Halloween Fun

Trunk-or-Treat!!

Of course like everyone else, we had a trunk-or-treat in our ward parking lot. It was lots of fun and the weather was perfect.

As you can see, Colben is Iron Man and Danika is Snow White.

She was very proud of her bucket.

I love it when parents dress up and Cindy Hyer looked amazing that night so I stopped her and asked if she would get in the picture. They are moving so I'm really glad I have her picture!!

Back inside the church they had carnival games so here is Colben going fishing for treats!

Waiting to play the Cake Walk.

Halloween Night

Here is the troop before heading out for some serious trick or treating!!

These are all of the kids from our old neighborhood.

I had to take a picture of this because this was our old house when we first moved to TX.

We lived here for a little less than a year.

Danika knows how to trick or treat in style.

She doesn't get scared by much of anything.

She loved this motorcycle. This is her "i'm tough" look.

When we came back to our street the kids were pretty much done with their trick or treating but I managed to get 1 picture of them.

The kids wanted to trick or treat at our house.

My Sweet Danika

The Great Outdoors!

I needed to get out of the house and enjoy our fall weather and thought it would be fun to go to a popular bridge by our house. I've seen lots of people's pictures from the bridge so thought it would make a good backdrop. We then started walking on all these trails and it ended up being such a breath of fresh air for both of us.

Not to mention Danika is just so fun to take pictures of.

Typical.

I really don't know why she is making this face.

After taking a bunch of serious ones I told her to make the silliest face she could.

This bridge was just awesome.

She kept looking down into the brownish water and then she asked me "Mom, where are all of the pink flamingos?" I told her that they don't live in this kind of water and that to see them we'll have to go to the zoo.

Thought that was really funny!

Last soccer game

GO TORNADOS!!!!

Colben had his last soccer game on Saturday and he scored 2 goals!!

They had such a great season and I can't wait until Feb. when we sign him up for yet another great season!!

(now we're trying to talk him into playing indoors but he's not wanting to!)

It's so nice to have other players on the team that are the same height at Colben.

Their final cheer!!

Colben getting his trophy.

Yea!!!!

We went to a park to have their party and they got soccer cupcakes.

Oh how we love red frosting!!

(enter sarcasm)

Man she's got a lot of hair.

They had a soccer pinata and Danika was the first to take a swing. She just took control of the bat and went to town- I think there is softball in the future for this one!!

Colben taking a swing.

Scrambling for candy!

Colben, Danika and Coach Doug.

Playing in the Leaves

We love the Fall!!

The kids were playing outside and found a bunch of leaves in the corner of our backyard. I kept looking outside seeing how much fun they were having so I decided to get the camera and take some pictures of it!!

I went into the garage and got a big broom and made this pile for the kids to play in.

Man, they were tired from all the rough playing they did.

Danika decided that she wanted to help make the pile and Colben wanted to just jump in.

NKOTB concert- Dallas

THE BEST CONCERT EVER!!!

In 1990 I got to see the New Kids on the Block when I was 12 at the Marriott Center in Provo, UT and 18 years later I got to see them again in Dallas, TX- am I lucky or what?

The best part was at the last minute Ben's cousin, Jaime was able to come and it was so fun to relive that experience with such a good friend who loves the New Kids just as much as me!

Before the concert in Victory Square in front of the arena.

loving the shirt that my friend Rachel made!

A radio station had cardboard cut outs of the band and so we picked out favorite and stood next to them- I've always loved Jonathan (as you'll be able to tell from all my pictures of him down below)

This will be the closest that i'll ever get to doing the real thing!

A girl can dream right?

These were only the first of many fans we saw who dressed from the 80's- Oh, it brought back so many fashion memories- some good, some bad!!

We met our friend Ginny there and Jaime bought her souvenir shirt.

We're the Scentsy Ladies!!!

This was taken to show how close we were.

Me and Rachel before the concert started.

Me and Rachel resting while Natasha Bedingfield performed. We needed to rest up our dancing feet and save our voices for the boys!!

I am sooo glad that Jaime came--- I called her literally at 10:45 that morning to tell her that one of the girls who was supposed to come was sick so the ticket was hers. She thought I was kidding at first but then just started screaming.

Me with Heather and Carmen.

When the band first came out. Unfortunately this is when I realized that being 5"3 is NOT a good thing. There was a lady in front of me that brought a collapsable stool that looked like a good idea at the time until she stood on it and started waving this obnoxious green glow stick. Well I tried telling her to put the stick down and she completely ignored me so I promptly found a security guard and told him that she was standing on a stool so he came over and made her take it apart and put it under her seat

I'm sorry but when it comes to the New Kids- the gloves come off people!!!

Oh how we love Joey Joe!!

What hotties!

Kinda a cool shot of the big screen in back of the stage- sometimes it was the only way I could see what they were doing. If they for some wonderful reason come back next year (let's all start praying) I don't think i'll be purchasing floor seats!

Halfway through the concert they left the stage and appeared on this rotating stage with a piano on it. Lucky for us our seats were really close to this stage and we knew when to make a b-line for it. I was basically in the front row and got some great pics. I also got to touch everyone's hands except Danny!!! It made having floor seats totally worth it!!

This is for all those Jordan fans out there! Enjoy!

Jonathan making sure he was all belted up.

Donnie singing.... When I zoomed in on this picture his eyes were totally looking at me-- too bad it wasn't Jonathan!!

Joey!!

The man could be a model!!

Just gettin' down with their bad selves. They sang 3 songs from the stage and it was awesome.

Jordan pondering the meaning of life with cutie Jonathan in the background.

WOWZA!!!

Jordan came out and sang 2 songs from when he went solo.

He must have lost the buttons from his shirt- dang!!!

Oh well, he made the best out of the situation and just kept on singing!!

Thank you Jordan for not letting that get in the way- we all very much appreciated it!!

They make white look good!!!

Just so we can have it on record that we were there!!!

They're sooo singing just to us!!

In almost all my pics I zoomed in but I wanted one that showed exactly how close/far we were. This is taken exactly where our seats were. Kinda cool!

Them saying bye to everyone.

Ummmm- guys, i'm over here!!!

Doing some sort of huddle!!

This is how we felt (and still feel) about the concert being over!!!

Please come back next year!!

My friend bought the concert program they were selling there and my friend Rachel was going through it on the way home and I made her take the pictures of Jonathan cuz they were amazing. I think I might see if anyone is selling one on Ebay!!

Seriously, could he get any hotter?

I'm so glad I could go to the concert again- It was so fun to look around and see all the homemade shirts that girls had made. Here are some of them:

"Before there was my husband there was Jordan"

"Before there was N'Sync, there was NKOTB"

"Hangin' Tough Fan Club- est. 1984"

Thank you Ben for "Hangin' Tough" and for dealing with my post adolescent craziness "Step by Step". And for actually liking some of their songs! I've been playing the CD non stop since Sept. so thank you for "Lovin' me Forever".

"You've got the Right Stuff" Ben!!