Turner’s Halloween Party

Jason invited us to his TV/Movie Themed Halloween Party.  Here are Josh and Cari preparing their costumes….

Kris and Josh BEDAZZLING like crazy!

Josh was Richard Simmons

Kris, Cari and I were the Chipettes

Jason’s party was DA BOOOOMB!

Southridge Farms

We took the kids (and Kris ) to the Red Barn in Santaquin last Saturday.  We had a good ol’ time and I ate approximately 6 pumpkin donuts, two scoops of apple pie ice cream, an apple slushie WITH ice cream and a whole bunch of candy.  The next day I felt WAY guilty (not really) as I taught the Laurels about taking care of our physical bodies.

Here is Ashton taking care of his perfect pumpkin

Emmy was in her usual silly mood as she ate her ice cream cone

Date Night

Eddie, Lindsey, Josh and I decided to go to Snowbird for Star Gazers…I don’t even know what it is, really.  You go to a little class where they teach you about stars and then you ride the gondola to the top of the mountain and look at stars, and probably make out like crazy.  So we got to Snowbird and found out that Star Gazers had been canceled due to bad weather.  We also found out that we are completely UNPREPARED for WINTER!!!!  It was FREEZING UP THERE!!!!!

Since we had a real babysitter (no offense Cari and Kris) we couldn’t just go home!  We drove around up in the hills checking out incredible homes and went shopping at the new Nordstrom Rack in Draper.  Everything was closing and we still didn’t want to go home.  Our only option (besides going to Walmart, splitting up and finding the BEST thing for ONE DOLLAR) was to go to Trafalga.  We were all a little hesitant, even though Josh and I had been to their batting cages a couple weeks ago.   But it ended up being tons of fun!

We did the batting cages again.  Josh took one swing and realized what caused his tendonitis to flare up approximately two weeks ago (batting cages) and couldn’t participate.  Eddie and Lindsey rocked.  I found out that I’m a switch hitter!  After having quite the horrible RBI right-handed (yes, I throw and hit right-handed), Lindsey told me to try lefty.  It was WAAAAY better.  Weird.

We raced bumper cars.

And we played some arcade games.  This one was pretty fun/funny…JUMPING JACKPOT!!!

Here’s Josh’s first try, on one foot because of his tendonitis in his right ankle:

Here’s Eddie’s first try:

Lindsey’s first try:

And my first try:

Fathers and Sons Campout

I took Ashton on the Fathers and Sons Campout. (Notice his bright orange clothing that Jenn dressed him in so I wouldn’t lose him). This was his very first time camping and he was sooo excited.  He talked about it for two weeks prior. He was really excited for the fire and for s’mores. (Ashton is a s’more expert because he memorized “The Sandlot”)

Because the moms weren’t around, the dads just let these little boys wander through the woods doing whatever they wanted. They loved it.  In this little clip they showed up near our tent.  Who knows where they had been.  Ashton is being a Reindeer and Druw is a skeleton.

Nate and I had this genius idea: we would take a couple air mattresses so we didn’t have to sleep on the bumpy ground. The problem was I couldn’t find my air mattress pump so at the last minute I threw my bike pump into the car – that was a huge mistake. We spent about 2.5 hours pumping up our stupid mattresses.  We would have quit but it really became like Captain Ahab and his whale. We didn’t even care about comfort, we just had to conquer those mattresses.

This is Josh Willis with Jared Smithson’s arms. Then me with Andy Hokanson’s arms and finally Will Bass and his dad. We are awesome.

Fishing

Ashton and Josh went fishing the other day at a pond in…Salem..Payson…I don’t even know where they went, but it looks like a pretty place. They had lots of fun with Ashton’s cousins, Jayda and Druw (they are so cute and they all play together so well). Ashton learned to cast pretty well and he even caught a little fish.

We aren’t really outdoors people, we love it but we never go camping voluntarily and we will never own a dog. So before Ashton could go fishing we had to first get some supplies.  That meant Ashton had to face one of his greatest childhood demons…The Cal Ranch Store.  We went in there once when he was tiny to see the worlds biggest horse and it was a real sensory overload. He was mostly upset by the dead animals, particularly the dead reindeer that was hanging on the wall.  The whole way into the store he was affirming himself “I’m not scared anymore because now I am big”