A Night With The Pioneer Woman

Wednesday night one of my favorite bloggers came to SLC to promote her brand new cookbook. The Pioneer Woman has been one of my favorite sites to look at for about 2 1/2 years thanks to my BFF Liseanne for getting me hooked while I lived in St. George. Needless to say we were a little excited to go meet her! We ordered our books and off we went!
Its fuzzy, but you get the idea of where we were at in the first line. We were about 100 or so into the line, which was pretty good we thought. This line was led into an art gallery where PW was going to do a Q&A forum.

While there we met up with this cute gal, Amber who is in our ward and got along swimmingly with me and crazy Liseanne!! Could there possibley be someone else as goofy as us? Maybe.

This is a bout a third of the woman (some men) waiting for PW to make her appearance.

And the crowd went wild!! She was awesome, I felt like we were all there just hanging out and laughing. She was very sincere and super cute!!

AFter another two hours or so of waiting its almost our turn and Liseanne can hardly contain herself. She's so excited that retarded arm has made its appearance!!

Liseanne made PW a shirt that she blogged about wanting one day. It says: I milked a cow today. No Bull. She was very excited about it and said she would have to blog about it. We shall see.....

Liseanne getting her book signed.

Now my turn.

Now Amber!

We had such a fun time, our feet only protested a bit!! Thanks Amber and Liseanne for the fabulous girls night. Rock On Pioneer Woman!!

New Moon Tickets

Ok blogger fans. I have 65 tickets to see NEW MOON. Its for the 8:30 showing on November 19th. That is BEFORE the midnight showing! If you are interested (like, you have money in hand) let me know. The tickets are $11.00 and are for The Junction Theater in Ogden. I only accept cash and they have to be paid to me by friday, november 6th. That's this friday. Let me know it will be super fun. Its assigned seating so the sooner you reserve your tickets the better seat you get. First come first serve. Thanks!!

Happy Halloween!

Sweet costume, thanks Liseanne!!
Ryker had a blast at the ward trunk or treat. I think he decided it was a great holiday!!

Halloween breakfast. Matt went all out with two colors!

Cooper

Ryker

Matthew

Grumpy, I mean Zack

My monkey man

My cutie boys

Thanks Ben for taking a family photo!

Awwwwww!

Iron Man (Cooper) Goes to Preschool

Cooper LOVES Iron Man and was in heaven wearing his costume to his party at school.

I helped out at the refreshment stop and Cooper was in my second to last group and was still happy, so it was a good day!!

The kids "parade" through a park to where the parents are waiting. It was freeeeezzzing!!

He was still all smiles while singing his halloween song.

The next day Matt and Zack had their parade and parties at the elementary.

Zack was too cool to stop for a picture!

Matthew too!!

I helped with Zack's class party after and this is the group picture. Zack is the werewolf front and center!

Pumpkin Walk 2009

Last night we went to the Pumpkin Walk in Syracuse. We also had my nephew's Brantley and Brenden with us. Our niece's Hannah and Tamma went as well. We were quite a crowd.

Matthew teaching Ryker the "art" of tongue pictures.

All the group waiting in line.

There was no way they were all going to look at the same time!!

Scary goblins!

Cooper's pumpkin that he carved for his preschool is righ in the middle.

This jedi knight helped keep the peace with the kids!

Zack was very proud of his werewolf pumpkin.

After you walked through there were firepits and hay bales to relax on/by.

A rare photo of Matt and I!!

Scary Hannah!!

Carving Pumpkins

Last night we decided to carve the boys pumpkins since Cooper had to have his at school the next day for the pumpkin walk. Ryker was very interested in what the big boys were doing.

Cooper couldn't wait to get his carved like dracula.

Ryker was ready for his first pumpkin carving experience. He tried real hard to get the

goop out.

Matthew was the only one who would touch the goop with his hands!

Cooper thought he was pretty silly!

We are super excited to go to the Pumpkin Walk tomorrow where Cooper has his pumpkin on display from his preschool. Matthew also carved one at scouts that will be there too.

Cinco

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Yes, Van Komen boy #5 is proud to make his gender known!! We are very excited to announce that our baby will be a bouncing baby boy. His brothers are very grateful. Girls are the enemy and we can't allow any of them to infiltrate our base!! I am seriously considering naming this baby Cinco. The doctor thought it was a great idea too!! We can't wait to meet him, and we're sure he will be another Van Komen clone!