Some Weekend Fun in Denver

This is only like the third saturday that Wes has had off and we wanted to do something new and cool here, so we decided to hit up the Hammond Candy Factory for a tour of how they make their candy :).

It wasn't quite the peppermint place, but we had a lot of fun! Mckay loved watching the taffy get all stretched out on the turny stretchy thingy haha. I told him that was Grandma's favorite part :). It also didn't hurt his excitement that they gave us some free candy cane tree suckers that he proceeded to get all over his face on our way to the toy store!

We found this sweet toy store online that seemed like it had a lot of promise...and since we have a void left by Blikenstaff's toys in Orem, we had to check it out.  The Wizard's Chest actually turned out to be a weird mix of spencers and creepy World of Warcraft conventions, but outside was shaped like a castle and there was a magician so it wasn't a complete disappointment lol. It actually ended up being part of this HUGE indoor/outdoor mall in downtown Denver so we had a lot of fun walking around there until it started snowing on us :).

It was a fun filled day topped off with BYU crushing Idaho :).

Oh PS, I found a video of an earlier day version I described of the Thriller flash mob on Halloween. Imagine the first like 5 old folks up front after a long day of hanging out lol.  If you need a laugh :)

Always A New Game

Tyler and Connor always invent new games! I love it! Boys will be boys!

Halloween

We had so much fun on Halloween this year!!!  The kids had crazy hair day at school and their hair was pretty crazy, let me tell you.

We teased and teased and teased Cailyn's hair and hair sprayed the heck out of it.  Then we used some spray-in white for an extra crazy touch.  I told her she looked like Albert Einstein.  She said, "Who?!"  :)  On Wednesdays both me and Cailyn get to work in Landon's class.  When Cailyn came in she had a bunch of candy in her "nest" cuz her teacher kept putting it in there.

Landon's hair was blue, blue, blue!  He reminded me of Caeser Flickerman.  :)

Cailyn and Landon had a hard time figuring out costumes.  When I happened to mention that I was a crayon one year Cailyn jumped on it.  Luckily Mom keeps EVERYTHING and still had these costumes Tyler and I wore!  I need to dig out the old photo of us in the costumes.  :)

Owen and Jacob used some old costumes of Landon's.  For trunk-or-treat last week Owen was Nemo and Jacob was Buzz.  But last night they decided to switch.  These boys were so much fun to take trick-or-treating.  Owen was especially animated and excited.  They sure kept Mom and me entertained.  :)

ROAR! Happy Halloween!

So our little town had a "Trick or Treat on Mainstreet" last night with all kinds of music, fun, and of course candy. Since Mckay is still not quite to the age when he wants to walk around tons of houses with a heavy bag of candy, this was the perfect little walk to collect the goods and have a great time doing it :).  We had such a blast and Mckay looked soooo darn cute in his little fat lion costume!

He was kind of scared of the costume at first and I had to hold him kicking and screaming to get it on him! haha But when it was finally on and he saw that we were excited, he actually started to enjoy it.  By the end of the night he didn't want to take it off!


     

It was so funny to watch him bring his bag up to people and ask for candy. His face was mostly that of shock and awe, but once he saw that he was getting candy in that bag he clutched onto it for dear life.  Haha that kid cracks me up. :)

I love living in Parker. Everything is so community and family based and there are a ton of great people here :). I think the funniest part of the night (I wish I got a picture) was the "flash mob" (really just 6 old ladies and one old man) doing the thriller dance. I kid you not they were all like about 70 years old!! Hahaha. Good times :)