Ladies! Ladies! Ladies!

My mom, sister and I had a ladies weekend a couple of weeks ago. It was SO MUCH FUN!!!! I left ALL the kids at home and went to Salt Lake. We started the day off by going to one of my favorite places for lunch. Cafe Rio. Oh, how I miss that place. As always it did not disappoint me.

Next we went to Gardner village where Halloween was in the air. We loved looking at all the cute shops and halloween decorations. Of course, I could not pass up this great witch hat up.

What is a trip to Salt Lake without a visit to Tai Pan? Nice pumpkin Heather!

Friday night we went to the Odyssey dance studio's performance of Thriller. I loved it!!! The entire show had a Halloween theme. My mom, on the other hand, had a hard time watching some of it because it was a bit gruesome. Before the show started the dancers were in the lobby dressed as Zombies. They were trying their best to annoy and scare you. My mom HATED these zombies. They gave her the creaps. I didn't care for them either, but it was hilarioius to see the reaction they got from people (including my mom.)

Here we are posing with one of the zombies.

Friday night we stayed in a hotel, then Saturday morning we watched Heather's flag football team.

We spent the rest of Saturday shopping. We decided to pamper our tired shopping feet by having pedicures at the mall.

Sadly this was my very FIRST pedicure. But, it definitely WON'T be my last! We ended our weekend by a visit to the Desert Star comedy Melodrama. I had such a great time and love, love, love spending time with my sister and mom. Until next year ladies.......

Way to Go Bodell!

Bodell participated in the walk-a-thon for her elementary school. She places third out of the entire school for most laps around the school. She was surprised because she didn't realize it was a competition, so she is already getting geared up for next year. She was so proud of the medal she won. She wore it the entire day. Great job Bodell!

Andrew is 8 months!

Andrew is 8 months old! He is such a busy boy now. He loves to crawl and explore everything. He is cruising furniture and loves to feed himself. He constantly wants to be where the big kids are. They can always make him laugh. He babbles, squeels, growls and laughs frequently. He is such a joy to have. We all love him to pieces!!

I want to play

Grandma gave Bodell this little fussball table for her birthday. All the kids wanted to get in on the action. Even Andrew was excited and wanted to join in.

Bodell is 9!

Bodell is 9 years old!!! Wow. I can't believe how quickly those years have gone by. She is such a tender hearted girl. She is so responsible and helpful. I love to watch how she interacts with Andrew. She loves him to pieces. She is nice to everyone. At her parent-teacher conferance this year, her teacher told me that in all her years of teaching, Bodell is probably the most helpful student she has ever seen. Her teacher told me that Bodell is nice to every kid in the class. Bodell loves to play sports, especially soccer and track. She is excited to start basketball this month. Bodell is a great reader and is getting very good on the piano. She still loves horses and dreams of the day when she will have her own horse. For now, she'll settle for her dog, Buddy. I am so proud of Bodell and so grateful she is my daughter! Happy Birthday!!!!

Bodell had a friends birthday party this year. She planned the party herself. She wanted an animal party so they played animal bingo, played pin the tail on the horse and had a pinata. (The pinata was probably the cheapest pinata I have ever seen. It broke on the second person.)

Here are all her friends waiting for a turn to hit the pinata. Sorry kids-- you are not going to get one.

Bodell LOVES pumpkin pie, so she asked that she have that in place of a cake.

The kids had a pie eating contest with their pumpkin pie.

On Bodell's real birthday we had cake and ice cream with the family. Sydney made this adorable cake. It was a BIG hit!

The birthday party was delayed slightly because my cousin's daughter Olivia had to go to the clinic with a broken arm. She was quite the trooper.

Bodell didn't want to blow out the candles, instead she wanted to pinch them out with her fingers. As you can see the other kids were losing patience and wanted to help put out the candles so they could eat the cake.

Samuel The Lamanite

Bodell came up with this fun family home evening on her own. She decided that we were going to talk about Samuel the Lamanite. Then after the lesson we would pretend we were Samuel the Lamanite and the rest of the family would throw pies at us. Brigham and Shae were delighted at this idea. Josh was NOT quite so excited. Presley and Sydney were staying with us while Sunny and Val were out of town so they got to join in the action.

Pure joy on that face.

Watch out Brigham!

Gotcha Presley!

Sydney looks like she is having way too much fun throwing pie at her sister.

How does it taste Bodell?

Revenge is sweet. What a nice, kind family home evening!

First Grade Trip To The Mountain

The first grade took a field trip to the mountain to study the fall leaves and wildlife. I tagged along because I love this field trip. It was one of the coldest days we've had this season, but the kids didn't let that stop them from having a great time.

Brigham thought he was as big as all the first graders and wanted to be included in everything they did.