Festival of Trees

It was so beautiful, I have never seen so many Christmas trees in my life. This Fairy tree was one of my favorites, and there are more pictures of the gorgeous and fun trees later.


Logan and I tried to go to the park this morning, but it was freezing cold especially with the wind I found out later it was about 5 degrees. Then Grandma Helen invited us to go to the Festival of Trees with my Aunt Miriam and my cousin June who's boy, Austin, is Logan's age. We were glad Grandma saved us from a day of boredom.


Before we left Grandma was deciding what to wear to the Messiah tonight because she wouldn't have time when we got back. She walked out all fancy wearing these huge earrings and I laughed. We vetoed them because would distract from the soloist who she sits right under with the other flutes. But they are clip ons so Logan got to wear them a little and he sure liked them. When I am taking the picture he looks at the camera with his "I'm cute, and I know it" pose.
Before walking all over for two hours at the convention center we went to eat all we could at Sweet Tomatoes buffet. By that time we all felt like being pushed in a wheelchair like Grandma Carey, as June said. Logan and Austin were the cutest boys sitting together at the end of the table and eating plate after plate. Austin was always tring to feed Logan his pizza or cucumbers, and Logan just kep eating and eating. Nobody could believe that they ate so much although it was really nice because they were both so good and quiet the whole meal, eating as much as we did. There were concequences later, however, when we drove over the mountain back to Alpine Logan was eating an apple, and it was just too much food to keep in with the bumpy ride. He started saying, "Owie" and then he threw up right before we got home. What was funny is that later we were telling Grandpa what happened and as I was describing all the food Logan ate and how he just coughed it all up, Logan looked at me and opened his mouth to throw up a lot more. I was almost out of clothes by then, but we found some deep in the diaper bag.


Miriam's favorite tree, Breath of Heaven, was one I liked also, with a row of tutu's aong one side and that cute chair.

Great Grandma Carey and Logan got free rides. By the end we were all shuffled out and wanting rides, as Miriam said.

June's favorite.

Mom's choice if she was going to buy one, because of the statue that you would have when the tree was gone.

A kid favorite.

The Madame Tussou Tree, that was so nice of that lady to give up her whole doll collection. I am sure it sold for a lot.

The Book of Mormon tree was gorgeous with liahonas and everything. It was made for a BOM Dad and had lots of BOM games and cool things underneath.

Actually this was another of Mim's favorites. How cute for a girl's room.

I thought this was really fun and looks cute even with the ice cream theme.

Miriam's Barbie tree from the back. It turned out great, with the pink ribbon, and chair, and was a very popular one with the kids.

A great tree for my Dad.

A Jazz tree, that looked cool.

I have a Nursery Boy

I can't believe Logan is old enough to go to nursery. Here he is ready and excited his first day. It's been three weeks since then, and the transition has been hard for this little mama's boy. He won't let me get even cose to the door or he screams. Last week Pete dropped him off crying and after 15 minutes I hear his screams for "Mommy, Mommy" in the hall as the leader brought him to me. He was so upset that he wouldn't let Pete or I get more than a few feet away, wanting to hold onto both of us at the same time. He is such a cute guy, even when he is crying. I think I just need to explain it to him a few hours before church so he is prepared.

It was such a nice day outside for being the middle of November.

Just to please me, Pete did his hair spikey like Logan's. How sweet. I want to see it spikey when it's longer.

The weather was so nice we went to Salem ponds with Patty and her mom, Maria, and Jacob to feed the ducks. Boy were they hungry, there were three giant geese that were super loud and greedy. They wanted food so bad they almost bit Logan's hand off.

Two cute boys at the park. Logan likes to do whatever Jacob can. He loves Jacob so much. He kept pointing to him in the car and saying his name because he was so excited to see him.

The Night of the Tiger

Going along with Logan's Halloween theme. Keirra did the cool butterfly and Hallie and Alaya did the mustang.

Then just because it looked cool, I also did a tank - I indulged myself spending way too much time on pumpkins this year. So, Prenten- I am waiting to see what you did with your squat, little cinderella pumpkin. We were part of a traveling circus this year. I was the fortune teller along with the tiger and his trainer. I should have had them do a little act, but Logan really wasn't willing to stand up on his own. Doesn't Pete look the part like some Bill Sykes or something?
Poor Emily, our neighbor whose house we are standing in front of, has the swine flu and couldn't go trick or treating. Logan took her some rice crispy treats and candy, but we didn't see her. Get well soon, Emily- Logan and I miss you and love you!
Lions and tigers and please don't cry! We stopped to visit Jaron, and as you can see the tiger was a little bit tired. The trick or treating didn't work so well since the tiger was too tired to stand up. I would hold the pumpkin bucket out for his candy, but he didn't seem to care, plus he doesn't need any more candy. We just did a few houses, and enjoyed seeing the neighborhood.
Alaya the unicorn, Julia the poodle, and Keirra the black fairy, with Scott's mom, Janice. Thursday night we stopped at Julia's work -Heritage Care Center where they had a super fun party. I am sorry I didn't get more pictures, like Hallie, because the old people were so cute, and the spooky graveyard was really cool. Good job Julia, I am coming next year for sure. Then Logan will be able to do all the fun games like bowling and ring toss. Congrats, Alaya for winning a goldfish!
Hallie took this while I was driving -sooooo cute. Did you know my cushy oldsmobile actually holds six people - Hallie, Alaya and I in the front with the three carseats in the back. Squishy, but all the more merry, especially when the whole back seat started fussing as we were five minutes from home. Us in the front just imitated their fussing, and the backseat madly screamed all the louder until our car was rolling with noise. Maybe I won't ever need a van, just someone to get my window to go up.

