What a fun weekend!

What a nice weekend we had. On friday, my dad had a doctor's appointment here in town so he stayed the night. I made yummy chicken burritos (soo good!) and we had my cousin Jacob come over too. Jacob moved here from Iowa about a year ago. We didn't get to see each other much when we were kids since we moved around a lot and lived overseas. It's nice to have him close by. He's a fun guy, and Tim really likes him, so that's good. The two of them are actually going to a movie on thursday. Anyway, so we had dinner and talked Jacob into playing pinochle with us. It was really a lot of fun. We stayed up late playing cards.

Saturday we went to Thanksgiving Point. The corn maze was only $1 with this coupon I had, and it included entrance into the whole thing. There was a kiddie area, a bouncy thing, gemstone mining.

Here is all of us sitting in a giant rocking chair.








Mara in the princess carriage.




Asher resting on the bouncy bubble.

I wish I had more and better pictures. These were taken with my phone. I desperately want a new, nice camera. The one I have has been a big dissapointment. I want one of the nice Nikons, or a Cannon. I would love to take lots of pictures of my kids and family and do cool editing stuff and photography junk. Anyway, lol, off subject.

Oh Also, Grandpa bought us all Utah sweatshirts. :) So nice. Asher looks absolutely adorable in a hoodie, and Mara loves her pink sweatshirt, and Tim and I have cool black ones.

I also got a new kitchen table, which I love. It's huge, and comes with two leaves (one I have in) and can get all the way up to 7ft. Our last one was just a little pressed wood one that my parents bought in 1986. Ha ha! It needs a little bit of work, so I am going to try to learn how to refinish it, but it is a good, sturdy table, with benches instead of chairs. It takes up quite a bit more space, but I think I am ok with it, and it just feels so nice and homey sitting at it.

Oh well, nevermind...

I went to the meeting tonight for the model search. We were selected to be participants in The Great American Model and Talent Search. They basically have a big convention of casting directors, fashion photographers and stuff, and you take your kid and they meet the people and get their pictures taken, and from there you see if they get any work. Only problem is, it is almost $700 to register, and they want at least $300 of it before tomorrow. Sounds fishy, but I don't feel that it is. i don't feel like typing out all the details of it, but there are everal valid reasons. It is substantially cheaper than it would normally cost for an opportunity to be in a room full of casting people, but we won't be doing it. As much as I would love to go and it would be fun if it was just me and Mara hanging out and staying in a hotel, we can't do that. Oh well, because I am pretty sure she has a good shot of getting at least a couple of jobs out of something like that. Sigh, if I only had a couple hundred dollars, lol. And we don't use credit cards otherwise I might actually consider using it.

Other people thing my kids are cute, too!

Lol. We took the kids to this open casting call/model and talent search, just for fun yesterday. Once we got there and started (even a little bit before), I was just convinced that Asher was going to get in, because that kid is just the smiliest, sweetest, happiest little guy. Mara was being a little weird so I figured she really didn't have a shot. We get done and they come back in to give the kids that they want to come back a paper, and Mara was actually picked! I think had we gone earlier in the day, Asher would have gotten in, but we had to wait for Tim to get home from work. By the time they were talking to and looking at Asher, he was hungry, and getting tired, and just wanted to get down and play. I know they thought he was adorable as far as looks go (I heard both of the people say it) but as far as the qualities and characteristics they were looking for, like being passive and mellow, a kid that will be good on long boring shoots and sets, he didn't seem to fit that. I can totally understand that, he was being a bit fussy. Some of the parents seemed really pissed, and seemed to take it personally, like the guy was calling their kid ugly. He reiterated several times that he is hired to look for certain traits (I'm sure like mood, personality, how the kid would photograph)but they still seemed to get upset. It was kind of funny. It seemed like quite a few of the parents there were just trying to get their kids famous and ride them to Hollywood, you know. We just kind of went for fun, and Mara was excited about it. I personally think my kids are adorable, as everyone thinks about their own kid, and I thought they had a good shot so I'm glad we went. I go back tonight to watch an informative video about the process, and then we think they will have Mara come back for a screen test. Fun!

Hmm..

It magically fixed itself.

Crap.

I was trying to do like a layout on my blog and accidently erased the whole template code so I have nothing on here anymore. It irritates me that there I can't figure out why it won't work...

I am so freakin' excited!

I even changed my text color to orange, this is how jazzed I am.

