This was the first Halloween where everything

actually went pretty smoothly!

We started the festivities off on Thursday

with Benson's school party!

I was able to be a room-mom and help out!

We played Halloween games, made "mud pies" with worms!

They also got to do some trick or treating and then

sang us some sweet Halloween songs!

Friday, we went to the Ulrich's annual Pumpkin Carving Party!

(I totally forgot my camera for both of these events)

Ben carved a sweet pirate pumpkin and the Transformer sign.

They had tons of {DELICIOUS} food

and as always it was a great time!

Saturday, we were really lazy and didn't do a whole lot.

I made pumpkin spice scones and

then we had "Dinner in a Pumpkin" with our neighbors the {P's}!

We headed out early and the kids had a blast trick or treating!

Benson was a pirate and Hiley was a witch!

They both looked totally cute!

I need to give my mom a HUGE shout out for

making Benson's awesome costume

and Hiley's cute cape!

Thanks mom! One day, I will learn how to sew!

Hope everyone else had a safe and Happy Halloween! :)

Ugg...

Oh, how I love you boots.

Maybe one day we will meet but until then, know that I am thinking of you!

Saturday,

Maren, Mel and I went to lunch at Maggiono's and then did some

window shopping at Fashion Show Mall.

Melanie is a manager at Nordstrom's

so we went and checked out the New Moon Line

that B.P. is going to be selling!

I was in {L.O.V.E.} with the life-size Jacob cut out! So hot!!! ;)

Ben decided to join in on the L.V. fun so we picked him up

and went to Town Square where we hit up H&M!

Later that night we went to the UNLV/Utah game!

That was so fun! Ben was in heaven

especially since we got to tail-gate before hand!

We got to meet up with Spencer and Heidi too!

("Speidi"- everyone loved that!!)

Afterwards, we had dinner at The Cheesecake Factory

and then headed over to the Drop Bar at GVR.

Good times!

Vegas Baybeee

So this past weekend I got to go to Vegas!

It was so fun!

You know those friends, that even though you literally haven't

seen each other for years but when you do see them,

its like you're [RIGHT] back to where you left off?

(Does that make any sense?)

Well, that's these girls!

I have been friends with Maren since about the 4th grade.

(Mel and I since the 8th grade.)

They have {A LOT} of dirt on me! ;-)

We grew up in Las Vegas together and have managed to stay

pretty close throughout all this time.

Anyway, this was Friday night. First, we went to dinner at

Dos Caminos where our good friend (and server) Rachel

got us some fabulous hook-ups

and treated us like celebs! So fun and seriously so DELICIOUS!!

Next, we headed over to TAO which is a club in

The Venetian and also got VIP treatment!

(In Vegas, it's ALL about who you know!)

Kim Kardashian was there celebrating her birthday so that was fun,

you know hanging with the famous and all!

We were outta there {pretty} quick though.

Way too many people and I was pretty sure I was going to

end up with the Swine Flu! Haha!

(Seriously though, if you want to really feel your age, just head on over to one of those places.)

Friends

I L.O.V.E bunko!

I know that I have said this before but... it's TRUE!

Once a month I get to have a girls night out. Just the girls.

We eat, laugh, talk, catch up. Swear! ;)
If there is one thing I'm sure of, its that I could not exist without

really GREAT girlfriends!

(This picture is for you Adri... you can sorta get the idea of me with long hair! :))

Happy Birthday Benson!

(I totally suck. I know but I still need to post this right? :-/)

Benson Boy turned four last Saturday, the 19th and I cannot believe it. It seriously seems like yesterday we were driving to the hospital in Cedar City to be induced. Ah, 23 hours later he made his sweet arrival to start our little family. He is such a good boy. He loves to be with his friends especially Lucas! He's a great helper and loves, loves his sister Hiley.

He had a great birthday. We decided to keep it low key and celebrate at Pirate Island Pizza with our awesome neighbors {The P's}. Thanks so much for coming you guys! :) "Brown Grandma" was also sweet enough to come and celebrate with us! Then on Sunday, we met my parents in Fillmore where we had a fun picnic and opened more presents. I think he had a great day and got totally spoiled with all his TRANSFORMERS!! AAHH. The kid is obsessed!!!

Anyway, we LOVE you Benson and are so glad you are in our family! :)

Pre-school

(His facial expression cracks me up!)

I'm a little behind in posting this but Benson started pre-school last week. He missed his first official day the week before due to a random fever but was finally feeling good enough to go this last Tuesday! Well, he was pretty excited until he found out I was "dropping him off". He was so not having that. Miss Katy literally had to pry his little fingers off my arm. I'm usually pretty tough. Not today. When I got in the car I called my mom and we both sat there and cried for a minute. It was REALLY hard to leave him. I don't know what the rules are or even what to expect with this whole school thing. However, when I picked him up, she said he did awesome and only cried for about 30 seconds. Yah!!! Thursday was so much better and when we got there he said, "See ya mom, thanks for dropping me off!"