Witches Night Out

The weekend before Halloween was very eventful this year.  Mark took Charlie to the Utah blackout game, which he was so excited about, and I took Kenya to witches night out at Gardner Village with my friend Shea and her daughter Kiley and Shea's mom and sister.  Kenya and Kiley were pretty excited to get dressed up in their witch costumes and especially to wear the black lipstick that I had.  

We stopped at Cheesecake Factory and ate dinner before we headed out.

These two were just so excited to be there.  They had music playing and the would've danced all night if we let them.  We walked around and saw the witches that were set up all over the shops, danced, shopped a tiny bit, got the girls some hot chocolate and called it a night.  It was pretty late by then 9:30 or so (yes that is late for me) and I was pretty tired, pathetic I know.  It was fun and maybe a new tradition I'll have to start with my girls.

These witches stopped and danced with the girls for a bit.

I ran into my good friend Andrea who comes every year and goes all out with her costume.  She lit up with green lights, it was pretty cool.

Kenya had heard about the witchy poo witch, we finally found her at the end of the night.

The Witches Council

This is our third year in a row participating in our fun neighborhood witches council amazing race scavenger hunt.  Can you tell I'm not really sure what to call this? :)  This year we happened to have the same team as last year with the Ashby's and the Hackings.  We had a great time but once again did not finish the race first.  I think we were around third place.  Maybe next year! 

I thought of our costumes two nights before the party.  I must have come across these skeleton shirts with the baby skeleton on it for expecting mothers somewhere in the past.  The problem was that we had two days before we needed them and I wasn't going to pay $30+ to have them shipped.  After browsing for a while I came across a great blog that I've got a few ideas from in the past called make it love it, she had made her own pregnant skeleton costume so I decided to try it.  It was surprisingly easy, all the supplies I picked up at walmart, sweatshirt, fabric paint, freezer paper the day of the party. I cut out a stencil of what I wanted and painted it on.  A couple hours later it was dry and we had an easy warm costume for the night.  I was so relieved they turned out!  I had fun painting our faces too.  This was also an announcement to quite a few people who didn't know yet that I was pregnant. 

 Leila was pretty scared of us, I love her face in this picture.

Dinner before the race began.

 The plummer was a hit.

 So were Adam and Eve.

 At the end of the night we all met at a designated place to see who won, I went up to a friend, Cheryle with my hood on and a blanket wrapped around me and said "I'm just glad we beat you guys!"  She stared at me and said "I don't even know who you are!"  We all had a good laugh.  Hopefully someone will want to organize it next year so we can do it again.  It won't be me though! :)

Phone Pics...

Had some extra cousins over for a day.  We survived. :)

 Took Charlie and Kenya to their school carnival.  They both dunked the teacher.

 Kenya lost her first tooth!  She didn't even realize it was loose, I noticed it was a little discolored and asked her if it was loose, sure enough it was.  At first she started crying, "I don't want to loose my tooth!"  I had to explain to her that a new one grows back and that the tooth fairy comes for a visit.  The next day she wanted it out, no matter what it took she wanted the tooth fairy to come that night!  Mark had a hard time getting it with his fingers and I don't pull teeth well.  Finally he got some tissue so he could get a good grip on it and yanked it out.  She started balling.  But she was glad it was out and the tooth fairy made her first stop in Kenya's room that night.  I was pretty sad when I discovered it was loose, I don't like when they start loosing their baby teeth. :(

 Holding her tiny tooth.

 We've gone for a few bike rides this fall, its been so nice and Leila loves the ride.

 I've been doing a healthy habits challenge with a bunch of girls, eating healthy, working out a lot, no sugar, drinking 8 glasses of water, no soda are some of things we have to do each day.  I got to watch Mark eat this when we went out one night.

 I love catching her reading her books, even if she dumped them out all over the floor.

16 weeks, feeling big for 16 weeks, it's just gonna get worse!

I had a good errand day with the girls a couple weeks ago.  Sometimes running errands with them does not go so smoothly, this day they were pretty good and I got a lot done.  We followed it up with lunch at Arctic Circle.  Kenya's mouth was completely blue from her ring pop she got at the store.  

Love all the silly faces.

Below is an example of errands not going so well...

She is obsessed with my gum, drives me nuts!

She is also obsessed with Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.  She loves it, her she is dancing to "Toot Sweets".

She brought these chairs in from the garage and set them up right in front of the laundry room while I was doing the laundry.

She is also obsessed with my lipstick.  They are all ruined now.

But she is still so cute.