October happenings

Poston Boys

Skyler and some of his wrestling buddies were the Poston Black Boys. Postons colors are black and teal. Hence the name. We painted their arms and legs with black paint. It was so funny that night happened to be so windy and cold. The coldest in a long time. So here we are painting layer after layer of paint. They were freezing from the cold paint. Once they dried we put teal letters on their shirts and off they went.
Those boys had the best time and got the crowd going. They did cheers with the cheerleaders and ran around just to stay warm.

Jarom, Dallin, Skyler, Cory, Zack, Logan, Kevin

A little video of their night.

Toms a year older!

Tom had his birthday. We celebrated it at Montis in Tempe with my parents. He had a great time and loved his new shoes. I hope he knows how much his family loves him and just wants to see that goofy smile on his face.

Happy Birthday Tom.

Disneyland October Break 09

We decided to take the kids to Disneyland for October break.

We went with The Smiths: Larry, Raylene, Chaz & Jensen. We did 2 days at Disneyland. One day as a group and the second with just our family. They had a blast. Hunters all time FAVORITE ride is Hollywood Tower of Terror. Skyler's was all of them. The weather was perfect not to hot and no rain. I loved it at this time of year. It was all decked out for Halloween. So it gave the park a new look which made it nice and refreshing.

Our adventure for this trip started out on Saturday morning as we were heading to the park.
First we leave our hotel and are ready to hit the freeway, except instead some guy took the off ramp a little to fast and hit the wall head on. It looked bad and we couldn't just leave him unattended so we go check on him. As he stumbles from his car he screaming HELP. Skyler calls 911 and then hands me the phone. They ask our location and as I am telling them I realize we are connected to Arizona so they connect us to California police and we give them the info and ask the guy if he is injured. He was shaken and in shock! I would be to if I just wrecked my brand new Mazda 3. Off again we go. This time to pick up tickets that I got off of craigslist.
(This is your key to know something is wrong.) As we pull up to the office to get our tickets, 2 cop cars pull up. They ask whats up and proceed to tell us that someone just got scammed and we could have been next. Thanks to the crash we did not. So thanks crash guy. Just FYI I thought I did my homework on this and made sure it was a legit address and business. So just be careful if you decide to do this. I was told that others have and was fine . Now as we are laughing and I'm thinking I should have taken a picture just for fun. We do make it to Disneyland and that's where all the excitement of lines comes into play. We rode all the rides that we wanted to had lunch and enjoyed our day/night. Jensen went on her first roller coaster ride and she did great. Her and Hunter stuck together on most of the rides. Chaz and Skyler went on several as us parents followed up at the end of the line.

On our second day we spent most of our time at the California Adventure part, the lines were not long and we did the roller coaster since Hunter was tall enough this time. We went 3 times. Sky and Hunt went several more times. We were having a great time until we went on this motion ride. Tom who now has vertigo got sick and was done for the night. No more rides for him. But he was a sport and hung with the kids to the end.

Just a little snack and how could one resist the ears.

On Monday we woke to Skyler not being able to hear from his right ear. He complained the day before that it hurt and took some Motrin and was fine most of the night. However once he woke up Monday he was in pain and Larry Smith checked him out and said he blew out his ear drum. This is not funny however we never get the easy , simple or ordinary things. He must have done it on the Hollywood ride. There was pressure in his ear and that ride over several times must have built up the pressure until it finally burst. (he is doing fine- antibiotics to the rescue.) Now one last stop at this huge Halloween store and a few items later we are on the road and so happy since it was cold and rainy.

I am so glad to have some special, fun and memorable times with our kids and friends.

Our newest arrival....

This is our newest arrival!

Nixon as Skyler has so loving named him. Appeared in our backyard last week and has taken up residence under Toms old car. He loves it under the covered parking where its cool. Doesn't venture out much and eats very little. My kind of pet. Low maintenance.

Mother -Daughter Princess Night

It was to be a mother daughter night out. However this turned out to be the same night as my play.

Jewel graciously said she would go with Hunter. They had a great time and enjoyed some one on one time together. They made each others crowns and hung out together. Thanks Jewel for taking her and being their for me when I was not able to be. This picture does my heart good. To see the love they have for each other.

This was a sister's night out for sure.

LEGALLY BLONDE

Yes I went to Legally Blonde the play.

Their was eight of us crazy women and boy did we have a good time. We started our night our with dinner at Z Tejas. It was great food and great conversations.
The play was good but did not follow the movie and had a different ending that was surprising. We all enjoyed it and had lots of laughs. We saw more gay men in pink than I ever could imagine. Even if they got more of the jokes than we did. They made us laugh. Thanks Cyndy for getting the tickets and making our night alot of fun.

Cross Country

Skyler has decided to do Cross Country this year for endurance to help him in wrestling.

He is doing a great job. Just the fact that he can run that and finish is an achievement.

He is determined to make the most of this sport and keep his weight down for wrestling. I never thought with 3 girls I would have a son worrying about his weight. Life is funny sometimes.

Great job Skyler and your half way done with the season.

It's all about the EYES

There comes a time in every girls life to grow up.
(Not if their dad has anything to say about it)
This is Hunters time.
She had just went to Darla to have her eyebrows done. Nothing much just to tame them really. She was so excited then horrified by what might happen. Darla was so great and as always did a super job. Hunter is now happy to have them done and not be to thin. One would never notice unless you knew.
She loves to freak out her dad so she has started to wear mascara also. I'm not sure if he can take much else.

Good thing for him no more makeup until 7th grade.