7 months = messy!

Worst. Day. Ever.

4 shots. sad day.

Halloween w/the fam

First of all, judging by my choice of design in the new blog layout, I think it is safe to say that I am having some winter/snow withdrawls. I have missed white winters for the last couple of years.

Luckily, I can always count on Utah to pull through with some snow and sub-freezing temps, even if it isn't even November yet! For Halloween weekend we drove up Big Cottonwood Canyon to Brighton for a big family party.

It was fun to dust off the old winter gear that's been boxed up in the garage.

(hail to Logan High!)

I usually get pretty excited about dressing up for halloween, so it was really fun to show off the--ahem--award winning costumes we put together.

My sister Val is awesome and made these sweet trophies with various awards for everyone to take home.

I'm going to put this one next to my Dundies (I wish!).

This year we went as pirates.

Of course the real star of the show was our parrot:

My crazy fam in their halloween gear!

Good times.

6 months...

(thanks to katie for taking this picture...i think it turned out cute!)

Mobsters and Mormons

Did you catch the office the other night?

You know how Las Vegas was settled by Mormons and the Mafia? Well, they say that while many mormons have remained here (10% of the population is LDS), the Mafia by and large is no longer a part of the city.

I beg to differ.

I am pretty sure I met someone in the Mafia today.

I was headed back from the grocery store, and when I pulled through the gate to our neighborhood there was a big, black, shiny SUV sitting in the middle of the road in front of our house. It looked kind of like this:

I figured that the driver was just waiting for me to pull through the gate so that he could get out, but when I started to pull up next to him, he stuck his hand out of the window and flagged me down. I'm generally a pretty trusting person, but you never know, so I kept my car a decent distance away from his and just cracked my window a tiny bit. He looked kind of like this:

Actually, he looked A LOT like this. Only with more jewelry. And dark sunglasses. And he was bigger.

And if you're thinking he had a thick italian accent, you're right.

He told me that he had sent flowers to his sister (or sister's kid, or someone he knew, I was too nervous to catch all the details) who lived down the street, but the delivery guy couldn't find her house, and he wanted to know what our street was called so that in the future there would be no mistake. Our street name is confusing, so it seemed like an innocent enough question (although now that i think about it, why didn't he just ask his sister...?). So, at this point I am thinking that our conversation is over. But I was wrong....

Mafia guy: "Hey, what do you do?"

Me: "What do I do? Well, I'm a stay-at-home mom."

Mafia guy: "You wanna make a little extra money?"

Me: "Uh....no...not really..."

Mafia guy: "I need a private investigator."

Me: "Oh. Uh...no thanks."

Mafia guy: "Ok then. Have a nice day."

Me: "You too."

Or maybe he didn't hear me, because I am pretty sure at this point my window was up and my foot was pushing the gas pedal to the floor. Like I mentioned before, this all happened right in front of my house, so I went ahead and drove right past it, and kept driving, until the big black SUV was out of the gate!

Crazy, huh??

DISNEYLAND!!

Last weekend we took a much needed break from Las Vegas and went to Disneyland with my parents, Katie, and Dylan. Luke is still a little young to appreciate where he was, but he had a fun time looking at all the lights and characters and everything.

He got to ride around in this stroller all day.

Here we all are waiting in a LOOOOOOOONG line.

Oh, and here we are waiting in a different long line.

Luke and Grandpa....waiting in line.

And here we are waiting to get into a 3d show. No line, but still we had to wait.

Luckily, we did get to the front of those line eventually! Here's proof that we actually rode some rides:

My face somehow got covered up on all the rides that take your picture.

In this one some kid decided to take up the whole picture... ):

It's hard to see but I am in the back row (in the middle) behind his left hand.

And I sat behind Dylan on space mountain. BIG mistake. J/K Dylan! (:

My cute parents in the candy corn patch!

My manly man showing off his muscles.

We had a great time! Thanks mom, dad, katie & dylan for making the trip down to see us (oh, and disneyland)!

The HAPPIEST place on earth!

Crawling...sort of...

Luke has been working on this little scoot/crawl for the past few weeks. I finally got around to videotaping it.