A Night of Fun at Cornbellys

Last week Jim had a work b-b-q so the kids and I met Kelly, my mom, and my mom's friend from California at Cornbellys. I have to say that place is amazing. There was so much for the kids to do. The girls loved all the princess fun and Andrew loved the pedal go carts and the giant air trampoline.
He did not like the haunted creature and neither did grandma, they broke out halfway through. They enjoyed the duck races, swings, slides and the other activities for young kids.

Ally loved the little Farmer's Market. She had fun selling vegetables to Judy and me. And she especially loved the Pumpkin Princess.
What made it even better for the kids was the stop at McDonald's for dinner on the way home. It was a really fun night. I want to make it a yearly tradition, which I'm sure the kids won't complain about. They really had a lot of fun and so did Mom.

Tagged

I was tagged by my sister Kelly. Here's what you do. You go to your fourth file, pick the fourth picture and post it. Here it is....

My fourth file was 2007 Soccer. This was Andrew's first year playing soccer. My friend Camilla was the coach but went to Sweden the first 5 weeks of the season so she asked me to be her assistant. I figured that since I don't know much about soccer I could handle five weeks, that meant five games, right? Wrong, she neglected to tell me they played two games a week. I convinced Jim to help me coach and we had a lot of fun coaching the team. We ended up coaching the rest of the season with help from Camilla. We had a great group of boys (and parents who didn't expect too much ;)). Andrew loved playing and continued this year.

I now tag Brooke, Tiffney, Kelly Cabreros and Trish.

Field Trip to the Hogle Zoo

Last week I got the opportunity to go with Andrew's class to the Hogle Zoo. I was a little nervous when the teacher told me first thing that I had the most rambunctious group. After the bus trip and walk to the pavilion to eat lunch, my goal became to not lose any of the kids. We had a fun time seeing all the animals. The boys enjoyed making the animal noises at the animals and pretending to be each animal. We made it to the end of the day and I didn't lose one boy. We had a few minutes left before we had to get on the bus so I told the boys they could go play on the playground. I turned around and couldn't find Alex. I asked the other boys where Alex was and they didn't know. I looked around and saw him outside the gate walking toward a Weber School District bus. I told the other boys to stay put and took off running yelling for him. Thankfully, I got Alex back and he and all the boys enjoyed running around the playground. We all made it on the bus and back to the school. It really was a lot of fun to be able to be there with Andrew (one more benefit to being an at-home Mom).


My Group of Boys!

A Night at Chuck-E-Cheese

With Jim being gone I have been trying to come up with things to do with the kids to pass the time quickly. Friday night we went to Chuck-E-Cheese with Kelly, her kids, and my mom and dad. The kids had a lot of fun playing the games and winning tickets. I was proud of myself 'cause I got a ball in the 100,000 point slot in skee ball. Yeah, I was there for the kids, but I decided to play a little too. It made me miss Jim more 'cause we always have skee ball competitions, which I would most likely have won this time (doesn't happen very often).


Ally enjoyed Grandpa helping her on some of the games and was quite impressive on the spider stomp game.



Andrew wanted to take a picture of me playing a game and this is what he got. I guess I need to help him so he learns to not cut off people's heads. It was a fun night out.

Pumpkin Land

Since Jim is out of town again, Kelly and I took the kids to Pumpkin Land on Thursday. They had a lot of fun posing for pictures, running around the corn maze to get to the blow up slides and trampoline and picking pumpkins. Elle kept putting pumpkins in the wagon so Kelly ended up buying more than she had planned.



Now my kids ask me every day when we are going to carve our pumpkins. I told them they have to wait until Dad gets home. Right now, they aren't too thrilled about that, but I know they will have much more fun carving pumpkins with Dad there.

Parade of Purses/Scentsy Party

I am hosting a Parade of Purses/Scentsy party at my house next Wednesday, October 15 from 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. If you would like to attend, give me your e-mail address and I will e-mail you my address.

Dancing Queen

We signed Ally up for a community dance class that lasts eight weeks to see how she would enjoy 'organized' dance. She loves it!! And, she is very cute while trying to learn the technique of dance. Her teacher does a very good job teaching a bunch of three year olds to dance. They are learning a dance and Ally's favorite part is when they 'shake it'.