Fall Fun!

We had a really fun Halloween. Jamie had her second annual chili cookoff. The kids had a blast dressing up. Kristopher wanted to be spiderman this year and even though I really like making their costumes, I am not that talented to pull off spiderman. He was so cute, as soon as the costume went on he transformed. Noah was Batman, which he has been before ,but this time he was "the dark knight." All the kids had fun trick or treating, Kristopher started off running to each house but started to get alittle tired when his treat bucket got fuller. Niether of them have really been eating too much of their candy, I don't think Kristopher remember's getting the candy, just being spiderman. Me and Kevin both dressed up, it's been awhile since Kevin's been able to be with us on Halloween becasue he usually works. So he was excited to see the boys all dressed up.

Happy 5 year anniversary to my wonderful hubby. Time flies, we've known each other since 1998, 10 years, WOW. I have a great husband that helps out so much, he's such a great daddy and loves me even when I get alittle crazy with my moods.

Here's some pics of our dunes trip over UEA. It was loads of fun!

We watched Zoie at our house when Jamie and Mike took a trip to Texas and my parents watched Joshua. We all decided to to go Thanksgiving point's little Halloween/Fall festival. They got to ride ponies, play games, decorate cookies and got a balloon animal.

TIME TO BREATHE

So i finally have time to sit down and update this thing since i haven't done anything since August. Well after we got back from Bear lake Noah started school on that next Monday. He's in a split 2nd and 3rd grade class. i wasn't that excited when i heard that he was going to be in it but he's doing good. He's a great speller, good at math and struggling a little with reading comprehesion but he's getting there. This is his first day of school picture, he's getting so big! The begining of September was pretty mellow but the end seemed busy. Ryan and Christy were married on September 26th. The wedding was beautiful, it was up at a campground in Ogden. Christy did such a great job with all her decorations and ideas. I'm so glad that she and Ryan are happy. Here's some pics from that day.

Our little cowboys. Kris wouldn't put that stick down all night. Zoie was such a cute little woodland fairy.

We headed down to the dunes the days after the wedding, first of the season so that was fun.

Here's the boys riding the smaller 4 wheeler that Noah can drive himself. He thought that was pretty cool.

It's also football season so are Sunday's are always busy with BEARS games. All the boys have jerseys in each color, they always look so cute on Sunday's. DA BEARS!!!!!!!!!

I've been crazy busy with work. we are opening a new gym location in TOOELE,UTAH. We set records on our opening days of the pre-sale. I have never seen such large number's on just a pre-sale since I've started with this franchise 5 years ago ( what that means is that the gym isn't even open yet-January is our scheduled opening). I'm now am responsible for our 16 gym franchises. I train, hire and make sure that policies and proceedures are being followed with our front desk staff. It might not sound like alot but I also do alot of the behind the scenes that people don't really see. We started our pre-sale trailer on October first and I think i've worked about 12-15 hours everyday except last Sunday and today. Don't they say that hard work pays off???? Things have died down now so I shouldn't be spending so much time at work.

It's nice to just be hanging out at home tonight, watching it snow outside (yeah it's snowing on October 11th....) and having fun with my family. I think that carmel popcorn is in order plus a movie.

BEAR LAKE

Well we finally went on a camping trip that lasted longer than one night. We went to Bear Lake with the Vela's (Jam,Mike,Zoie and Joshua). We got to help them test their new trailer which was lots of fun. We stayed up St. Charles canyon in the Porcupine campground, it's was really nice and well kept. The first day we didn't get up there until about 5pm so we got set up, cooked our hobo dinners and went to bed. We all decided that we are old and lame. The second day we went down to the beach, the kids had a blast! Christy, Skye and Wynter joined us that day and night. They had lots of fun burying each other in the sand, building castles and digging holes.

The next day we went up to Minnetonka Cave. We walked up and down 888 stairs, it was an even 40 degrees throughout and stays that way year round. The kids did great Kris and Josh got carried most of the way. Needless to say we all got a workout and learned some stuff. Our tour guide was a big cheeseball but we decided that he really liked his job. Other than that we just relaxed.We had some great food and for the most part the kids had fun. There was some occasional whining, crying and fighting, but i think they enjoyed themselves.

