Another fun part of Halloween

And later, a little pumpkin carving with my sister and her husband who are visiting from Arizona with their new little baby Lilly.

And some fun with Baby Lilly

Lilly is so cute, and I am so jealous of all of these cute little baby girls that my sisters are having!

Costume Party

 The food was so perfect for the setting! Looks appetizing doesn't it?

 Some yummy brains and eye balls

 And delicious wormy punch 

 Eating and Talking

 Brad, the rocker

 Looking even more serious or something, not sure

 Me, the flapper

 showing off my great flair

 Playing Games

We played a ton of minute to win it games. We also played murder in the dark. It was a lot of fun and got all of us who didn't know each other before, really acquainted. :)

 The happy couple, or maybe that's just one of us

More munching

 These guys were the best!

This guy is an orthodontist and made his own crazy teeth veneers that looked all yellow and crooked, perfect old man teeth. 

 We loved these guys too!

Brad and I had so much fun at the halloween party we were invited to last weekend. There are no pictures of the kids cause it was just for adults. So we had a funny and a little different date night out than usual. 

We didn't plan our costumes to be themed together, we were actually pretty much opposite in every way, but whatever it was still fun. Brad wanted to be a guitar hero rocker again this year but with a little extra pizzaz added to his costume. And browsing around at Savers, a flapper seemed like a fun way to go for me. 

Hopefully next year we can think of something we can do as a couple, like the sweet wal-mart employee couple, which were awesome by the way. And the Napoleon dynamite couple! there were some other cute coordinated couples too, but these were our favorites. 

Fall Photos

A couple of days ago I took some pictures of the boys for fall. I love my silly boys!

Cookies and Crazies

Happy Halloween!

Fun New Things

Came home from candy class yesterday so excited about all of the fun stuff I learned how to make. I was pretty proud of my butterfly sculpture. You can't really tell, but everything is made out of chocolate. The butterflies are white chocolate and there are also chocolate leaves behind the rose and under the butterflies. I think I was the only one in the class brave enough to attempt any kind of sculpture, but after the amazing videos we watched, I had to at least try!

 There was lots of other yummy stuff too . . .

The first day we just spent making caramels, toffee, brittles, turtles, pralines, fudge, etc.

So now I have a lot of new recipes to add to my candy recipe box.  

Take II

It has only been six weeks since I got my hair done darker. I love having it dark, I had fun with the red, but I kind of wasn't as into it as I thought I would be. But in this short month and a half, my hair had faded like crazy and I already needed a hair appointment. So I was like man! I can't afford to have dark hair, so then I got brave and did the color I wanted myself. haha, well I actually love it. It turned out exactly how I wanted it to. But I wouldn't have done it if Brad wasn't encouraging. Because I was convinced it would turn out green or maybe even purple. Anyway it didn't turn any of those colors, and it turned out just like I wanted! Hurray!

Georgia

So Chase and I had the chance to see my sister Rainya last week. For those of you who don't know, she is suffering from ovarian cancer and currently going through chemo therapy and other treatments to help her fight it. The worst part is that she found out she had cancer immediately following the birth of her baby girl. She was struggling through her pregnancy from being so sick, and her doctor kept ignoring her and telling her to stop whining basically. She has three other children, so she knew she was not feeling normal, but they wouldn't listen. The pain and discomfort rose to a point that she could barely move and it even hurt to lay down.

She finally demanded to be seen by a fetal specialist. The fetal specialist really listened to her and it only took them about 2 minutes before they knew something was really wrong and had her sent to the hospital in an ambulance. She had huge cysts on her ovaries, one the size of a cantaloupe. (how could her OB have missed that?) They told her they would have to do an emergency c-section and then they would remove the tumors immediately following. They also told her that if the tumors proved to be cancerous, they would also have to do a hysterectomy.

When she woke up after the surgeries and came to, she was told she had cancer and they had done a hysterectomy. I still cannot even imagine the pain and grief she suffered at that moment. She is 35, and a beautiful young mom of four wonderful children. I hope and pray the best for her, but I am also very scared and worried and sad that she has to go through this terrible illness. We are very close and I miss her so much everyday.

So I decided at the last minute, literally, to go see her. One of my classes had no class last week, so I thought it would be the perfect opportunity to spend time with her. So I bought a flight, decided to take Chase, and asked Brad to find some people in the ward who could watch Owen while he was at work and School. It was a really amazing week, I was able to spend a lot of time with Rainya. She seemed so happy to have me there and I think it really cheered her up.

 I got to be on Baby duty for a couple of nights and remembered how tired and exhausted a new mom can get. But luckily she has tons of help from the church and her husband she doesn't have to do everything on her own. I also drove her to a couple of her appointments and got to have some really good talks. She was also feeling up to it enough to watch a couple of chick flicks with me and just enjoy being sisters. I'm so glad I got to go, but I really miss her. :(

Chase's 1st airplane ride - about to take off at 6 AM

We got there in time for Rainya's Birthday Celebration

She was so happy and surprised to see us because we didn't tell her we were coming.

I dressed up Baby Serena and took pictures of her the day after we arrived. All I had was my Iphone to take pictures, but they still turned out good.

She is such a sweetie

Some pictures around Rainya's block. There are crazy amounts of trees everywhere.

This little jungle is at the end of their road. The kids love playing here, it leads to a little creek.

Me with sweet baby Serena

Chase had his own seat on the last flight home, he and I were both very happy about this, I was so tired of holding him and all the flights were super cramped, so it was a joy!

I brought home a little something for Owen from the Arizona Airport. I picked it up at a little layover there. Owen got a kick out of it. Candy and Bugs, goes perfectly with a boy. haha