Yo Gabba Gabba!!!!

If any of you know me you know that Katy and I LOVE Yo Gabba Gabba.....so of course we had to go. Let me tell you that the tickets were a RIP OFF (they made me buy Katy a ticket...anyone over one had to have one...even though she sat on my lap most of the time!)!!!! I am only justifying it because Katy's birthday is next week. You know we throw it down national holiday style around here and have to celebrate for at least a month! Steve opted not to go because, as he put it, he would rather poke himself in the eye with a sharp stick!

Katy ate her's but I am posing in my DJ Lance Rock glasses we got. Katy seems annoyed that I am blocking her view!

No Gabba Gabba show is complete without a super music friend show guest....ours was the Aquabats! Way cool, they did a great job. Our dancy dance guest was Megan Joy from American Idol (not too cool when I read that past guests have included Sarah Silverman and Snoop Dog!!! Ha). We also had Biz Markey come and do Biz's beat of the day.

They were all there....Moono, Brobee, Foofa, Toodee and Plex. Oh and DJ Lance Rock. They had a cute balloon segment....

Then released a bunch of balloons! Katy thought that part was way cool.

Then they sang our favorite song. Jump, Shake and Shimmy.....get the sillies out. Katy will dance her head off every time we sing that. Look at DJ Lance Rock...those are some pretty impressive moves! Ha, what's not to like!

And lastly we had to sing....there's a party in my tummy! So yummy, so yummy!

I don't know if too many of my friends enjoy this show as much as Katy and I but I had to laugh my head off when my friend Melynda told me that the song "Don't bite your friends" has been a good one for her son Lincoln! Sadly, they didn't sing that one!

More Forrest Gumping.....

I just felt like running.....

Wise words from mister Gump. And it was a great day to run.....October 30th. I was defiantly feelin' it later though when Katy pooped out and I had to carry her trick or treating! So I actually semi trained for this race (I feel like I haven't really fully trained for anything that I ran this year), and I could tell. I was feeling great.

Of course my running buddy Nicole and I decided to make this our 4th race together this year and we had a good time of course. We had to beat our Ogden time of 2:20...and I am happy to post that we finished this race in 2:09! Not too shabby.

Let me tell you though......although the costumes were SO funny to see (and it was too cold for any of the ladies to dress too scandly....a big pet peve of mine! Hey what kind of animal ears can I wear with my underwear?!? You know what I'm talking about!), I don't think I'll be running this race again. Unless, of course I do some serious downhill training. Nicole and I ran the Provo River Half and I felt really great after that one. Not sore at all. NOT the case this time. I am still nursing my hammered knees. This thing took us up past Sundance and was STRAIGHT down!

According to my Runner's World Complete Book of Running I may be suffering from runners knee: "pain all around and under the kneecap, and stiffness of the knee joint. In severe cases, flexing the knee may produce a painful grinding sensation. Runner's knee results from running too much or too hard, too soon. If you can run through this injury, avoid downhills...." Okay I am almost sure that it was not caused from running too hard or too fast too soon, but because of those cursed downhills! The ironic thing is that I was lovin that steep incline for those first about 4-5 miles but I sure paid the price later!!!!

(Aubry's mom...forgot her name again! (so cute though), Randi, Danielle, Aubry, me and Nicole)

Note to self and lesson learned: DONT run this race unless you have trained extensively on downhill running!!!!!! Again TRAIN HARD on downhill running!

Oh and my favorite costume I saw was a Reno 911 cop. I've only seen clips (thanks to Steve) so I don't know any of the characters names but that one made me laugh out loud! Short shorts = major chafing in the name of a laugh so good job.

Oh oh and, Nicole....I LOVE YOU. Thanks for being my best running buddy even though we live so far away. And thanks to my awesome neighbors Aubry and Danielle (who have been running with me at 5:30 in the mornings) and to my friend Randi who is a running inspiration! Ha

And the rest.....

And of course here is the rest.....

So pumpkin carving is a tradition I don't think anyone can escape. Fortunately for me I like to carve pumpkins, unfortunately for me Steve does not like scooping out the goo!!!! I opted to go with our two pumpkins that we got from Grandma and Grandpa Beardshall and Roger and Joanne. It's cute to each have your own to carve....but let's face it I didn't really want to goo scoop 3 folks! That is the deal I made with Steve....if I scoop goo then he'd carve with me! Ha. It's a sacrifice I was willing to make.

