Mr. Spider

So here he is FINALLY - Mr. Spider

We assembled him out of 4 black garbage bags, 2 stuffed with newspaper, and 2 cut into long legs. The face is simple cardstock paper cut outs. The trick was getting him hung up. It was more trouble than it was worth LOL. But for my first attempt, I didn't do half bad. And that includes my first attempt at the web too. It's supposed to glow in the dark, but my paint I ordered still hasn't arrived.


Grayson was totally mezmerized for a while.

catch up

I was out dragon slaying again the other day. It had rained really well, which makes the weeds so much easier to pull!





But even then, some of them were still pretty tough, and they broke one of my weeding weapons.

The kids were playing around outside so innocently.....

until....... they discovered THE MUD

It was fun to see them having a good time... BUT Thomas had school that day, and was already in his nice school clothes... so I wasn't too happy at him for that.
SO to get them warmed back up again (cuz it's not summer anymore silly boys) and cleaned off QUICK - I threw them in the tub ------ EWWWWWWWWW

GRRRRR

I am still having problems with uploading photos.  At least it's bringing up the page now for uploading, but when I try to select images, it just shows me an error message  >:(  .... I will keep trying, so keep checking back.

Yesterday

Yesterday morning Thomas and Grayson and I made our first Halloween decoration -  Mr. Spider.  We took 2 large black garbage bags, and stuffed them full of crumpled up newspaper.  The boys had so much fun.  They got to make a mess and create all at the same time.  Then we cut out scarey eyes and pointy teeth and stuck 'em on.   As soon as I get some good rope, we will make a cool giant web for him, and figure out how to hang him up.

Yesterday afternoon we took a trip over the mountain to Logan to do a little shopping.  Shelly and I were going to meet up, maybe go to the park or something, but the weather didn't cooperate, so we went to Newton and hung out at Grandma and Grandpa's house.  I love seeing the kiddos faces light up when they get to see their Grandparents. 

Yesterday's weather was cloudy with a chance of showers and thunderstorms likely. West southwest winds. 
Yesterday night when we got home from our little trip, Mr. Spider had disappeared.   Those darn winds are so strong out here in Corinne.  They always turn my outdoor umbrella inside out.  Thiose winds blew poor Mr. Spider away.  It was dark when we got home, so I couldn't see where he had gone. 



Luckily, he was caught just over at the next house on their garage wall.  Still intact!

This morning, since I escaped outside to go find Mr. Spider, the boys wanted to go out and play too. They found the MUD in the gutters. I wish I could post the pictures :( - it's no fun without the pictures.  I am going to wait to tell you more, i guess ):


I have tried and tried and tried and tried to add my photos -- but blogger is either having problems, or maybe it's just my computer.  SORRY

I actually did some scrapbooking

Since we moved, I have only made 2 layouts.  One was for mom, and the other was for a challenge known as ScrapWhispers
http://scrapwhispers.blogspot.com/
They have challenges all thru the month, but the funnest part is the "whisper" part.  It starts with one person making a page, and then several groups pass that page on, one person at a time, each making their own page with the page before them as a guide.
Today is the big reveal day of all the teams layouts!  I can't wait to see what the original page was - I was last in my group (I am glad I was last, since I am such a slacker at DOING any scrapping, so I didn't have to worry about holding the whole team up *phew*).... and I am excited to see all the pages and I love seeing how each person interprets their inspiration page to create something of their own.

so go check it out later today, and see if you can spot my page!!!

I hope that soon, I can get the "new" desk (that I got off KSL for $30 and the guy delivered it all the way here to me!!!)  put into my room, so I can do lots more scrapping - I would love to do all the cool challenges they have on scrap whispers.  I have so much catching up to do, and love the good motivation.

***** edited to add: apparently something went wrong, and the big reveal day won't be happening today.... so I guess when it does happen, I will blog again.....

Yikes....

where has September gone?

tomorrow will be October already.  When I said this to Tyson today, Thomas overheard it, and declared that he was ready to go trick-or-treating, and was jumping up and down.  Both Tyson and I had to remind him that he has to wait until the END of October.  But the rest of the day was spent talking all about the costumes we picked out, and who was what, and he is excited to use the cool trick-or-treat bag that we bought from the DI (it's a purple monster hand on a handle with the bag attached). 
We are also looking forward to the Pumpkin Walk  in Logan, and Mom's Birthday Party/Halloween carnival.  But that's all at the end of the month. 
I wonder what else the month of Oct. will hold for us this year. 
We have General Conference this weekend. 
Tyson will be going on a big trip to San Fransisco the 16-19.  He and his buddies are going to see the 49ers vs. Raiders game.  I convinced him to make a trip out of it, not just going to the game.  So I hope he'll have a good time and see some cool touristy stuff.
There really isn't much else planned, so I look forward to either some nice relaxing fall days, or some fun filled family activities :)

chestnuts roasting

on an open fire :)

well, it's not really an open fire - it's a FAKE fire LOL --

it took some assembly -

and it was broken a little bit on arrival, but we fixed it and we LOVE it!!!