TWILIGHT B-day!(Jenny turns 25)

Haven't blogged in a long time, wow! Anyways, one thing I did this week was throw my sis-in-law Jenny a surprise twilight party for her 25th birthday. It was a success in that we did surprise her! It was at my house. I wish I had some more photos, but my camera ran out of batteries, the dang thing. Anyway, here are some pics.

I got her a twilight poster and put her face on it so she could be Bella. I had everyone sign it, sort of like a big b-day card. Peter asked me why I didn't put his face in it too.. I told him it would ruin the fantasy if it was his face...
Some decorations and food. Jenny's sis-in-law Trisha said "Wow, I thought you said we were just having a few snacks!" Well, that is a few snacks for a party, in my family, thats how we roll. Its practically a sin to my Mom not to feed guests!
I made a cake to look like the book. It turned out alright.
The Birthday Girl! Isn't she cute?

What I've been up to lately..

I've been really busy since the holidays have gotten over. I did enjoy a week in Park City with the 'rents and the fam right after new years. It was nice to go skiing and try my hand at snowboarding, or as i like to call it "bum sledding" (at least for me anyway). But I've haven't had much of a break lately. We decided to put our house back on the market and that inspired me to launch into a painting/re-organizing/cleaning rampage.  Its been a lot of hard work but I am happy with the results. My house has never looked so clean...its almost sterile looking to me. Its funny, because after all that work, you almost DON"T want to sell it... it should be mine to enjoy!

So here's some pics..

No Molly, don't lick the paint! Mae was a good assistant to me (Seth too) couldn't have done it without ya!
I repainted the living room and added a brownish accent wall. wish this pic wasn't so dark looking
Our CLEAN bedroom! no clothes on the floor or anything!
For fun: me and Luke Christmas morning...good times!

Christmas-fied!

Christmas time is here! But it never quite feels like it until you put up decorations. I did some decorating last week, here's some of it.

I made this door hanging..Wanted something a little different than the traditional wreath.. its very sparkly too when our outside lights shine on the glittery flowers
A lovely garland for the entryway banister..
Our cute little 5 foot tree..I don't think we could fit anything bigger into our place..

Hawaii pics

We just got back from spending a week in Hawaii on Seth's company vacation. We had a great time and did lots of stuff. Here are some pics. This first one we are at Hanauma Bay, where we went snorkeling.

Here we are at Pearl Harbor.  Here I am being the Gunner's mate, something my grandpa actually did in WWII.
view of the harbor
taking a tour of the USS Bowfin Submarine- close quarters!

At the Temple

At the Polynesian Cultural Center- Here's a Samoan climbing a coconut tree.
We went out on a catamaran snorkling tour- notice the rainbow in the background!
Hanging loose at waikiki beach
messing around at the Dole Pinnaple Plantation
Seth liked the plantation gardens a little too much..
Those buildings look familiar? Its the YMCA camp where they filmed the other's village on Lost. It was one of my favorite things we did because I was hoping to find it and we did! Its pretty easy, its right off the main road along North Shore. I was so excited about it! They sure did a good job of making it look isolated in the show!
more proof it was the "other's village"
we enjoyed shave ice at the famous M. Matsumotos Store on North Shore. I guess its famous because you can get it with ice cream and get this, beans. Seth tryed it with the beans and it pretty much tastes like how you would imagine ice cream and beans would taste together.
i loved my non-bean shave ice and ice cream
at the luau Seth's company foot the bill for. there was lots of fun activities as well as the meal and show including..
Tatooing! Seth went all out with the face tatoo..no worries, it washed off fine!

Superhero Halloween

Halloween was pretty fun this year. We went trunk or treating with the boys and had a little party. The theme was Superheros, which was pretty much Zach's idea, because he wanted to be batman and wanted us to be superheros too.
Catwoman and Batman action shot!
Jenny playing it up as catwoman, isn't she cute?
party food: chili, mummy pizzas, cornbread with "blood", monster teeth apples, bloody punch.
Mae as Batgirl
And I was Wonder Woman, obviously a homemade costume, but its my halloween tradition.
Supergirls!
Batman and Batgirl unite against the deranged dragon!
Supposed to be an action shot, and no, I'm not punching Luke, I think he was pulling the star stickers off my skirt at the time.

Happy Birthday Seth!

Today Seth turns the big 3-0 and instead of going the traditional cake route (which he doesn't even like anyway) I decided to make him some dessert sushi (he really does like sushi). It's made from rice crispy treats and candy. Mae helped me and we made even more than the pictures show for his party tommorow night. I think they turned out pretty cute, don't you?

I love you Baby! Have a great day!

Fall Family Fun!

This week I went up the canyon with Peter, Jenny and the boys. We had a great time exploring the Fall landscape. We even saw this HUGE Moose running through the park.

                                                           Peter and the boys hiking.

                                                            Holding hands, too cute!

Zach with one of the fall leaves. I told him that the leaves changed colors. I said "they change colors to red, and yellow and orange.." To which he replied "and blue!!"


Peter taught them to throw rocks in the creek. From then on they wanted to collect rocks. When Peter told Luke not to put them in his pockets, he proceeded to put them in my pockets. I had quite a few by the end of the hike.

                                                Family photo and pudding break!

                                                             Family dog pile!