A Perfect Day, Or What?

Is there a better Holiday then Halloween? Not if you spend Halloween with the Brown Family, that's for sure! But holidays that end up being this great sometimes take a little magic...or maybe a little pixie dust
 

(Nora Bug saw Tinkerbell on t.v. and ran right up to the screen saying "ohhh, pretty, ahhh, pretty" Tinkerbell it is!)

  

It takes a lot of demanding...'lovely suggesting,' to get that sweet-hunk-of-a-Captain-Hook/Jack Sparrow into his costume so I can get one picture of our coordinating costumes. Unfortunately, we were too lazy to put too much effort into finding a more Captain Hook, less Jack Sparrow wig and hat. And don't even get me started on why I was Peter Pan and not Wendy (Go ahead and look in your local DI or Savers or both for a baby blue night gown and I just dare you to google Wendy Darling costumes. I am pretty sure google did not see the same Peter Pan movie I saw when I was little. Really? There is a huge difference between a baby blue night gown and a baby blue nightie, I promise) So Peter Pan it is. I definitely caused a few eye brows to raise at the local ward trunk-or-treat for my cross dressing stunt. I stand by my costume that night, which was in fact not Peter Pan the boy, but Mary Martin, the woman who played Peter Pan in the original Broadway play. 



(Have you noticed that the majority of the pictures I post of baby girl are her with crazy cheeto or licorice face, that's how we roll)


Our magically busy day started with a trip to good ol' G-ville where we got to see Great Grandma Skidmore and Great Grandma Brown, Grandma Brown, Aunt Kim and the cute Cousins. The little pixie started her trick-or-treat debut with a route around Great Grandma's retirement home. She was a little confused as to why people were giving her candy but she quickly got the hang of it and ended up just walking around holding her hand out to everyone, including those who were visiting their family members. She did say thank you like a little champ though.

Next on our route was Great Grandma Brown's house.

 

Tink, Cinderella, Harry Potter, and a pink fairy take a break and have a snack to recharge those trick-or-treating batteries. Who needs pixie dust when you have skittles?

 

(Look at those super cute cousins!)

After a much too short visit and too long of a drive, me and the cute little fairy princess were back to Layton for the annual Page Family Halloween Party.



 

We were off once again for a little trick-or-treating. This time with a zombie prom queen, 2 zombie hunters, a ninja, little red riding hood, the big bad wolf, a kitty and a pirate ( Not Chris he only put the costume on for the picture at the very end of the night. My Sis-in-law was a pirate) 

 

 

Nora had so much fun running door to door with the cousins. She kept up pretty good, especially with the encouragement of the cousins.

 

 

She did good with scary things. Nothing seemed to faze her, not even blood and guts.

 

 

 Not disgusting food. No pictures of the food, but you remember how we do Halloween. Not the headless horseman...what? A real headless horseman you ask?

 

(Awesome, right? I mean just look at that picture, real horse, no head...awesome!!!)

She really wasn't fazed, until my parents fog machine came on. When she saw the smoke, she ran to my arms as fast as those fairy feet could fly, saying "No, no, no"

 

(This is right before she jumped up and ran to me. She is eyeing that fog as it gets closer and closer)


We ended the night by shoving our faces with candy. Tinkerbell loved the suckers best!

A little icing on the cake was a sugar induced, tackle Grandpa because we have more sugar in our systems then our little bodies can handle.

What a great holiday. We did a lot of running around and Peter Pan and Captain Hook were pretty tired by the end of the day. But not too tired to take this little gem of a picture. Chris sure did pick a winner

 

 



Halloween...Yes Please!

hAlLoWeEn Has come to the Brown household!!! How can you tell? Could these little artistic gourds have clued you in?

Because we are so organized when it comes to our family activities, we didn't wait until 2 days before HaLlOwEen to pick out our pumpkins. Nor did we decide at 7:00, when it is nice and dark, that we should go to Black Island Farms for a hayride though a pumpkin patch to pick out our most perfect squash canvases.

 

Luckily, I am a super prepared "Mormon Mommy Blogger" or whatever they call us crazies that blog every aspect of their lives for the world to read. I had made sure that our nice camera had batteries in it and I would not have to use our tiny video camera with no flash to document this most important chapter in Lil' Pumpkins childhood memories book. You know The HaLlOwEen chapter.

 

The hayride was fun, the sweet Lil' Pumpkin had fun bouncing around and pointing out the moon and airplane's flashing lights in the sky. She got a little frustrated running around the pumpkin patch because the vines kept tangling around her cute little boots. Oh man she is the cutest little pumpkin hunter!

 

We decided that carving the pumpkins at a normal time would be too easy, so at about 10:00pm yesterday(after fulfilling some churchly duties) We popped in a couple of Tony's pizzas and busted out the carving tools.

Nora Bug loved spooning the guts out and trying to shove the spoon in her mouth before we could stop her.

 

The scariest part of the night was how long it took us to take a picture of the pumpkins at night without the flash so they would glow.

 

11:30pm and here were the fruits of our labors...or should I say squash of our labors, haha. Don't worry, I don't even laugh at jokes like that.

