Halloween

The month of October was so full of fun that I haven't had a chance to post anything until now! (good excuse, huh?)

Now that Skyler's the Scout Master he gets to do all sorts of fun things, and I often get to come along. One of the traditional October activity in this ward is going to the corn maze. This year we went to Thanksgiving Point's Cornbelly's Corn Maze.


These are a few of Skyler's scouts - good kids.

They had a giant half bouncy ball thing that you could jump on. It was SO windy and freezing cold that it actually helped to warm us up to jump on it even though we had to take our shoes off. These are a couple of pictures I got of Skyler jumping.
And these are the pictures that Skyler took of me. He did NOT plan this, but it's kind of creepy how well these pictures fit together.





This is Zack in the corn pile - it was like a sand pit only filled with corn and he LOVED it

And here we are with the Cinderella carriage. I'm blowing Skyler a kiss, and he's pretending to whip me... :)



These were my cute little Sunbeams. Towards the end of the year it gets really fun to teach them because they are older and more interactive. I had a really good group this year - couldn't have asked for a better one!

This is the Primary Halloween Party group photo


Skyler came with me and we both had to throw together a costume. He wore my dad's high school football jersey. We painted on some black streaks under the eyes and transformed him into a football player. I threw on some scrubs, a lab jacket, and a stethoscope. Then I wore my hospital I.D. and even though it says "Registrar" on it all of the kids kept asking me if I was a real doctor. If only that was all it took! LOL

For a girls night one weekend I got to go to Odyssey Dance Theater's Thriller. If you ever have the chance to see this I would definitely recommend it. It was so much fun!


Before the show actually begins they have 'zombies' roaming around the seating scaring people or just making them laugh. We got a few pictures with some of them.

This is my best friend Amanda and I with one of the zombies





And here is the whole group that went

We even got around to carving a pumpkin this year. I think it turned out pretty well.
Before Skyler and I were officially part of the activities committee we were just volunteers and we got to help with the Halloween party. We were in charge of what became the coolest ward party haunted house EVER. This left us only minutes to run home and change into our costumes. We were supposed to be Morticia and Gomez Adams, but all the kids thought I was a vampire and they weren't sure what Skyler was supposed to be :)


I tried my hand at making a Monster Cake. It sort of ended up looking like a frog, but if you look close you can see the teeth - that helps out a little
I made some monster eyeball cupcakes to go along with it.

HALLOWEEN DINNER:

These are my "Feet of Meat" which was just meatloaf in the shape of feet and Brazilian nuts for toenails. Then at the ankle where the feet were 'cut' off was chili sauce. It made for a fun Halloween dinner.

My sister and her family came by Halloween night before they went out trick-or-treating.

Abby was a pumpkin and Alyssa was a witch.




Here's Abby trying on my wig. She that that was awesome. - And that was our Halloween fun!

Random Happenings

So once upon a time when I was younger my brother said something like "hold still, you have a hair on your face" and then when he tried to pluck it off we realized it was attached! It had to be 3 inches long growing right out of the side of my face! (I don't know if any of you have ever had such a devastating experience before LOL) Needless to say he has never let me live it down. Well, not long ago we were all sitting around talking and he found THIS on his leg! It wasn't quite the same as being a girl and finding such a hair on your face, but it was still quite impressive and we all got a good laugh out of it...


How would you like to have a job where you could do this? I know I have many days where I think to myself "Man! If I could just hop on a mini dirt bike for a quick ride around the hospital, I know I would be completely rejuvenated" Some people have all the luck :D




I was finally able to re-finish our living room coffee table this fall (thanks Aunt Barb aka Dumpster Diving Diva). It was a lot of fun to see it transform. There's something so satisfying about "making" the things that decorate your home.


Here we are at the State Fair 2009. This year my buddy Amanda H. and her buddy Ryan C. came with us. It was a lot of fun to be able to go with some other people this year. P.S. I just realized that some random lady is giving me bunny ears in this picture...Thanks Lady!



The first attraction we saw was the Alligator-tamers. It was very exciting to watch. The two guys that did it are brothers and have been traveling with this show for years. They had one cheesy, but hilarious joke after another. We were cracking up. They performed the hand-in-the-alligator- mouth trick and both Amanda and I holding our breaths in anticipation. That was kind of scary to watch and I'm pretty sure I screamed when the alligator chomped down (not on the guys hand luckily) After that came the rides...
I got the brilliant idea to try to take pictures as Skyler and I rode the infamous fair ride: The Zipper - hence the lovely shot of my chompers and Skyler's chest

Believe it or not these two are action shots I snapped as we were rocking and spinning around - I love Skyler's laugh during things like this. It's so unguarded. It sounds like a cute little giggle and neither of us could stop laughing the whole time.
Poor Ryan is something like 6'7'' so needless to say he wasn't the most comfortable during the ride.


These are some pics on the only other ride we went on. You got to lay on your stomach for this one and "hang glide" It was more of a relaxing ride, but still fun. Due to the expense of tickets for the attractions (I think we spent $20 buck for 2 rides totaling about 8 minutes of fun) we didn't get to see the smallest person in the world or the half snake half women, but maybe next time...