Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Annual Halloween Party Cancelled
It is with GREAT remorse (truely - I'm in mourning here) that we have cancelled our famous annual Halloween Party for 2008. When we tried to come up with a date for it, every available weekend (or FHE, or weekday) was taken with a band competition for Hayden. We can't have the party without both of my kids being there, so we'll just have to do without this year. I feel sorta like my one big shaa-doo has gone poo poo.... I really had some great surprises lined up too - and the invitations were SOOOO cute.... sigh.... I'm so sad that we won't be hosting the funnest night of the year this year... but, I'm hoping to have a ton of fun with my sisters and little nieces at "Witches Night Out" at Gardner Village on Friday, the 24th up in Salt Lake. Then on the 25th we will be having a Vreeken family Halloween party - so I get to use some of my many prizes, treats, crafts, and even the witch pinata for little cousins.... Hayden and Terry will be missing out, but Hayden will at least be having a great time in Denver with his marching band friends. Terry, well, I'm thinking he will find something to go hunt that weekend.... maybe he'll get his bear tag filled? That's gruesome enough....
Fall is here
We live in such a beautiful part of the world. Last week I took a drive with some ladies from church up to an area northeast of Cortez called "Hillside Drive" near the town of Rico. The leaves are in full color and it was just breathtaking!
Hayden has been so busy with MCHS marching band. On the 4th they went to CO West Marching Festival, in Grand Junction, next week they will go to CBA Marching Regionals, in Grand Junction, then on Saturday, the 25th, they leave for CBA State Marching Festival in Denver. They will be gone until the 28th. The 29th they will be performing a Community Appreciation Concert, and then they will leave again Friday, the 31st (yes on Halloween), to go down to Flagstaff, AZ for the Northern Arizona University competition. Whew. They are awesome though. Be sure to check out their website: http://www.mchsbandboosters.com/ and you can watch them in action with some home videos and links.
It's hard to believe Hayden is in highschool. He is growing up SOOO fast. He is constantly texting someone - usually of the female friend type.... ugh... He attended his first "boy/girl" birthday party - and ended up being the ONLY boy there. Needless to say, he had a great time. He also met a bunch of friends for the Homecoming Dance - I tried to explain to him that this is the kind of thing you take a date to - and therefore need to be at least 16 years old, but he went anyway and just hung out with a big group of friends.
He has been downloading all kinds of new music on his IPod - which I will make him pay for himself. His list includes: Bleeding Love - Leona Lewis, I Don't Care - Fall Out Boy, What Goes Around Comes Around - Justin Timberlake, Shut Up and Let Me Go - Ting Ting Things, Hot n Cold - Katy Perry, Gotta Be Somebody - Nickelback, In the Ayer - Flo Rida, All Summer Long - The Rock Heros, Bartender Song _ Rehah, Chain Hang Low - Jibbs, So What - Disturbia.
Kelli just made Mesa Howlers again this year. They are the only elementary school in our district to have a choir. She loves to perform. Kelli had a fun 10th birthday party on Friday, Sept. 19th, with a few friends. They had pizza at "Thatz'a'Pizza" and then came back to our house for games and cake and ice-cream. We were lucky that her older cousin Kylie was here to help and introduced us to a fun new game where you roll dice to try to get the number "10" (for her birthday) and when you do, you get to start carefully unwrapping a prize until someone else rolls a "10", then you have to hand the prize over to that person to start unwrapping. We wrapped this little prize in 20+ different wrapping papers. The girls were frantically rolling and unwrapping, laughing and having a great time.
I have been busy trying to re-decorate my kitchen by painting it a dark moss green. It may sound weird - but it actually looks very good behind the knotty alder cabinets and tropic tan granite. I like how it really sets the alder off, and gives the walls more depth and warmth. It also plays well against the deep red we have in our "nook" area where the table sits. The opposite side of the room, where the family area is, is painted a "spiced apple cider" color - which exactly matches the knotty alder. All-in-all I'm pretty psyched about my new color choice. I had to have Terry help with a couple of the hard-to-reach spots because I'm a chicken about heights.
The other big news for me is that my laundry room is FINALLY done! It looks gorgeous! The new granite counter top and sink look so perfect with the slate floors and alder cabinets. My Christmas present from 2006 is FINALLY a reality. My many thanks to Terry and Ron Cameron (Fine Finish, LLC) for installing the cabinets, Robert Reed for the granite counter, and Glen Elliott for the sink and faucet. Ho Ho Ho!
Also, another big project I'm grateful to see happening is the rock patio and firepit in the back yard. Troy Hick's guys have been working very hard to make the rocks flat and stable and it is going to be so awesome to roast marshmallows and hotdogs out there with the pond and waterfall.... ahhhh... it's our own little park in the backyard.
