Twilight Prom 2009

I think I may have been more excited to do the Twilight party then Maddie was. She is the one that chose the theme..so I just took it from there. I kept a lot of what I was doing a secret from her. It was way more fun to surprise her. I reserved a part of the gym at the stake center, decorated it with formal dining and dim lights and had a mix of the Twilight and New Moon soundtracks playing.

I bought plastic champain glasses, we had plastic vampire teeth for the napkin rings, and screwers for their utensils. ( like stakes to stab vampires..but vampires don't die by stakes :) )

We did a chocolate fountain with assorted goodies for them to dip. We had candles on the tables along with balloons. A bowl of red apples. I did a bowl of blood punch ( rasberry ice crystal light )I had all of the posters that I have collected so far and New Moon dinner plates scattered throughout the gym on the walls. The most fabulous part was I set a back drop up with trees, lights and a life size cardboard cut out of EDWARD. When the parents dropped of their girls they giggled just as much as the girls did.

Jason gave in when I wanted to order the Belle and Edward collector Barbies. ( Maddie is actually okay with leaving them in the box to look at.) She received lot's of great things. Spoiled as usual!!

I had the girls pose with Edward so I could give them each a prom picture to take home..although I wasn't able to give them to them by the time they left but I did get them passed out later. Their goodie bags included a big sticker of the New Moon poster, a baggie for a charm bracelet they could assemble, their teeth and all of the suckers they one from Andrea's ring toss game she brought.

Makylle & Edward

Brittney & Edward

Trina & Edward
Sadie & Edward
Rachel & Edward
Bella & Edward ( yes, Bella )

Prom Queen Madison & Edward

Kylie & Edward

Haley & Edward Ashley & Edward

Caitlyn & Edward

Meghan & Edward

Paiton & Edward
Shaylee & Edward

Katelyn & Edward

Just before the party was over we played one last game of pin the kiss on Edward. So funny! The girl who got the closest got to take home her poster of choice.

We had such a good time. Thanks to my friend Andrea, My Sister Tami, My Momma and of course Jason for all of their help and support to throw one of the best Birthday parties ever!!

P.S. Amanda D

The reason Bryn isn't in any of the pictures is because she refused. Remember she said she wasn't that into the whole twilight or Edward thing but she had a good time any way!!

obsessed

Lately Ty just can't get enough of my i-pod or i-phone. Both of which are like my best friends, and he is trying to steal them away from me!! He is so in to the music and sings to almost everything..I hate to admit but he wants me to play hanna tanna over and over again!! I have composed his own "Tyler's party mix" play list on my i-pod so he can listen to HIS favorites. Some of them are sponge bob, bob, the builder, hanna of course and I like to move it move. I also hate to admit that I can almost sing word for word now, well..I have to listen to them over and over. I have no one to blame but myself!

His love for my phone...He has fallen asleep with my phone!!! He likes to play the matching games, bowling, sling shot, watch Tinkerbell, spell words and do shapes. i-phone has so many wonderful little apps for kids. He is sounding out the words and putting words in the right order. He scores over a hundred every time on the bowling game. You really should check out his skills. Again I have no one to blame but myself!!

It's sad...when I want him to listen or be quiet all I have to do is tease him with my phone ( bad Mommy ) Oh, this is why I also should apologize for missing phone calls or if he has dialed any one by mistake.

Purple

Another milestone in Jason's Jui Jitsu career. He achieved his purple belt a couple of Saturday's ago. This is his 3rd year training and he still loves every minute of it. It takes several ( like hundreds etc. ) hours to achieve new belts. In Jason's school... when a student is rewarded a new ranking the teachers pick them up and slam them to the mat. Both the kids and I enjoyed watching him go down. :) Sorry the pictures a little bit fuzzy.

We are so proud of you Jason. We stand by for your next accomplishment!!

World Champion

This past weekend Jason went to Long Beach California to participate in the World Gui Jitzu tournament. This is a huge event, men and women of all ages with different levels of skill ( white belt, blue belt etc. ) from across the world come to compete. Jason competed in the Masters light weight blue belt division. He went against four guys. Then since he won Gold in that division he could compete in the open division, which means different heights and weights compete and he went against 5 guys to take gold in the open division. 2 GOLDS!!!ble to go so when he got home we put in the video ( that's why a couple of the pics are fuzzy, their pictures of what is paused on the video :) ) Some of the matches were pretty intense. They were all 5 minutes matches and it's either by scoring points for certain moves or submission. He pretty much choked all of them out but one. Two he barely won, one with four seconds left and another since he was the more dominate one in the match the judges gave him the win. All the matches he was definitely worthy of winning. He did an awesome job.

These are some of his buddies~ Johny his coach, Paul & Chris all went and did well competing.

There was some confusion of course..there always is. Jason and one of his competitors thought that they both won. Jason had rolled his knee during one of his last matches and since he thought that he was done was icing it for about 15 minutes when they called his name to have his last match. He did very good even though his knee was stiff. He choked the guy out rather quickly!!

This is a huge accomplishment for Jason....I mean c'mon the World Champion!!!

Not only the World Champion but a few months back the National Champion!! I am so very proud of him. I still enjoy watching him and hopefully I will get to go more?

He is planning on getting another fight in January or February of next year..I can't wait!!!

GO JASON!!

My 3 dates

It was just me and my Kiddies this weekend. We didn't do much, just had our favorite dinner at the mall and then went to look at some Twilight/New Moon stuff. It was fun to be out. The kids were well behaved ( usually are ). I do seem to date these 3 the most but they are my favorites!!
I am so blessed to have these precious gems in my life. They are my best buddies!!

South's in the Wild West

Pioneer Village 2009

Halloween 2009

We had a few friends and their kids over for Halloween. We had a lot of fun. Neither do the parents or the kids last that long...man what a bunch of light weights ( I am not blaming it on age either!! ) We do enjoy each other's company and did enjoy seeing neighbors. We do have a great neighborhood. The highlight of the year was hot chocolate. I am so glad that the weather was nice, well nice for October any way that we didn't have to bundle up too much.

These are Zach and Amy's boys. Aiden the fireman, Kenyan..hmm I can't remember, some sort of Zombie/Reaper and Tanner the Spider man.

Maddie was Dorothy..We even got permission from her teacher to take Meeah to the school parade so Dorothy could walk around with her Toto. Maddie was a hit with her puppy.

This is Zombie Girl Katelyn and little Witch Hailey. Matt & Jenn's kids.

Bubba remained the only biker and The only way I could get Tyler to be in front of the camera is to give him Chocolate..Thanks Matt :)

This is Larissa, Kendal's 12 year old. She makes us feel so old!! She was trying to be a trooper for the younger kids. She always is. She was Ozzy Osbourne. We had to laugh because she wrote the words Ozzy and rock on, on her face while looking in the mirror and didn't realize that you have to apply it back wards...so she walked around with the words on backwards the whole night. She did laugh right along with the rest of us.

Tyler should of been dressed up like what he really is...A MONSTER!!! We found an old pirate costume from the dress up box and threw it on him then took Bubba's eye patch that he got from a birthday party but he wouldn't leave it on. At least Jason held his arms long enough for me to get a picture.

Halloween is my favorite!!!