The Night Roman and I Decided We Are CRAZY!

We signed Roman up for the Cosmo kids club this year. Mostly for the football tickets that it comes with. Anyway, Roman and Shane went to a game in Early October and then we had tickets for last Saturday. Roman wanted me to go this time because I promised to cheer (something Shane doesn't do).

Anyone who lives around here knows how much snow we got on Friday so we were really questioning our idea to go through with the game but since I'm not scared of anything (yeah right), we bundled up and headed out for the 8 p.m. game (stupid ESPN).

Before the game,  Roman wanted to go to Brick Oven because that is where Marisa got to go. We had some yummy pizza and some super yummy root beer.

Then, we bundled up some more because it was 20 degrees outside and headed for the stadium. Imagine my surprise when we got to our seats and saw this:

I don't know why, but I hadn't really imagined that our seats would be covered with 12 inches of snow. They had shoveled the lower half of the stadium but us nose-bleeders were left to fend for ourselves.

I planned on waiting until the game started to move to a better, more shoveled spot, but once we got our seats cleared I didn't feel like doing anything but stay put.

Man, I need some cuter warm clothes (I think I say that every winter). Can I just say that those hand warmer and toe warmer things are the best inventions ever! I stayed reasonably comfortable for the entire first half.

Some steaming hot chocolate helped too. Who needs a cup holder when you have 12 inches of snow?

I told Roman from the beginning that we were only staying for the first half because there was no way we were staying up so late and it was FREEZING!

He was bummed but by the time we got to our car after the first half, we were both done with the cold and BYU was up 48 to 7 so there wasn't much by way of excitement. I couldn't even concentrate on the game and Roman, the stinker, wouldn't cheer! He seemed more interested in sculpting and pushing around all the snow.

Anyway, it was fun, and interesting and I thawed out by Sunday around noon so I'm glad we went, but if we do the cougar club next year, all tickets will be used at the beginning of the season. And, if we can help it, not at 8 p.m..

BYU Soccer with Marisa

Marisa came home from soccer practice one day with tickets to a BYU girls soccer game and she was super excited to go.

She was even more excited to have a night where she got to stay up late and have no stinky boys around.

We went to Brick Oven for dinner before the game.

She was so excited she could not stop talking.

After dinner we walked over to the field and found some seats.

I thought I hated watching soccer. But I thought it was really exciting.

Marisa was having a hard time staying excited about the game, but she found other things to be excited about.... like the overpriced candy we bought at half time and one player who I guess she thought looked like Jasmine (Disney princess from Aladin) and was always keeping track of her.

It ended up going into overtime because no one scored (I didn't know they did that), and still no one could score. The other team played dirty though which made it a little exciting and the BYU goalie stopped a shot that was AWESOME! I don't know how she did it.

Marisa loved it and wants to go again. I liked it too and next time we'll be smuggling in our own candy.

Halloween 2012

Halloween YEA!

I took about 10 pictures the whole day because I just keep feeling like none of the pictures are different. It's just the same thing over and over again only with a different costume. I guess that is what holidays are about but Thanksgiving is on it's way and it is going to kill me to have another traditional Thanksgiving dinner. I'm such a holiday scrooge this year.

Anyway, lucky for my grouchy self, my kids had easy costumes this year that took next to no effort on my part.

Marisa wanted to be Belle, which would put her Belle dress-up birthday present to good use. Already done! YES! Well, I did sew her a skin colored shirt to go under her dress. She HATED it, threw it at me and basically threw a big diva fit. The next day however, she felt bad and ended up wearing it anyway. Gotta love girls.

Roman wanted to be a football player. He got a BYU jersey for his birthday so we just needed some pants and a helmet. I was going to  borrow the helmet from the neighbors but they didn't have it anymore but lucky me, Walmart had a BYU helmet for sale. Not the cheapest thing, but not out of the ball park either so I just bought it. I sewed the pants in a matter of a few minutes a couple nights before Halloween. They weren't perfect but none of us cared.

While we were browsing the costumes at Walmart, Ezra spotted the sock monkey costume and never wavered. I could have made it just fine, but honestly? I didn't want to. So we just bought it the next week and were done with it.

I'm such a sewing bummer lately, I know. I've actually been sewing quite a bit. There are sequins and purple dye from crushed velvet all over our house to prove it but the "sewing for fun" has been all but sucked out of me. It will come back...I'm sure of it, but no one is hurting in the mean time.

Costumes aside. We (I mean I) carved our pumpkins on Sunday night. I roasted the seeds. YUM! Hello Kitty was a big hit with the girl trick-or-treaters.

The kids were excited to share their costumes at school. Marisa in her parade:

Roman in his parade:

Marisa was beside herself with excitement this year. She was so fired up that as soon as we got to our ward's trunk-or-treat, she was off like a rocket. She didn't wait for her siblings or nothing. She made the rounds in record time and put all her inhibitions aside and approached and talked to people like they were her best friend. She was on a mission.

A neighbor dressed up pretty spooky like.

Trick-or-treating was a breeze for the first time in years. I didn't have to carry anyone, bring anyone home for a potty break or drag any tired kid along. Ezra slowed down only a little bit at the end and the weather was BEAUTIFUL!

Now we have three FULL buckets of candy as well as a couple bags leftover that we need to get rid of ASAP. I hate being the candy police.

How was your Halloween?