Mike and Jamie made a really cool "blast furnace" which is basically a tin can, you put in in the coals of the fire and melt aluminum cans in it. Jamie started it, Mike perfected it. It was really cool. Kevin timed how long it took each to melt, the fastest one was 3seconds, i think. Some dumb camping fun. This was after the kiddos went to bed, don't worry we aren't that bad of examples.........

Art's Festival

Well it's been awhile since I posted, things have been busy! A couple weekends ago we headed up to the Park City Art's Festival. My boss lives up there and told me about it so I thought it would be something new to do. We walked around for a bit and this is a picture after the boys did the kids arts and crafts, they had lots of fun. Noah made a cool hat and kristopher made an elephant. After walking around we went and played at the Park City Mountain Resort. There were a bunch of blow up slides including this King Kong verses T-Rex, Noah thought it was awesome, Kris took awhile to warm up. Me and Noah also went down the Alpine Slide, it was awesome. They've added a bunch of fun things since I've been up there a roller coaster on the mountain, zip line and a bunch of other stuff. Both the kids were asleep within about five minutes after leaving to go home, they had TONS of fun.

We are getting ready to go camping at Bear Lake next week with Jamie and Mike. We'll be there about 4 days, much needed vacation! Noah starts the second grade on the 25th. He got to go pick out a new back pack last weekend and a few new clothes;which he thought was awesome. Noah is so excited to go back and see his friends. Kevin is dealing with the heat at work, their factory gets up past 100 degrees most days. My job has been busy hiring, training and just dealing with the day to day stuff. Kristopher is just hanging out enjoying being 2, not sure that we are enjoying it. He's seems to be going through the terrible 2's some of the time, good thing he's cute.

We've also been enjoying watching the Olympics. I'm trying to get Noah to watch,he thinks some of it is cool but usually just gets bored and leaves. Me and Kevin are big Phelps fans, the swimming has been awesome. I'll post again when I've got something interesting to say. I have my TEN year reunion this weekend, I think I'm going to go to the afternoon picnic, it would be nice to see a few people....wasn't really that big of a fan of High School.

Camping

WEEEEEEEEEE.............What a dork but I love him.

Finally, our first camping trip of the year. It was only about 45 min from our house. We wen t up past pineview to the South Fork campground. They had really nice spots and there was a river right by us. We went with Jamie,Mike, Lonnie and Angela. The kids had tons of fun playing around. We only stayed one night but it was nice to get away for a bit. Kevin was playing monster trucks around the fire pit. Noah got that Nerf gun with his birthday money, he had a hard time deciding what to but, he told me there was just way to many cool toys.

Daniel's Birthday

Noah, Kristopher and Kevin's best friends son, Daniel (too bad Kris wasn't looking that would have been a great picture). We went to Daniel's birthday party last Saturday,he turned 1. It's always fun to visit Brigham, and we really should more often. We had a chance to visit Karolyn's and Kristen's grave and left some flowers. Mike and Meggan had everyone bring something to put in a time capsule for Daniel to open when he turns 18. There were baseball cards, Tiger Woods bobble heads, transformers, the Wall Street Journal, and lots more stuff. As always we caught up with all of Mike's family.Dennis and Laura are busy at basketball games for Riley and Savannah works at Maddox and brings home rolls..... yummy. Mack and Christy are having fun with there 3 teenager girls and Cole, who just turned 6,he's taller than Noah. Jason and Michelle are busy with Micah who will be 3 this September. Mike still works at the Box Elder Sheriffs office and Megan takes care of Daniel and works at J&D's.

Happy Birthday Noah!

Happy Birthday! 7 years old I can't believe how time has flown by. Noah got to have a couple days of celebrating. Wednesday, his real birthday me, Noah and Kristopher went to Chuck-a-Rama for dinner. That's what he picked, I really thought he was going to do Cafe Rio or Robintinos, but nope Chuck-a-Rama, he likes it cause it's the place you can get your own food.....Kevin works nights so that's why he didn't go. Then Friday night we had a BBQ with everyone.All the kids had lots of fun. Noah has lots of new transformers to play with, lots of new books to read, and the best news of all our new grill that Kevin put together worked!

Lagoon, Transmissions and Fun, Oh my!

