Christmas Lights

Ben and I took the kids to see the lights out at Willard Bay this last weekend. While Ben accompanied me under a slight amount of duress (guys use the headache excuse when they don't want to do stuff too), the kids and I had a blast. In addition to the awesome lights, they had real reindeer on display, hay rides, hot cocoa and other snacks, and even a semi-warm place to visit Santa. While driving near the nativity scene light display, I found out that Gavin confused "The 3 Wise men" for "Henchmen". Apparently it's time to talk about the true meaning of Christmas.

13 Going on 30

A few weeks ago I went to a "13 Going on 30" party at my friend Angie's house. We thought it would be fun to get a group of girls from Jr High and High School together (Katie, Suzanne, Julie, Rachel, and Jessica) to celebrate that we are all getting ready to or already have turned 30 this year. We played some games, ate good food, and had lots of fun. I'm so still be friends with these lovely ladies.

Twilight Finally Opens!

So if you've looked at my blog over the past few entries, you might think all I ever do or think about is Twilight related stuff. You're mostly right, and these past few days have been full of Twilight Bliss.
On Thursday night a group of about 10 of us went to the midnight release at the Gateway in Salt Lake. My friend Lisa and I even made Twilight Movie Survival kits so we could be prepared for fainting, drooling, hunger, role playing, and even "accidents".
Anyway, I LOVED THE MOVIE! I could go on and on about it, but I won't. At least not right now.
On Friday a group of about 16 of us went to the party for Twilight Moms at the District. There were vendors, games, prizes, and all sorts of fun. We saw the movie at 7:00 that night, and guess what?! I LOVED IT EVEN MORE THE SECOND TIME.

NKOTB

My friends Angie, Katie, Suzanne and I went to the New Kids on the Block concert last night at the E Center. The New Kids might not be so "new" or "kids" anymore, but they were dancing and shaking their stuff even better than they used to 15 years ago, and we were happy to find that they still have the "Right Stuff".
We had soooo much fun, but we were dragging by the time we got out of there. I have a scratchy voice and a tired hangover, but it was totally worth it.

It's a Kidney Bean!

My mom and Ben and I went to my first ultrasound yesterday. It's too early to tell if it's a boy or a girl, but we got to see the baby moving all over the place, and the heartbeat.
Instead of being relieved when the nausea and fatigue settled down a bit in the last couple weeks, of course I panicked. So now it's nice to know that there really is a tiny kidney bean rolling around in there.

I hope everyone had a good Halloween this year. We have lived in our house for almost 10 years, and we have never spent this holiday at home. It was a little different without all of the other cousins, but Grandma and Grandpa came over to help us celebrate. We were a little worried about the Trick or Treater situation, because lately people are doing stinking Trunk or Treat instead. Don't even get me started on that. Anyway, at about 7:00 the doorbell started ringing and it didn't stop for another hour and a half. I was so relieved not to have to eat all of the left over Halloween candy!

Harvest

The Halloween carnival was at the kids school this last Friday. It's an annual event, probably in an attempt to make up for the fact that kids can't really dress up at school anymore. Which I think is a major dumb rule, but for some reason the school/district doesn't care what I think. Fools.

Anyway, here is a pic of the kids in front of the school. My little Dorothy and Batman.

I also put a couple pics from the pumpkin patch we visited a couple weeks ago. It's not the biggest and best one we've ever been to, but it's free so it's my favorite.