Our October

We started the month off with a Halloween party for Lexi and Oakley.  We had 25 girls come.  It was a blast!  We had two treasure hunts, one for Lexi and her friends, and one for Oakley and her friends.  Lexi’s was more difficult, it included invisible ink, backward messages, digging, and breaking rocks.  Oakley and her friends searched for skull goblets by using picture clues.  We ate rats, spiders, mummy toes, monster eyes, and witches brew.  We ended the night with a scary movie!

Lexi reading her treasure map.

Oakley finding a clue.

Watching the movie!

PUMPKIN PATCH TIME!

 

Witches Night Out!

Spending time with my family and friends, and hundreds of other women dressed up as witches. 

Carving Pumpkins!

Halloween trick-or-treat with a Monkey, and

Two Witches!

We also had a classroom party, two preschool parties, breakfast with a witch, a school carnival, a Mangone family party, three dance parties, and trunk-or-treat!  What a busy month!

Ten Years Ago

Guess What Shawn brought Home?

I was doing laundry and in walked Shawn home early from work with 10 dozen roses!!  One for each year we’ve been married.  What a sweet-heart. 

Married August 4, 2000

I can’t believe it has been ten years!  The time has just flown by.  Shawn says he doesn’t remember ever being single, but then, he doesn’t remember anything. 

Eleven and a half years ago I was invited to go to Lake Powell with a friend.  I met some wonderful new girls who needed a roommate and I needed a place to live.  I went to see their place and met Shawn the same night.  I new when I saw him I would marry him.  It took him over a year later to realize he needed me.  He proposed to me on May 17, 2000. 

Shawn always joked that he would buy me a ring from a candy machine.  When my engagement ring conveniently went missing from the jewelry store,  Shawn bought me a $.25 one from the toy ring machines in the mall.  Out popped my real ring!! 

                

Engagement Picture July 2000

 

Our temple ceremony was really great and surprisingly funny.  Every one laughed and enjoyed themselves.  Shawn even passed me his gum over the alter.  Years later I had someone tell me it was the best ceiling they had ever been to. 

 

Fun memories.

 

 

I LOVE YOU SHAWN!!  Thanks for the best ten years of my life!

Bear Lake

Last week we spent a day at Bear Lake.  My sister-in-law and her family invited us to ride jet skis with them.  We left early Thursday morning.  We packed all our sand toys, coolers, towels, extra clothes, and chairs and headed up to Kaysville to pick up Sara and her family.  We crowded all Sara’s gear in and her two children.  Needless to say, four car-seats make for a tight fit.  Finally, we were on our way.  First we drove to Richmond and hit the Pepperidge Farm thrift store where we bought cookies, and fish crackers.  Then McDonalds for a quick lunch.  The playground area was closed because it was so hot, what a joke!  Sara and I let our kids play anyway.  Then off to Gossners for some yummy cheese.  At last, time to see the lake!  The kids loved the beach and jet skiing.  Shawn joined us in the early evening and had his time jet skiing as well.  We ate pizza and raspberry shakes for dinner.  We had such a fun time.  I was surprised how much fun it was, and how well behaved my kids were.  I can’t wait to go back. 

 

Lexi covering her feet in the sand,

Crew spent hours playing on this beach chair.

Oakley spent most her time making a sand castle.  She loves to dig and play on the beach.