Wow!
Sooooooooooooo much to catch up on! I didn't realize how behind I was until I actually started looking at all my pictures! And I of course forgot the order the pictures load so I loaded the pictures backwards! So we'll start at Halloween and work our way backwards!
Below is sweet little SWBy all tuckered out after a full day of trick-or-treating!
Our neighborhood is a fun neighborhood to trick-or-treat in and I'm so glad we were in town for it this year! I think a lot of the excitement and fun is because one of our neighbors does a haunted house in her garage! She is the neatest lady and has such fun kids. 2 of her daughters are in Mia Maids with me and I absolutely love them and think they are the nicest, cutest girls!
Below is our neighbor and me in front of her haunted garage! Spencer and I convinced Bay to go through it and to say the least she was a little freaked out at the end! I held
SWBy and Spencer held Bay when we went through.
SWBy wasn't really
diggin' the haunted house either but Spencer and I thought it was so fun! A lot of the youth from our ward, mostly
YW were the ones in the haunted house and I thought they'd take it easy on me since I was holding
SWBy but they kept jumping out and scaring me! I scare easily so that probably didn't help
SWBy to be any less frightened!
Below is Bay with her "pixie dust" makeup on! She was so cute, throughout the night she kept asking me if her makeup was still on! This was Bay's 3rd Halloween costume! She kept changing her mind on what she wanted to be!She began as Cinderella at my mom's Halloween party, then Sleeping Beauty at our ward's Halloween Carnival, and ended as Tinker Belle on Halloween! They were all cute costumes! Little
SWBy was a turtle at all of our Halloween festivities, luckily he didn't care! But he sure was a cute turtle. He didn't really care for the turtle head (hood) of the costume to be on his head though!
Spencer and I were Cleopatra and Caesar! We were invited to a murder mystery dinner party again this year and these were our characters for the party. I thought I'd save money by going to a fabric store and making our costumes but I actually spent quite a bit more because I didn't realize what I was buying! Oh well, they turned out so cute. These are the first costumes I've ever made! Because they cost so much I made sure we wore them at all of our costume festivities! Spencer wore his Caesar costume to work last Friday and actually won 2 awards!
Below is our Ward's Halloween Carnival! It was pretty fun! The
YM &
YW put the carnival on and it turned out well! The game below that Bay is playing is called "Whack a Deacon" and you do just that! I thought that was pretty clever! Bay sure enjoyed it, I think it was the most popular game!
SWBy did not want to be put down at the Carnival and my arm was hurting so we finally got the backpack and Spencer carried him!
Here is our cute little turtle just wanting to be held the whole carnival!
I'm glad to find out that Spencer likes my hair better long and blond! He's always wondered what I'd look like with short dark hair, so here you go!
Below is Bay and her cute little friend Lauren! They got their faces painted and looked pretty cute! Lauren and her family were a Cave Family!
This is Bay's second costume, Sleeping beauty!
On their way to our Ward's Halloween Carnival!
The weekend before Halloween I went home for my 10 year High School Reunion! I really didn't want to but am so glad Jess and my mom talked me into coming down for it! Thanks mom for flying us down! It was a lot more fun than I thought it would be and it was nice to see old friends and catch up with them!
Below are my BFF's and me right before we went into our reunion! 
The night before our reunion Karen, Jess, Tang and I got together at my mom's and had tons of fun! I'll forever be grateful that I've always had good friends!
(Above) While catching up at my mom's Jess thought we needed a few pictures and this was one of them!
From
left to right is Karen, Me in the back,
Tangi, and Jess!
Above is SWBy in the bouncer! My mom had a fun Halloween party for the kids at her house Saturday afternoon before the reunion! She borrowed her friends bouncer that all the kids including
SWBy loved! We had games, crafts, great food, and a treasure hunt for candy!
Bay got to spend the whole day with Anna and Liza! They came to my mom's Halloween Party and Bay got to spend the night at their house!
