I DID IT!!!

Well ladies, I have FINALLY done it. I whacked my hair. I've been contemplating of whether I should cut my hair for the last year or so and I finally got the guts this week. I just needed some change in my life, and simplification with my hair. I am happy with the change. We'll see if I can keep up with the new do. I did an a-line cut, so it wouldn't do the triangle do that I had the last two times I've cut my hair short in the last 28 years. But back then there weren't flat irons either. Thank goodness for them flat irons. :) Anyways TADA!!

Our AMAZING Seattle trip!!!

We had the most amazing time visiting my brother Mike and Jen and the kids in SEATTLE last week! We didn't want to come home. (I'm writing this post pretty late so please bare with me in my writing) We took A HUGE LOAD of pictures from our amazing trip and that's why they are all in the slide show. Many of you know that my brother Mike recently got a coaching job with the Seattle Seahawks in July and moved his wonderful family out there. Mike was previously one of sea hawks scouts but was promoted to a coaching job, the assistant linebacker coach. Mike works the craziest hours, we only got to see him a few hours out of the whole week we were there but that's just how it goes. It was great seeing him when we could. He's working hard and is doing AWESOME! My sister in law Jen was so wonderful to us. She took SUCH good care of us and we had a BLAST with her and all the kids. Emma was in heaven with her cousins, especially little Ava. She also couldn't get enough of their sweet dog Roxy. They live in Issaquah, LOVE THAT PLACE! I could live there.

We want to give another thank you thank you thank you to the Phairs for all the fun and taking such great care of us during our visit. We miss the heck out of you guys. Emma misses all the fun and excitement as do all of us :) We love you guys!

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yams......

Today I was just assigned to bring yams for wonderful Thanksgiving dinner. Umm..I've never made yams before. Please, if you have any good recipes, please feel free to share.

oh.... my gosh!!!!

Ok so my friend Shiloh introduced me to this movie 'Teen Witch" about 13 years ago and I have never been the same since. The movie came out in the 80's as you can tell. We are with my nephews and sister in law tonight and I started singing this rap song "top that" and they all just started staring at me and there was silence for a minute. They looked at me and asked what the heck I was singing. Well folks this is it!! Good times, good times. The first little bit is just the girls talking, but you have to watch the whole thing. Trust me, you'll never be the same. I showed my nephews and sister in law Jen what the heck I was singing and we were all laughing so hard, seriously my stomach hurts!!

p.s good gosh what the HECK ARE THEY WEARING??!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I think I know what I want Derek and I to be for halloween next year. He'll be the main rapper dude. mmm....blue crop top. Love it! hahahhahaha!!!

Halloween - Part II

So Halloween night hasn't even started yet, but we wanted to put these pictures up. We went to UVU this morning to vote early. It ended up taking an hour and a half, but it was worth it. We got tons of comments on our costumes while waiting in line. We then went to visit Emma's aunt Kimmy at her work in the Riverwoods. We ended up taking a few pictures in the leaves while we were down there. Happy Halloween!
Love, the Flintstones

Halloween - Part I

So we got some pumpkins last week at the pumpkin patch. Emma has been obsessed with them ever since. She always points them out anywhere she sees them, and she has enjoyed playing with our pumpkins.

Tonight we finally carved the pumpkins and I think they turned out pretty nice. Take a look.

Where did October go??....

There were MANY fun days this month that I just never got a chance to post until now.

First of all, Derek and I had SUCH a fun night last night. We went to the THRILLER dance concert at Kingsbury Hall. It was 'freaky'ing amazing! I will be posting video of a couple dances. There were a few where I jumped out of my seat. I've been a few times, but I wanted to drag Derek to experience the art of dance :)

Here is a clip of the "Children of the corn" dance. I wasn't familiar with the story, pretty disturbing but awesome dancing!

As we were leaving there were dancers laying 'dead' on the stairs, they were pretty dang freaky!

This was "Witches Night" at Gardner Village that my mom, sisters Pam, Kim, and I went to. We are going to keep it a tradition to go every where from now on. We had SUCH a blast. It was nice to get away and be with the girls and let loose. Oh boy, we were definitely letting loose by dancing our hearts out. They had a DJ blasting awesome music. Here's a picture of Kim and I being such geeks with our dance moves. We were laughing so hard! On our way home from Gardner Village we had the "privilege" of being stuck on the freeway for two hours on the way home. We used that time wisely and blasted the music to sing and dance. Yeah don't you worry, Kim and I got out of the car a couple times to start dancing. We had to keep ourselves entertained. :)

Freaky monster at Gardner Village

The girls!! Look at my mine and my sisters matching witch hats...awesome!

Pam and Kim were a little chilly

The other night we went over to our friends the Ure's for dinner. They were so much fun! Emma and their son Ethan especially had a blast. I think we have an arranged marriage for their future. hahahhahaha!!

We went to the Pumpkin Patch which Emma loved. She LOVES pumpkins. She is always pointing to them and says, "tss"

Does this mirror make us look big?

My cute pumpkin heads!

Emma and I went to Mom and Tot with a lot of the young mom and babies in the ward. It was a costume party. Emma is our little Pebbles. Just you wait to see the whole family in our costumes.

Here's Emma with her friends Ethan and Brooke. Ohh, Emm'a sharing her sucker with Ethan.

For FHE last week we went to a puppet show at the Provo library. We were able to go pet them after...loved it!

Emma loves her b-day present from my friend Jilly. Thanks Jilly. Looks like Emma is trying to feed baby through her eye. She's still learning :) I love watching her hold her baby.