.girls day out.

I have been meaning to see a play at the local playhouse ever since we moved to Perry. A few weeks ago I saw on the marquee that Cinderella would be playing. I immediately called up my Mom and sister to see if they would be interested in coming up to see it. We got tickets for a Saturday matinee. The play was good, it was a little long for the girls but they did good once we reminded them that we were going to go for ice cream after. There was two parts in the show where a fog machine was used. The fog had a smell to it and since we were in the 2nd row, it really bothered Brynn. When they did it the second time, I thought we'd have to get up and leave! Ha! After Cinderella and the Prince were available for pictures. Brynn ran right up to them and posed away. I'm sure our recent trip to Disney helped with that! After we went to Dairy Queen for fries and ice cream! Fun.

.uea weekend in salt lake.

Since Josh ended up working for most of the UEA holiday, I decided to make an overnight trip to Salt Lake to send some time with my family. The week before, I crashed our ipad by trying to upload a new update. I tried and tried to fix it with no luck so I made an appointment with the genius desk at Apple. The kids had a ball playing on all the fun electronics while they waited. I was able to get a new ipad so I was very happy about that!

After we met Amy and Katy at Gardner Village to see the Witches Halloween display! Holy crowded!!! We didn't stay long because the crowds were so bad, but we did have a nice lunch nearby afterward and then went to Mom's house to relax and decorate sugar cookies.

After spending the night with Grandma we woke up early the next morning and got hot chocolate before we went out to the Jordan Parkway near Mom's house. It was a cool morning. We played on the playground, went to the pond and walked up the parkway a ways. After Mom treated us to a fabulous car wash. It was like an amusement park ride and then we all vacuumed out the car. The kids were all able to use their own vacuum to help.

.poppies.

Amy and I were finally able to hook up and get some pictures of the girls in the poppies this year! We have lots of good intentions, but alot of times our plans fall through. I have been watching the field for a few weeks waiting for them to arrive. It seems like it was a little late this year? We went up a little sooner than we would have liked, the lighting was still pretty harsh. We did find a nice spot with some shade!

These next pictures were all from my sister's blog. My Mom came up with Amy too and it was nice to have them here for the afternoon.

My sweet little niece Katy is quite the scaredy cat. She gets pretty worried about lots of things. I took out my clown nose to try and get them to look at me and you can see her not so enthusiastic reaction! She started saying "hold me Mom" over and over again! Brynn liked it and thought Mommy was funny!

.suckers.

Amy has been so good to come visit me so often lately. Kindergarten really screws up my day. I don't have time to do much of anything during the week. I've promised her I'll make it up next year when Gage is in 1st grade.

Mom let us divide her sucker making supplies so we decided to get together and make some. Amy got some flavorings and we made 3 whole batches! Watermelon, Root Beer and Key Lime.

The kids were pretty excited about all that candy!

The lip mold was Amy's new addition to the collection and they made great photo props!

They stayed for dinner and Brynn and Katy toasted in celebration. Josh has since thrown out all of Brynn's sippy cups so this is the last official photo with her beloved. She misses them and so do I.