(Above) Anna and Liza were cute fairies and Bay was Cinderella!
Friday night, before our High School reunion, Jessica organized a dinner with our High School Cheer Coach and some girls that we cheered with! It was so fun to see all of them again and see how they are doing!
Above is everyone that came! We had dinner at my favorite pizza place!
Nello's in good
ol' Tempe, AZ!
(Above) I had so much fun in cheer with these girls! The one to the right of me was my
flyer and she was so awesome, except for when she gave me bloody noses!
Above is my awesome cheer coach, Mrs. Zinke and me! I just love her! She is so fun and I had so much fun cheering for her! This same night we gave her a quilt that my mom made for her our graduating year but didn't finish it until our 10 year reunion. So for 10 years my mom had the quilt top in her closet! The quilt had all the 1999 seniors pictures on it! It was pretty
stinkin' cute and Mrs.
Zinke loved it!
Before leaving for AZ we took a field trip with Bay's fun little preschool to Black Island Farms! We got to ride through the farm and learn about what they do, all the kids got to pick pumpkins, and then they got to go play games and see the farm's animals.
Above are some of the kids from Bay's preschool (2 were sick and not there)! Here, we're getting ready to ride through the farm!
Spencer turned 30 on October 16th this year so I threw him a surprise birthday party! Spencer was sort of surprised! 2 days before the party Spencer came home from work sick and didn't know if he would go into work on Friday, the day of his party! This really caused me a lot of anxiety! Friday was a busy day for me, I had to get my mom from the airport, get the food for the party, and get our house ready for the party! Originally I told Spencer that I'd come pick him up from work in
SLC at 3:30 and we could go to dinner and a movie but we had to be home by 7:30 to get our babysitter home because I thought 4 hours was long enough for her, when in reality my mom was our babysitter and that's when the surprise was to take place. So my plans were dependent upon him being out of the house and at work! Well when he didn't know if he was going into work I kept wondering how I was going to get him out of the house! Spencer jokingly mentioned playing golf if he did stay home and I thought that would be the perfect way to get him out of the house! (We have a course right by our house.) Now I just needed an excuse for why I wouldn't be home in the morning so I told him I had Young Women's stuff to do at the Church so I'd be gone all morning but really I was picking my mom up from the airport and shopping for food! Luckily he ended up going to work on Friday and I picked him up in
SLC and then we went to dinner and a movie. My mom, his dad, his brothers & sister flew in from AZ for the party. On our way to dinner Spencer called his sister's house to thank them for their birthday phone call (Jan called in the morning and then left for UT that afternoon) and Spencer talked to our sweet little niece Anna who told Spencer that Jana was in UT. So Spencer was perplexed as to why Jana was in UT without telling us. I told him "oh she probably doesn't know what she is saying" but he said "yeah but she's usually in the know!" I tried to make that comment seem like nothing and luckily I had him convinced that Anna was just being silly! After the movie I was so nervous and we were running a little late! When we pulled into the garage I kept thinking "oh Spencer just go into the house first" because he usually leads me into the house first. So I was trying to stall so he'd go into the house first and I guess that's what tipped him off that something was going on! So when he walked into our house he had his surprise face all ready because he knew something was up! However, he was really surprised to see my mom and his family at his party! His family waited upstairs and didn't come down until after the initial surprise!
In the picture above Spencer is really surprised to see them! The party was fun, I'm so glad for those who could make it and am so glad that our family could make it up for his party! Keeping his party a secret was so hard for me because I tell Spencer everything and not only did I have to keep this from him but I had to keep fibbing to him in order to keep it a secret! I even had to keep it a secret from Bailey because I knew she'd tell him. And actually Bay did tell Spencer we were throwing him a birthday party. She had just had a birthday party with one of her preschool friends so I'm sure that's where she got the idea to tell Spencer we were throwing him a birthday party. When Spencer asked who was coming to the party she said all of her preschool friends and their mom's! I was panicking inside when she told Spencer we were having a birthday party for him! Luckily Spencer didn't think too much of her comment! At his party we watched a video of his life that my friend put together after I got her the music and pictures and we had a little questionnaire about Spencer and we had TONS of food! It was a really fun night!
