Pizazz Halloween Party

Courtney's dance team had a Halloween Party at their last practice in October.  She was pretty excited about it but didn't want to wear her "real costume" to it because she wanted the freedom to dance around.  Smart girl!  So she grabbed her vampire costume from last year, we painted her face and she was off.  She's looking pretty scary if you ask me!

October Cakes

Here are some cakes I made during October.  The first is a softball cake I made for a friend of a friend who plays softball in the Huntsman Sr. World Games.  It turned out cute!

This is the cake I made for our neighborhood Halloween Party.  I really need to put signs on these cakes that say: "THIS IS A CAKE" because people always think it's a candy bowl and eat the candy toppings!  UGH!  But it was a hit at the party.

The Logo

Here is the new logo for the law firm.  I think it looks pretty good!

They have new business cards, shirts and pens now with the new logo.  Pretty snazzy!

Painting the Shed

Last month, my parents had a shed built in their back yard.  We went over a few times to help them move things from the garage into the shed.  I am happy to report that they can park both cars in the garage now!!  Yeah!!

Anyway, they asked us to come over and help them paint the shed so it would match their house.  Ethan was really excited because he thought it would be with rollers and brushes.  But my dad just bought a new spray gun thing with its own air compressor.  It was really cool but Ethan didn't want to do it for very long.  (Grandma and Grandpa have satellite TV.)

I got to use it though and it was really fun!  It makes painting so much easier although it was kind of a pain to clean up. 

When we were all finished, Ethan mowed the lawn and grass shot all over the fresh paint on one side.  We tried to clean it off but it was still there a bit.  We are going back to give it another coat of paint this weekend so we will cover up the grass with paint. )

Here is Ethan painting:

Halloween Lego Heads

A friend of mine called and had found the perfect Halloween costume that Ethan and Brennon (his best friend) could wear...Lego Mini Figures!!  She found it on pinterest and showed me the photo.  Ethan thought they were cute so...of course...Courtney thought they were cute also. 

Brennon isn't sure what he wants to be for Halloween but Ethan and Courtney decided to be Lego Mini Figures.  I went to work on their heads.  I found some trashcans with holes in them at the Dollar Store which had curved bottoms.  I used those and part of a pool noodle to make the heads.  I then used paper mache to cover over the garbage cans. 

 I primed them and then spray painted them yellow.  You can tell that it was my first time doing paper mache because they aren't as smooth as I would have liked them to be, but they turned out okay. 

I need to get some black see through fabric to put inside covering the eye and mouth holes so the kids can still see but can't be seen. And I need to make the bodies of the Lego Mini Figures but the heads were stressing me out so I'm glad they are finished. 

What moms go through for Halloween costumes!!

Piano Evaluation

Courtney had her first piano evaluation a few weeks ago.  I was teaching piano lessons, so my parents took her down to Dixie State College to play her recital piece for the judge.  I was a bit nervous because it was her first evaluation and I wasn't able to be there.  But we had talked about what was going to happen so I figured she would be fine.

A few minutes after I knew her evaluation had begun, I got a phone call from my dad telling me that Courtney had received a Superior rating and was invited to play at the honors recital Saturday afternoon.  I was really excited for her!!

On Saturday, we got all ready and took her down to the college again for the recital.  (It was REALLY LONG!)  She did a great job and sounded wonderful!!

Here she is before the recital:

Courtney's Piano Recital

Courtney had a piano recital on Tuesday at the St. George Tabernacle.  She had been working on her song for a while and was excited to play it.  She has only taken piano lessons for 3 months.  I was impressed by how well she did!

It was a crazy night.  Courtney had dance from 4:30 until 5:30, the recital began at 6:00, and Ethan had a flag football game at 6:30.  So we ran from one to the other, but got to all of them!

Here she is before the recital began:

 Warming up on the piano with her teacher:

 Our cute Courtney:

Here is the video of her recital song as she played it: