Randomness

Until I can get my act together and post a real post, here are some pics and updates. This first pic is at the Layton Park....who thinks its fun to go see Christmas lights (kids, not me it's too cold!)
Random pictures of the girls that I took for Christmas....
Here are some pics of the girls sledding on the perfect hill, our driveway! Which I do intend to video the entire driveway to show you what I have single handed shoveled three times!
















Pictures of the house are soon to come. I will shoot some photos tonight to Brian's horror and post them!

Ava Christmas Program

She did great. It was fun to watch and she felt very fancy in her High School Musical flashing robe!

Riddle

I won this riddle at work! You may ask only yes or no questions:

A young woman is whisked away to a far off land, where she kills the first person she meets. Then she teams up with three others to kill again.

Halloween

Miss Cleopatra - Queen of the Nile

Well I have to say that this costume kicked some major butt! Grace is the corpse bride and Ash is tinker bell. We had some rain on Halloween night, but nothing too bad, and it did not seem to deter the kids at all! Luckily Jen knew where to go for the good candy! It has been a real struggle for me to keep my greedy paws out of Ava's candy!

As you can see from the picture on the right, Ash has two black things in her hands. These would be the dreaded scorpion and spider that MOTHER gave them and it was all over her face and hands...which meant that it was all over my hands!! What a mess, but she was soooo pleased! She would not give them up for anything. They fell on the ground a few times and on the sidewalk, none of these were deterrents for getting back into her mouth or her bag.

Last but not least, the diva dancing to "her song".

Ava's Art Gallery

This is coming late....Through the month of September Ava's class learned about various famous artists. They got to try different art projects mimicking the artists. My favorite is the self portrait. We got to go after school to the gallery. Ava was very proud of her work.

Making good use of our adventure gear

We went hiking around pine view last week. The funnest part was that it is apparently bee mating season and Brian was the only one getting swarmed! It was hilarious to say the least! Some of my favorite one liners were: "Bee's 4 Brian 36, and I'm still living" "Ow! That hurt (as he smacked his own leg with a stick) but I got one" "I'm gonna kick your @#*!" "You want a piece of me?" These clips are just a small taste of what he was doing the entire time we were at the lake! Unfortunately I cannot claim that no animals were hurt or killed in these filmings........sorry PETA!

Aside from the bees, Ava found several lady bug
"friends". If you look really close there are two of them.














The girls decided to go for a little swim. What started out as getting their feet wet, quickly became them waist deep in the water.

Nut as usual decided to make a filthy pig of herself! I swear she does it to me on purpose!


All in all it was a really pretty fall day.....but not for the bees!

Antelope Island

We decided to buy the girls all "adventure shoes" (not so cute tennis shoes) at payless and took the girls for an adventure. It was fun, they had a blast climbing all of the rocks with minimal whining. Brain tried to teach the girls how to skip rocks.Ava was in much more of a posing mood today
We even saw some buffalo on the way out.
This last picture is really for Jen, because what is an adventure without some sort of animal carcass....