Halloween 2014--Work Style

My co-worker Tiffany (the one in the Pinterest shirt) had the brilliant idea to turn the office into an iPhone and to have all of us be apps. It was simply a matter of printing logos onto iron-on paper and putting them on a t-shirt...easiest costume ever!

Sadie's 2014

 About 3 days after Homecoming was over Landon got invited to Sadie's.

These items were left on our porch and he had to get the letters she had written on the packaging to figure out who was asking him to the dance.

He replied a couple days later with these goodies (he's getting a lot of help from me and Randy).

The dance was last Saturday and this is one of the only pictures I have of them. They ended up going with one other couple and went bowling, then to dinner and then the dance. (She got the shirt for him to wear.)

Miss Sassy Pants Turns 14

This year Whitney's birthday fell on the Saturday of Fall Break, so she had Thursday and Friday off of school leading up to it.

On Thursday my mom picked her up and took her to lunch and then birthday shopping with some money from us and then some from my parents. They also had plans to pick Bella and Tess up from the train to join them for the end of their shopping outing and then for a sleepover at my parents' house.

Whitney saying goodbye to Junie.

Whitney and Bella came back to our house Friday afternoon (Tess went home) and entertained themselves so much I hardly saw them.

On Saturday, we joined my entire family at Wheeler Farms for family pictures. Usually we set up my tripod and a self-timer and hope for the best but this year Robyn's boyfriend (who is a professional photographer) offered to do a photo shoot with us. It's so weird that the kids are all getting so big! Ashley is the youngest cousins and she's now 8 1/2...crazy. It felt like they were tiny for so long and now it feels like they're all teenagers.

After a couple hours of of photo taking, me, Lori, Whitney and Bella went to lunch at Apollo Burger. I took this shot of Whitney modeling her birthday shopping finds (i.e., new shoes, new jeans and new sweater) which she is thrilled about.

She loves, loves, loves these Sassy shoes!

Lori wore her sunglasses during lunch because she was next to a bright window. She could have closed the blinds but she and Bella said the sun felt nice. It was funny to sit across from her wearing glasses though.

Next we went to Color Me Mine (just like last year).

Lori took this fabulous photo of the girls.

Lori and I both painted mugs.

I painted this mug (which will end up being a bright turquoise after it's fired), Bella painted the bulldog, Lori did an ombre affect on her mug, and Whitney did a really cute little sugar bowl, lid and small spoon which she'll probably eat cereal out of.

Later that evening we got together at Lori's house to finally celebrate her birthday (which was September 8th), Landon's birthday (which was August 10th), Andrew's birthday (which was September 29th), Randy's birthday (which was October 12th) and Whitney's birthday...apparently we've had a really hard time getting everyone together. Robyn and Lyman (boyfriend) ended up having a couple Halloween party to be at and Landon ended up going to the BYU-Nevada game, but other than that we were all there.

The spread of gifts. Lori wanted work done for her gifts so Adam and Randy hung a couple heavy duty items, mounted her flat screen tv to the wall and fixed a toilet.

We had cheesecake AND the Oreo Ice Cream dessert.

All lined up so we could sing to them.

We relit candles and put them on Andrew's piece of dessert so he could blow them out and spray as needed.

12 on the 12th--October Edition

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1. I was up early to get the balloons out of my car and to hang decorations for Randy's birthday.
2. Randy's "corner presents".
3. He requested Raspberry Muffins and chocolate milk for his birthday breakfast.
4. He's easy to please.
5. Whitney giving Junie some loves.
6. It was rainy and dark when we went to church at 8:45am.
7. I got released as Primary Secretary (and am now serving as 2nd Counselor in the Stake Primary).
8. Landon checking game footage.
9. I got a couple hours to read and nap before having to go visit another ward's primary.
10. The day ended up being beautiful and sunny.
11. Birthday kisses for Randy.
12. Lori joined us for dinner and dessert.

Andrew's 27th

 Andrew turned 27 on September 29th!

Andrew got to come home last weekend (he does every other weekend) and was so excited because his work helper made him this sweet Toy Story card (she drew it herself).

On Saturday a bunch of us gathered at JCW's for lunch (my dad always takes Andrew there when he's home for the weekend).

Lori went with Andrew and my parents to the Disney store and Instagrammed this super cute photo of them. It was rather momentous because Andrew got to choose a new Woody and Jessie doll (that's all he ever wants). This photo is significant because they're all sincerely smiling (no easy feat for the men in this picture).

I can't believe he's 27! I was 16 years old when my mom had him (she was 39).