New Moon at Midnight!

November 19, 2009

~~~WOOHOO for NEW MOON~~~
Steph hooked us up with tickets to the "New Moon Experience" at the South Towne Expo Center in Sandy. We had such a great time together. Heres who went.... Me, Mom, Becky (all the way from New Denver), Steph, Ade, Andy, Christy and Joanie.
We watched a concert before the movie and walked around for a little bit to see all the booths that they had. My favorite part was the photo booth. We all crammed in and posed together for four pictures. We had to do it twice because the first time we didnt realize that we were missing Ade!!!!
The movie totally blew Twilight away! The acting was better! The special effects were insanely better! But I think that the best part was being together with all the girls! I wish that we did that on a more regular basis! Life just gets so busy. The next movie comes out in June of 2010! Are you up for it sisters?!?!?!

Mannheim Steemrollers with my Mom

November 18, 2009

My mom and I went on a date to the Mannheim Steamrollers concert. She has always wanted to go so I took her for her birthday which is coming up on December 4th. It was at Abravanal Hall in Salt Lake, and was spectacular. It was so neat to hear in person the music I have listened to on the radio every Christmas for years! They actually were celebrating their 25th season of Christmas music. Chip Davis, the creator had neck surgery so he didn't perform but he came out before and after and said a few words.
It was so great to spend some one on one time with my mom. She is truly one of my best friends!

Disney on Ice With Em and Ty

November 14, 2009

The kids and I went to Disney on Ice today. It was the Princess Classics and was so much fun! At first we thought that most of the princesses were the same person BUT when they all came out together we realized they werent.
I always think of Brookie Deters when we go to Disney on Ice. We went for a few years in a row starting when Emily was about a year old. It was such a fun thing to look forward to every year. Now Brookie is just a few years away from driving! Time goes by so fast. I am glad I can still do "kid" things that make me happy and get away with it with my kids!
It was a FREEZING day! It was snowing and we had to run to the Delta Center as fast as we could from the parking lot so that we didnt freeze to death. We got our picture taken with Chip from Beauty and the Beast and ate dippin dots! The kids had saved up their allowance to buy a toy. Ty got a Prince Phillip sword and shield and Emily bought a horse. When she was little I bought her one just like it but the saddle keeps falling off. She really loved this one because it was all one piece and had no chance of breaking.


We stopped and ate dinner on the way home and came home to find out that Kenny had been working in the barn the entire time we had been gone. We are still finishing up projects out there. He installed a feeder in one of the stalls and worked on the tack room. Bret should be coming out to get the electrical wires run. It will be so awesome to have power to the barn!!!! That barn is really a dream come true! I am so grateful for my dads vision and Kenny's patients! When I go out to feed every day I still can't believe that it's mine! It is just so awesome! We have two barn kitties that have stuck around. Pepper and Tiger, or Little Bob as my moms calls him. Pepper is all black and a total spit fire. She loves her head rubbed and has a very loud purrrr. Tiger is a brown tabby and the most dosile sweet kitty ever! He is just like Myah, no scratching or biting and will always let you catch him. He also uses the litter box when he is in the house! I wish I could have 5 more cats just like him. Kenny would murder me.... so it is best to stick with the ones that we have.
All in all.. it was a very fun day!

Ty's Karate Tournament

November 7, 2009

Ty participated in his very first Karate Tournament today! We had NO idea what we were doing so it was a good education for the next one. He competed in sparring and it was so fun to watch. He had a lot of fun. I felt like we were in the movie Karate Kid!!!
Way to go Ty!!!



You start off with a bow the judge then a bow to your sparring partner.



The first one to three points wins.

The places you can hit to win a point is on the either side of the head or top of the head. You can't his the face at all.
You can hit the chest for a point but nothing below the waist.
You can also kick the chest for a point as well.

Carving Pumpkins

November 1, 2009

Better late then never right? Even though it was the day after Halloween me and the kids carved our pumpkins! Marin let us have a bunch of newspaper so that we could get down and dirty then throw the whole mess away! Emily picked a cat pattern out of the books we had and Ty made up his very own design. Kenny was out working on the barn the whole time so I carved a pumpkin for him and the kids were very excited to show off their work when he came in the house.







