Tyler was very innovative with his costume this year. He came up with it all by his self and the only thing we had to purchase was a $1.99 bottle of red hair spray. He had such good luck he went to the SUU Trunk or Treat and was selected as the scariest costume so he got to go out onto the football field during the halftime show and show off his costume. Then he won a cake during the cake walk at our ward Halloween party.
We have mice in our house. Enough that they can get really creepy, I used to give them names so that they didn't seem so bad, but lately I've been getting really tired of them. So off to the store to get some mouse traps. I got the basic spring loaded traps and was told that peanut butter was the best bait to use, so I loaded 8 traps with peanut butter. After strategically placing all of the traps, I go to check to see if we've caught any and all I find is traps with no peanutbutter left. Stupid, or smart, mice. So off to the store to get something different. Tyler and I find these traps.
We caught 3 the first day. The only problem is that it doesn't kill them so we put them in a bread bag and then WHACK them on the sidewalk to kill them. I know that might seem horrible to some of you but I think that the mice are dirty, creepy things. Last night there was one in my bedside garbage can keeping me awake, I figure if they can get in the garbage can, they can crawl on my bed while I'm sleeping. It's so embarrassing when we have people over and I can hear them squeaking, I always hope that they either don't hear them or else think that we still have our Guinea Pig. So here I am, on a quest to kill all the mice around.
During red ribbon week, the kids have themes every day of the week. This day was "Crazy Hair" day, which is always one of the funnest. Kaitlin looks like a WHO from WHOVILLE.
We had a great time at our Mummy & Daughter night. We saw who could wrap the best mummy in two minutes with a roll of TP. And then we un-wrapped the mummy wrap and found fun and creepy prizes. Of course there was plenty of yummy treats to eat, mummies in a blanket, mini mummy pizza's and mummy cookies.
I work with some great women at Robert's. Genevieve and Angie, are two that I work very closely with, and we decided a couple weeks ago that we needed to start having Ladies Night Out together. So our first time together we all brought snacks and just visited. This last time was Genevieve's birthday so we met at my house and had grilled chicken salad for dinner and then took her to DQ for a treat. Angie made this awesome corsage for Genevieve to wear which had a little tag that said "it's my birthday, wanna spank me?" and then a little tiara for her to wear. I was so funny, there was this old man there at DQ that kept volunteering to SPANK her. We had a great time full of laughs. It's so wonderful to have great friends that you can have fun with and talk about anything.
I just got called a the Acheivement Days leader. I have such a great group of girls that I work with. We have had two meetings so far. Right now we are working on our Mother & Daughter night. We are doing a "Mummy & Daughter" party. This week we made the invitations for their Mom's.
Doesn't she look pitiful? Bella got a sore in her eye that we later learned, via the internet, is cherry eye, she kept bothering it so we made a homemade cone to keep her from bothering it. I had a "Cricut"mat that I didn't use, since I don't have a cricut, so I didn't feel bad at all cutting it up. So with the mat, scissors and some duct tape we were able to make one. After we put it on, she just hung her head, it was so sad. She got used to it pretty quick even though she would run into alot of things because she didn't have any peripheral vision. She loved getting her head scratched, because she couldn't reach it, she would just move her head from side to side while we scratched it. After about a week we took it off and gave her a bath and she hasn't bothered it anymore. It still is there a little, but the only way to fix it is with surgery. Surgery is not necessary unless there is a risk of infection. We will just keep and eye on her and see.
Tyler is our fisherman. He loves fishing, eating them is another story. He goes every chance he gets. This time our neighbors took him with them. They ended up catching 18 fish. Pretty good day I would say.
We went up Cedar Mountain today to see the fall pictures and take some pictures. It is so beautiful up there. The kids had fun watching the squirrels and chipmunks stuff their cheeks with acorns, preparing for winter.
