Halloween - Trunker Treating

Well it's late so I'll have to post more later but Mr. Clean spent the last two days helping us clean up the house getting ready for visitors this weekend...so we took him trunker treating with us tonight. Here's a little preview of our Halloween day!!

Halloween Pumpkin Carving

This year I missed out on the pumpkin carving..shucks....ok not really because it's not my favorite thing to do although they are fun once they are done. Alyson did it with the kids...thank you Alyson. She even got a picture so if you'd like to see Alyssa and her pumpkin you can check out her website www.tolmantales.blogspot.com.

Tomorrow is Halloween....my least favorite holiday of the year. I did get a Halloween shirt so I could be a little in the spirit with the kids. I guess it isn't bad because we do get to have scones!!!!!!! The good thing about this year is Abby is getting baptized on Saturday so we get to have family come and visit.....they start arriving tonight so I should have so good pictures coming soon.

Have a great Halloween!!!!!!

Alyssa's 1st Choir Concert

Tonight Alyssa had her first choir concert. She was so excited. We got her a new dress because of course we didn't have the black or white that she needed. Alyson helped her get her hair done while I was at work. I was pretty excited...I got out of work at 6 and thought I'd make it back to spend a little time with Alyssa prior to the concert but the really long train that I got stopped for made it so I just made it back in time to get her to the school in time. She had a solo and she did a really great job despite what she will tell you. I think I was more nervous than she was. Once again I think she is amazing....but I am biased. You couldn't hear her very well at the beginning but then her director cranked up the volume and it was better. He played the guitar which was cool except that they only practiced together today after school so it was a little rusty but still I thought she did great.

Corn Maze

Ok, I don't have a picture for this one but mom, dad, Nick, & I just got back from taking Alyssa and two of her friends Kaitlyn (sp?) and Gizelle to the corn maze. I haven't heard that much screaming in a long time.

Funny story though. As we are walking through the girls are screaming about every 10 seconds. We pass this young teenage couple and the girl rolls her eyes, looks back at my girls, and says, "hello, I'm on the phone." Of course my first response was thinking to myself....did she really just say that in the middle of a corn maze. My second response was of course to act completely grown up and scream in her direction as loud as I could. :O) I know.....but come on I just couldn't help it. Who says that in a corn maze.....

We proceed on and another girl walks by them and puts her finger to her mouth and shooshes them (ok is shoosh the right word, I've never tired to spell it). What is wrong with people. I personally can't hear very well anymore but I also laughed pretty hard most of the night. The scary guys were great. They'd didn't even have to jump out at them all they would have to do is walk by and they would scream. The chain saw guys were great. They would casually walk by you and then start the chainsaw up....it was pretty effective...even startled Nick once (yes, he jumped).

Girls Night - BYU Ballroom Dance

This last friday night we had girl's night . Alyson, Abby, Cailah, Alyssa, & I went to watch the BYU Ballroom Dancers. It was a very fun night. We started off by getting all dolled up (just remember that all dolled up for Al & I just isn't the same as for others...but we did actually pull out the curling/straight iron ). We headed to the Nampa Civic Center. The show started and then right in the middle of the first song/dance the music quit. This was followed by a we an announcement "we are experiencing technical difficulties, it will be a moment". About 5-10 minutes later another announcement "we are experiencing greater techincal difficulties than we imagined." Almost 45 minutes later they started from the top again. There were all kinds of dancing from Waltz to a very cool glow in the dark alien dance (girls favorite of the night). We followed the show up with dinner at an all you can eat pizza place, I can't remember the name. The girls must have had a great time because it only takes about 15 minutes to get back to the house from the pizza place and this is what they looked liked.

It wasn't that easy getting a picture of all three of them so we actually woke them up trying to get it but they were more than happy to reinact sleeping. Below is their reinactment. Don't they look so sweet when they are sleeping.

Spirit Week

Once again it is that time of year when Alyssa's school has spirit week (aka middle school Homecoming) today was rainbow day...I guess in Idaho they haven't ruined the meaning of the rainbow like they have in Oregon (at least Portland, Eugene, etc...). Alyssa had a lot of fun making her outfit for today. She had an orange shirt outer shirt with a red outer shirt, blue pants, one green and blue striped sock, one yellow and white striped sock, many brackets in the colors of the rainbow, green tipped colored hair, & a rainbow clown wig. I LOVE that she has enough confidence to do that at school. I always wanted to but preferred not to draw attention to myself. She is GREAT!!!!