Lily's 10th Birthday

Lily celebrated her 10th birthday with friend party on Saturday, October 24th. We had 8 girls, plus Lily. Her friends, Aja, Averie, Sage, Alexa, Danielle, Chloe, Talia, and Cari.

Anyway, we met at our house at 3:30pm, then we went to Classic Skating in Sandy. It was $120.00 for 9 girls, then Lydia and me. We had unlimited soda, got ice cream, and a pizza. We also got like 100 tokes or something. Lily also got to spin a wheel of prizes and enter some sort of money tornado. It was a dream come true for her! I thought it was a bargain because I didn't have to clean up or feed anyone.

When Lily has a 'friend' party she doesn't get any additional birthday presents from us. She was thoroughly taken care of by her friends, Grandma Rose, my parents and rest of the family.

Afterwards, we came home and watch a spooky Halloween movie. It was The Watcher in the Woods. I loved this movie as a kid and it was neat to introduce it to the girls. ha ha ha... I hope they liked it, I could hear screaming from the theatre room. I think it was mostly the music and theme-ing, really.

Make sure you look at all the photos!

I love you, Lily.

Lincoln City, Oregon Oct 2009

Well we're back from our way too short trip to Oregon. Boy, it's just such a neat place and we'll definitely be going back. LOVED LOVED LOVED it.

We rented a house ... it was non pretentious (humble?) and not luxurious, but was very comfortable. Kind of like Grandma's house or something. It was about a 10 min walk to the beach. I could really appreciate this place in the summer months. There were some very beautiful homes that were very pricey.

Here's the photos, enjoy!

In case you are wondering, this was the carpet that was on the WALL in my basement bedroom. Nice.

HALLOWEEN HOUSE

MAKE SURE YOU CLICK 'PLAY' ON MY MUSIC PLAYER FOR AN AWESOME SONG!

Here are some photos of my Halloween lights. This was *really* important to the girls; to have a 'spooky' house. It's not that spooky, but it's definitely fun. I'm not very good at photography ... I used three different settings on my camera, but it still isn't very adequate. Enjoy!

GREEK FESTIVAL 2009

Ian and I look forward to the Salt Lake Greek Festival every year!

Basically there is *one* reason why we go ... THE FOOD! This year we spent $30.00 on cafeteria style food. Can you believe that? I can! SO SO SO delicious!

We also went into the church for the first time ever. It's very beautiful. I took a photo, but I didn't want to use my flash, so it's a blurry photo, sorry.

I would really love to go to Greece someday.