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.

Lydia's first day of Kindergarten

Thursday, August 27th was Lydia's first day of kindergarten.

She's been waiting a long time for this. At the very last moment, I received a call to say they were switching her kindergarten teacher because they had too many students and just hired a previous teacher to lessen the burden on the other teachers (there were 35+ students per class, now everyone has around 25-30).

Lydia's teacher is Mrs. Kunze. She's very beautiful, I'll have to get a photo.

Lydia had a fun time, but now this morning she's giving me a hard time and saying she doesn't want to go to school. WHAT THE?! She's been begging me for two years now to go to school with Lily, and now she doesn't want to go? Unbelievable.

Photos are in backwards order ... sorry ... so the ones with Lily are the girls walking home from school.

Greer Family Reunion

We had our Greer Family Reunion August 7 & 8 at Heber Valley Camp. Boy, it was a lot of fun. The cabins were great, the location was great ... I definitely think we could go there again. The girls and boys had such a fun time. It was difficult for me to make sure the babies stayed safe since they would/could wander away and there was a fire going in the fire pit. Ian really enjoyed himself. He loves the outdoors.

I'm afraid I only took 4 photos, but other members of my family took tons of photos, so as soon as I get those, I'll add them to this bloggy.

Babies are bad

The boys were taking a bath and they pulled my Reader's Digest into the water ... *sigh* Magazine paper doesn't hold up well in water. It DISINTEGRATED.

I pulled out as much of the chunks as I could, but it was impossible to get all of it. I grabbed my colander and strainer and still couldn't get it all out.

It clogged the bathtub drain. I had to pull out the drain out using pliers. Then once it was opened pull out the goop with needle nose pliers.

I'm confident some of you would have barfed.

This is how it looked when I walked over.




The guilty parties. The stood on the side of the tub, and pulled it off the counter. You can see they are standing there for the photo.



After I drained it




Now I have to clean with bleach to get the ring out.

I'm a bad mother.

We had a week's worth of fun with our Staycation! We started off with the McEuen family reunion on June 27. June 28th we went to the zoo. On July 4th we went to Eccles Dinosaur Park in Ogden, UT then on Sunday, July 5th we went for a walk on the Provo River parkway ... watch out for west nile virus.

Sorry about some of the duplicate photos. Enjoy!