I have been on the activities committee for my ward for over three years now. I actually had Sister Moffat comment to me today. She was the activities committee leader when I got on and she said she couldn't belive I was still on there. We are on the second person to do the job since her, and here I still am. The past year or so of events have pretty much been a large chunk of me. The Trunk or Treat for this year is pretty much ALL me. And I am getting very excited. I love Halloween. Between the ward party and the one Deb and I are going to throw (yes, Deb, let's do it!)I get to do lots of fun stuff and I just can't stand the wait. Halloween for me is starting the first week of October. I get all hot and bothered when I happen to accidently crosss paths with the Halloween baking supplies and crafts. I got a cookie embosser the other day with Halloween patterns and I can't wait to use it. My mother in law got me these cute mini cake pans last year I haven't gotten to use yet. Lots of stuff! Anyway, I'm getting sidetracked and excited about it again.

For the trunk or treat...We are doing a Halloween carnival thing. We are having a mad scientist/autopsy room, ghost bowling, guess the number of googly eyes, graveyard cakewalk, mummy wrap up relay, musical "scares" which is musical chairs but it will be...decorated. :) Put the wart on the witch, where the kids get to chew bubble gum and then try to put the "wart" on the witch, and a craft. And the funnest part is all the ideas were mine, I have been running the meetings, I'm buying all the stuff and telling everyone how I want it put together. :D I realize that it may sound like I'm bossy, but the past couple activities were still my idea, but the leader would pretty much still tell me what she wanted and I didn't have full creative license. But now I am running the show and the new activites keader is fine with letting me, she encourages it. :) It is just going to turn out great. It's making me consider being a party planner. I think I'd be good at that. I will be sure to get lots of pictures of how my event turns out, even though it is over a month away...

April's recommendations

Things you need to watch. I keep forgetting movies I think are great that people need to see, so I'll just let you know.

First, Dr. Horrible's sing-a-long blog. This is just hilarious. Neil Patrick Harris sings in this little mini musical. Joss Whedon (Firefly, Buffy the Vampire Slayer)wrote and directed it. The music and lyrics are just amazing, (check out the song by Dr. Horrible in Act 3. I think it's my fave.) and the actors are so funny. Joss Whedon just decided to do this project during the writer's strike. It is three acts that are about 15 minutes long. You can see them on youtube.

Secondly, while we're on the subject of Neil Patrick Harris, you should be watching How I Met Your Mother. That show is sooo funny. They carry jokes so well, the writing is funny, and the actors are great. You should be watching.

Season premieres are coming up. The Office is next thursday. How I Met Your Mother is on monday. Pushing Daisies is October 1st. You should be watching these shows, or at least renting the dvd's and starting to watch them. That's how I usually do it. Matt and I just started 30 Rock, which we really like so far.

Death at a Funeral. Matt and I watched this the other day. Hilarious.

That's all I have for now. :)

I am not cleaning this playroom AGAIN. I absolutely refuse.

And there go allll the movies. *Sigh*

I have a meeting tonight for the ward activities committee. I am in charge of the funhouse we are doing this year. I am actually kind of excited. The committee leader actually calls me a "creative genius." It makes me giggle. My mom isn't crafty and we never did crafty stuff when I was a kid. I just assumed it was genetic. But I guess I do kind of come up with neat stuff. Speaking of, I have had some demand for my tileboards, so I am going to sell them. Quite a few people on my mommies board have shown interest in ordering them, especially as Christmas presents coming up. So that will be fun. I like making them and it gives me an excuse where I have to, and it'll be nice to earn some money while I do it.





Tomorrow my friend Jen is going to bring her daughter Starr over and she's going to play with us for the day. We are excited. Jen started working so she needs a place for Starr so we're going to see how the day and commute and all goes. Maybe it will be permanent. Mara is looking forward to it. It will be nice to have her.

So we'll see how the rest of the day goes. (the kids got up at about 4:30 and just started playing and giggling. We seperated them and they finally went back to sleep but I am hoping it didn't ruin naptime. And they are making such a mess today. I have to shower and clean and get dinner in the crockpot. Oh crap. I forgot I was doing that. I'd better go.)

So I got a lot done today. I am having bunco at the house tomorrow so I needed to make sure that stuff is clean and actually stays clean. A couple hours with my ipod on and I was in the zone. It's so clean. Tim was impressed. I keep telling him all I need is for Hurricane Asher to be out of my way and I can whip everything in shape pretty quickly. But Bunco should be interesting. 15 women at my house. I'm actually a little nervous. I don't do women very well. I am so much more comfortable in a crowd of guys. So it should be fun to have them all here. I told Matt I may have to come over when I am done to recuperate. And sunday is stake conference so we are going to go do some fun outdoor family activity, because I think my poor children have forgetten what the sun looks like.

I think the reason I don't keep up with my blog is that we just don't do anything exciting. Sad, but true. The kids are a little wired up from being stuck in the house for so long. The van is still broken down so while Tim is at work we are stuck here, and I think it is beginning to take its toll on everyone. But I am bound and determined to do something this weekend, and maybe I'll even remember to take pictures.