Halloween!

I love Halloween as everyone knows it is my favorite holiday. We made our costumes once again. They turned out pretty spectacular. I was up until 4 am the night before finishing up but it was well worth it. All my best friends were there with me on my favorite holiday and I couldn't have asked for anything more! Happy Halloween! The pictures say everything so here ya go...

California

So, I am finally updating my blog from October! :) We went to California the week of my Dad's birthday. We all drove there as a family. Day one we went to the Orange County Sawp Meet and the Dana Point Harbor. I absolutely love both of these places and I went crazy at the Swap Meet and bought tons of things...of course!

Dana Point Harbor

Then the next three days we went to Disneyland. We stayed in a hotel near Disneyland and we walked there every morning. We were at Disneyland for my Dad's birthday and we all had so much fun! It is Daniel's all time favorite place so he lived it up to its fullest and did everything he wanted to do.

Disney Castle

A Bug's Life

Waiting for The Haunted Mansion ride

Toon Town

The beginning of Disneyland

Tea Cups!

Mater and Lightning McQueen

Jail Time

My Dad is STRONG

Daniel and I goofing off

It's a buggie bug world

Then on day five we went to Universal Studios and it was my first time there. Daniel had been there before. It was pretty neat taking the tours and learning about movie sets.

Driving there

Shark

The Flinstones

Despicable Me

Hollywood Baby

Day 6 we went to the San Diego Zoo and Sea World. I had never been to the Zoo in California and it was HUGE! We didn't plan for the size of it. I plan to go there again because I didn't even see all the things I wanted to see.

Ploar Bears

Giant Elephants

Daniel liked the big Cats

Sea World

Dinner our last night in Cali

We all had so much fun and hopefully will be able to do more vacations like this one with our families.

MOTIVATION

Blah Blah Blah! I pretty much have had no motivation to go running. Ask me how my half marathon training is...better yet don't ask! Pretend you did ask and also pretend I said it's going fantastic!
We went to Cali last week and I will post more about that later.
Monday our lives went back to normal, only it kinda didn't. I got rear ended on the freeway and now my arm is messed up. I am hoping it heals but dang it hurts. I am driving this ghetto rental car that has stained seats and is yucky. I don't even want to think about having to get in it shortly.
I haven't started on our Halloween costumes because I am BUSY! Story of my life...hopefully I will attempt to work on them and finish them this weekend.
Pretty much we are boring for now so that's all you get until I post about Cali!

Costumes...

So, I have been contemplating our Halloween costumes pretty much since last year. Since last year's costumes were so stressful I thought I should go easy on myself. Here are all the ideas and the order in which they popped in my head...

The Riddler~Poison Ivy (This costume will happen one day when I am as skinny as a rail)

Mr & Mrs Incredible (We need a Jack-Jack)

Peter Pan~Wendy (Daniel did not want to wear tights or anything like them)
Eric~Ariel (I just am never sure about this one)

Woody~Jesse (This was the final decision until Daniel mentioned something else)

~Jack Skellington and Sally~ This is the winning costume. It shouldn't be that difficult. I know I could totally go out and buy these but I just don't think that will seem very "Jessica like" since I like my home made costumes. So, wish me luck because I am going to need it. We leave to go to California on Saturday and then when we get back we have to plan my Grandma's 90th surprise birthday party. So I have a total of zero time. Last year I had zero time also and I survived with a fantastic Halloween costume to show off. I just LOVE Halloween :)

Crazy Weekend :)

So we didn't have to work this past weekend at Wingers. Yay for us right? Well sorta Yay. Ha ha even though we didn't work we had a weekend full of events. Thursday I had my friend Kara's Wedding. She got married in the Salt Lake Temple on September 23. We attended her ceremony, luncheon and reception so that was a full day of fun!
On Friday, September 24 Daniel's sister Nicole got married. It was so lovely and fun. They got sealed in the Oquirrh Mountain Temple. Then they had a luncheon in there honor at there ward house. There reception was at Daniel and Nicole's Aunt Jan's house. It was done up really cute. We were really excited to spend that special day with them and be able to see Daniel's family.

Daniel asked Nicole for a special dance that they shared together

This is Daniel and his sister Maddie, they are twins!

Daniel's sister Ciara she is so cute and fun

The bride and groom with us before they left on their honeymoon

Then Saturday after the wedding my cousin Gage got baptized. My cousin Chauntay had a party for turning 3. Another cousin Drake, turned 18. Then, my sister turned 21?!?! We went to dinner and a movie for her birthday and it was such a fun day.

Halloween Decoration

So, Halloween is right around the corner and this past weekend I went to Swiss Days and saw some adorable Halloween decor. The main thing that stuck out in my head was a $50 chair. I totally would have forked over the money if it didn't seem so easy to make. I also figured I could make it cuter and I could probably make a little something to match it and that is just what I did. I made a Halloween chair with a cuter chair frame and cuter fabric and I made a wall hanging to go with it. I took the pictures with my phone so they aren't high quality but you get the just of it. These were really fun to make and I love them more since I made them.

MOM'S

So, I came across this age break down of how we think of our mothers. I have seen similar things before but this is almost exactly how I thought at each age so I found it comical and decided to post it.

At age 4: Mom knows everything!

At age 8: Mom knows a lot.

At age 12: Mom doesn’t really know everything.

At age 14: Mom doesn’t know anything because I know everything!

At age 16: Mom doesn’t exist because she is embarrassing and lame.

At age 18: Mom is controlling.

At age 21: Mom probably knows something about this.

At age 28: Mom knows a lot. I need to call her.

At age 35: Before we decide, let’s ask Mom.

At age 45: I wonder what Mom thinks about this?

At age 75: I wish I could ask my Mom about this.

I found this funny because the younger I was the more I looked up to my mom and then through my teenage years well, I didn't think my mom was cool. At all. Now I need her for everything. There are times that we disagree with certain subjects but overall her advice is great. There are a lot of moms that need to be taking notes on how to be a good mom and I could name a few of them. I got lucky enough to know a few of the great moms in the world. I am glad to have my Mom, Aunt's and Grandma's in my life! :)