This is what we ended up with....Mickey and Jack. Katy was especially impressed with Steve's Mickey. Thank goodness for the internet and printable stencils. Also thank goodness for my seam ripper....steve used it to poke his pattern! A multifaceted tool! Is that even the correct use of the word? I like that word!

And of course we had to go trick or treating. When we went to Moab we downloaded a bunch of shows for Katy to watch on the iPad....totally cool, worked just like a DVD player. Anywho Steve found all the Halloween episodes of Yo Gabba Gabba, Handy Manny and Max and Ruby. (I have an iPad story for you in a later post!) Needless to say she was pretty excited to go get treats!

And although mom declined a picture I made her get in anyway. She joined in on the festivities.....and we had a BLAST with her. Steve sacrificed and stayed to answer the door (although I think there were alterer motives for him watching the U game!). When we got back we ordered pizza from the PIE and finished the game! Minnie made a great hall that I helped her take care of! Yum....take advantage while you can I say!

Happy Halloween to all and to all a good night! The end!

Pee Pee Potty!

Before I finish catching up on my Halloween festivities, I thought I would tell you about my past week and a half......

We are officially pee peeing in the potty right now. But let me go to last week before this was happening......

Katy had been getting a kick out of taking her PJ's off and hanging out in her diaper. Every morning you'd get her up and she'd say, "Katy cold." Um yeah, it's the end of October and it's been getting a bit chilly at night.

Any who we didn't think twice about it until someone mentioned that we were lucky that she wasn't taking her diaper off. Up to this point I was just concerned that she was getting cold. I didn't think twice about it until it happened! She took the diaper off!

Not only did the diaper come off but we were greeted by a BIG dump in the middle of the floor, oh and a big pee spot next to it! AHHHHH! Seriously??? Well if you thought that was bad, it gets better because Steve decided it would be a good idea to clean it up with paper towels. Which wouldn't be too big of a deal if he didn't put them in the TOILET!!!! Ha, we had a clogged toilet for a few days. I guess no one told him you cant do that. He kept thinking that it would "soften up" and make it's way down. Not the case, we even had to buy a heavy duty plunger to take care of the problem!

Well that was when we decided that it may be time to really start pushing the potty training. She seemed fine with it so we went for it. She went once back in July but I think it scared her so she hasn't been too interested since then. Oh and this is the potty seat Steve and I opted for since neither of us wanted to do the empty kind.

She doesn't tell us if she needs to go but has been going about 4-5 times a day, which has been great because she seems so excited about it. Oh and the last thing I wanted to laugh at is the fact that we asked her if she wanted a treat when she was done...she said no, but told us that she wanted CHIPS! So she has been getting lots of chips this week.

I dont really know what the next step is but I keep telling her to tell me if she wants to go. No go so far. What is the next step anyway? This is my first time! Let me know, and wish us luck!

Witches Tea

My friend Randi had a great Halloween get together for Witches Tea. And we did exactly that....drank tea (caffeine free of course!). She had it set up so cute. It was very dark and there were black lights setting the mood. It's good Nickie brought her camera because no flash was a no go that night. You got some great shots Nickie!

I decided that I am probably not a tea drinker. I know a lot of people that drink them when they are sick but no thanks. I guess I don't like the herbal undertones! But fun idea for sure!

I had to laugh when Sheena picked me up at my house and we drove 4 houses down to park in Randi's driveway!!!!

The party planner herself! We all had to laugh when she was talking up in front of us and one of her warts fell off! Ha, too funny!!!!

It was fun to see how everyone dressed up. Like I said we were enjoying each others company by candle light and black-light so it's funny to see these pictures with the flash! You can really see all the details people put into there costumes! Rosies "witch doctor" was my favorite for sure! Probably because of the scrubs and stethoscope!

Stacy was enjoying her own eyeball!

Oh wait....she was enjoying Randi's eyeballs! She really went all out!

Susie always goes all out for a good photo opp! Oh and Happy Birthday too...you are too funny!

Marge Simpson even joined us! Ha, Jena kept saying how she painted herself with yellow paint!

Fun had by all...I think I finally got all the green paint off myself!

Thanks again Randi, what an awesome party!!!!