Costumes, soup, breadsticks & more...

Monday night we had our Halloween dinner with the Richards side of the family. Holly made 3 different kinds of yummy soup, delicious bread sticks and some real fattening donuts. All the kids came dressed up (and me) and they had a blast.

Bode the "lil stinker" and my "beautiful butterfly."

The awesome table decor.

Holly made little Halloween gift bags for all the grandkids. They had fun going and finding them in the dark with their flashlights. They were filled with so many fun things.


Thanks Holly and Charlie for the great night, we all had a blast and were very full by the end of the night.

"Witchy Party"

A couple of year ago I was talking to my cute Aunt Sherilyn and she was telling me how she had a witch party every Halloween. I thought it sounded like so much fun! So this year I finally was able to put one together. I had a blast planning it and even more fun throwing it.

Here are the invites to the party. As you know, I am not the best rhymer, so bear with me on all the want-to-be rhyming.

All the fun, wild and crazy witches!

We had so MUCH food! We had over 30 people come and everyone was assigned, soup, a salad, finger dessert or drink...we had oodles and it was all so good!

The goodies were darling, look how creative people are, so much fun!

For one of the games I thought a road rally would be a blast. We were all in our witch costumes and we had to go out in public to show them off and this was a perfect thing to do. I went along in a car just so I could see everyone out and about and it was so fun to see all the witches running around the area and just trying to figure out the clues. Everyone did really well, they finished a lot faster than I thought they would.

Here are the clues. See if you can guess some of them.

I assigned everyone a team and a team name. The names I used were either witch movies or witch television shows.

After the road rally the teams were given a garbage bag that had a bunch of props in it and an assigned song they needed to karaoke with. The whole team had to participate and everyone did a great job. I was tempted to put the videos on my blog, but thought I probably shouldn't.

Here are the teams with their karaoke get-up on. Everyone got into it and had fun ( I hope they had fun, I had fun watching).

We then had a donut eating contest. There were some pretty fierce donut eaters...Stacy and Marcy:)

When all was said and done, the winning team was "Bewitched" and of coarse it had Stacy, my sister on it...who wins EVERYTHING! Good job ladies, you rocked! You all rocked!

I hope everyone had a great time, I sure did. It was so fun to see all the fun costumes and everyone just get along and have fun. I am so lucky to have such fun, happy (and a little scary) people in my life.

Book Club

So I am the lucky one and got the assignment to host the "Breaking Dawn" book club...yipee! What a fun book club to host. Thanks Kristen. Call me a dork, but I really get into things like this, making it fun and trying to put yourself into the moment. To start out with, I downloaded a few trailers from Youtube and had those playing on the TV to get us more in the mood (I am so excited for the movie, I already have my ticket purchased, Thanks Alisha!)

I had a great turnout and the discussion was fun. We had a lot of good topics to discuss. Some loved the book, some liked the book and some didn't care to much for the book. I was with the like the book. I really had a hard time reading it, it didn't keep my interest too much. I liked it, but I found myself bored a lot. With Twilight, there was so much happening, so many things that made you want to keep reading, I didn't find that with this one. Anyway, back to book club...
For the food, I thought I would try to keep it along the red, black, fancy line...since we were dealing with vampires, and the Cullen's do like the best. For a little handout, I had "Vampire Repelling Garlic Mints," and I was so excited at how my cookies turned out. I decided to make sugar cookies and do a Team Edward-Team Jacob theme, and I must say, I was really surprised how good the werewolf cookies turned out. I wasn't too sure how they would look, but I think they turned out okay. Now the Edward cookies, weren't so fab....that's okay, Jacob deserves to have the spotlight every now and then, right?

Neighborhood block party

Yesterday we had our Annual block party. I believe this is the 3rd one since we have lived in our house. We absolutely LOVE our neighborhood and our fabulous neighbors. We have made so many good friends and have made so many fun memories with our neighborhood. Here is just a few photos to show the fun time we had.

Father's Day Dinner

On Friday night my family went to dinner to celebrate Father's day for my dad. It is not very often that we can all get together without the kids, so when it does happen we have a great time. Everyone was able to make it and without the kids you are actually able to talk and have a conversation without being interrupted. I love to spend time with my family, we all are so different from each other, but so a like. We always have such a great time together and I know they will always be there for me. Hollie we missed you, but we were glad that Russ was able to make it.

I hope my dad had a wonderful Father's day. He is such a great father and I appreciate all he does for me and our family. Love you dad!

Sisters....Hollie we missed you!

Edwards Family Christmas Party-Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve was such a fun day. We started our Christmas Eve by driving to Heber for the Edwards Christmas party. Grandma and Pa had it at Soldier Hollow again this year. It works out really well there. My Uncle Rob cooks the amazing food for us. He does such a good job. We had so much to eat. He made Prime rib, super moist turkey, ham, dutch oven potatoes, veggies, and a variety of salads. Thanks Rob, the food was great, like always. We played a fun and wild game, the winners were Collin and Jeremy...go boys! And we had a special visitor, Santa was able to make it, even though he was soooo busy on Christmas Eve. The kids did a Nativity, and it was darling. Bode actually put on the shepard costume, and looked darling!! Collin's Christmas was made right there. The snow was coming down, so we were kind of anxious to get on the road. But, we had a fun time and look forward to seeing all of our cousins, aunts and uncles, and especially Grandma and Pa. Thanks so much for the fun time, and the great memories.

Johnson Family Christmas Party

• Day 9- Johnson Family Christmas Party

2nd Annual Peck Christmas Party

Pecks, Pecks, what can we say?

Your Christmas party was awesome in every way.

The food was delish, the company was great,

we knew it would be fabulous, so we made sure we wouldn't be late!

I think we can all say that the games were so fun,

this party just could not be out done.

So, thank you, thank you from the bottom of our heart,

we can't wait until next year for the 3rd Annual party to start!

All the ladies

Enjoying the delish appetizers Eating dinner
Chef Chad...Chad cooked these awesome ribs, so yummy. He smoked them for 8 hours, turning them every hour.

There was a lot of time put into the food. They were so fabulous, and we ate so much...I believe he cooked 9 racks...wow!
And the winner is Nat! I am also sponsoring Diet Mtn, Dew...Drink the Dew!

And the winner is Rachel!

• Day 8- Peck Christmas Party