Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Halloween 2012

We went to visit daddy in his office and trick or treat around the Credit Union.
 I think the kids got more candy here than anywhere else we went tonight.
 My little family.
 Then we went to the mall and did some of our best poses.
 He said he was looking like that because there was a bad guy behind me.
 Kylie pulled off one of Elmo's eyes when I put her in the car, thank goodness I had double sided sticky tape for a quick fix.
 Mr. Hawkeye himself.
 Brian cracks me up, he did this pose "just like my pumpkin!"
 You better watch out!
 Elmo playing on the computer while visiting grandma.
 The whole gang.
 Trunk or Treat.
 Then we went almost everywhere (sorry not Utah) to visit family and friends, the kids had a fun night!

Room Party

Here we are making "the slime".
 Getting the goody bags.
 Everyone showing what they are proud of.
 The kids all had fun. I had fun and best of all.....
 Chad had fun!

Carving Pumpkins

So Brian wanted to carve pumpkins, just not touch them at all. Kylie was all in she loved it!
 She kept saying slimy over and over again and would laugh and giggle.
 She loved pulling out the pumpkin guts.
 Okay, yes she does not have a diaper on at this point, she went potty in the toilet and I was going crazy so I didn't put one on yet. Good thing we have a big pumpkin.
 Chad's pumpkin, he wanted Wolverine.
 Brian's batman pumpkin! Why do my kids always pick the pumpkins that don't have a printable template? I was really wishing for someone else in my family to be around with their fantastic drawing abilities, so this is what they got from mom (Trent was at work, I felt helpless)...lol.

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Room Mom

Well I some how got nominated to be Mrs. Remarks room mom for Chad's class. They called me about 3 weeks ago and said no one signed up to be her room mom, so they asked if I would. I said sure what do I do?! Well "all" I have to do is plan the classroom parties and do teacher appreciation week for Mrs. Remark and anything else the teacher is in need of. Sooo.....tomorrow I get to put on the Halloween party.
I am making slime, monster rocks, toss the pumpkin, and fling the rats. I hope the kids will have fun! I also have a great goody bag with vampire teeth, pencil, erasers, gummy body parts, spider ring, bat ring, and stickers.
So I did some testing before I had to put on the show tomorrow, here is my slime, it is SOOOO cool!
 My monster rocks, they turned out cute.
 Now I better start brainstorming for Christmas...lol.

Laundry

Even princesses can do laundry.
 In fact it's one of their favorite things to help with.
 Make sure you stuff it in good.
 This button...right?
 Success! Now if she only knew how to fold them too.

Monday, October 29, 2012

Fun in Utah

On Saturday we went to Salt Lake to attend the Latino Cultural Event in the Conference Center. Trent was going to come down the Wednesday before to play golf but it was snowing so they rescheduled to play Saturday also. So we decided we'd kill 2 birds with one stone, that's how we like to do things.
We went to the new City Creek mall to drop off Trent. The kids loved it.
 They saw fish in the little creek that goes through the mall.
 Yes, fish! Not minnows. These were pretty good sized trout!
 They were this big!!
 Watching the fish.
 Grandpa Murray arrived to pick up Trent. He gave each kid a treat and a hug, before he took their daddy.
 Kylie decided to share her treat with the fish. Well they ate it, hope chocolate doesn't hurt fish...lol.
 Then we went to the mall play area.
 Chad climbing on a dinosaur to get a ride.
 Kylie exploring, hoping to find a baby.
 Brian holding on for dear life since his dinosaur felt his ride was over.
 Then we had lunch, and of course a treat (not dessert).
 My good sharing children...lol.
 Then we went and played with our other friends at their house. Then went to the cultural event. The kids really liked it but were tired. After the pre-show Grandpa Murray took Chad and Brian and went to go visit Great Grandpa England. They loved their visit and remembered the last time we visited too. Kylie was glued to the cultural event. She clapped and sang to the dances and songs. I did cry once, it was when I looked over to check on Kylie and my mom was singing with one of the children songs and she was radiating, looking more like a child then my own daughter. Our childhood is still very much a part of who we are, even when we get old! It was a wonderful program. I then had my first In and Out Burger experience...all I can say is YUM!!!! (something I highly recommend) We then spent the night with Grandpa Murray who made us pancakes in the morning and sent us on our way. This is Kylie on the trip home, we are passing Downey and she's still playing with Grandpa and Grandma Rawson. It's hard to travel with kids or husbands and maybe even wives sometimes but over all we had a great time. I love making memories like this with our family!

Haunted History Tour 2012

How do I start? I won a contest of my haunted experience, so then the SEIPO group came and investigated my building well 2 of them. With everything we got they decided to do this years haunted history tour around Amerigo. This was the moon one of the nights, just perfect!
 Some of the group, Geoff, John, and Brett.
 Lisa, Terry's husband (don't know his name..lol) and Terry.
 This is Becky she was with me in Amerigo to help with the tour. We had a blast.
 Each night we had about 4-5 tour groups come through each building. We did Tee Pee Toys warehouse. Which had some activity on some of the nights. It had things fall over by themselves, shadows, and there is a pipe that is not hooked up to anything, in fact it has insulation stuffed all the way up but it will "turn on", vibrate and sound like there is a massive fan hooked up to it, it's really loud. My mom's tour group had it come on and when Brett was speaking and he said "I have a tour here, do you mind?" it turned off.
 We also did the Museum of Clean. This building is so cool. Don Aslett has spent 6 million in it already and it has a lot of things for kids to do.
 The things that happened here are strong smells, and a blue light that kept showing up on peoples camera's on the floor that has no electricity yet.
 I had to try out the kids vacuum!
 This is the Amerigo warehouse. On our investigation this is where we caught an EVP of a little girl. Lisa was just asking random questions and when she asks "how long have you been here?" a little girl says "I've...I always been here." This is also where I got touched on my forehead and when I turned to tell Becky who was beside me, I saw her bangs move to one side and she said "I just got touched on my forehead."
 In this room people would get sick and had to leave. In fact this little girl felt like throwing up and went running upstairs and when she got to the top of the stairs she was completely fine. She said it was "sooooo weird". We had people scratched, small pebbles thrown at them and some even saw the huge freezer door move by itself. Those are the only doors left on the hinges because our employee took the rest off because they kept closing on him.
 Amerigo building was the most active. When we investigated the only thing that happened that one of the tours did not experience was the copy machine turning on twice and the woman upstairs ripping open a bag of gravel and throwing it up in the air to rain down around us (we could only hear it not see it). We had something happen to someone if not all in each group. The grumpy old man touched, pinched, played with hair, (my mom was one who had her hair played with hehehe) felt a lot of cold spots, could see breath at times, and had a lot of weird lights in pictures (orbs). The prankster was wonderful, he would open the front door A LOT, he would shut and open the bathroom door, people would hear him giggle, he kept opening the toilet seat, he rang chimes, poked people and even gave someone a paper cut that was just sitting at a table. The woman upstairs, many people smelt her lavender perfume, saw shadows, we would hear noises like she would roll little washers or nails across the floor and she was whispering a lot! One whole group with us heard her whisper "quiet!"
Everyone said Amerigo was a neat building. Our investigators said it's their favorite, and they will be back to do another investigation in the future. It was neat to learn the history of each building and what they use to be and how it sometimes related to the things that where happening.