Halloween 2007

Well, all I have to say is, "Thank Heavens Halloween is over!" I just hate Halloween, I'm like the Scrooge of Halloween. I think my hatred stems from my childhood, when my mom would offer to pay us with either money, or bags of candy from the store not to go trick-or-treating. I can definitely see myself doing that in years to come. I don't like the fact that I have to spend $$$ on candy for a bunch of kids who I don't even know, that may or may not even live in my neighborhood and who are also most likely way to old to be trick or treating in the first place. Not to mention $$$ on costumes that they will wear for like 2 hours. I tried really hard this year to put my Scrooginess aside though, so Jenna could have a fun Halloween. I even let her and Matt carve a pumpkin (I HATE carving pumpkins!)

All ranting aside...here are pictures from our super fun Halloween (that was sarcastic).

Okay people, mark this date on your calendars, me punching holes in the Dora pumpkin was my first (and probably last) pumpkin adventure. I thought the pumpkin turned out pretty darn cute though, as far as pumpkins go.

Jenna was really scared to go Trick-or-Treating, but once some friends from the ward came over and we tagged along with them, she warmed up to the idea a little bit. She just kept on saying, "Thank you so much mommy, this is just so much fun!" She was really enthralled with the idea that she could just run from house to house and they would give her candy just for saying "Trick or treating" (she adds the -ing, I've tried to correct her, it doesn't work). Anyway, after about 6 houses she had reached her max and told me "I've had just about enough for tonight mommy." We headed home with a few suckers, one bag of Skittles, a pack of smarties and one spider ring. Not what I would have considered the best loot when I was younger, but for Jenna she was in 7th Heaven.

Candy to hand out at our house: $15

Jenna's Tigger Costume: $4 on an after Halloween sale last year

Black pants to go w/ Tigger costume: $3.50

Diet Pepsi to help gear up for the night: $1.07

Pumpkin from Wal-Mart: $4.00

Jenna having a great time: priceless??? Yah right, it cost me $27.57

CONGRATS NIKKI & EVAN!

This is the WATERFALL where Evan proposed to Nikki yesterday. They are now officially engaged. No date is set yet, but probably next Jan-March sometime. All I have to say to Evan is, "Welcome to our freaky family. If you can handle us, you're a better man than most." Oh, and one more thing, "I am the coolest one in the family, hands down." ;) I'm going to be the youngest, hottest Matron of Honor there ever was!

Congratulations Nikki and Evan!!!!! I love you!

Happy 28th Birthday Matt!!

Today was Matt's 28th birthday and boy did Jenna have a fun day! ;) We went out to dinner at a restaurant called D. Rose and then came back home and opened presents and had cake. Jenna also made Matt a birthday card and sent a video of herself singing happy birthday to him while he was at work today. She's not the greatest at keeping presents a secret. Like last night at dinner she told him, "We got a game for you daddy!" Then she started crying because she felt bad for spoiling the surprise, so we just gave him his game last night. After he opened it she said, "And tomorrow we'll give you your shirt!" At least she didn't mention the pants that went with it. There was still one surprise for tonight. Oh well, Matt didn't mind and it gave us a good laugh.

Yes, Matt is a 28 year old man who requested to have a funfetti cake for his birthday. I would have made anything...pie, cheese cake, trifle...but no, this grown man wanted funfetti. (Incidentally, that is the same cake Jenna wanted for her 2nd birthday!) Well, in Matt's defense, funfetti is pretty yummy whether you're 2 or 28!

Happy Birthday Matt! We Love You!

Yes, baseball is THAT boring

Brooke only took one 45 minute nap today...which is about 3 hours less than she normally sleeps on a day time napping basis. Anyway, this was at about 7pm and she is either really tired or just bored from watching baseball with Matt. I tend to think it's the latter.

Lazy...I mean Crazy Sundays

This is what I came across after I got done showering and getting ready for church this morning and I thought it was just too funny, therefore, blogworthy. Curlers in her hair, dress off so she didn't accidentally pee in it or get it dirty and wearing her "boy" underwear because all of her cute Dora ones were in the wash. Yep, that's pretty much Jenna.

Funnies for the week:

Talking to her friend Hunter regarding some plastic farm animals of hers:

Jenna: Careful! These are very expensive and Mommy wont buy new ones!

Jenna is pretending to type of the top of a toy truck, I ask, "What are you doing?"

Jenna: I'm just checking my blog.

