Land of the Dragons

So it has been forever since I have posted on the family blog. Little bit of craziness, plus I like to post pictures and I am a huge slacker when it comes to loading pictures. Here goes

At the beginning of November we went to the Phoenix Zoo since they were having a special day with Fisher Price. They brought in a bunch of toys (which was excellent marketing on their part for the kids to play with then ask for them for Christmas). They had a little station to make little necklaces and just play. Charlotte had fun playing with Dora and Savannah made necklaces for the entire family. They had a huge blow up dinosaur like one of their toys, and Charlotte wanted nothing to do with it.


They also had a power wheels driving course. It was pretty funny to watch all the kids drive. Savannah insisted that she wanted the pink Barbie jeep. Charlotte was just happy to be along for the ride. Savannah was pretty much an A to B driver and hit the rails a few times since she was going a bit too fast and didn't turn in time. They both had grins on their faces the entire time.


We went to see the Spider Monkey's which are Charlotte's favorite. She loves that you get to walk in their enclosure and have them right up close.

We also got to see a sneak peek before all the other crowds at the new Land of the Dragons, with our new Komono Dragons. There is a male and female. They are brother and sister. The male is 7 feet long 150lbs and the female is 6 ft 75lbs. We also learned that they will find a way to reproduce if there is not a male around. A female can lay fertilized eggs all on her own, but they will all be male. If you want to produce a female well then you will need the male.

We also headed over to Harmony Farm. The girls love to play on the little playground which was sponsored by Fisher Price and has all the Fisher Price animals to play on. We also went over to see Jack and Pedro (the horse & donkey). Chad was holding Charlotte and she want to nervously pet Jacks nose and he sneezed. She instantly starting crying and didn't want anything to do with the them anymore. It was hard to just get her to sit on the wooden horses for a picture.

Lastly the Sting Rays are back from their summer vacation. By the time we got there Charley had fallen asleep, but Savannah enjoyed reaching her hand in to pet them.

New Moon

So I was one of the crazy's who bought a ticket to the New Moon movie back in September and went over at 7pm on Thursday night. Met up with a few other friends. Our Harkin's was awesome to do the marathon and show Twilight before. So we only had to wait until 9:30 to start watching a show. Then at midnight it began. I wish I had a camera to take a picture of my friend Debbie's face when it started. She was like a kid on Christmas morning. The movie was well done, but there was so much to cover in that book it was hard to get it all in. I have to say the ending 'leaves you hanging', since it doesn't completely finish the book. I'm sure they will pick up where they left off for the new one coming out in June.

Lots of fun. I really needed some time out with friends so it was great fun.

Holiday TV programming guide

Just thought I would post the 2009 holiday programming guide that I compiled from online. I hate to miss the classic shows and want my girls to have the same memories. And since I so need to go back to bed since i went to bed SO late trying to send a shop file (1am) and I will be up even later because of New Moon tonight I am going to be lazy and just give you the link to my deal blog to get the list there.

So come on over to ShopperSavingSecrets and print off the list so you don't miss your classics.

Edited: I think I fixed the link. I was a little tired when I posted it. Should work now.

New Moon & Twilight double feature

If you are a nut like me that is going to the midnight showing of New Moon. Might as well get there early and see Twilight too at 9:30. If you already bought a ticket, they will refund it to you and the double ticket it $15. This is at Harkins. Go HERE to see the listings of Harkins theaters that are participating. Personally I prefer Harkins over AMC. It is local and I like to support the local guys and frankly I think it is just clean and the people are friendlier.

Hope to see you there next Thursday.

Christmas Wish List

These Keens

sanity
Nintendo DS + a few games
A cooking how to game. Can't remember the name of it
Brian Challenge or Brian Age

~sanity

Pentax K-7


Jon Schmidt - Bonus Tracks CD

~~SANITY~ did I already mention that.

Again these are all wish lists. There is no way I would probably get any of these since we are broke but hey I can dream and wish.

Deleting Blog

Anyone know how to delete a blog?

Ever have days like this?

This clip just cracks me up every time I see it on tv. I so feel like this many days.

A Mid Octobers Nights Dream

Savannah had so much fun last night at a friends party and so did I. The little girl who hosted the party has a summer birthday. And since she was hanging with family a lot during the summer, they did a kind of 'un-birthday' party. This was her dream party. It was so cute. We even sang Happy Dreams to you, instead of Happy Birthday. The girls all had on their masquerade gown and of course their masks. They decorated pumpkins, and played games. I got to help with the make-up and glitter. Angee you did an awesome party and I know Savannah is trying to plan hers already now. She told me that Charlotte can have a winter fairies party. I will let the pictures speak for themselves. The decor was awesome but the company was even better. Thanks for a magical night ...

This was the outside entrance coming into the house. It looked better with the dark of the night but hard to photograph.

At home before the party...

The younger ones waiting their turn for pumpkins

Playing games and dancing outside under the Stars..

Explaining about the 'Happy Dreams' song and here comes the cake..

Both Savannah and Emily were sleeping beauty. ~ Here is a group picture.

Trunk or Treat 2009

On Tuesday was the ward Trunk or Treat. All I can say is that it was a crazy night. Because our fearless Activities Leaders decided to skip town and move to FL, ;) The few stranglers on the committee tried to wrangle it together. From running around trying to get the chili out, costume contest and things generally flowing well, I ended up having two little girls bawling half the time, a husband who was constantly in the kitchen helping out since there was no direction to have anyone helping and I wanted to puke my guts out (I was getting over food poisoning from the night before). From the feedback I got, people had fun and there were a lot of investigator families there which is good. I just hope they didn't notice how onery I was, because I just felt crappy. So here are a few pics of Hannah Montana, Alice and I was the Bride of Frankenstein (again the sickness made my hair not as up straight as it should have been but I was trying to hurry).

Crazy Charlie

I just uploaded pictures and have found a few of Charlotte being Charlotte. She is such a crazy little kid. She is so curious and into everything. Maybe she is just being a normal child and Savannah was just an angel at this age. HUGE difference. Charlotte loves to count with you and loves to accessorize (as you can tell in these pictures). She is always trying to help and when she wants you, she will grab your arm to pull you off your chair or push you off but being polite about it saying 'Scuse me'. She makes me laugh every day and we love her to pieces.