Renaissance Festival

I have been looking forward to the Renaissance festival pretty much since I’ve been here. The Waller’s are always talking about it & telling me how much fun it is. & It didn’t disappoint! Lots of yummy food, fun vendors, games & crafts & a lot of interesting people. First thing we did was eat :) I had spinach artichoke dip in a bread bowl. Can you say YUMMY?! The kids all did a great job on the rock wall, Kenzie & Hannah both made it to the top in a jiffy.


Then we went & did this jumpy thing. Either I am getting braver or they just have a way of talking me into things, but I did it. I figured if I could do the sky diving thing, I can do just about anything. + it didn’t look to high from the ground. But it WAS high!! I kept going higher and higher when I got on :/ It must have not been too bad though, because I managed to keep my eyes open the whole time. I kinda felt like a nerd because it was mostly younger kids doing it & none of them were screaming, but I was. What’s new? Apparently even Londyn went higher than me. But I went so that has to count for something.






Then we went & did some more activities with the kids & they did some shooting. We had some giant pickles. Enough said.




Then Hannah made me make a hand wax sculpture. A couples one. Of me & her. So that when I leave I won’t forget her. Hannah, I will have you know that I won’t need a wax hand thing to remember you. We’re like sisters :) But it did turn out pretty cute, & kinda funny. We’re just madly in love :) Here is our materpiece. Don't mind the stuff in the background.




I am so glad I finally got to go, it was awesome!!

Halloween 2011

I absolutely love Halloween! It definitely is on the top of my favorite holiday list. This one was no different!! The first part of the day went as normal, with the exception of a Halloween themed preschool for Londie-lou. When the other girlies got home we made some Bloody bandaid snacks and they decorated the golf cart with streamers and spider webs. It officially became the Halloween-mobile :) Then I made a Halloween themed dinner that consisited of mummy hot dogs, mummy pizza’s and pumpkin shaped quesadillas. As always, they didn’t turn out as cute as I wanted, but oh well, I had fun making them, especially with Kenzie as my assistant.


Londyn making some yummy bloody bandaids, check out the face :] * The finsihed result * Kenzie helpiing with the Halloween dinner

Then came the really fun part: Costumes!! I had to rush a little bit with mine, hence the reason you can still see my blonde hair in the pics :)



Me & the cute kids


Christian the Sailor * Minnie & Mickey(aka Jay & Liz) * Londyn the Cheerleader, Carter the boxer & Kenzie the Monster witch



I had to show ya Jayson & Liz's fun costume's from a party they went to earlier in the week. Vampire Flintstones, oh my :) & Jessie & the Gypsy (or is is Hannah & I??)


The Waller’s invited a few friends over & we headed out for the main event: Trick-or treating!! I’m not sure if it is something they do in NC or just this neighborhood, but almost everyone came to the end of their driveways and had canopy’s the adults sat under & gave out candy. In one cul-de-sac they had a buffet set up for those that lived there and then they all sat in lawn chairs in a circle with candy. The kids went around and got one from each of their bowls. Isn’t that a fun idea?? I’m bringing that one home to Utah. We had a ton of fun driving around on the golf cart and running up to houses to get the candy. Jayson, Liz & Christian went home about ½ way through, but the girls, Ashley, (One of the Waller’s friends) her son & I stuck it out to the end. Which was only 8:00  The neighborhood apparently has time limits for trick or treating, lame huh? But it actually worked out pretty well considering it was a school night, we had some young ones with us & + it felt a lot later than it was. So at 8 o’ clock we made our way back home to make some homemade root beer, a Halloween tradition at my house that I couldn’t give up this year. Turns out dry ice isn’t an easy thing to get around here. I got some pretty weird looks when I was asking for it. BUT I did find some & the kid’s thought it was just about the coolest thing ever!! && the root beer was pretty darn good if I do say so myself :) Happy Halloween!!