I'm Thankful for Not Being Bored...

Life seems so crazy lately, and I feel like I haven't had time to even stop to smell the roses...in fact...come to think of it...there aren't any...maybe I can stop to smell the fallen leaves...that are frozen.  HMMM...
Well, I have been keeping busy with all kinds of things...birthdays, photo shoots, Holidays, family, friends...the list goes on...and on it seems.  This last week I think I made the trek to Boise at least seven times...twice in one day...(40 minutes each way mind you)!!  Between doctor appointments, cheerleading, businesses, family, I just can't keep myself here in Caldwell much!!  Luckily between it all, cute little moments like these happen...

Does this look a little familiar to you??  How bout instead of a cute baby girl, its a mischievous two-year-old boy (also amazingly adorable might I add), and instead of dirt....NOPE....it was dirt too!!  What is it about my kids and potting soil??!!!  YUMMM....????

Another one of our fun adventures was Romy getting her x-rays.  I figured they would lay her on a table, and shoot a few pictures, and we'd be outta there...

Ya...not so much...ever seen one of these???

Now, this isn't Romy, and this baby actually looks about 100% more comfortable in this contraption than she was...you see they actually have to put this thing on so tight that if they move or scream (which inevitably they will cause it really is awful) their little bodies wont budge and ruin the x-ray picture.  She was so crammed in there she couldn't even move her arms that were jammed so tightly by her head that I thought they might be stuck there forever.  She was scared and screaming (told you), and just looked at me like "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME??!!"  I was sad.  I had to keep from losing it over x-rays...

Now...this would be the "PG-13" section of the story.  Proceed with caution...I wouldn't normally post my...ahem..."bosom containers" on my blog for the whole wide world (the whole 20 people that actually look at it) to see...but, frankly, it is unrecognizable anyhow!!!  This is a trick Blazer learned when a babysitter mistakenly let him sleep in mommy's room...don't worry, she learned you can never trust a two-year-old too...check it out...

He really does look quite remorseful in this last one...or maybe its the look of GUILTY!!!

Today, I am thankful for new make-up and an awesome husband who cleans carpet like it's NOTHIN'!!!

Somewhere in this whole mess of chaos my oldest son turned 9!!!  I can't even believe it...SO CRAZY!!!  We took him to Pojos as a family for his birthday...first time we've ever done that, and it was fun.  He then got a super cool tank cake, and some even cooler presents!!  HAPPY BIRTHDAY SON...you are amazing!!

Oh, and P.S.  If you're ever at Pojos, and your kids wanna use one of their tokens for a giant gumball the size of a tennis ball...be prepared for this...

And maybe a slight sugar high??

Well, I hate to go so soon, but really, I have a lot to do...I mean it's 2:29AM, and I still have to squeeze some sleep in here sometime!!  But I thought I'd leave ya with a little face that I like to call "Popeye" (the cutest darn one I ever saw!!!)

I'd kiss this Popeye ANY day!!!

She's actually ambidextrous with her face...she can do this too...

She likes to suck up her bottom lip when she's eating her food...and don't ya love that little orange nose and orangy cheeks from all the orange baby food??  Do you think she bleeds orange??  How does that work??  Cause that color is comin' from the inside!!

Pumkin Bust...

Does anyone else have a hard time with Sunday Halloweens??  It really makes life awkward!!  We figured we would make Saturday a total candy fest...

We started at our Ward Trunk-or-Treat...well, it was two wards in fact...which made it difficult to eat.  When we arrived the entire gym was packed, and there wasn't even room for the homemade chili I slaved over...(oh well, more for us).  After waiting almost 20 minutes in hopes that someone would finish and stand up, we went into the hall to wait where we could sit down.  It wasn't looking so good, so we decided to take our chili home and eat it real quick, and go back for the Trunk-or-Treating.  We got there 20 minutes before it was supposed to end, and there were cars piling out of the parking lot...our kids were crushed...!!

On the way though, we had spotted a huge Halloween Party put on by D.A.R.E., which was free, so we thought we'd take them there...They had a lot of fun carnival-like activities...only...you had to stand in line for 30 MINUTES for EACH activity.  After an hour and a half, our poor kids only had six pieces of candy in their buckets, and that was only because the Mayor was handing some out in the enormously long unorganized lines...it COULD have been an awesome activity...they set it up ALL WRONG though...maybe next year they'll ask me??

SO, we decide to take them Trick-or-Treating.  After driving the neighborhoods not seeing ONE kid on the prowl, we called it a night...

Talk about a series of unfortunate events...maybe we should have dressed up as Lemmeny Snickets...hmmm...fabulous idea....

All the way home, I had the kids yell "Trick-or-Treat!!" and I just threw candy into the back seat for them.  It wasn't exactly what they had in mind, but hey...they FINALLY got some candy...!!

We ended up going Trick-or-Treating on Sunday.  It is a GREAT family activity anyhow!!!  We go to my dad's neighborhood...we LOVE it there...!!  The whole neighborhood just really gets into the Halloween spirit!!!  It ended up being the BEST night ever!!!  We all had so much fun...AND...their buckets were FULL...!!!

Our family...the "Party Poopers"(we forgot our party hats), Pirates of the Caribbean: Davey Jones, Jack Sparrow, and Elizabeth Swan, a monkey, and and Owl...

I made the Owl!!  And even though I had NO idea what I was doing...I love it!!!

Parents Gone Wild...

Well, we always have SUCH a blast with our Annual Halloween Party.  If you haven't been yet...you are MISSING OUT!!!!  Where else can you get a ton of adults together to dance, limbo, karaoke, party, and make FOOLS of themselves and not be all liquored up??!!  Nowhere...I'm telling ya....

I think the best part is seeing everyone's costumes.   People put so much time and effort into it...and it is AWESOME!! We're talking hand painted shirts, Men sewing, custom tattoos,  hair in places I didn't realize there could BE hair, hundreds of safetypins....It really is SO COOL!!  I for one stressed about ours for weeks...I just couldn't get the picture in my head to come to life...until...BOOM it hit me...and I came up with this...!!

Yes, it was PERFECT.  The ULTIMATE Party Poopers, and although we didn't win, we sure had fun wearing them...I mean, how often in life can you say you were So crappy, and feel good about it??  LOL...it was the joke of the night...we kept waiting for someone to call us a sh**head...but luckily...we weren't THAT crappy...!!!

And the winners of the night were...Yes...Caveman, and HOT Cavewoman...!!!