One not so funny for the week:

Jenna fell from the top rung of her playhouse rock wall (probably about 8 feet off the ground). Miraculously, she only scrapped her stomach on the rock climbing pegs on the way down, but didn't break any bones or anything serious. She's not allowed to climb on that side of her playhouse because it's too advanced for her, so after this little incident I asked her if she was going to play on that in the future and said, "I think I probably will." At least she was honest.

Book Club

Last night Book Club was at my house and I thought it was lots of fun (if I do say so myself). It was interesting to hear everyone's differing opinions about the books. We read the Twilight series, by Stephenie Meyer and while I was absolutely addicted, others were only luke warm. Oh well. The party was still great fun. Thanks to all who came and made it a blast!

These were some cookies I made that are supposed to look like a mouth with bloody vampire fangs. Matt didn't really see my vision on these ones.
Here's Tisha and Jessica (two die hard fans like myself) sporting their "Jacob" and "Edward" temporary tattoos that came in book 2. I gave mine to my sister or else I would have TOTALLY been wearing one!

All in a day's work...

Some days are just funnier than others. Yesterday, for instance, all this funniness happened and it wasn't even 1pm yet.

I'm giving Brooke a bath and Jenna is trying to climb on the bathroom counter with her church shoes on that have 1 inch heals:
Me: Jenna, I don't want you to climb up there, that's not safe.
Jenna: I'll be obedient Mommy, as soon as I climb up on the counter and dance for a minute.
Me: No, I want you to obey right now, otherwise you could fall and crack your head.
Jenna: Don't you mean cranium, Mommy?

Later...

Jenna is eating lunch and flinging her Chicken Noodle Soup everywhere:
Jenna: Mommy my noodles are doing flips into the bowl.
Me: I don't think that's a great idea.
Jenna: I think you're mistaken Mommy, because that is a great idea.

Knock on Wood...

Well, it looks like Jenna is officially potty trained!! An endeavour that started last December (when she was 18 months), has now finally concluded with overwhelming success! She was pretty much like 90% potty trained last December, when one day she just decided she didn't want to go on the potty anymore. So, we left it alone and only tried to rekindle the subject every few months or so...to no avail. Finally, last week Matt and I just decided enough was enough, she's a little over 2 years old and smart as can be, there was no reason for her not to be potty trained...plus, Pull-Ups were killing our grocery budget. Anyway, after a weekend filled with dozens of trips to the potty and a few Resolve clean ups on the carpet, it looks like Jenna's finally let go of her stubborn ways and agreed to use the potty! Hooray! Now I just need to decide how to spend the extra $40/month we'll save on diapers! Watch out Ebay, here I come.

Tag...We're it

ABC TAG: So my friend Gay tagged me and Matt for this ABC tag thingy and I thought, "There is no way in HECK that Matt is going to fill this dude out!" If you recall, on my very first blog I wrote three things that I thought were unequivocally true, one of which included the fact that Matt would never contribute a posting to this blog...well, I've been proven wrong. So without further adieu, I give you ABC Tag: featuring the first (and probably last) contribution from Matt.

Kelie
A- Attached or single: Attached--jeeze that sounds painful
B- Best Friend: The characters in whatever book I'm reading that day
C-Cake or Pie: cheese cake, or Matt's mom's peach pie
D- Day of choice: Saturday
E- Essential Item: brown old navy flip flops
F- Favorite Color: pink
G- Gummi Bears or Worms: bears--but in the Gummi family I actually prefer cousin Sour Watermelon Slice
H- Hometown: Provo, UT (many may not have heard of it: it's a brutal town, full of gangs (The Buttercream), slums (South of campus), and religious zealots!
I- Indulgence(s): Eating out and books. My dream is to one day have enough books to have a big library in our house and also to have a Taco Bell in our garage.
J- January or July: July--although, not to be a downer, both months are pretty terrible in Missouri!
K- Kids: What the...? I knew I forgot something at the mall...
L-Life is Incomplete Without: Laughter
M- Marriage Date: May 1, 2003
N- Number of Siblings: 1 brother, 2 sisters
O- Oranges or Apples: Orange flavored Popsicles, Apple Jolly Ranchers...those are just flavors right, they don't actually come from a real food do they?
P- Phobias or Fears: Spiders!! And of course an Internet outage.
Q- Quotes: "In matters of utmost importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing." The Importance of Being Earnest
R- Reason To Smile: Jenna's sayisms
S- Season: Fall
T- Tag Three: Kristi/Ben, Sarah/Dan, Marcie (Marcie, although you do not blog *tear*, you can email me your list!)
U- Unknown Fact About Me: I dye my hair...what...you could tell???? I'm shocked! Okay then, I hate onions, celery, tomatoes, lettuce, cucumbers, zucchini, cantaloupe, honey dew, peppers, peas, pears...oh, and mushrooms
V- Vegetarian or Meat Eater: Haha, see letter U and deduce for yourself
W- Worst Habit: Sarcasm (or am I just being sarcastic about that?)
X- X-Rays or Ultrasounds: ultrasounds I guess? Never had an X-ray, can it tell you the sex of your baby? I didn't think so.
Y- Your Favorite Food: Mexican with a kickin' salsa to go w/ the chips!
Z- Zodiac: Gemini, for what it's worth (a whole heap of nothin')

