Oh so scary!

I love all of the scary movies and stories that come at Halloween time. I seriously get so into it and I'm always looking for something scare me.
Tyler has been working at Millionaire for a few years now and this is the first time we have heard about there being ghosts there. Apparently in the pilots lounge there is a ghost. A few people have seen him and Tyler knows all of the people that are talked about in the story and the kid who took the pictures.
Click on the link below to read about all of the haunted places in Utah. Scroll down to Provo, Millionaire to read the story about Ty's work.
http://www.utahghost.org/Main%20Files/haunted_utah.html
You better believe the next time I go visit Ty at work I'm going to be asking to visit the Pilot's lounge. SpOoKy!

Trunk-or-Treat

My parents were kind enough to take my kids trunk or treating while Tyler and I were at work.




Thank you Mom and Dad! The kids had so much fun and came home with a TON of candy and they still have trick or treating coming up!

Skeletons and blood clots

Skeletons and blood clots? For lunch? Yep, that's what I packed for the kids school lunch today.
Really it was just a peanut butter and honey sandwich and some watermelon balls. I hope it doesn't spook them out to much. Bwahahahaha!

Pumpkins

Britton is a lot like his Mom. He hates cleaning out the pumpkin. This is the first year that he has actually helped out with this process.
As you can see, he didn't like it one bit!

Shayna was excited to dig in!

Shayna drew her face on her pumpkin and then decided she didn't like it. After that she drew it out on a piece of paper first and decided she liked that face much better.

Britton drawing out his face.

And the finished product. Shayna's is the one on the bottom, Brittons is on top.

Shayna also has a very tiny pumpkin that we made a glitter face on. It turned out really cute. I'm not sure why I didn't take a picture of it.
The best part about carving pumpkins is the seeds. Tyler did a fantastic job on roasting the pumpkin seeds again this year....MMMM delicious!

This, That and the other

We have had so many things going on. We have kept ourselves very busy, so busy in fact, that I haven't taken much time to get my blogging done. So here I am trying to catch up on a long post with lots of pictures.
My kids had fall recess last week so My parents took the kids and me to see Kennecott.

Britton has been begging me to take him ever since he learned you could see it from space.

Britton and Shayna's favorite part was watching these big trucks loading and dumping.

They watched them through their binoculars for hours. OK, maybe not hours but it kind of felt like it.

This is the size of the tires that are on the trucks. They cost $25,000 each and there are six on each truck. CRAZY!

After a while we went into the museum and looked around and watched a 15 minute video. The kids were so captivated by the movie and learned so much from it. They were telling me things that I was clueless about. I wonder if I forgot to listen.
Here they are looking through microscopes at all the rocks and gems and whatnot.

We were there for three hours and we still had a hard time getting the kids to leave. Britton has been begging to go back every since. I told him to ask Grandpa!
My favorite part of the whole trip was this little bar called the Ore house. How funny is that! There is a little sign that says "Utah's best little Ore house". The kids couldn't figure out why I would make my Dad pull over so I could get a picture of it.


The next day we had a Soccer tournament for Britton that his Uncle Jonny put together. It was in Ogden and consisted of four games. Out of those four games Britton got a total of six goals. The people messed up on our registration and didn't have us down so they had to work us in. The boys, who were all 8 year olds had to play against 10 year old girls because of this mistake. We ended up taking last place but that's ok because all of the boys had so much fun.





while we were there we got to watch our Nephew Jamon play for a bit too.

It was a perfect soccer day. Thank you Mom and Dad for bringing all of the food, snacks and drinks. We appreciate every thing you do for us.

The next morning we took the kids to Gardner Village for all of the Halloween festivities. I decided we will not be going back. Not during Halloween anyway. We didn't have that much fun. It was overly crowded and I think the activities from the two day's prior made us a little to tired for this adventure. You can see Kennecott from Gardner Village and the whole time we were there Britton kept asking us to take him to Kennecott. He did NOT want to be at Gardner Village.
One of the activities we did while we were there was we went on a scavenger hunt for certain witches. You had to fill out a form with about a million different witches to find and then take it to a bakery for a 25 cent cookie. I would have happily have spent the 90 cents for the cookie to not have to push our way through hoards of people to find the witches.






We bought tickets to ride to the witches house. I found it very annoying that we had to pay 20 bucks for all of us to ride to the witches house when we parked our car right next to it. There were so many people there that we had to park clear out in the boonies and it just so happened to be by the witches house.
Anyway, here are pictures from that.



My Mom tried to get a picture of all of us riding on the truck to the witches house but only ended up getting herself in the picture. Pretty funny. Good work Mom!

