I Get Around!

In honor of my sister -- a marathon post! Since I've been on last, we've been up to a few fun things.

Schnepf Farms -- I love that place! There's a train ride for Nate, the Merry-Go-Round for Ellie and the "spooky slide" for Sadie. Poor Sadie did NOT like the Carousel. We put her on a horse and even the thumb in her mouth was shaking. There are also all these cheesey fair type rides for the kids that they just go on over and over again. Plus a petting zoo, pig races, a pumpkin patch, face painting. . . It was actually even cold enough that we had to put on our hoodies. Look at poor Sadie's face. She's screaming: GET ME OFF THIS THING!


Probably the last thing Sadie enjoyed.

It's dark but that's Dustin, our friend and Nate waving from the train. Ellie is not waving because she is crying. The ride on the roller coaster before she had to sit by a stranger and I guess it was too traumatic for her to recover from.

He's a boy!

I think Sadie is trying to get off this ride too. See the look of joy on my face??

House of Tricks -- Dustin's friend and his wife were in town, so we met them for dinner up in Tempe at the House of Tricks -- recommendation courtesy of Lisa. When Dustin was checking out their website, he sent me a picture from their website. :D And on our way up, we got a text message with a picture of the newest Casabar baby! Congrats Holly and Damon!

Primary Program -- Saturday we had our practice and a pizza party for the kids. Sunday the kids did AMAZING! I was so proud of them and so grateful to Jill for writing such a great program. They were little rock starts up there singing their hearts out and almost all of them had their parts memorized. We have the greatest kids in our Primary. I also made it over to watch my friend Rickie's Primary Program and to two meetings on Sunday. It was kind of fun to sit and watch someone's Program instead of scrambling along through it, but that was a long day.

Somewhere in here, the kids had three birthday parties. Including Ellie getting to watch High School Musical 3 -- I'm kind of sad I missed seeing it with her, but Nate told me I could take him.

Dustin's birthday -- I threw him a party where we went on a family vs. family photo scavenger hunt, idea courtesy of Kasia, and then back to our house for cake and ice cream. A few items: Everyone with hats on. Yes, Ellie picked out her own hat

Ugliest Halloween Decoration. You had to have a member of the team in each picture and it was Sadie's turn. We gave her the thing and she THREW IT BACK AT US! "I don't want it." So we tried to explain that she needed to hold it. Gave it back to her. BAM! Throws it right out. "I don't like it." So then we decided it was pretty comical how much she hated the thing -- which meant it must truly be hideous.

Tacky shower curtain. I love the tongue through the tooth hole smile and I think my sister would have LOVED this shower curtain when she was younger.

Dustin even came away from the hunt with some awesome birthday gifts -- like a Santa tee shirt, fish net stockings, and a birthday card from George and Laura Bush! Our friends know us too well.

And today is Nate's birthday party. Like in an hour. And I'm still in my running clothes from this morning, dinking around on the computer. I should probably be getting ready for it, all I have to say is: If I ever decide I want to make Nate's birthday cake again, please remind me of my lack luster cake decorating skills!