CORN MAZE ! ! !

Took the Kiddos to a Corn Maze ! Black Island Farms in Syracuse, Utah . Totally fun ! It's not to far from our house . I have never been to a corn maze before so, it was something new for me too ! We were invited by Brett's aunt Rae to come and join her and some of her family . Brett had to work so , I took the kids and Bryan's friend " Lane" . They had lots of stuff to do there , We went down the slides and went thru all 3 phases of the maze. Sarah and I heard the boys talking in one of the mazes and the boys tried to find us. They told us to sing until they found us ... so , Sarah and I started singing the Veggie tales tune " We are the Pirates that don't do anything". of course we can't remember all the words so we did our best ! kinda fun singing at the top of your lungs in a corn maze ! They eventually found us and they had a MAP ! which was funny when we saw it because sarah and I went thru phase 1 in about 15 minutes and then we found out that we were being looped around the " O" in the Ronald McDonald House words ! We found out that it was supposed to be the biggest part of the maze ! We thought that we were just really good at mazes !

Brett's cousin Donna and her husband were there with their kids and she talked me into going down the slides ! They were really scary , and the second slide was a huge tube with bumps in it ! They wanted you to use those bags (nets) that you get oranges in ... for your bum to go down the slide ! Let me tell you . . . I have scrapbook paper that's thicker than those ! They looked like a handbag next to my backside ! but, we managed and when we got to the bottom the other adults told us to go again because that was the funniest thing they heard when we went down . I think I yelled " Whooooo Hooooo " really loud and then thudded at the bottom ! his cousin is alot of fun !

We all slept like rocks when we got home ! we are definitely going to go do that again !

Scrapbook Getaway Oct 2008

Scrapbook Getaway OCtober 2008 ! ! !

I attended the 2nd (for Me) scrapbook getaway weekend adventure Oct. 3-4 th at the Hampton Inn in Woods Cross ! I went with my sister-in-law Lisa and Brett's 2 cousin's " Donna & Stephanie " . This time around Lisa and I made our Halloween Cards while Donna & Steph made layouts of their kiddos .

At the table next to us was Brett's Cousin "Chad's " wife (Shay) and her mom and some Friends . We had a Great time ! we won some prizes here and there and we had treats and lots of laughs ! It's nice because there is no Hubby's and no kiddos . . Just some really cool moms who needed some "mom time". I was really proud that I made all my cards by the time we were ready to leave ! last time I was scatterbrained and only did 2 layouts and 2 cards ... I think Shay was up to 10 or 12 layouts and Steph and Donna had about 8-10 each ! they did some really cute stuff !

Lisa's cards turned out really cute ! I was proud of her for making little "fences" for her cards , she had to cut them all out by hand since we forgot our "big" sizzix machine ! and out of all the cricut machines & cartridges we couldn't find any fences ! we did learn some new fancy tricks with our machines though... they were taught to us by Shay's mom ! she is better than the Info-mercial lady on T.V. ! She's a keeper ! We had a Great time and now we are all talking about having "scraptime" at each others houses .. at least once every 2 months or so !

Layton Fire Department

Sarah and I went to the Kendall Bryant Day at the Layton Fire Department . It was really Cool ! We got to ride the "head on Collison" ride . and we got to "spot the Tot" .. that is where they have the parent sit in a car and see how far away a child is in your mirror before you see them behind a car. I saw sarah at 8 feet .. I thought that was kinda bad but the lady said some parents don't see a child till 18 feet or 20 ! We saw a grease fire demo and we got to see the SWAT team and they let you try on all the gear .. The line was really long so, I was sad that I didn't get to try on the gear ! We had Sarah's fingerprints and photo taken , we got to take all kinds of magnets, pencils, pens & do-dahs home .. The coolest thing was the rescue helicoptor !! That was my favorite part !! I will try to add the video that I took , it was awesome !

I realized though that this is the last year that we will have cool field trips since this is our last kiddo in her last year of Elementary school ... Time really flies !! on the 13th of October we are going to the Pumpkin Hayride at J&J nursery . That is fun too ..last year I dragged all the kids out there and we brought home 8 pumpkins . . and since these are big kiddos . . The pumpkins were HUGE ! I think our trash can weighed at least 250 lbs. the day after Halloween !