We took the kids to the candy store (which took about 30 minutes because it was so crowded) just to keep them happy while we finished the scavenger hunt.

We finally finished the dang scavenger hunt and as we were walking back to the car the kids decided it would be fun to spend some more money and fish for a prize.

Britton won the same thing we had just bought him and they wouldn't let him trade. O'well. I think he was still happy.

Shayna won some gummy somethings.

We were only there for about an hour and a half but it seemed like a lifetime. Maybe we will try again at Christmas. HaHa!

That night my Mom invited the kids over for a sleep over. They made cookies and ate chocolate shakes and made forts to sleep in and watched movies. I think they are some pretty spoiled kids.




Since the kids were away Tyler and I took advantage and went out to dinner and a movie. Dinner wasn't the best, we went to Joes crab shack and for someone who HATES seafood that's not the best place to go. Tyler's lucky he has such a nice wife and allows him to have a choice every once in a while. The movie we went to was Case 39. It was way better then I expected it to be.

Other then all the above mentioned we have been staying busy with normal life obligations. Oh, and soccer. Britton just had his last outdoor game yesterday and starts on an indoor team on October 30th. So we get a two week break. WAHOO!!

My favorite thing about Fall....

I am not really a fan of Fall. I hate that it is getting colder. It means that winter is right around the corner and that depresses me. I hate it when the leaves fall off of the trees and leave a big soggy mess everywhere. I was never one to jump into a big pile of leaves, you never know what is underneath and I hate them sticking to my hair. The colors are pretty but that's about all it has going for it. But I do love the food. For some reason I love to eat in the Fall. I love the warm food that can be so easily made in the crock pot. And I love, love, love all of the junk food I somehow justify is OK in the cooler weather.
This weekend we made caramel apples.




And we ate everyone of them. And by we I mean mostly Me and Ty. Shayna ate a lot too but not as much as Tyler and myself. Britton didn't eat any.

Now I need to work on presentation. They didn't turn out pretty at all but I'm not worried. I will be practicing a lot over the next couple of months. Just because I want to.

My Husband is COOLER then your Husband!!

I'm sure there are some that would disagree with the title of my post, but in my mind I know I am right. Tyler works hard to provide for his family and sometimes we get to reap the benefits of it.
Ty took my Parents and the kids and I on a Helicopter ride this weekend. I have been wanting to see the fall colors from the helicopter and I finally got my chance. My next wish is to see the Christmas lights from the sky. I guess we will see.
Getting all gassed up.

Tyler showing Britton how to pre-flight the helicopter.

Shayna wanted to help with the pre-flight. Actually I think she just wanted to climb the ladder.

We had to split up in groups. I got to go with Britton, Dad and of course Ty.

Isn't he the cutest!

Deciding the best route to take.

On our way up!

In the air. I think we have our next pilot right here. He couldn't stop talking and asking questions. I love that he is so interested in learning everything.

Britton wanted to see the Real Salt Lake stadium from the air. So his wish was Tyler's command.

I couldn't see the stadium very well from my seat so Tyler tipped the helicopter so I could get a good picture. Talk about feeling like your on a roller coaster. Britton loved it!

The state prison. To bad the inmates were not out.

Part of Thanksgiving point. I need to take the kids to this maze. They would have a blast.

Utah Lake.

Some of the pretty fall colors we got to see.

Our shadow.

Shayna got to ride with Grandma, Grandpa and Ty.
Getting buckled in.

almost ready.

Now she is ready to go. I was really worried about her because last time we went she got motion sick. This time we gave her some Dramamine before we left.

I had to give my Mom my camera to take with them. She took this picture of Britton and I. Britton was just too tired to stand there so he asked me to hold him. I'm so glad that my 8 year old still wants me to hold him sometimes. I will be so sad when the day comes that I can't.

Some of the beautiful scenery.



Looks like the Dramamine worked. Silly girl. She was having so much fun!

A more serious picture. Static hair included.

Pretty girl.

After the flight Tyler had to put the helicopter away. So Britton was helping him get the wheels on it.

And that is when my camera died.....bummer.
Thank you Tyler for taking the time to do this. I can't believe you get to do this everyday.

When we were all done at the airport we headed over to my Parents house for the last B-B-Q of the season. No pictures, dead camera, remember? I can't believe it is going to start getting cold. I am so not ready for that. Anyway we had delicious food and the kids played in the hot tub and sandbox for hours. We even got to watch the Real game outside. And they won. So much fun! Thank you Mom and Dad we had a great time!!

P.S.
Thank you for letting the kids come over again on Sunday to play in the hot tub and feeding them dinner. You guys are the best!