Halloween Fun - Part Four

Yeah its Halloween Day and we are so excited we could hardly sleep! (Well, Mom didn't sleep for other reasons than excitement, ie:Chloe) There is a lot to do and a lot of fun to be had today. At 9:30am the kids have a Halloween Parade, they all parade through the school one grade level at a time so the others can watch when it is not their turn. All the kids really get into it, but not as much as the teachers do. We had a pirate, Snow White, a #2 pencil, a Ballerina, Cruela Deville, GI Joe, a baseball player, Little Bo Peep, and that was just the teacher's costume! It was definatley the most political parade I have been too. There were kids with "Vote McCain" signs and kids yelling "Vote Obama!" I heard two kids in the hall saying, "America is doomed if Obama wins," and other said "no if McCain wins we can kiss it goodbye!" Politics, well the kids are even into it this election, it's going to be interesting. Then at 1:00pm I was back to the school for class parties! (Did I mention I am Homeroom Mom for Kenzie & Calvin classes. CRAZY!!!)



Calvin and his"Hobbes" in the parade with his friends, Andrew and Darian.

Calvin's teacher Mr. Whimmer, we were surprised he didn't dress up as a Ute!

Kenzie and her friends Gabby and Lauren.

Mrs.Shupe, Kenzie's teacher dressed up like a pirate! She had told the kids she was going to be a teacher and they were a little bummed. Surprise!

Mrs. Johnson, Corby's teacher was Snow White and that fits her perfectly. She is always singing to the kids and teaching them songs!


Corbyn's class loved watching the parade & parting with her teacher who is from South Africa, Australia and England! How fun and did I mention she loves Wombats? They played Bingo, did the Monster Mash and threw bean bags in the pumpkin!




Kenzie's party was great! They played throw the beanbag into the witches pot, decorated cookies, had to eat doughnuts off a rope and put their hand in the "Blood & Guts" station. They also ate lots of popcorn and chocolate milk. What a fun party!





Calvin's part was great, too! They decorated cookies, played Halloween Bingo and the best game of all..."the Mummy Wrap!" Calvin was the mummy and he was a great sport, even when his friends wrapped up his face! And as Dad would say, "Fun was had by all!"

Halloween Fun -Part Three

Wednesday we needed a day of rest, but Thursday we got right back to it. We made Scarecrow cupcakes for our Family Halloween party and had a lot of fun making them. We browned the meat for the chili and got all the decorations ready for the school parties on Friday. What a day!








We improvised on a few cupcakes and made our own creations because the scarecrows took awhile to assemble. Fun! Fun! Fun!

Halloween Fun -Part Two

Next was Tuesday, and Calvin kept up the fun at Young Men's, where they had a combined activity, a pumpkin decorating contest. What a fun night a little football with the bishop to start the activity off and then pumpkins and candy apples to finish the night. Yeah Young Men's!



I try really hard to get a picture of Calv both smiling and looking at the camera! Nice try!

A Week of Halloween Fun - Day One

We started off the week with the traditional sugar cookie marathon. We always make the same batch and Mom always forgets how many cookies this batch makes, so we decorate and decorate and decorate some more! But the kids love it!



Even Chloe got into the sugar cookie fun!







Calvin's uni-brow pumpkin cookie! Nice Calv!

My kids need to come with a "WARNING: ACCIDENT PRONE" sign

Well remember the great time we had at the corn maze, well it resulted in Corbyn having a concussion! She was getting off the pedal carts and was, of course, running to meet us and ran smack into a metal piece sticking out of a wood post. It was just above her eye level so she didn't see it coming. She cried for a minute but was then up and going. I looked at her head and there was just a little red line where she hit. She wasn't complaining so I thought she was fine...Wrong! In the next 24 hours it swelled to the size of a large egg and turned various shades of purple and green. We checked her for signs of a concussion off and on the next 24 hours and she didn't seem to have one. (Thanks to Calvin's skull fracture we felt like we knew what to look for...wrong again!) Well Friday she complained of a headache at school and so I told her I would make a doctors appointment. By Sunday the swelling was almost gone, but there is this nickle size hard spot in the middle of her bruise. Corbyn and Calvin both have these very large blood vessels that run straight down in the middle of her forehead so I started to worry she had a blood clot. Well we took her to the doctor today and sure enough she has a concusion and a blod clot. The blood is trapped in the tissue so it can't travel through her system but if it doesn't reabsorb in 3 months she will have to get it taken out. Lovely! She can't play at recess, PE, gymnastics or ride her bike for 2 weeks, so she is a little sad. But hopefully with the help of occasional Tylenol she will not have all the headaches.


McKenzie has been bothered by a knee injury off and on for 3-4 weeks. (But to my defense she never missed gymnastics and she was doing round off back handsprings on it last Wednesday. With all that how bad can it be I thought? Yep, Wrong again!) So I took her to the doctor last week and the doctor said she had dislocated her knee. Yes, I know I deserve the worst Mom award! The Doctor said it is a very common injury and that it isn't dislocated right now, that it probably slid out and then popped back in! My poor daughter. The tendons & muscles that are on either side of your kneecap are loose and any time she twists her knee or it slides out a little the tendons inflame and that is what was causing the off and on pain. Great! She is out of Gym for 2 weeks and wears this cool brace every day and does quad strengthening exercises. Yes now I am a physical therapy trainer also. She will hopefully be better in a couple of weeks. What a week! Good thing we have good insurance, I think we have met our quota for at least 5 or 6 years!

Warning: When going somewhere fun DON"T forget the camera

I was so anxious to find out how the pictures turned out using the disposable camera, that I took it in for 1 hour developing. $8.56 later, I would like to blame Walgreens for how poor the pictures turned out, but I know it was the camera! This is why you should always check the diaper bag twice to make sure the camera is there! Forget the baby wipes and diapers but don't forget the camera! Well we had fun anyway and yes Eric was there, even though he looks like he was photo-shopped in. We had a blast and the kids are dying to go back. We were lost in the corn maze for about an hour and Corbyn says to me (shaking her head), "I should of listened to my friend Max when he said he was lost in the corn maze for 3 hours!" She was ready to get out but when you are stuck inside the head of David Archaletta, good luck getting out. (Side note: the maze was shaped like David just in case you didn't get the joke.) Well hope you can imagine the fun we had through the blurry and dark pictures. Heard of a flash? Needless to say the button for the flash was on the front and I didn't see it until I ran out of film. Go head Aaron, insert "blonde joke" here.

Corn Maze

Tonight we bundled up and headed to the Corn Maze at Thanksgiving Point. It was a blast! We jumped on the huge pillow, walked through a haunted monster, looked at some awesome carved pumpkins (our favorite: the BYU cougar pumpkin), went down some slippery slides, got lost in the corn maze for an hour, sat in the Pumpkin Faries Pumpkin carriage (much like Cinderella's), had hand water pump duck races, and bought the biggest Pumpkin ever to carve! Oh and I forgot to mention the chicken feed box that the gils loved playing in and the tires horse swings (much like Tany and Jerry's)that they didn' want to get off of. All and all it was a fun night. The weather even cooperated and it didn't get colder than 38. Very pleasant with a light jacket. The only bad thing was when we got there I asked Kenzie for her camera (mine's broken) and she had forgotten it at home. Bummer! A nice lady heard me saying I was sad we forgot the camera and gave me a disposable one she had. I will post pictures if any turn out! Wishful thinking!