Tricky Tricky Hallo-weeny!

Hello all!!

Get ready for a Halloween recap of enormous proportions!

I took almost 500 pictures this weekend.. so I'll try and narrow them down!!

Thursday afternoon, we trick or treated to our grandparents in Logandale before heading to Cannonville.

We all arrived safe and sound late Thursday night.

Friday morning we visited Great-Grandpa and Grandma Nelson. It was quite the party having all eleven great-grandkids together for a picture with Grandma Bonnie!

Friday afternoon we hung around the cabin and played, went on hikes and Mark...
um... tied himself up a lot.

Our beautiful view from the cabin!

Friday night, Aunt Kristi made us some yummy candy apples!
I think these might have to become part of our Mexico in Cannonville Halloween tradition!!!

Saturday morning we all wanted to go to Tropic Reservoir for a picnic...

but two of the four trucks had dead batteries!

So we went to Ruby's instead and got some new batteries.

The kids entertained themselves at the Old Bryce Village.

After the batteries were all fixed we tried to have our picnic, but a storm blew in!

It was sooooooo cold!!

So we headed back to the cabin and carved our pumpkins in the wind and rain!!

We hung out in our trailers til the storm blew out. The we got ready to go trick or treating!

My Super Man and Boys!

Mom and Allie as skeletons!

When the rain and wind calmed a little we went over to Grandma Bonnie's to trick or treat.

The kids all looked so cute.. and scary in their costumes!

We all missed Papa Jack and Grandma Gaye sooooooo much!! I especially missed Gaye's wonderful cooking ;)

But the kids were all really happy to receive the goody-bags they sent.

The crazy eyes were quite popular!!

Saturday night we feista-ed and ate and ate and ate!!

And we had our pinata!!!

Lit our pumpkins

and ate candy til we almost popped!!

We hope you had a Happy Halloween too!!

Convo

Yesterday we babysat my adorable niece and my two nephews while my brother and sister in law went to the temple. That gave us a house full of 5 kids under the age of five! It was lots of fun, full of mac and cheese and hot dogs and toys, toys, toys!

During the course of the evening I received a text from my father in law (who's on a mission in Texas).. our conversation was as follows:

Jack: Will you survive the whole kids deal?
Me: Oh yeah! Its good practice.
Jack: How many you want?
Me: A dozen or so

Then I get this picture and the caption, "Woa!"

Me: That'll be me if I really have 12 kids
Jack: Fer sure!

Lesson Learned

Last week I ran out of face wash... lazily, I didn't go to the store for a couple days and had to wash my face wish Dustin's Irish Spring soap. So I finally hit the store.

I browsed the soap isle and found my usual brand, Clearasil.. check the price, $10.52?!  
What the dirty face??!
That was a little more than I'm used to paying. So I got the next brand over Clean & Clear.. price check, $3.45. Okay I can handle that.. I'll just try something new. Change is good, right?

Flash forward to the next morning, I'm in the shower.. squirt some face wash in my hand and work it onto my face.

AHHHHHHH!!!! Burning flesh! Red eyes! Dead face!!

What the crap is in this stuff?? ACID?
I check the label...

Okay now let me translate:

"cleans deep down-to-the-pores" = cleans so deep you hit bone
"cool, refreshing tingle" = excruciating burning sensation
"deep cleans even dirt & oil you can't see" = your eyes will melt out of your skull so you won't be able to see the dirt and oil anymore

I had to get out of the shower and wipe my face off with a dry towel. It seriously felt like I had been chopping hot peppers with my nose. I'm surprised my eyes really didn't melt out of their sockets.What a way to start the day!

Moral of the story: sometimes it doesn't pay to be cheap... change isn't always a good thing... don't buy face wash at the grocery store... I don't know. I do know that I have a brand new bottle of face wash available if any one wants a flesh searing clean face!!

Over-Nighter

Last night we took our camp trailer aka Big Foot out to Whitney Pockets for a mini-camp trip. 

The evening was full of smores, candy, campfires and fun!

Then today was full of pancakes, sausage, hiking, cave exploring and more fun!

The pictures pretty much explain themselves so enjoy!

Bab-Bam

This morning Mark asked me for a jar so he could catch me a widdle bowd (little bird).

So I gave him an old baby food jar and sent him on his merry way.

A little while later he came into the house and said,

"Mom, I catched you some dirt!"

Apparently dirt is easier to catch than little birds.

He's purdy proud of his little jar of dirt.

And I'm pretty proud of my widdle Bab-Bam (Bat Man).

The End