Witchapalooza~

THIS WAS SO MUCH FUN! Last night Connie took all the girls to a girls only event! Witchapalooza! AND IT WAS GREAT! It was a dinner show, with super yummy food and music pretty much the entire night! Witches would run around and sing songs from each decade. Melanee likes to give me grief because I was born in the 80's and don't "know good music" so she was testing me all night long. Finally, after I was able to sing almost every song she said, "Okay, I guess we can be friends.." LOL! Seriously I was dying laughing at some parts of the evening! Amy and Melanee were singing all the 80's songs like they just came out yesterday, so I made sure to catch them in the moment! Thank you Connie! Last night was MUCH needed!

Oh and Connie - just so you know, when I got home last night after explaining to Rob how much fun I had he responded with, "Good, I'm glad you had a good time. Now I wonder what she is going to do for us." Apparently you have to now plan something for a boys night out! :D

Family Pictures

Sunday we went to Wheeler Farm to take some pictures of all the grandkids together. Since we were there we decided to just have a little mini-photo shoot with just us. It was hard to get Carys to look at the camera long enough to smile, but we got only a few where she wasn't looking down or not looking at all. We had two outfits for the kids to wear. One with all the brown and khaki which is my favorite ever! And then we had all the Utah shirts. The kids looked soo cute!

Leaves

At Gardner Village last Friday, Carys wouldn't get out of the stroller for anything except the leaves! She loved them! I tried to post this pictures last week but the website wasn't working too well. So here you go!

Gardner Village

Today we went with all the girls and all the kids to Gardner Village for the fun Halloween Festivities! It was PACKED! But still a lot of fun! We looked at a few shops, got a bite to eat, and let the kids run around for a while! We tried to get a picture of all the grandkids together, but Berkeley wasn't having it. So we have Riley holding Ryan, then Gracie, Rushton, Dawson, Carys and Marlie, then Berkeley in the second one! Then we have all the sisters/moms. Tori and I are standing and then on the front row sitting down are Melanee, Amy, and Courtney.

Our Home

We have been making some improvements and upgrades on the outside of the house for a while now. So here is the finished product! We just finished getting new shingles this summer, as well as new sophit and facia and rain gutters. Then we built a garage last winter and everything is hung and painted to Rob's specifications. We have tall canna lilies, white and purple allyssum, and pink day lilies and dahlias. We also finally painted our red "U" for our support of the Utes! I am so happy with how everything has turned out!

Kids Are An Adventure...

Last Saturday was one of the Utah games, which we love going to. Right before the game started Rob ran to the front of the stadium to give a friend of his a ticket to get in, and Carys and I were sitting on the bleechers eating a hotdog. I turned to put my hotdog down to give Carys a drink and as soon as I turned I heard WHACK! And then Carys started screaming. So I turn and she wasn't sitting next to me anymore. She, I can only assume, leaned forward and fell face down off the bleecher. On her way to the sturdy cement below she smacked her head on the bleecher one row below us.

I hurried and picked her up and, naturally, started losing it! I kept looking at her face to see if she was okay, but I didn't see any blood so I thought she was. Then Brenda, Melanee's mother, said "HER HEAD, HER HEAD!" I looked at the top of her forehead there, right in the middle of her hair line, was a goose egg the size of a golf ball. It was already poking off her head half an inch and was starting to turn purple.

I didn't really know what to do in the split second I saw her poor head, but before I could react Dustin, told me to go get some ice for her. And before I knew it, I was already at the top of the stairs with my screaming child running to the concession stands. I walked right into the back of one but instead of asking for ice I asked for the EMT's. One guy ran out and said he would get them for me.

Rob was coming back towards our seats when Dustin found him and tried to explain what happened. I felt so horrible. I just started crying because my little baby was so unhappy. But how can you be happy with a giant bruise on your head!

The EMT's came over and checked her out, which of course made a crowd. So here I am holding screaming Carys and I'm trying to be brave and talk through my tears explaining what happened. They checked for any sign of concussion and checked her body for any other bruises or anything we over looked.

Thankfully, they said she would probably be just fine but to keep on eye on her for any odd pupil dilation, vomiting, trying to go to sleep, etc. I made her stay up and active and awake for the next 4 hours just to be sure, but she seemed to be just fine. She laughed and played with the kids, and Aunt Amy even showed her a slide show of pictures on her camera and let her take a few herself!

I took a picture at the game of her bruise, but more than anything it was just swollen then. You can't see it too well, but its raised up off her head quite a bit. Today I also took another picture because now its green. Its about an inch long and three quarters of an inch wide.

She Looks Like A Kalana

I took this picture the other day after she woke up from a nap and when I look at it I think of No'a and Kai. My cousins. They are adorable and for some reason she really looks a lot like them in this picture!