Halloween All-nighter!

Aunt Natalie and Uncle Richard have a huge Halloween slumber party for all the nieces and nephew every year. It was a hit this year as always! I left my camera for Natalie to take pictures for me. They ate pigs brains with blood for dinner, notice Lauren's expression! They also enjoyed playing all the fun games like Halloween Twister, pin the face on the pumpkin and making haunted castles out of rice crispy treats and candy. Lauren especially liked the goosebumps movies. The best part I think they agreed, was making homemade cotton candy. Thanks Rich and Natalie for spoiling them and being such a great uncle and aunt!

Park City!

We went with my family to Park City for the weekend. We mostly just went to relax, because we knew it would be bad weather. So we took lots of games and things to do. The kids had a fun time playing together, and we basically just took it easy. We went to the outlets of course and grandma bought all the kids Halloween pajamas. They all looked so cute! On the second night the power actually went out about midnight so we all piled on the king-size bed and made our own Laser Floyd show. My dad's flashlight had a red laser on it and Eric had all sorts of Pink Floyd and other great music on his phone, so we let the kid each take turns controlling the laser and enjoyed the light show. The kids had a blast, I think that is a memory they will always enjoy. We had so much fun we didn't want to come home, so we stayed Sunday night and came home Monday afternoon. Lauren went to school at lunchtime and Alexander has afternoon kindergarten. What a fun getaway!

Sewing Machine Bag!

OK, I hate to say this (I hope I don't sound conceited) but I am so proud of my new creation, that I can't stand it. So I just had to show it off. It all began last week when I went to the fabric store to buy this fabric and got so mad at my kids that I literally wanted to leave them at the store! Instead, Alexander left his glasses by the cutting counter and being so flustered with naughty children I actually left my stroller in the parking lot! I'm not proud of that and I am officially declaring for about the millionth time, I WILL NEVER again take my children with me to the fabric store! Anyway about the bag, I took the idea from a purse pattern and created a case for my new sewing machine. I brought the fabric and machine up to the condo in Park City over conference weekend, and viola! I boxed it out on the top and bottom, and put a zipper all the way around, also including 4 inside pockets and 2 outside ones! The best part was I actually finished the whole thing while listening to conference! Well just thought I would share my excitement!