My EXCITING 100th Post!

Chloe gets to be my 100th post.

She got home late last night from St. George and

was very excited about her candy room:

(I have SUCH an amazing camera, I know.)

After she left this morning, the 3 girls asked...

"Can we go and get some candy from Chloe's room for our lunches?"

YES, I told them. Help yourselves!!

:)

my 99th post:

The view from our front door.

Ain't it perty?

Click on it for a closer view, you can really see the reds and golds!

It really is quite lovely.

The boy answered-

This afternoon the boy that Chloe asked to the Halloween dance came over to answer her.

The boy is named Justin, and he is a good boy!

He had all the time in the world since Chloe was down in St. George for tennis regionals. She is lucky to have such a wonderful mother as I, for I totally cleaned up her gross room and made her bed before the boy-Justin, came over to do this:

Made a cute sign that the little sisters all helped with:
Then he continued to dump tons of candy all over the place:

Candy, candy everywhere! I told him thanks for supplying us with our give-out Halloween candy this year!

Lots o' candy...

....all over her nicely made bed....

and this is what he left in the middle of her room:

Notice the lovely happy faces on the bottom of the sign, thanks Lindsay, the littlest sister.

Boy, Chloe is going to love walking into her room later on tonight! What a surprise!

:)

Asleep

"Sunday Afternoon Nap"

Oh how Gene loves it when I take pics of him and blog 'em!

:)

I was checking out who visits my blog and there have been several people who have found me by googling things such as how to ask her to homecoming or how to answer for a dance, or whatever. How funny. I wonder if anyone will use Phillip's cool toilet idea?

Chloe asked a boy to the Halloween dance in Oct. last night. We got balloons, shaving cream and little strips of paper with stuff written on them. In each balloon we would blow it up some, then put the paper inside (most said random things, one said "I will be a MESS if you don't go to the dance with me!" and one had her name)then add a whole bunch of shaving cream, then we would tie it up. With the help of this kid's mom, Chloe and I totally sneaked into their house through their walkout basement and put these balloons all over his bed. (The bed wasn't made, I guess Chloe isn't the only teen who doesn't make her bed! har har) Then she placed the balloon with her name in it in his car that he's always working on.

Well, he called her last night letting her know that his 2 little sisters had a blast playing in all the shaving cream. I guess some of the balloons really exploded the shaving cream when popped, others didn't do much! soooo funny!

He said it took him a little while to get all the shaving cream off his back lawn!

Oh... funny stuff...

Lindsay's Surprise 6th Birthday Party~

Directions on how to throw a surprise party:

Have 8 little buddies hiding and ready to yell "Surprise!"

Check

Lawns mowed with Jack's help.

Check.

Cupcakes, paper plates, cups and napkins.

Check.


Presents.

Check.



Decorations.

Check. Ok. You are ready to roll!

Bring in the VERY surprised 6 year old girl:

Check!





Her reaction?
"WHAT THE HECK??"
And then all of her buddies ran to her and gave her high-fives and hugs.





Oh, we got her sooooo good!!!

Alright, now let me explain. Last year after her 5th b-day party, she told me that for her next birthday she really wanted a surprise party. I kinda laughed and told her sure.
Well, as we got closer to her 6th b-day, that surprise party idea started sounding better and better, so I ran with it.
She had no idea we were planning this party. The theme of the party was surprise (of course!).
The cupcakes were "Oreo Cookie Surprise Cupcakes", the party favors were little firecracker-looking things with fun treats inside (toilet paper rolls with party bag full of treasures stuffed inside, then wrapped up) we had a treasure hunt and each clue was in a balloon which the kids popped and out came the surprise clue! The final clue led them to the Pinata!
It was such a fun party. The kids loved hiding and waiting for Lindsay, they were so dang cute about it!

More pics:


"Freeze Dance"

Boogie down, Lindsay!

"Hot Potato"

I should have posted this pic later on, but this is when that final clue led them to the Pinata!

Reading a clue!!!!

Another clue!

Oh, they sooo loved this. They were totally into it. It was awesome.

Happy Birthday to you, Lindsay-Lu!

(Handy tip with the ice cream. Scoop it out into cupcake liners and place on cookie sheet and keep in freezer until ready to serve. Then, when it's time to serve cupcakes and ice cream, there is no need to scoop out ice cream for every guest, it is already to hand out along with the cupcakes... or cake. Therefore, everyone is served at the same time!)

Presents are the BEST!

Smacking the super cool authentic Mexican Pinata! This sucker took a beating!

The goods inside included:

Plastic frogs, plastic bugs and plastic lizards, along with tasty candy.

The party favors all included a little, plastic snake. Hey, this is Lindsay's party, right?

We had to include Lindsay-type treats and toys!

I am totally 6 years old!

Well, Sunday, Sept. 21 at 2:01 pm she will be!

These are the family presents sitting on our bookshelf right now. She will open these tomorrow on her actual birthday.

The book next to the presents is "Now we are Six". This was a book my mom had as a child, and she gave this book to Chloe when she turned 6!

I can't believe this is my last 6 year old!

I seriously don't know how that happened!?

Anyhow, what a wonderful day. It was a perfect party for our little 6 yr. old and everyone had a fantastic time!

Happy Birthday Linds.

New pics coming soon...

I have been very, very busy. Yes, very busy indeed. I am finding friends from all over on Facebook and I am totally addicted. Yep, Facebook has become more important than my beloved Blog! I feel so loved, I have like 33 friends! Then Chloe reminds me that she has around 190 or something like that.... whatever, Chloe! I have 33 friends and I am LOVED!

Anyhow, Lindsay's surprise 6th birthday party is tomorrow at 3 pm, so I'll be posting about that soon!

How did my baby get to be 6?? Was it while I was on Facebook?

HOMECOMING 2008~

Well, here you go! Homecoming pictures of my beloved daughter and her cute date, Phil!

Both kids were pretty nervous!

Chloe had her hair done this afternoon and did her nails and pretty much took the entire day to get herself ready.

She was so super excited!

Here are some pics:

Pretending to put Phil's flower on....

It matched her dress perfectly!


Here's the scoop on her awesome dress. Last weekend Chloe, Haley and I took off to the Orem mall to find a dress. Gene didn't have much hope for us since we are all picky shoppers. But we found this beautiful dress in a very lovely bridal shop! Within 10 minutes Chlo-lo found this dress. The cost? $80. Not too bad, I was thinking as we walked up to the sales counter.
The total?
$31.67!
It was so totally on sale! Woo Hoo!
Then we had fun finding jewelry and shoes to match!
So there, Gene! We CAN find stuff! (sometimes)





Phil had a cast on his arm until yesterday, you know, until he sawed it off himself.
Guess he didn't want a cast on his arm for homecoming.
:)

Here in Payson, the girls give the guys a crayon that matches their dress so they can go and get a matching tie. I think Phil did a great job.

They look so cute together.

bye guys.

Chloe and Debryn, best pals and tennis buddies.

Cool side-bangs forever!

Getting ready to leave...

What's Gene doing in the background, you ask?

Oh, he's just putting on Debryn's date's flower (can't think of how to spell the real word)

Gene put on Phil's, too! the girls were laughing that they couldn't do it, but the dad could!

The group.

The guy on the far left is taking Justine, the homecoming queen, to the dance. She'll be picked up next.

These guys are going to Macaroni Grill for dinner (they already got a reservation) then off to the dance, then to watch a movie.

Phil asked us what time he needed to have Chloe home tonight! What a kid!

I told him 9:30 pm and he about died...

Gene told him midnight! wow!

Sweet Ride!

bye kids!

Have fun......