Games at the Vernon Halloween party Friday night included an eyeball relay, a treat relay, a spider race, a treat walk, a tiger's cave, the limbo, and find the broomsticks and spiders. Thanks, Hallie for doing all the games and decorating the house super awesome, since I was recovering from Wednesday. Scott, your homemade rootbeer was a big hit!

I say Prenten wins best costume. It's hard to see in the vid, but he was a guy in a car wreck, with one half of his body normal and the other all scraped up, from his sock to his face. I think it's funny that he ripped and burned a nice Sunday shirt- Rachel probably didn't like that- but it looked cool. BTW, thanks for fixing the blind and saving me a lot of worry.

The Little Gym trunk or treat party was actually so much fun. Logan was a natural on the bar, and Jacob was so cute -he got his face painted after he got there. I liked his tiger fight with Logan.

Logan is quickly learning how to talk -he usually copies my last word - and he understands almost everything. I need to videotape him pointing out letters and saying their sounds.

I like the swimming tiger. He kicks his legs like that in the bathtub all the time, probably because we taught him to do that last summer in the pool.

Oh the little tiger and his roar are so adorable. Sorry about the super long post!

Curly Apples

Logan loves grabbing an apple or two off of Grandma Webb's tree whenever he visits, so she gave us a whole bag. Usually Logan eats apples from the bottom up, core, seeds, and all. But since he discovered the cool apple curler machine, he won't go back to eating them normal - for now.

Logan has a knack for finding yummy things in the pantry and getting me to give them to him. We ended up going on the front steps to eat the otter pops after he made sure I got the scissors out of the drawer. Then he got so happy he ran really fast to the front door - he knows thats where we eat otter pops together. It is actually really fun that he always wants me to eat one with him he keeps pointing to his and mine. Then as soon as he is done he hurries to the door with all the trash and whines so I'll open it and he can run to the trash can. He sure helps me keep things clean.

Kids and Kids

Every time we go to Alpine we stop to play at Rachel's farm. She has baby goats, chickens, ducks, baby chicks, and sometimes horses or cows in the pasture right next door. We love this cute little brown spotted goat that Joel named Escobel. We call her Bell, and she will follow you around, while the all black goats just run away from you. There were six baby goats, and Rachel is selling all but Bell.

Alan is usually nice to Logan, but I caught him pulling Logan's hair and I had to pry away his fingers. Boys will be boys.

And Logan was pretty mad.

So Alan was put in the cage. Just kidding he liked to go in there and shut the door.

Just Peachy

Logan loves canned peaches, but the canning process was by no means perfect.

One jar's bottom broke off, so I found peaches floating in the big pot and had to fish them out.

Logan got a little bored playing with Daddy and discovered he could poke holes in the peaches, or even better - rip them apart. "Uh-oh."

Does anyone know how to get rid of the tons of fruit flies in my kitchen? They are still there even after my peaches have been gone for over a day. I hate those annoying flies, but they remind me of my high school science class with Mr. Shuler where we predicted the traits of the drosophila melanogastor. Did anyone else do that lab?

Las Vegas

I loved this chandalier. Each crystal was hanging from its own thread, and could move separately. I tried to blow on them, but they were too far away.

Pete relaxing after a long day of driving.

We had fun with Hallie. Julia and Logan loved the family hot tub- there was also an adult hot tub and pool -and Julia even learned how to say "hot tub" really cute. Logan would just point at it and walk over there saying "hot, hot," and then get in by himself.

The Silverton was a fun place for Logan, even if we missed the mermaid show.

See the big Manta Ray sucking on the glass.

Planet Hollywood with its cool indoor sky.

MGM Grand. The Rainforest Cafe. Logan really liked the twinking stars, moving butterflies and a moving alligator.
The Bellagio, my favorite hotel.

We went to the Ultimate Variety show -really good because it had a little of everything. We liked the acrobatic guys, and the piano juggler was really funny. I'd say it was worth the 90 minutes of salesman's blabber- plus we got 5 buffet tickets.