Halloween 2011

 Here they are: Anakin Skywalker and Queen Amadala!  What can I say the Star Wars is running strong around here.  Such a fun holiday with kids.  We trick or treated for 2 whole hours and most of the time they would have ran the entire time had I not been reigning them back in to keep up with the other neighborhood kids.   

 We spent the day carving pumpkins and painting angry birds, then Neal and Britlyn came over to see the kids and gave them each a big candy bar.  We cooked pumpkin seeds just like my mom used to do and then, as is tradition for us, we got pappa murphy's pizza shaped like a jack-o-lantern and stayed up eating all the peanut candy Seth can't.  This is one of my favorite holidays.  

SUU football game

Cordelle got free tickets to go to a SUU football game and a private tailgate party so we thought, ahh why not?  Turns out it was the MOST perfect day for it! Especially for the last few days of October.  We had a very yummy lunch of pulled pork sponsored by the people who gave the Leavitt Group the tickets and then we watched the game with the kids and they were great and loved it!  They spent most of the time looking for Thor the thunderbird which was fine by me cause they weren't whining.  Jaq even laid down at half time with her blankets and fell asleep right there on the bleachers.  Maybe that's why it seemed like such a well mannered outing?  I even got to sneak over while she was sleeping and watch the last half of the SUU girls soccer team play their last game (SUU football was winning and it started to get boring).  Right when I got there a girl kicked a long ball from the half and scored!  It was really cool.  They were actually really good.  It was a lot of fun watching them.  Made me miss soccer.  I've really got to start playing more than just once a year at summer games.  Even then though, there's nothing like playing on a big field where you can shoot on a real size goal or cross a ball over the field.  Just the sound of them kicking the ball solidly made me nostalgic.  Isn't that weird?

 Every year we go to the Haag's for their infamous halloween party!  Here were some of our friends.

The Walkers...Tain- Happy Camper

                        Ann- The golf of mexico

 Krista and Dayne as Edward and Bella at the prom from the end of Twilight.  She even made him get gold contacts and of course the wig (he's naturally bald.).  She is so funny.

Lisa and Rick Haag as Marge and Homer Simpson.   It was the joke all night that her hair needed some hair viagra cause it was falling over all night.

Matt and Tawna Marriott as The Russian Roulette couple

and us. As Wendy and Dave Thomas.

Witches night out!

 Angela (you would never guess what this girl really looks like from this!!  Fantastic witch costume)

First of all I have to say, I have the funnest friends ever!  My friend Angela decided to throw a witches party and man alive, it was a partay!.  She is SO fun!  Everyone dressed up like witches and they had this whole dinner and treats where all the food was named some ghoulish name.  We had a cackling contest, made up spells etc.  It was funny.  Angela and her sister were the only ones that talked like witches the WHOLE evening but just listening to them was a riot.  I was so glad I went, they seriously went over board with the decor but it was fantastic!  So fun to kick off halloween that way. 

The secret campaign

Cordelle's famous.

Well kind of.

So the company Cordelle works for decided to make some commercials for their personal lines insurance.  Only when Cordelle and the marketing department did the mock ups for the commercials the big wigs decided they did a great job and they didn't need to hire professional actors they could just use the marketing department.  So Cordelle had to quickly discover his inner actor.  You can see the commercials here.  They are mostly playing on the radio and before the movies at the theatres in Cedar City and St. George. People are always commenting on it and telling him they saw him in it....its funny.  He loves it!  They call it the "Secret Campaign." (as you will see from the commercials and is evident from this picture).  He sent this still shot to me one day from the campaign and it made me laugh so I thought I'd share it.