Halloween 2008

This is the couple's party this year. We are the groovy looking hippies front and center. What a fun group of people. We love our neighbors!!!! Matt made bell-bottoms this year and of course the wig. I was growing the "love-child" and we had our "van" outside. What a blast!!!

Who would have thought!!

We have had the opportunity to go to a couple's Halloween Party every year at our awesome neighbors' house. It is a riot!!! Last year Matt insisted on being Nacho Libre and I was his love interest. He was hilarious and gutsy. Who would really show up to a party in tights and no shirt with the people you go to church with. You can just keep laughing now........and a little bit more.....

Cowboy Jack

So just in case anyone was following, I haven't said much about my not so little Jack. I was waiting for the right picture. Jack seriously considers himself a cowboy. As soon as he walks in the door from school, he puts on his cowboy boots, straps on his holster, puts in his play guns..... sometimes a squirt gun if that is all he can find.... attaches his handcuffs, and of course adds the hat. He plays the rest of the day like this. Sometimes he wears a cape or a plastic sword. He wears this gid-up to the doctor's office, the store, his friend's houses, etc. This is at the father's and son's campout for our ward. Apparently he really didn't catch this fish. The old guy next to them did and Jack just wanted to pose for a picture.

Family Pics

Don't you love taking pictures with kids. First of all, outfits...what a hassle, then you have to bath and make sure everyone is clean. Then you find a place and hope the lighting is right. Then you have the awesome photographer try to get everyone to look at the camera at the same time. Hopeless really and yet we torture ourselves every year for these classic memories. And each year I am so grateful for photoshop. This is 100 pictures later and still not everyone is looking at the camera. Oh, and another thing, no matter how much you bribe, someone is always mad. Can you guess who?? This is one of the only smiles.

Annie's Hat

Things are never boring at our house and we don't buy toys because the simpliest things bring such joy, and hours of entertainment. You can save a lot of money that way. Don't you love the socks!!

Matt turns 31

So my hubby is 31 now. (And yes that is all we take pictures of these days is birthdays.) Matt was hilarious!! On the Sunday before his birthday he agreed to have a family dinner with my family because we don't get together as much as we do with his family. He cooked the chicken...yumm...the cheesy potatoes.....hmmmm... and we had a yummy cake from Costco because lets not kid anyone, I can't decorate like that. Everyone else brought stuff to go with the dinner and it was great. Then Matt led us all in a round of "Happy Birthday to me". And of course the candles were out in one blow. He was so lucky to get all new tires for the suburban as a present because the day before he, like usual, decided to drive 50 mph on a dirt road coming back from a ward boys' overnighter. He, of course, got a flat and then the spare also had a slow leak. The new tires have a bigger tred and he likes them. Absolutely no stress on my part. Happy Birthday Honey!!

Time Out for Women

This is the Schaugaard girls at the "Time Out for Women" in Logan. We always have so much fun together and have done so many girls-only things throughout the years. I love this family!!! This is the first time we have gone to one of these and it was fabulous. Thanks to Steph for planning a great over-nighter. We drove together, ate dinner, went to the concert part that night. Then it was off to the hotel room where I picked to sleep in the room with the "snorer" and the other pregnant sister who would be in the bathroom all night, just like me. That way we could switch off and I wouldn't wake anyone. The funny part was we went right to bed and slept great, the other room stayed up talking. I was so impressed that they could just keep moving. I needed my sleep.....The next day was full of great speakers and wonderful music like Kenneth Cope. My favorite parts were getting autographs from all of the performers and speakers on my cool Time Out for Women bag and of course the non-interrupted talking in the car and between everything else. Sometimes it is great to just get away from family and life and rejuvenate yourself and turn your focus again on what is most important. And I will never look at a sink full of dishes the same way again. :)