Memorable MondayHalloween 2007

 I started blogging in December of 2007, so I never had the chance to blog about Halloween. We would get dressed up at Lisa's house.  She would help with makeup and I would take pictures.  It was a good setup, at least for me.  We always attended our Trunk or Treat and always have such a good time.  Here are some pictures of Halloween 2007.

Josh as Obi-One

Danni as a wicth

Angela as Cinderella

Emily as a witch

The cutest matching witches

My kids

Zach, Joey and Josh

Britt and Danni

Emily and Kenzie

My kids going for a ride from Bro. McKay at the Trunk or Treat

Danni and Sadie

Jocelyn and Danni

Josh and Mitchel

Josh and Steven

Primary Program

Emily sang in her last primary program today. It was such a beautiful program. Since Emmy is my youngest, this was the last primary program that my kids will participate. I've had 17 yrs of watching and listening to my kids sing in the primary program.  I'm going to miss those days!!!!

Throw Back ThursdhayPumpkin Patch

We went on a field trip to Mother Nature's farm when Danni was in preschool. It was a lot of fun watching my 2 girls.

October Break

MCC doesn't have a fall break and ASU only has a 2 day fall break. It's a tough break, but I'm so proud of them for going to school. It'll pay off!!! We will try not to have to much fun w/o them.

Day 1 - Harry Potter Marathon complete with chocolate pretzel wands, witch hats, butter beer, and many flavored jelly beans. OK, we only made it through 1 movie, but it was fun!!!  Emily is our Harry Potter fan.  She reads the book and then watches the movie.  She will not watch a movie until she has read the book.  A girl after my own heart.

Day 2 - Movies I took my kids to see "Stork". It was a cute movie with great seats.  I took all 4 kids, but only Angela and Emily were willing to stand by the sign.  The movie was cute and it kept my attention.  

Day 3 - Lunch & Pumpkins  I took the younger kids to Panda for lunch and then we  visit to the local pumpkin patch. Th whole family went to the pumpkin patch and we picked some great pumpkins, if even they were a bi overpriced.  Danni help the girls paint their pumpkins with glow in the dark paint.  We had a great time spending the time together.

The girls at Panda - their fav restaurant

The girls picked their pumpkins

Day 4 - Danni had to go to Tempe for a class project.  They took film cameras and found pics around Tempe.  While she was in Tempe, the girls and I went exploring.  We were going to play at the park, but it was closed, so we headed to the Tempe Center of the Arts.  We walked around Town Lake and had a lot of fun.

Day 5  - We decorated Halloween cookies and talked.  It's hard to find fun stuff to do when it's hot outside and 1/2 my kids have deadlines for college.  This was a simple activities, but not family activities have to be big fancy events.  We had a blast!!!

Day 6 - We attended Mesa's Pumpkin Splash. Our girls swam to find their perfect pumpkin.  We went with Grandma Pace to Brimhall's pool where the girls swam and picked a couple of large pumpkins in the pool.  They had a great time and loved swimming in October.

Fun times at the Pumpkin Patch

Pics with Sarah and Trina

Day 7 - We made dinner in a Pumpkin. We filled the pumpkin with stew and cooked it in the oven. The pumpkin didn't keep the same very well, so we couldn't show if off for family dinner.  It had a pumpkin taste which I wasn't sure about.  I'm not sure that it was a hit with the family, but it was sup to cook it as a family!!!

Dinner in a pumpkin

Callie’s Shower

Devon is marring this cute girl named Callie.  We attended her shower today and it was so fun to get to know her a little bit better.  It was a great way to welcome Callie into the family.  The food and drinks were amazing - yummy soup and Italian Sodas. It's always fun when we are with the Pace side of the family.

Cousins will Callie

Recipe for Italian Soda - I just asked Kaylynn to make mine.  She makes them extra yummy.

Cute soup bowls

Throw Back ThursdayTractor

We've had done construction going on just right off our driveway. SRP is doing some work and our driveway is important. I'm not sure what the project is, but it's not easy when we discover that we are locked in our driveway without any notice  I'm glad that Josh's tree was able to help out the workers.  Our street has been CRAZY these past couple of days

We also had our front yard re-piped.  We were losing a lot of water underground, so we bit the bullet and paid to have it re-piped,  It was an interesting process to watch.

All this construction reminded me of a time when we had our friend bring over the  his tractor and take some dirt in our back yard to fill his pool.  The tractor was a great help to haul all that dirt away. I had to snap a photo with my family.  I think the little girls were scared of it when it was running.  

Boyce Thompson Arboretum

Danni and I went to the Boyce Thompson Arboretum this morning. She went there to help her fulfill her scholarship at MCC. We each took a camera and snapped away. It was fun to spend that time with Danni.   I would totally go again!!

My pics

Danni took really great pics and has an eye for photography  She took great pictures ar the Arboretum.  Here are just of few of them.