1st Annual Haunted House Decorating Contest

Dawn and Brian - Party planner extraordinaire! And their house complete with landscape!

Jeff very focused while he decorated! I so appreciate that he will do this stuff with me! He can pipe frosting like it's nobodies business!
Our Award Winning Haunted House! Notice that as you enter the house you enter his mouth! :) Front and back views.
I had to add a picture of the house below! I call this house the Mardi Gras House! I love this house because the McDonald girls worked on it and I think they included every possible type of candy that was there!

BIG THANKS to Dawn and Brian for throwing our 1st Annual Haunted House decorating contest! It was so much fun to have all our friends together and even more exciting that the Lombardi's new house was able to accommodate everyone and some! We did potluck style with soups, breads, and desserts and then everyone was to bring all the stuff they wanted for decorating. I saw candy last night that I didn't even know existed before! It was so fun and I'm so excited that we have started a new Halloween tradition!!!

Riley's Farm - Apple Press

The Winning Girls Team

The Second place team

On Saturday we went with a group of friends to an Apple Orchard where you get to pick apples off of the trees and press your own apple juice. It was so much fun! Mainly because it actually was a little bit cold and actually felt a bit like fall! Walking through all the many different types of apple trees and pumpkin patches was a treat, but the real fun came when we had the girls vs. boys apple press. As you can see the girls won and I'm not going to lie - the kids did the majority of the cranking. It always feels good to win! But really it was just super fun to be with fun friends!

Neil Baby!

Jeff and I with the Hollywood Bowl in the back!

NEIL DIAMOND ROCKS!!!!

If you look close enough you might actually see Neil Diamond!


Does anyone recognize the girl on the right in the picture below??? Well if any of you are watching the new 90210 like my friend Amber and I are then you would recognizer her! She is the mom of one of the high school girls! We totally had to get a picture with her because we are such fans of the show! :)

A big group of us went to see Neil Diamond last night at the Hollywood Bowl! It was so much fun and Neil did not disappoint! He sang some of his new stuff but for sure rocked out to the classics - Forever in Blue Jeans - my favorite!!! Big thanks to Amber and Melanie for putting this together! It was such a great concert! The Hollywood Bowl is so much fun - if you haven't been you should go! Can't wait until the next concert!!!

Reliving the Glory Days!

Brunch at Sundance! AMAZING!!! The best food ever! I love having the vacation clause!
Umm.. Yeah that's right - that's Robert Redford!
YOU KNOW WHY! We watched "What Happens in Vegas" and we were dying over the end scene it the credits! This is Allison waiting up for Amanda to come home from "hanging out" with a boy. Let's just say - Allison and I are getting older and we were not able to stay awake - so sad!

We didn't even plan it, but Swiss Days was going on! My mom and I went and looked at all the fun stuff! Luckily we flew to Utah so we were limited on what we could buy. We also made sure that we stopped in Heber to get milkshakes at Granny's!
What is reliving the glory days without going to a BYU football game! SO FUN! Here we are having the time of our lives! We had awesome seats and yes that is a picture of Allison and I with Cosmo! We were both so embarassed as we waited in line with a bunch of 4 year olds, but go big or go home! You can tell by my red skin that it was SOOO HOT! We were dying! Also I feel like I should add that the shirt I'm wearing is intended to be blousy - I feel I should bring that up since I look like a heffer!

The entourage cheering on Amanda at her soccer game! We were able to see two games and they won both of them! So fun! Pretty much my sisters a rock star! I love watching her play!

S0 needless to say the trip was amazing! A big thanks to Amanda for letting us live through her once again! Allison and I totally crashed at her place at Belmont for the weekend! It was so much fun listening to her and roommates talk and to get to meet the boys that came around. I learned that I am much older than I would sometimes like to give into, but go to BYU for a weekend and you walk away with a whole new vocabulary. It's amazing! I also forgot to mention that we went the Boys to Men concert in Orem while we were there! Seriously - Utah is so much fun to visit! Good times had with Mom, Allison, Amanda, and Whitney!

Pumpkin Patch!

How many guys does it take to carry the great pumpkin???
For those of you who might wonder why I normally have a large pumpkin on our patio for the majority of the year might like to know that every year my dad grows a huge pumpkin patch with tons of variety pumpkins! Each year we have a big picking and we all claim which one we get - it's quite the event. But where in Southern CA do you get to go pick your pumpkin and where can you find 200+ pound pumpkins. No joke the picture above it took 6 guys to move and load that pumpkin. So here is to an early Happy Halloween! I can't wait for it to be fall! I'm ready for it not to be so hot!

We've Moved

I wish this post was something a little bit more exciting like we bought the house of our dreams, but instead it is to let you all know that we now have an awesome 3 bedroom apartment! It's still in our same apartment complex it's just bigger and so much nicer. It's been almost two weeks since we officially moved and we are still trying to get organized. But not to worry - a foos ball table has been purchased for the third bedroom and I'm pretty sure we will also be getting an air hockey table. It will be fun having the extra space and the game room! We will have to have a game event challenge soon!

NEW ADDRESS
401 Memphis Ave #1
Huntington Beach, CA 92648

Call Of Duty Anyone???

Jeff got a projector for his birthday and we have been having so much fun with it! The last two weeks we have done movies out in the courtyard area of our apartment complex. One of our neighbors asked if we were going to do it every Friday during the summer! I was cracking up! But last night Jeff and the boys set up Call of Duty and it was so much fun. They played with four guys and each guys screen was huge with the projector screen. Emily Curfew and I played around with our cameras while they played and finally they got mad saying the flash was distracting them - umm...you're not really in battle. :) But it was seriously fun to watch all the guys in our apartment complex come out and watch and get in on the action. I'm afraid this might be our new summer activity! But we will also try better to plan the next movie night and make sure the invite goes out to all!