John Turns 36!!!

Happy Birthday Johnny! You know you're gettin' old when your approaching 40. Lucky for me I am still so in love with my man. He is the greatest and I can't think of a better person to celebrate. John's official birthday was November 21st but we did most of the celebrating on the 20th. We were given free tickets to New Moon and to a light buffet at Magelby's. We even got free popcorn. It was awesome! Thanks Brandi for the wonderful tickets! It was my 2nd time seeing the movie (see below) and I was excited that I got to see it again. John hasn't read the books but has gotten into Twilight Mode from me because I had to tell him all about every book I read. He really liked New Moon the movie so it worked out great. After dinner and the movie we went home and Kaycee, Luke and Kaycee's friend Kennedy had decorated the house with "hidden" balloons for John in the end they spelled out: "Dad We Love You". They also hung cards they made from the door. I thought it was cute and John loved it. Then John opened his presents, mostly some much needed clothes (sweaters, pants, socks, shoes, etc.) and then we sang HAPPY BIRTHDAY to him and had "better than sex cake" because John had never had it before. It was super good. We all decided that we needed to give the cake a different name and so we changed the name to "chocolate dream supreme". It was a great night. John's parents, brother and some nephews came over and shared some more cake with us on Saturday. We love you John!!!

They even made this cute crown for him (a little small but that's OK)

Kaycee bought this cute clip at the school's "Santa's Secret Workshop" and wrapped it up for John

New shoes

New sweater

The kids had a ball playing games with all the balloons

John was making all of us crack up

Especially during his wish

I seriously love this picture

NEW MOON!

So if you know me you know that I went to the midnight showing of TWILIGHT last year, waited in line for 2 hours for a good seat and then came out very disappointed with the movie -makeup, special effects, and Robert Pattinson (sorry to those of you who love him -I just don't get it!). However I am such a big Twilight Book Series fan that I have to have and see everything to do with it. Needless to say I had to go to the premiere before the premiere of New Moon. 8 pm on Thursday, the 19th. We made it an official Girls Night with dinner at the Olive Garden beforehand. This time we had assigned seats perfectly in the middle. Thanks Melanie for the awesome tickets! I have to say that I had my hopes up for New Moon (knowing that there was a new director and much bigger budget) and I wasn't let down. I LOVED IT! The makeup and special effects were SO much better and it followed the storyline good. It's official. Despite my "Team Edward" shirt (book purposes only), I am a Jacob and Wolf Pack fan. If you've seen the movie then you know what I'm talking about. Can I just say WOW? Thanks for the great time ladies!!!

Brooke, Nora, me, Melanie and Jeanie

Kaycee's 4th Grade Utah Program

Kaycee performed in her 4th grade program a couple of weeks ago. It was so great! Do you remember dancing the Virginia Reel (like square dancing) when you were in 4th grade? I remember it and apparently the tradition lives on. The boys still think the girls have cooties and don't want to hold hands. It's funny. Kaycee did a great job singing and dancing. She was one of the 4 kids in her class with a speaking part - the other 3 were all boys. Go Kayc! She did a great job! She didn't even tell me she was speaking until the night of. Excuse the eyes in the picture but it's the only one I got of her speaking. After the program was over Kaycee was able to dance with her dad and they had a blast. John is really going to appreciate the picture that I picked out of them dancing.

Happy Halloween from a Dracula Vampire, a Vampire and a Purple (Rainbow) Fairy!