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Thursday, October 14, 2010

Post from the Past #2: 2008 Halloween Party...In light of this Spooky season!

This was the HUGE (and I really mean huge!) party I threw for Halloween.  There was supposed to be 3 of us throwing this thing and it turned into just one, me, lol.  Holly and Amanda saw me floundering and swooped in to rescue me!  Thanks guys!  This party was super fun!  I feel like some of the pictures are missing.  Does anybody have any pictures of this?  If you do, please email them to me at sonkissed05@hotmail.com and add them to the blog.


Sorry some of these pics are bad quality, some of them were taken with a phone. This was a game we played where the girls were blindfolded and had to pick their husbands out of a line up by touch alone!  It's my turn, they played a joke on me and stuck my friend Harmony in the mix.  Boy was I shocked when I grabbed a handful of coconuts! :)


me swinging at the pinata


broken pinata
 Colton and I getting our characters ready.  I was Laura Croft (Tomb Raider) and he was Iceman from Top Gun.  We bleached is hair!  It turned kind of orange on us.


The Ledbetters as smurfs, such a cute idea!


Amanda taking a wack at it!


this was before I got to Harmony!


Little Xander is Bam Bam.


Xander's mommy Bre is a cave woman, in the back ground is Alex and Harmony as Adam and Eve, can you believe that Harmony just had Maquita two weeks before this?  She looks smokin!


another of Xander, he was so stinkin cute!


The Kirks are lumberjacks, The Dyes as Iceman and Tomb Raider, The Ledbetters as Smurfs, and the Webbs as a soldier and a female nurse!


This game is one I stole from our High School Pep Assemblies.  You take nylons and tie one leg around your waist.  You put an orange in the other leg and center that between your legs.  It looks pretty hilarious!  Then you have to swing your hips to bump a balloon across the floor.  We used paper cups.  You want something light that is kinda tricky to steer.  This was one of the legs of a relay.  Niki far left, Cyd the scarecrow girl, Holly, a girl from our ward, someone I don't recognize, and finally on the right is Jessica Henrie (Flory) from the track team.

Niki and Jess, with the "Got Milk" couple on the couch


this is a video of Holly bumping the cup with the orange in the nylons



2nd leg of the relay, another game I stole from my high school pep assemblies (Rangely did some crazy fun things for our assemblies every year!).  You hid a tic tac in a pie pan filled with whipped cream.  Using your face only (mouth and nose) you have to dig around for the tic tac.  I forgot the whipped cream so we improvised and used ice cream.  I think the tic tacs melted in some of the pans though!  Sorry guys!


still searching!


as soon as you found your tic tac then....


another game from yes, RHS StuCo!, The 3rd leg of the relay is to carry an orange,across the room.  The catch is, you have to hold it in your neck and pass it from partner to partner.


tomb raider, scarecrow chick, cave woman girl, and lumberjack diva


same song different verse


This is Nick Garcia.  Ain't he a looker?


hmmm!


He decided to try my hair extension on for size!


Bre made their customs!  Isn't she talented?

This party was soooo fun! But it sure was a lot of work and soooo expensive!  If I ever throw a party this big, I will make sure I have lots of friends to split up the work and cost.  The kind I can count on not to leave it all to me!  Thank you again so much Holly and Amanda for saving me!  This party was such an amazing memory.

See the previous post from the past which is Amanda Webb's baby shower for Cali Jo.

Friday, October 8, 2010

Post from the Past #1: Remember This? Amanda Webb's Baby shower for our favorite Cali Jo!

I'm on an organizing kick and right now I'm going through all of our pictures on our computers and memory cards.  I figured this would be a really great time to post all of the things I haven't yet.  And boy there's lots!  It's also a great time because it's fall and we've all moved to different places and I think we're all missing each other a lot right now!  Keep checking older posts to make sure you see all of my posts from our time in Cedar City!  The first one is Amanda's baby shower that Megan and I gave at my house sometime in the fall (specific dates anyone?) of 2008.


This cake will truly be one of a kind, why? Because I will probably never make one again.  They take so stinkin' long!  But I really like how it turned out and it was definitely fun to do...once!


 Amanda and the girlies, Shenille, Lindsey, Holly, Megan


the yarn game, Niki measuring, little did she know she would have her own lil' belly soon (McCoy)!


Lindsey measuring, she would also have a better idea of sizes in the not too distance future (Kennedy)!


And Megan's turn, her new little one hasn't arrived yet! But we are soooooo excited!


Ready to put our strings to the test!  Shenille, Niki, Lindsey, Holly, Megan, and Shay


Check out how tiny miss Amanda Webb is!  We all remember envying how good she looked throughout her entire pregnancy!  This is Megan fondling the belly! :)


Nikki getting to feel up Amanda! hee hee hee!


Shenille sizin' her up!


Lindsey testin' it out!


Holly checkin' out the baby goods!


Shay sinchin' it up!  ...Ok, Ok, I'm done with the cheesy belly string comments! :)







Megan made this gorgeous blanket!  She is AMAZING!!!  We all miss her and Colten oodles!




The theme was instead of bringing cards, you brought a baby book with your gift instead.  Here is the little poem we put inside the invitations:


Although words are nice with their sentiment and prayer, 
they’re read once or twice and tucked away with care.   
A book is a treasure, words and pictures unite, 
read over and over to teach and delight.   
So instead of a card for Baby and mother, 
Please give a child’s book with your thoughts in the cover.   
Your book will be cherished; God will watch from above, 
When it’s read they will remember your kindness and love.


This post makes me emotional!  I miss everyone so much and look back at this baby shower with such memories!

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Sword Fighting...What Uncles Teach Their Nieces! :)

So when we were back home last weekend, Uncles Truck and Colton started sword fighting with water noodles in the living room. When an arm or leg would get hit, then you had to hop around on one leg or hold your arm behind your back. Then they would fall to the ground dead. I'm not sure they realized little eyes were watching until our little 2 yr. old niece started bashing them with water noodles! Here's a few videos from my phone, they're only about 15 seconds each.   The funniest parts are when she chops off an uncle's leg, but then tries to hop on one leg herself, because her uncle is, and also when she plays dead with her legs in the air and her lovely dying noises! 



The attempt to hop on one leg, because Uncle Truck is holding his...and "getting Uncle Truck's bum"...hmmm....?!?!


Uncle Colton makes a jab and the dying legs go up!


Hopping on one leg and then this time, as apart of dying, spun around in circles for so long that my phone camera couldn't catch the actual dying part



the dying noises and the legs in the air


here she clearly wins, but still feels the need to die, more noises, more dead bug legs!

I don't think her mother would approve of what they taught her...that's what uncles are for though, right?!