October is Halloween Month :)

What are you going to be on Halloween night, a witch or a goblin or a ghost?
What are you going to be on Halloween night, a ghoul that is ghoulier than most?

What are you going to be on Halloween night, a monster who'll fill me with distress? What are you going to be, well don't tell me. Wait 'till Halloween and let me guess.

In my preschool drama class I'm teaching the kids this song... Does anyone else remember it? My girls learned it in preschool, but I have the book which came out when I was little, so it's been around awhile but isn't sung often. What a fun little song :)

Here we are at the Covey Center employee Halloween party on Monday (that I hosted, of course). My children find joy in killing me...lol. These devil horns are awesome... Ken wore some too. They're barrettes. I got them at Big Lots for $1. They're super cool.

We also went and saw Thriller last week. Ken and I went on a date on Thursday night and the kids saw it Saturday afternoon. It's a really fun (and a little spooky) Halloween show. We all thought it was great. I'm glad I work at the Covey Center, because we would've never been able to afford the $25 for each ticket.

So, what's everyone gonna be this year??? Come on... I know you all have your costumes picked out ;)

Snake.... Yuck!

This creepy snake was the guy in my garage. I'm sure he'll be back to get me because he wasn't very happy after being trapped in a plastic box on the cold garage floor for a couple of days... and he didn't like being squished with cardboard as I tried to slide it under the container to get him out. I'm sure he didn't like flying through the air while I screamed because he start to wiggle out as soon as I stepped outside. The hard landing on the cooler probably wasn't the highlight of his day either. (It was creepy-cool to see him wrap around the cooler handle to get down.) I really don't think he appreciated me taking a stick and telling him to get out of here and never come back as I scooted him away from my house. I'm sure he'll be back... He'll probably bring friends too.... maybe I should just move :(

100th Post :)

Too bad I don't really have anything important to say on my 100th post...LOL. So I guess I'll just ramble incoherently. (Look at me using big words like incoherently. I'm just trying to look smart like Karalee and Ken.)

It's 12:30 am and I just got done slicing apples to put in my crockpot. I'm making apple butter. I haven't canned anything for like 8 years, so hopefully it turns out. I'm gonna do pears too if I have time tomorrow.

I passed a grandma yard sale today :( Grandma yard sales are the BEST. I almost stopped and then realized I had not a single dollar on me and it was in Orem so it's not like I could just swing by the house and go back. I called my mom and told her to go after work. She got awesome stuff for super cheap... I'm SOOO going tomorrow morning. I can't wait!!!

I still have my dumb sickness. Wish it would go away.

Tomorrow Ken and I are going to see Thriller at the Covey Center. I'm excited. I've never been. (To Thriller... obviously I've been to the Covey Center.)

There's a yucky snake in my garage. Good thing my kids were here to catch it in a container for me while I stood on a chair and directed them. he he he... Now Ken will have to come get it out and chuck it outside for me. At least we caught the icky thing before he came in the house.

Well... I guess I should get off to bed now since I gotta get the kids up for school in a few hours.

Have a fabulouso day everyone!!!

Family Home Evening

For FHE tonight we wrote letters to my brother, Brian, who is in boot camp & my grandma, who is very lonely. We also made Halloween invites for a little Halloween pizza party my kids are having with a couple of their friends. Then I had them read through a little play I wrote for my preschool drama class to see how long it is. It was a fun night. Although I almost cried when Caleb was writing his letters and asked if he could mark the phonograms. I sooo do not want to move. He informed me that the word Halloween contains two phonograms and rule # 17. I asked the kids what they would think if they went to a school that didn't teach Spalding. Alyssa said, "All that learning would go to waste." She was being silly, but it's so true. Nina said she'd never be able to do spelling with out Spaulding and Caleb was basically blank. He started Kindergarten at Renaissance, so although he knew how to read before Kindergarten, his only formal schooling has been with Spaulding. There are so many things I would miss about our school... Spaulding, spanish, music, art, all the programs, the people, the family involvement. It's so silly that such a little thing as watching my kids write could make me so sad.

Here they are working hard on their letters.

Alyssa is about the biggest goof-ball you'll ever meet. Her letter to Brian went something like this: How's the food? I like food. Food is good for you. How's the weather? I like weather. Weather is good for you. How's the peoples? I like peoples. Peoples is good for you. How's school? Do you go to school? I don't really care. How's school? Love, your weird niece, Alyssa.

The funny thing is, she's a 110%, straight A, reading and spelling on a 6th grade level, every teacher's ultimate favorite of all times student. She's just a dork at home... LOL

Here are the finished invites. The kids dressed them up.

We put them in a cellophane bag with a candy corn flavored Hershey's kiss to give to their friends. They had a lot of fun making these.

Grown-up Princess/Tea Party

Some of you may have already read about this on my American Homemaker blog, but I'm looking for women that would be interested in a grown-up Princess Party, where you could don your costume jewelry, boas, poofy dresses, vintage hats, gloves, you know all those silly dress up things that you usually have no place to wear :) It would be at the Covey Center in Provo. The cost would probably be about $10 a person and we might show a chick-flick in our performance hall after the party. If you know someone that would be interested or if you think this would be a fun girl's night out activity, let me know.