Matt:
A- Attached or single: Attached
B- Best Friend: Kelie
C-Cake or Pie: Pie
D- Day of choice: Saturday
E- Essential Item: Fingernail Scissors
F- Favorite Color: Blue
G- Gummi Bears or Worms: Bears
H- Hometown: Dugway, UT
I- Indulgence(s): BYU Football, candy (anything chocolate)
J- January or July: July
K- Kids: Yes, 2 girls
L- Life is Incomplete Without: BYU Football
M- Marriage Date: 5/1/03
N- Number of Siblings: 7
O- Oranges or Apples: Apples
P- Phobias or Fears: Snakes, Heights
Q- Quote(s): "Son of a Nutcracker!" ~Elf
R- Reason To Smile: My family
S- Season: Spring
T- Tag Three +:
U- Unknown fact About Me: My favorite sport to play is tennis
V- Vegetarian or Meat Eater: Meat
W- Worst Habit: Leaving my socks balled up by the side of the bed (Kelie made me put this)
X- X-Rays or Ultrasounds: Hun, what kind of question is that?
Y- Your Favorite Food: Pizza Factory's Chicken Fettuccine Alfredo
Z- Zodiac: Those are stupid

Hi, my name is Kelie and I'm a Heroes-aholic

Well, if you haven't seen me around or heard from me for the past week, I have a confession to make: I've been hidden away in my computer room watching the whole first season (25 one hour long episodes) of Heroes on my computer. Now, before you begin to assume that I've neglected my children, I will say that this courageous endeavor was done solely at my own expense, staying up some nights until 2am when the episodes were just so good I had to watch one more...and then one more. Anyway, I'm all caught up now and can go back to just reading until 1 in the morning!

Needless to say, I LOVE HEROES, and I can hardly stand waiting a week in between each episode now that I've been so spoiled to watch them at my own leisure. I never thought I would like Heroes, but that just goes to show you can't knock it till you try it!

A new purse...for my Germ-X

Today I made this purse that cost me a total of about $2.00. I got the "fabric" (really a place mat) at a garage sale brand new for $.25 and the ribbon cost me a buck or so. Anyway, it was really easy (once I got the sewing machine under control) and fun to do something a little crafty just for the heck of it.

Okay, so recently it has come to my attention that my self proclaimed "germaphobic" lifestyle is what some would consider obsessive and ridiculous.

Here are my top 10 germaphobe rules:

1. I wash my hands after using the restroom or changing a diaper.

2. I carry antibacterial stuff in my purse and diaper bag and use it often on myself and Jenna.

3. I use antibacterial wipes to wipe off hair chairs and table tops where Jenna will eat her food at restaurants.

4. I have Jenna use antibacterial stuff after she plays in the daycare at the gym.

5. I bathe my children DAILY.

6. I bathe daily.

7. I wear flip flops in hotel rooms...all the time (except in bed) and I pull off the comforter and put it in the corner (because they don't wash those after every guest you know!)

8. I use Clorox Antibacterial Hard Surface spray on my kitchen counter and Jenna's booster seat at least once a day.

9. I wash Jenna's and Brooke's toys in the dishwasher periodically.

10. I go through a big tub of Clorox disinfecting wipes about every 2 weeks.

Now, if this makes me a germaphobe, so be it. I'm happy to claim that title and quite honestly, I'm a little worried about people who find this list weird or out of the ordinary. In fact, if you are such a person, will you please let me know, so I can antibacterialize next time after I shake your germy hand. ;-)