I'm also proud to say I've started cleaning the basement. Ugh. Ugh. Ugh. It is a total overwhelming disaster down there - but we are going to get to the bottom of it no matter what. I sooo want to get some nice shelving up in our storage room so that we can move all the holiday decorations back in there. I worked for 8 hours last Friday on just the toy room area. Needless to say the little cousins are going to get a lot of surprises soon because my kids have definately outgrown 50% of the toys down there.
I'll get some more pics posted soon.... until then! If you are reading this, I'd love to hear from you.... Leave us a message.
Hayden has been so busy with MCHS marching band. On the 4th they went to CO West Marching Festival, in Grand Junction, next week they will go to CBA Marching Regionals, in Grand Junction, then on Saturday, the 25th, they leave for CBA State Marching Festival in Denver. They will be gone until the 28th. The 29th they will be performing a Community Appreciation Concert, and then they will leave again Friday, the 31st (yes on Halloween), to go down to Flagstaff, AZ for the Northern Arizona University competition. Whew. They are awesome though. Be sure to check out their website: http://www.mchsbandboosters.com/ and you can watch them in action with some home videos and links.
It's hard to believe Hayden is in highschool. He is growing up SOOO fast. He is constantly texting someone - usually of the female friend type.... ugh... He attended his first "boy/girl" birthday party - and ended up being the ONLY boy there. Needless to say, he had a great time. He also met a bunch of friends for the Homecoming Dance - I tried to explain to him that this is the kind of thing you take a date to - and therefore need to be at least 16 years old, but he went anyway and just hung out with a big group of friends.
He has been downloading all kinds of new music on his IPod - which I will make him pay for himself. His list includes: Bleeding Love - Leona Lewis, I Don't Care - Fall Out Boy, What Goes Around Comes Around - Justin Timberlake, Shut Up and Let Me Go - Ting Ting Things, Hot n Cold - Katy Perry, Gotta Be Somebody - Nickelback, In the Ayer - Flo Rida, All Summer Long - The Rock Heros, Bartender Song _ Rehah, Chain Hang Low - Jibbs, So What - Disturbia.
Kelli just made Mesa Howlers again this year. They are the only elementary school in our district to have a choir. She loves to perform. Kelli had a fun 10th birthday party on Friday, Sept. 19th, with a few friends. They had pizza at "Thatz'a'Pizza" and then came back to our house for games and cake and ice-cream. We were lucky that her older cousin Kylie was here to help and introduced us to a fun new game where you roll dice to try to get the number "10" (for her birthday) and when you do, you get to start carefully unwrapping a prize until someone else rolls a "10", then you have to hand the prize over to that person to start unwrapping. We wrapped this little prize in 20+ different wrapping papers. The girls were frantically rolling and unwrapping, laughing and having a great time.
I have been busy trying to re-decorate my kitchen by painting it a dark moss green. It may sound weird - but it actually looks very good behind the knotty alder cabinets and tropic tan granite. I like how it really sets the alder off, and gives the walls more depth and warmth. It also plays well against the deep red we have in our "nook" area where the table sits. The opposite side of the room, where the family area is, is painted a "spiced apple cider" color - which exactly matches the knotty alder. All-in-all I'm pretty psyched about my new color choice. I had to have Terry help with a couple of the hard-to-reach spots because I'm a chicken about heights.
The other big news for me is that my laundry room is FINALLY done! It looks gorgeous! The new granite counter top and sink look so perfect with the slate floors and alder cabinets. My Christmas present from 2006 is FINALLY a reality. My many thanks to Terry and Ron Cameron (Fine Finish, LLC) for installing the cabinets, Robert Reed for the granite counter, and Glen Elliott for the sink and faucet. Ho Ho Ho!
Also, another big project I'm grateful to see happening is the rock patio and firepit in the back yard. Troy Hick's guys have been working very hard to make the rocks flat and stable and it is going to be so awesome to roast marshmallows and hotdogs out there with the pond and waterfall.... ahhhh... it's our own little park in the backyard.
I'm also proud to say I've started cleaning the basement. Ugh. Ugh. Ugh. It is a total overwhelming disaster down there - but we are going to get to the bottom of it no matter what. I sooo want to get some nice shelving up in our storage room so that we can move all the holiday decorations back in there. I worked for 8 hours last Friday on just the toy room area. Needless to say the little cousins are going to get a lot of surprises soon because my kids have definately outgrown 50% of the toys down there.
I'll get some more pics posted soon.... until then! If you are reading this, I'd love to hear from you.... Leave us a message.
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