Utah or BYU who is going to win?

In State Rivalries, I think that this is what Football is all about! Today, is the day of the State Rivalry between 2 very beloved Football teams! Who are you routing for?

In our house we will be watching two games, first the Utah vs. Byu game and the the other In State Rivalry that we care about FSU vs. Uof F!

But, let my house tell you who We are routing for and then let me show you the rivalry of our neighborhood (okay, the Hunts- who thought they had to broadcast who they were routing for since they knew who Matt was routing for!)

What the Hunts don't realize that Matt has a plan for the 1/2 hour before the game starts! He and the kids made signs to plant in their yard and also signs to put up at our friends the Gali's when we watch the game at their house. They have a huge movie screen in their basement that we watch the game on every year for the last 3 years! There are 5 families that route for the Cougars at the Gali's and then there are the 3 Ute fans that come and sometimes get bugged but other times scream their heads off afterthe win! Will we Ute's be able to Scream our heads off again this year? Only time will tell!

Turkey Dinner!

So, two weeks ago we were invited by the Hunt's house to share Thanksgiving Dinner with them, we have done alot with them; Horseback riding, baseball games, game nights, movies etc.. their middle group of kids are Devin and Kyler's age. Kristy their second oldest daughter is Mckenna's ballet teacher and the Eshelle Advisor (highschool drill team leader.) So we thought it would be fun to spend this special day with them. We expected to have the Moncrief's with us too, but they never came and we never got a hold of them!

We started out with the dinner at 2 p.m.

and then moved on to looking at all the Turkey Bowl pictures that I had taken and made copies of for the Hunts.

After the food, some of us rested,

played games or went on to have a sing-a-long! It was fun to be able to sing with people who enjoy singing since at my house the kids always dread our Sunday or Family night various sing-a-longs. We sang music from Phantom of the Opera, Danny Boy and Amazing Grace. Patrice is an amazing pianist, I mean like professional quality, but ended up putting her piano days on hold to have a family instead, and now has time to spend on her amazing talent and so it was really fun to listen and sing to her playing.

After all the food and fun, Devin stayed and watched Premonition and the rest of us went home to record the New spot about the Turkey Bowl!

A Turkey Bowl and fun times

Happy Thanksgiving!
Today we started out with our 7Th annual Turkey Bowl. Last year was ciaos, there were too many people so we only invited really close friends and with their families in town, we still ended up with 2 games going on at the same time.

The cool thing this year was our games were televised on KCSG. The sports anchor was doing a story on Turkey Bowls and he ended up coming to the High School were we were all playing. It was fun to have our close friends and the family have their 5 minutes of fame! We recorded it on our DVR and I am trying to figure out how to record it so that I can included it as a blog entry!

Everyone had so much fun and I took so many pictures that I have picked out a few of my favorite for everyone to enjoy!


Here are a few of the football players, we invited the Hunts, the Gublers, the Gali's, Andersons and the McCoys to come play with a handful of kids to even it out.


Matt had so much fun this is what he looks forward to more than the Turkey dinner, which we spent eating with the Hunts at their house!


Here are a few familiar faces; Natalie is Devin's twin and she is holding her sister Amelia. But the most familiar is our sweet Mckenna Marie, she played awhile and then thought that it was getting too crazy, so she sat with me and helped take pictures. Since she was hanging around, she got to talk to the camera man!



Here is Brook and Me watching the games, I took about 300 pictures, alot of them are awesome shots! Look at Kenna's awesome Leap! Amelia and her older sister Kristy (Kenna's ballet teacher,) were doing leaps and so Kenna decided that it was her turn to try!



Check out that Catch that Matt made! and here is the Camera Man, Pete!



Amelia, Mckenna and Kristy talk to Pete, the camera guy about the tradition of the Turkey Bowl, Pete also talked to Ethan Gali, Natalie and Cory McCoy, it was a really fun spot on the News.

If you are wondering about the High school sign and the tree it was a very cool thing. As the girls and I were driving to Albertsons, we noticed that this tree had icicles hanging on it and the grass had ice on it. I guess that this is natures way of showing you that we are starting a cold snap! It was really nice weather though while the game was going on and then started getting nippy as the day progressed!
Next up, Turkey Dinner!

Devin Turns 17!

So we knew that this day would come, the year that I remember as the year before I met Matt. Seriously, can Devin be this old?!

Devin spent the weekend we were going to celebrate his birthday with a group of his friends instead hanging out and watching movies at Tyler's house and at Heidi's house. Heidi is why we didn't celebrate on Saturday like we planned! I guess we are finally reaching that point in our lives and his where his friends are more important than we are. Now- don't get so sad, we did get to celebrate his birthday on the Day that he was born!

We ended up having cake, ice cream and a lot of Teenagers over on the day of his birthday date, but it was so much fun listening to them, having them play foosball with Matt (yes, they wanted to play with him!) and just watching Devin interact with his closest buds and buddetts!

After hanging out at our house the kids decided to go Iceblocking. They had a lot of fun!

Oh yeah! Natalie and Brook (the gals in the above picture,) came and decorated Devin's room which he still hasn't really cleaned up yet, but he was really excited about it. They are really good friends to him!

What a mess!

What do Pirates and Murder Mysteries have in Common?

Answer: They can be seen at the Brower's house October 26th!

Okay, so I am really late with this entyr, but I needed pictures and had to wait for them all to upload!

Shiver Me Timbers and Rattle my bones! Welcome to the Salty Sea Dog Ye Mateys!

Come and Join Me, Blackspot Jane, and Captain Ham Hands Joe in welcoming all our many townspeople to the town of Port Royale!

Some one has been murdered- some one is the Murderer come along for the ride and figuare out who they are...

Matt and I have wanted to do a Halloween party for so long, but have never really planned one, so this year we just said "What the heck! Let's do it!"

Then we went to work, we found a great website that had everything planned, scripted and great instructions on how it all worked and ideas on what to wear. It was really so easy, the only hard part was deciding who to invite and how many was too many and narrowing down the guests. We ended up inviting 20 couples!! (yes dad, I can hear you now-I know you think that I am crazy!) We ended up with 28 people coming and it was awesome!

It was so worth the planning and stress of the before Party events (we even incorporated the kids as the servants!). I assigned out a different meal item for each couple coming and then Matt and I provided the main meal item - rib of skeleton and Tremor bodies, mashed brains (only 1 pot w/ oozing brown blood) and a side of creepy corn. Everyone else brought ghoulish dessert, salads, rolls and other types of creepy items that they could imagine! Yummy!

We have so many pictures of all the activites and the set up, that I figuared that it would be better to put it all in a slideshow!

We didn't know what to expect out of our guest for costumes- I thought Matt had a great outfit! But everyone exceeded my expectation! I hope you enjoy all you see!


After all the eating, laughing and sleuthing it came down to who was the murderer and why did he/she kill Merciless Morgan! I had no idea who the killer was because I wanted to be surprised too, it was fun because not a single person guessed the killer (I'm not telling,) and that was very odd.

We had a voting poll for best dressed, super sleuth, richest character (who had the most money left over,) and best played character!

If you have never attended a Murder Mystery dinner you must or throw one of your own it is a blast!!

It was so much fun that we are going to make having a Halloween party a tradition every year! Next year who knows it might be a Masquerade or a Gladiator theme!