Halloween (Past and Present!)

Halloween sure is a fun time of the year! It is especially fun for Miss Maren because every year she gets to have a fun halloween/birthday party.

This years party did not let us down!

Birthday girl and Mr. Oreo face.

(Don't mind their mom wrapped up in toilet paper, she was getting cold and that was all she could find to keep warm . . . .

or we were playing a minute to win it game!)

Hatee taking her her turn at spinning (Note for next year . . play all spinning games before eating large amounts of food)

Who knew toilet paper was so much fun to play with?!

It kept the kids entertained for a good 15 minutes!

Hatee shaking her booty!

Oreo contest . . .

Task: Oreo starts on forehead and needs to end up in your mouth

(using NO hands!)

I did not do well at that game. Jeremy did great!

Warren Jeffs and his lovely wives

Jeremy was a chilean miner and I was a paper doll

(can you tell we didn't have much time or a lot of creativity this year!)

And now for Halloweens past . . . .

Halloween 2008

(skipped 2009 cause I already blogged about it last year!)

I was a nerd and the girls were from High School Musical

A couple days after Maren's party that year we all packed up and headed to Disneyland for a fun filled family vacation!

Disneyland was decorated so cute and we had a GREAT time!

Cousins! (Aren't they cute?!)

Halloween 2007

(Ward par-tay up the canyon in a big lodge)

Katie and I were flappers, Hannah was a gypsy and

Chris was a rocker (I think!)

Yeah for Halloween it is such a fun holiday!

Flash Back Friday - Fall Fun

Yep, you read it right . . flash back Friday has returned. I was looking through some old pictures and just had to post them!

First lets start in 2007. That August I moved from my lovely comfortable Logan down to SLC to start a new adventure. Luckily Katie was willing to be my roommate again. I moved down to SLC with no job (well I did have a part time job with a rec center) and we had just barely found the house we were going to move in a week or two before I moved down! Seriously . . . what was I thinking?!

Our cute house

After a few weeks of being there we decided to have a house warming party with our other neighbors. Lots of fun people came and we had a good time!

(Awe cute . . . the beginning of Katie and Chris's love!)

Shanell came down to visit one weekend and Chris was able to hook us up with some sweet free rides on the coaster and the alpine slide.

Getting ready to go down the slide!

(This picture is for you Katie!)

Katie, Chris and I went up to Snowbird to enjoy Oktoberfest. We had a great time and drank a lot of beer (not).

Around that same time I met this cute boy. Jeremy moved down to SLC to start school at the U and lived in Brett and Wendy's basement apartment (his sister and brother in law). Their house was in the same ward boundaries as my new house.

Luckily that first Sunday we sat next to each other in Sunday School and shared a hymn book! (Thank you Singles Ward!)

Fall 2008

I sure like the Fall!

Happy Birthday Oma/Grandma Zoey!

Today is my mom's birthday! We met them for a VERY yummy dinner at Market Street Grill! It was a nice night with great company and food! We sure love you mom, thanks for all you do and for being such a wonderful mom (and grandma!)

A few things!

Nothing too exciting for us has been happening lately. Jer started back to school full time, and I continue to work (nothing really ever changes for me!). Hopefully this school year won't be too terrible for him (I mean working on your Masters of Engineering and writing a thesis can't be too terrible . . . right?! . . . gosh . . poor guy!) On a brighter note, we have been growing some things on our balcony this year. We did tomatoes again and jalapeno's. Everything turned out good especially since we are trying to grow things on our north facing balcony!

I went on a quick Friday day trip to Logan. Shanell and I went to the beauty college where we got pedicures and some sort of deep conditioning scalp treatment on our hair it was a lot of fun!

We stopped by to say hi to Liz and meet her new little guy Miles! He is just so cute and it was fun seeing Liz and her other kids that just keep growing and growing!

We also stopped by and said a quick hello to JaNell and visited with her while she was doing her good wifely duty and making bread! That next week she had a cute little baby girl!

It was sure fun to hang out in Logan, I need to do those Friday trips more often!

One night we went up the canyon and made a yummy dutch oven honey mustard chicken dinner with corn on the cob. Brian and Mandy came and met us. We had a great time eating and talking and roasting some pretty awesome smores!

Labor Day we went with my family to the Kennecott Cooper Mine. It was fun to see all the big trucks hauling and dumping their loads. It was kinda cold and windy up there so Jer gave Micah his jacket to wear. I love this picture of him looking through the binoculars trying to get a closer look at everything going on!

Pretty big tire . . .

The whole gang!

What a week!

This last week has been just great! Monday we met all of Jeremy's family and ate at Applebee's to celebrate August birthdays. Tuesday we went to the Dave Matthews Band concert at the USANA. We had fun sitting on the grass listening to good music. (And being entertained by everyone around us who were drunk and high! We got home from the concert and for some strange reason had the munchies . . . . weird!) Wednesday night we met up with Aaron and Jenny and went to the Davis County Demolition Derby. . . . those are always just so great! Thursday was my birthday! I went to work (where they had decorated my cubicle), then went out to lunch with mom and grandma. (It is our weekly Thursday tradition . . . mom comes and picks grandma up from her assisted living apartment, then stops by and picks me up from work and we drive to Hires to eat lunch. The waitress who comes out to take our orders every week knows exactly what we want and we chit chat and catch up for a minute . . . she is pregnant and having a boy . . . they were hoping for a girl! We eat lunch in the car and mom drives me back to work just in time for my 1/2 hour lunch to be up! It is just perfect and fun to get out and go to lunch with mom and grandma!) A couple hours after lunch my co-workers had ice cream and cake for me, then I left at 3:30! I came home and watched TV and relaxed on the couch for a while, then Jeremy got home and we went out to dinner with our friends Brock and Melanie. They took us to a yummy chinese restaurant downtown "Charlie Chows" where we ate far too much! I had a wonderful day and appreciated all the phone calls and messages wishing me a happy birthday! I didn't have my camera with me a lot this week but here are a couple pictures!

Chillin at Dave Matthews

Showing off my birthday presents!

I got new running shoes, as my other ones were starting to get some nice breathing holes in them! A Columbia rain/wind jacket that Jer got me a the outlets, and a cute flower headband that Stacie made! Thanks again! I had a great day!