We made our annual trip to Lagoon this weekend. I think I can only handle one trip to Lagoon a year. Kevin's work sponser's a free day so that's why we go, it's free, but for some reason we ended up spending about $80 for our "free" trip to Lagoon. It seemed like it was going to be a good day so we set off about 10am, Noah was ready to ride rides and Kristopher was just excited because Noah was. Once we got inside the gates it started to cloud up, it was cold and also started to rain a bit. Well we didn't really think of bringing sweatshirts for the boys so we ended up buying them ($23 dollars a peice). Then I really didn't want to haul around a cooler( it seems every other year we've had a bigger stroller it pyle crap in) so we decided to buy lunch at Arby's, $30 dollars later we were all full. Lesson learned this year: Be prepared for anything, bring lunch and if all else fails we live in freaking Bouniful, we should have just drove home and gone back! All in all the boys had fun. Kristopher enjoyed every ride, except for maybe rattlesnake rapids. After it warmed up(which it ended up being a great day) we decided to try and not get wet and go on rattle snake rapids, well Kristopher ended being the most wet and all he said when we got off was "i'm cold." I felt really bad, good thing we had the sweatshirt! Noah rode just about everything except for the Colosus and Wicked, me and him will do it next year, or he said he'd do it when he was 32! Kevin is not much of a rider so him and Kris hung out alot but they left at about 5pm and me and Noah stayed and rode some more until about 9pm. Fun day.

Well the day after Lagoon (Sunday) the Transmission decided to crap out on us in the Blazer, for the second time, in three years...... happy times. So I don't think we will be going on an extended vacation this year, maybe a few weekend camping trips but that's about it. We were going to find a way to visit Grandma and Grandpa Romanosky in Michigan, most likely we were going to drive but I don't think that will happen this year. I'm really trying not to freak out about it, s*&% happens and you've got to roll with the punches. Everything will be OK, at least that's what I keep trying to tell myself.

I did it!

After viewing everyone elses blogs I decided that it would be a good idea to finally set one up of my own. Hopefully it will help my out of state/country family keep up on whats going on in our lives. So right now not much. May was a pretty busy month with Hollie and Mike coming, Kellie getting married and Noah getting out of school. It also seemed like we've had MILLIONS of birthday's in the past few months.

We had so much fun when Hollie and Mike were here. All of the kids seemed to have a good time together even with the occasional breakdown, fight and just getting tired of each other while thier dads played 27 holes of golf one day! While the women (hollie) slaved away making wedding cakes (about 12-14 I think). Taylor and Kristopher were an interesting pair. I think it's 2 when they say that kids of that age don't play together well, it's true for those 2, friends one minute, fighting the next. They are in England now and we are saving money to go, even if it's just me I'm going to England!

Kellie and Richard's wedding was great. Everything turned out beautiful. Hopefully they had fun too.

Noah just got out of school which he's really excited about. Our daycare has a summer camp that he's going to go to 3 days a weeks so he doesn't just sit at home all day and play Play Station and watch T.V. So far he likes it. Kristopher just plays all day with Kevin until he goes to daycare around 2:30. He's into Thomas the Train, I found Noah's old one's in the basement one day, he played with them for a couple hours. He also likes anything that Noah likes; transformers, hulk, spiderman, cars, and dinosaurs.

Me and Kevin are just working. Kevin will get to sleep in a little longer in the mornings now that Noah doesn't have to be at school at 8:30, so that will be nice for him. So now he can get 5-6 hours of continuous sleep after he gets home from work @ 3-4am. I don't have much going on at work right now, just the same old stuff: hiring, training,managing,firing, and being annoyed on a daily basis by people who just don't seem to get it.

All in all things are good. Last weekend we went to the rec center. The boys had so much fun swimming. Kristopher's favorite part was going down the water slide with Kevin. I'm not talking a small one, it was the big one. I think we were there for about three hours and they didn't stop once. I got burned, but it was relaxing just laying in the sun.

We are looking foward to Lagoon this weekend for Kevins company summer party, Noah is WAY excited. I think we may also go up to Brigham and visit Kevin's sister's, it will be 22 years on the 7th of his sister's passing, we always like to go up and do flowers or a windmill and clean off the grave since they don't really do a good job at the cemetary.