This was just a mini kit we did for a Speed Scrap participation prize
These two are our next ones coming up next
Since I have Fridays off I made plans to pick up Derick from High School and take him out for lunch. He had shortened schedule today so I had to take him at 10:30, which is more like breakfast to me. We ended up having a few of his friends join us at our table. I'm glad that Derick doesn't mind being with his ol' Mom around his friends. I had a nice visit with him and his friends and even a few more said Hi. When Derick came home he told me that he was talking to one of the guys who said hi while we were eating, saying to him, "Yah, my Mom felt kind of wierd being there with my friends for lunch" The kid said to him, "That was your Mom? I thought that was your older sister in High School that was just driving you to lunch!!!" Talk about make my day!
This one we did for a Christmas in July Sale:
Lori and I are going to be the spotlighted designer this Monday and everything in our store that we have created will be on sale for 30% off. We will be introducing this "Eternity" kit during that sale.
This one her is our part of a Collab kit that we did with one our our Creative Team members, Maria.
And this is our next kit that will be released Sept. 1
The kids were so excited for school to start this year. They are all in different schools this year so that will be interesting. Kaitlin is in Mrs. Sherratt's 4th grade class this year. She heard quite a few mixed impressions of her teacher but is just listening to the good ones because she is loving her class so far.
Tyler was so excited to start middle school this year, it was almost like Christmas morning for him. I was anxious to visit with him after work to see how his day went. He had an absolutely horrible day! Poor kid, spent the first day of school with a teacher who yelled at the class the entire day. He would say "When I say CLASS I want you to say YES back" So he would say CLASS and the kids would say, yes, and the teacher would yell, say it louder. He would say CLASS again and they would say YES back and then he yelled at them for saying it to loud. Needless to say this went on the entire day. Tyler takes things internally and feels that he is the one being yelled at even though he is doing nothing wrong. So Tyler spent the morning of day two in the Vice Principles office with us switching his class. He is now in Mrs. Haggerty's class and absolutely thrilled and excited to be going to school again.
Derick is in High School this year as a freshmen. He also was so excited to start high school. He is loving his classes, and has some great teachers. It will be a great year for him I'm sure. I will try to list the ones I remember for this semester.
Kirk and the boys had a blast on the Father & Sons outing this year. They went to the Foley's land out in New Harmony. They have a huge barn, and a zipline that they put up over a little pond. Brother Maurer built a potato launcher and a balloon sling shot.
Introducing, Bella. Bella was found by our neighbor in a shopping cart at the Walmart parking lot. She was probably 3 weeks old at the time. With a lot of batting of eyelashes, we convinced Kirk into keeping her. Bella is a Schnauzer/Border collie mix. She has been quite a good little dog and has learned to sit, lay down and speak quite well. Kirk hates her but the rest of us love her so we over rule Dad. Isn’t she sooooo cute?
Derick, had surgery on Wednesday, to repair a hernia that he has has since he was little. Since Derick is going into Highschool this year and wanting to do weight lifting we decided to have it taken care of so that he doesn’t have any problems. Derick had Kirk and Brother Johnson and Brother Wood (his young men leaders) come over the night before and gave him a priesthood blessing. The surgery went very well. Derick was the most scared to have an IV but that turned out not bad at all.
What a fun, short, long day I had yesterday. Short because it was up to Salt Lake and back to Cedar City in one day. Long because I felt I was driving ALL day long. Fun because I went up north with 11 young men to the Oquirrh Mountain Temple openhouse. What a neat opportunity to be able to go into these sacred rooms that these boys won't have the chance to go into again until they get their endowments out for their missions. Tyler was so excited to be able to join us even though he isn't quite twelve. He couldn't beleive that he would be able to actually go inside the temple and then was a worried because he didn't have white clothes to wear. He didn't realize that you don't have to wear white to go into the temple openhouse. I'm so glad to have had this previledge to go through the temple with my two boys, I am so proud of them.
We went up to ”Kid Pond” to go fishing with Adam, Kollen and their kids. We had poles and Tyler had his tackle box, which we should have checked before we left. We ended up with no bait so Adam tied a funny looking rubber hook on each of the kids poles and let them fish, needless to say we didn’t catch anything but grass. Derick did although cast the end of his pole into the water so he and Tyler went wading into the water to retrieve the pole. It was quite funny they were afraid that they were going to sink and disappear. They were able to save the pole and cool off at the same time.
