank for candy. (Keala had a hard time trading it in!) Kai's favorite part of the day were the animals. He's kind of an animal himself, but they both had a lot of fun... good times!

Ryan's Homecoming Luncheon

Brent's KSL News Debut

Video Courtesy of KSL.com

More Visitors!

Its that special time of year! Don't ask me how these guys get in! I wish I knew! But this one got stuck in our bath tub this morning!

Brent comes up to me 'rather calmly' and says we have a mouse in the tub... Two reasons why I had a hard time believing him, #1: he was so calm, and #2: in the tub?

Of course I had to go look for myself! Its a baby one, so tiny and cute I had to go get the kids and show them too!

This little guy was jumping like crazy!  Don't judge me... I had to throw the dog in with it.  They ran in circles while I nervously laughed and realized the dog could possibly catch it and jump out and then we'de all be in a world of hurt.  We had too much fun with this one today!

Finally Brent said enough was enough and he grabbed it and took it outside.  (Not until after Kai and I took a ton of pictures!)

I have such a good husband who stands patiently and holds a potential 'bubonic-plague-carrier' while we all take pictures! Seriously people, quit freaking out!  Its just a mouse... yes, I know the potential health hazard we don't all want to start to discuss...

Our Decorating Weekend!

The kids were a little bored this weekend so we decided to decorate for Halloween and do a few activites.  I went to a scrapbook store earlier in the week and punched out some 'sp-oookey' shapes.

The kids loved the idea of decorating gift bags they we would later stuff with lots of goodies! (and Candy!)

The most fun they had were making these lanterns in bright colors, adding lots of cute little google-eyes!

Then of course, Keala started a posing fest....

 Pose #1!

 Pose #2!

Pose #3!

And then on to decorating! (Kai does not like this one!)

We got the stuffed animals involved!

Then we got involved!

Yes, they got me to pose to, but I will spare you that foto.

The deer wanted to get involved too!

We also made luminaries with vellum and our punch-outs.

I also got the winter clothes out of storage and Kai thought he would dress up with his gloves and boots.

They never get tired of dress-up!

Keala always wants to play with the camera when we get it out.  This usually involves a few self-portraits (and other things I can't recognize.) But this is the latest! Yes, its a little spookey!