 

Clearly one of us didn't finish their art project for the night (notice the pumpkin on the left in the above picture). He gets an F. I had carved two pumpkins and ate a whole pizza and drank half a mountain dew while he had yet to finish half of his pumpkin...good thing he is a super cute vampire because his pumpkin craving skill leave much to be desired...like a beautifully, finished carved pumpkin.

HaPpY HaLlOwEeN!!!

Life Under the Big Top

Is there anything better then Halloween...I don't think so.
This year I decided that we need to celebrate my favorite holiday in style. Unfortunately for Chris that meant... COORDINATING COSTUMES!!! And because most days its a little like a circus around here, I thought we should run with it. So I made the executive decision that Chris would be the Strongman (because his muscles are super big and he is already so strong, he wouldn't need much of a costume). The baby would be a sweet little elephant and I would be the chick who performs with the elephants.
I also decided a few days before Halloween that because I had so much extra time on my hands and because I have never sewn a button on a shirt that I should make the costumes myself.
We only had 3 hot glue gun burns, 1 homemade muscle man costume that did turn out like the Internet said it would, 1 barbell that fell apart the minute the strongman picked it up(only because he was that strong), 1 baby who hated wearing her costume, and 1 mental breakdown due to post-pregnancy body image problems. Other then those minor problems the circus was up and running!
So without further adue I present to you Halloween '11

Notice the weights that fell off the barbell and Chris's awesome muscle that for some reason just look like balloons under panty hoes

I didn't make my costume, it was my sisters old ballet costume. I just cut it up and rearranged it and added ribbon to my plastic Mary Jane shoes.


Have you ever seen a cuter elephant? I had a red bow to go by her ears to match my outfit but alas I forgot it :( Because she is so cute, here is another picture of her.

She only lasted 6 pictures and then she was done being an elephant so I changed her into her backup Halloween costume

We also added disgusting new food to this years menu

Scooby Dooby Doo, Where Are You?...

...He happens to be solving a mystery at Eagle Bay Elementary. There seems to be a haunted classroom, or is it a haunted school bus, or maybe a haunted playground...are you scared? Well no worries, let me alleviate your fears by telling you ***SPOILER ALERT------> that the episode with the haunted classroom, or the haunted school bus, or the haunted playground will all end up not really being haunted, it's ok, it's really not a ghost, just the principal trying to scare the teachers and trying, for some reason, to sabatoge her very own school. I won't bore you with the intricate story line, which takes so many interesting and unexpected twists along the way, but I will tell you that it's a ghost story definetly in need of detective skills from...

Oh yes my friends, they were all there at Eagle Bay Elementery(minus Shaggy and Scooby Doo. They unfortunately had other ghost tracking commitments involving a haunted circus, so a stuffed Scooby helped solve the mystery at the school), protecting the sudents from the classroom *gHoOooOSt*
There was the strapping Fred,(the teacher I work for actually dyed his hair for the ocassion...so awesome!)

There was the beautiful Daphne (We forced her to wear this costume, with the threat of diaper duty for a month if she wouldn't wear it ;))

And the nerdy, Thelma (awesome Savers skirt and sweater combo, I might have to wear to church and my moms prescription glasses, which I couldn't see out of, perfect!)

Of course we needed to travel in style (I spent a whole morning working on this beauty, but well worth it!)

We have the cutest students! I wish you could see how cute they all are, you would just die! We had a Pirate, Santa Clause, a witch, a blue m&m, a ghost, a frog, and a cat.
We made these monster mouths (thank you Pinster... I mean, Pinterest)

This is the monster mouth the teacher made :)

Did Scooby solve the mystery? Well of course, and the gang had a great time doing it!

ThInGs ThAT gO BuMP iN ThE niGhT

Now that it's the day after Thanksgiving I think that it's appropriate and it seems about right that I am now writing about Halloween.
Halloween is my favorite holiday. I love everything about it. I absolutely love being scared. I think I saw all the 'Nightmare on Elm street' movies when I was eight. I can remember my mom and me making scary noises late at night, while watching 'Tales from the Crypt'. I used to sneak into my parents room late at night and grab their ankles. (for the record they did the same to me:)) One of my Life long dreams is to see a real ghost! Although I'm sure I'll pee my pants! Poor Chris puts up with scary movies and listening at night to hear the ghost creeping down the hall.
Every year my family has a Halloween party and we make all kinds of disgusting food to eat... eyeballs, cat litter cake, mice, and the list goes on and on. It is awesome!





With all that yummy food you would think that this outstanding holiday could not get any better, right? Well it did get better. Halloween was the first night that Chris and I felt the baby kick. I felt a little movement in my stomach and so I put my hand on it and she kicked so hard. Chris put his hand on my stomach and she gave him a great big kick. It was amazing! She has not stopped kicking since. Every ultrasound we get the Dr. tells us that our baby moves so so so much.I think she is coming out running!
So the bump in the night was not the ghost that I've been waiting to see, but something much, much better, a cute little baby face that we have been waiting for, for so long!