SURPRISE!!!
One day when I was running
SWBy came into my room looking like this! I thought this was too cute not to capture!
Our Young Women in Excellence theme this year was, "There's No Place Like Home." It was pretty cute and we all dressed up as characters from The Wizard of Oz and put on a little skit for our program! It was a cute YW in Excellence night!
Before we went to Princesses on Ice we went to dinner at the Garden Room on top of the Joseph Smith Memorial building. It was so much fun! Below is Bay and me and Lauren and Jenny.
Before we went to Princesses on Ice we went to dinner at the Garden Room on top of the Joseph Smith Memorial building. It was so much fun! Below is Bay and me and Lauren and Jenny.
I'm sure you all know New Moon came out this month and my friends and I went to the midnight showing again! It was so fun! I thought the movie was so good and way better than the first! Below my friend Melanie and I are waiting in line to get into the movie theater. It was pretty chilly and her husband was nice enough to bring us a pizza! We were in line by 5:45. Some were in line as early as 9 or 10 am. They showed Twilight first at 9 before New Moon which is why we were there so early!
Below, finally in the movie theater, (L-R) Natasha, Melanie and me! Yes we made shirts! We got free iron on prints! The backs were all different but the fronts were the same - "Team Edward!"
After New Moon I came home, finished packing our van, got about an hour of sleep and then Spencer woke me up to drive to AZ for a week of Thanksgiving fun! Below is just part of our Thanksgiving party. This was my table and the family members lucky enough to sit with me! Or maybe they were unfortunate to sit with me, either way this was my table. (My mom, my brother, my dad, and of course Spencer.) Thanksgiving dinner and dessert was so good!
Below, we are off to the park for a marshmallow gun war! Bay and SWBy really liked their cousin Presley's wagon! It was fun to be home and see everyone. My dad, sister, and stepmom came down from CA to spend Thanksgiving with us! So everyone in my family was there.
This is the very first year I've done Black Friday shopping! There were some deals going on that I couldn't resist! So of course I roped by best friends into going with me! Our malls in AZ opened at midnight so we were there at 10:30 waiting to get in. I'm so glad because they let us into the mall at 11:30 and we could line up outside the store we wanted to go in. Thankfully we were there early because the line to the Disney Store was really long and we were among the first in line! I was done shopping for SWB and Bay by 12:15! I saved 50% on the princess castle Bay wanted which I thought was well worth the 12 am shopping time!
Here Jessica, Tangi, and I are in the Children's Place capturing our 12 am shopping spree. Thanks so much for going with me guys, it was so fun!
After leaving the insanity at the mall we grabbed some food at Denny's for old times sake! We were a little slap happy by this point and found quite a few people staring at us!
The Friday after Thanksgiving, Spencer's aunt Jeanine had us all over to her house for dinner and games. It was a lot of fun and I found that we must get some of these little cars that she has. My kids loved them! Above is Bay and her cute cousin Anna! They are such good little friends.
Here SWBy is! He loved this little car! Luckily there were 4 of them because he absolutely did not want to give his up!
The Saturday after Thanksgiving Spencer had the opportunity to go to the ASU game with his brothers & brother-in-law! He had a great time! Thanks BJ and Ev!
One of my friends thought it would be fun this year to make PJ pants together. So last Friday a few of us got together and made PJ pants. I made some for our entire family! Spencer's and mine were way too big and we had to rip out the seems and cut them down a bit! SWBy's I didn't use a pattern for and had to rip out his "seat" seam to give him a little more room in the bum. Bay's were the only pants I didn't have to do over! I was thankful for that! Oh, well! Live and learn! Hopefully next time will go smoother!
