Happy Birthday Sydney!!

I know I am a little behind, but wanted to post about Sydney's Birthday.

It all started on her birthday Thursday November 6th. Our lives kinda get a little crazy in the evenings and we were having Syd's party the next night with her friends. So I wanted to do something special for Syd on her actual birthday. So I told her I was checking her out of school early for a birthday surprise! I checked her out about 10:30 and headed to Ogden to The Junction. As soon as she saw where we were going, she knew we were going to see a movie. I told her we were going to see High School Musical 3 and she got so excited. We got our monster popcorn and drinks for the two of us and sat down to wait for the show. Well, since it was the first show of the day, when we got there, we had the whole theater to ourselves. We thought we were so special to have it all to ourselves, but by the time the movie started 5 more people trickled in. But that was okay, we still felt like we had it to ourselves. After the show we went to visit Corey while he was on lunch since we were so close and to give him the rest of the popcorn we couldn't finish! We picked the rest of the kids up from school and went home and waited for the grandma's and grandpa's to come over.

Sydney decided she wanted to have a sleepover party. I was thinking COOL! It will be cheaper than taking all kids somewhere to entertain them. Well, as it turned out, I always get a little carried away with my crazy ideas, thought it would be so much fun to make pillowcases with all the girls. So off I go to get decorations, pillowcases and fabric paint for our night of activities. I never thought it would be so hard to find a cheap pillowcase. 4 or 5 stores down, I finally have what I need. Got the house decorated and the projects in place to start. So here are some fun pictures of our sleepover party!!

The making of pillowcases!!

We had all the girls put there handprint on a pillowcase as a keepsake The "Camp Rock Cake"The Makeovers!
The Princess and her maidens!
Sydney had a great party with the girls waking up to pancakes and then on their way home!!!

Needless to say it was a long night, but it was worth it cuz they had so much fun!!

Halloween Traditions

On Thursday the 30th we did our Annual pumpkin carving with the Gotchikas. We always have so much fun getting ooey and gooey with pumpkin mess. We started a little late due to Jake having soccer training, but when Jake and I got there, Bill had everyone going to town on the their pumpkins. After we got them emptied, we took a little brake for dinner. (Homemade Tamales we made in August....yum,yum) Then as the kids were carving their crazy designs, we started making sugar cookies to decorate. So even though we got home late on a school night. we always have so much fun.

(I will post more pictures for this later)

HaLLoWeEn nIghT

So for the last three years, we have gone Trick or Treating with our friends the Greenamyers. Kristin always makes a great dinner for us before the kids go venture out to get their candy. Mark and Corey usually take the kids and Kristin and I stay back to pass out the good stuff. This year was an exceptional Halloween night because it was unusually warm. So me, Kristin, Kalin, Jake and Aubree decided to sit on the front porch to hand out the candy. We were so shocked because we did not get very many trick or treaters. Well, while we were watching the little ones going to the houses ACROSS the street to get candy, we got a little carried away to the music we had playing. We started dancing!!! It was so funny, we danced to Thriller and Monster Mash and some other funny songs. Yes, I think the people in passing thought we were a little nuts!

When Mark and Corey got back with the kids, we didn't think they were gone long enough or got enough candy. So we decided to leave the men at home to pass out candy and we took the kids in the opposite direction to get more. Sydney's feet hurt and Mikaela wasn't feeling well, so we let them stay behind. Well we got to this one house and Darian and Mason come running back to show us what they got. Somebody was actually handing out CELL PHONES!! Okay, they didn't work, but they were real ones. They were handing out the display phones. So we sent Darian and Mason back to get Sydney and Mikaela one. Well, when we finally made it back to the house we were so excited to show them what we got for them. Well....Sydney did not like her phone and was crying because the other kids got better phones(what a surprise!) So the wonderful husbands we have took Sydney back out to searching for a phone. Needless to say, she came back with a big smile!

So here are our crazy kids on Halloween Night!