Tiger napped on the couch while we carved the pumpkins.  I love this kitty!

Ty's, Emily's, Mine, Kenny's

Had to get a porch shot when we were all done.  This is what it WOULD have looked like on Halloween night.

Halloween 2009

October 31, 2009


I think this has been the best Halloween yet! We had a full day full of Halloween activities!


The kids had the Halloween parade at school. Emily had decided that she wanted to be a witch and I found a great costume for her when I was up in Portland with Kathi. The week OF Halloween she decided that she wanted to be the Phantom of the Opera! I scrambled to find a mask online and have it shipped fast and the rest just fell into place. She used my cloak that I have had forever and I found a black wig and neck tie and necklace at Smiths. I was really happy with the way it all came together. The best part was no one even knew who she was! She came up with it all by herself and was really happy with the costume!

Ty was a GI Joe Guy. We found his costume at Costco clear back in the beginning of September. He loved it because it had built in muscles. And I really liked the helmet. We sprayed his hair red for the school parade. I helped with his Halloween Party in his Kindergarten class. My station was cookie decorating. We used spaghetti licorice to make legs and turned the cookies into spiders. The kids had a fun time and there are always those few that put three inches of frosting and completely cover the whole cookie with assorted sprinkles. That always makes me laugh. They had enough helpers in Emily's class so I went with Marin to help her in Michael's 6th grade class. Ty came with us and helped us pass out the cookies, frosting and sprinkles.

My little Phantom

Ty with the Principal Mrs. Davis

On Grandpa and Grandma Coleman's Porch

This house had compression hoses that made the zombie fall forward.  The banshe in the cage rattle and there was loud pops and spooky music.  The picture really doesnt do it justice!


When Kenny got home we hit the neighborhood for trick-or-treating. Emily was fading towards the end so we packed up and headed to the Coleman's to see grandma and grandpa. Kenny's neighborhood has always been the place to be on Halloween night! My sister Steph and I used to grab a PILLOW CASE and get dropped off and be gone until there were no more porch lights on. It is such a fun neighborhood and almost everyone participates in the spooky fun! We found some incredible houses that were decorated and totally decked out. There was three houses serving hot homemade doughnuts. One house did cotten candy. Another house was serving homemade sugar cookies. There were 100's of kids out and you could hear spooky music up and down the streets. Our kids have never had enough stamina to actually be out longer than the 26 houses in our neighborhood! But I think because of how much fun it was they were ready to GO go GO! We walked them around for a few hours and they totally filled their buckets! It was awesome!!! After we had our fill we headed to the Colby's to see my mom. My dad was at work so just Grandma was home. We sat and had a lovely visit.... there was a show on TV about stick ball in the streets of New York. Since Kenny served his mission in NY he saw a lot of those games when he was there. He explained stuff to my mom while I looked at the news paper and the kids played. It was the perfect way to end the evening.We brought home two exhausted but very happy children that night!


Em and Ty with my sweet Mom

Emily Gets Her Egg!!!

October 27 ,2009


Emily has been working ALLLLLL summer for a replica necklace of the magic egg from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
My dad made an agreement with her if she would pick up the dog poop in the back yard 49 times then he would give her the egg necklace.
I made a chart and went in 1/2 on the necklace because of the price. Things were going great when she was out of school and we were down at my mom's almost every day. But when school started and we had homework and a bed time to stick to we didn't make it down as much as we had hoped. All of the other cousins and even Grandma helped out to help her earn the egg. It has been all she could talk about since summer! She lost interest half way through the job so grandpa pulled out the necklace and let her actually see that he had it for her and she got to hold it for a minute. That was all she needed to light the fire again and she would ask me daily if we were going down to grandmas house.
Cant you just see the joy in her eyes!!!  I am really grateful to my dad for teaching her such a valuable lesson.  If you work really hard for something you can acheieve it.  No matter what the job is if you do your best you will be rewarded.