Creating Keepsakes Convention 2007

These women are CRAZY! On Friday if you had bought $X amount of classes, you get in 1 hour early to the Vendor Fair. They line up, and sometimes are vicious! I just chilled out up top with Sarah, Kyan, and Trestin till the crowd thinned a bit!

Sarah and I stayed with the kids while Tanya and Whitney had a class Friday morning. The DVD player was a life saver for Kyan, who has a hard time when Whitney leaves.

Trestin loved his balloon, and even after falling asleep, he still held tight to it!

This is just a small chunk of what the Vendor Fair looked like. TONS of vendors selling and some demonstrating their products for you to buy. HEAVEN!

Whitney and Tanya making a CUTE Santa card "Make 'n' Take. Various booths have little projects for free-$2 for you to make if you like.

The Convention was a blast this year! It's always nice to get away for a bit (even if I did have Trestin), have a "Girly & Crafty" weekend with my favorite sister-in-laws! And luckily the weather in Seattle was perfect the entire time! It only rained on the way home alittle! Thanks Tanya, Sarah, & Whitney for a great weekend! Same time next year?!

Halloween Night

I found this outfit in storage. I have no idea where I got it, but it fit Tretin perfectly! And was pretty cute!

Aleksia at a Halloween carnival we went to, fishing.

Butch the Cougar (WSU's mascot) giving Aleksia a hug

Aleksia doing a pumpkin bean bag toss

At our ward's Trunk-or-Treat; The Safari Bunch

(leopard, and monkey, and elephant oh my!)

Carving Pumpkins

Again, Garrick chickens out of carving his pumpkin, "I don't like the goo!" Aleksia, on the other hand, dove right in. Taking her shirt off of course so it doesn't get dirty!

Trestin loved the pumpkins. Actually, he loved eating them. The seeds, the "goo," the pieces we carved out, it all!

Yummy! You can see a string of "goo" from his hand to his mouth.

"P.U.!"

Aleksia's - Garrick's - Daddy's pumpkins all a glow

*Trestin sitting while playing with a paper plate.

*The kids doing a "Cookie Walk." Aleksia is at the far left, then Garrick, the next purple dress is Morgan Mickelsen, then Madyson (with their mom Jeniel in the green shirt to the right of Madyson). They Mickelsen's are one of our good family friends!

Here is Garrick with one of his good friends Madyson Mickelsen, wearing a princess dress her Mom made for her and her two other sisters.

Halloween Activities

We got invited to a Halloween activity in the University ward (our old ward), and the kids where soooo excited, mainly cause they got to wear their new costumes I made. So here is a picture of me on my "Safari" with my "Wild Animals (elephant, leopard, & monkey).