HAPPY HALLOWEEN! THUG FOR LIFE!

Can I just say... I LOVE Halloween!  Brynn, Erin, and I did a Halloween party last night.  The theme was "Unhappily Ever After".  It was so much fun.  We, of course, had way too much food but that was okay with me.  Brynn's house was decorated so well. (Done by Brynn)  and Erin made some super awesome cupcakes.  We played some games and even had a costume contest.  We wanted somewhere to take everyone's picture so we made a backdrop.  LOL! Sorta reminded me of those backdrops they had for high school dances.  We like to watch a movie at the end of the party.  We watched Hocus Pocus this year.  Anyway, here are the pictures of everyone and some funny ones through out the party. (P.S. the pumpkin above is the one carved for this year.)

Houston as Jack, from Jack and Jill.

Brynn as Little Miss Muffet. Those bloody spots are sporting spiders. Yum!

Erin as Cannibal Gretel.  Yeah, Hanzel is in the basket.

Houston and I as Jack and Jill.  So painful!

Melissa as a Thug.  She was the winner of our costume contest!  It was so cool!  I don't like Tupac but that shirt is freaking awesome!

Jared as a Lumberjack.  He didn't have his axe but that's okay.

Quinn and Aubrey as Ron and Hermione.

During the lap games these two sat on each others lap about the whole game.

Erin and Brynn.  Such good costumes!

This is the picture of the party!  So awesome!

Poor Erin.  LOL!

Yeah, I got to hold the Thug!

Us... Yeah, it's hard to take pictures of yourself as well as another person.

Houston took this picture. LOL!  I believe I was trying to act out the Salem Witch Trials.

Ain't No Easy Way, Ain't No Easy Way Out!

So, concert going has been apart of our relationship from the beginning.  We love going to see our favorite bands.  Lucky for us most of them are not so well known so the shows are smaller and we can actually get by the stage if we want.  We have been to some interesting places and seen very interesting people.  Ha ha! That's 1/2 the fun, just watching people. 

With that said, I would like to pay my respect to those people who travel around for who knows how long to pass on their musical gift.  Here are some photo's from some the the shows we have been to. (Not all but a fair few)

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, we have seen them 3 times. This is from the first.  We don't remember when our first "date" was so I always say it's this show. ;)

The Sounds, They were good, until the fight.

Wolfmother,  This is us with the lead singer Andrew Stockdale.  That was a great show!

 The Dead Weather, last year,  One of 3 bands including Jack White.  We were right by the stage, it was so cool!  My favorite member is the guy second from the right.  His name is Jack LJ Lawrence. He is an awesome Bass player.  We can also say that we were right by Jack White (the guy on the right) He's the most famous...If you like the White Stripes anyway. LOL!  We saw The Raconteurs as well but I can't find the pictures.  I believe that show was in 2008.

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club.  This is the third time we saw them. This is one of our favorite people, Peter Hayes. We flew to Seattle to see them because their tour didn't come through Utah. It was all good though.  It was in a great city.  We love Seattle!

Franz Ferdinand 2009.  Crappy picture, great show! This is where we were introduced to the Born Ruffians which we saw last night (Oct 18, 2010)

Just us! Too many crazy people to get good pictures.  It was awesome anyway.

I'm pretty sad that I don't have the photos from the other shows we went to, but we have been to a lot. If your brave you can check out these 2 videos I took at the Wolfmother show and The Sounds show.  They are great videos. :)

Wolfmother,  Song: New Moon Rising


The Sounds, Song: Beatbox

For the love of worms, bugs, and our little Phynix

 I have found a new pass time.  Playing with my adorable niece Phynix.  She is so stinking smart!  Our first adventure, with weird things, was funding out the Potato bugs are nice.  She wouldn't hold it at first, once I convinced her it was safe she held her hand out with a serious look of caution on her face.  It climbed onto her hand and she was okay for a few seconds until it start to move. It tickled her hand. Once she learned this, she wanted to hold it again but it had probably landed in Colorado somewhere, courtesy of her panic.
*Sorry no photo's of this.  I'm sure there will be more chances soon enough* 

We have also found fun in making hats out of paper.  She loves her Indian Head dress and her crown, but what she loves best are the stapler, Elmer's glue, and scissors.  She is so good about using them right.  Her scissors are safety scissors of course, just in case. ;)  The best part of it all was when she started accidentally cutting triangles of paper all by herself.  She was so proud of herself.  She kept saying, "I did it! I did it!" All of her triangle pieces made it onto the crown as jewels. From what I hear, she still has both pieces at home.

Phynix and her Head dress

Her and her scissors.  Look at how well she uses them!

Her crown

Yesterday I was weeding my parent's flower bed and I came across a huge worm.  I showed it to her and the first thing she did was held her hand and said, "Let me hold it".  No fear whatsoever. After we had put the worm back in the dirt she walked into the garage and came back with a little tea light candle lantern.  She walked up to the dirt and called, "Worm.....WORM!"  I asked her if the lantern was a Fairy house. (Like the one in Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue)  She said no.  So I asked what it was, as she still called for her worm and she said, "It's a worm house"  We spent the rest of the afternoon weeding, replanting bulbs, and searching for worms.  Relocating to the dirt filled lantern.

Not to mention she LOVES puppies.  Julie's dogs had puppies and Julie brought 2 of them down to Utah with her last weekend.  Phynix keeps saying "Oooh! They are so cute!" (About as high pitched as she can go.)

What better way to spend the day than with a curious, funny,  and fearless explorer.