So this past week I kept telling Fehi about how we should go to this place called
Gardner Village in West Jordan, where they have a witchfest going on. I had heard about it (or read about it) from a friend's
blog (thanks crystal h.!) and so I was very eager to go. We planned to go on Tuesday, but I forgot we had a class in the evening. So then we planned for Wednesday but something came up and Thursday we couldn't go either cause we had a class. So finally we went on Friday night. :) We've never been there before, but we LOVED it! The kids had fallen asleep on the ride there, and when my kids just wake up (especially from only napping for 5 minutes) they are a little (understatement lol) cranky, so we did one round around the place looked at everything to get them warmed up a little... then as soon as they saw the little ponies they got all excited and jumped out and stood and watched them.
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| They LOOOVE horses.. It must be because they LOOOVE toy story (the horse in toy story 2 and 3) |
So after they had their round of "warm up" we went back to the main area and they ran loose! They got all excited and started looking at everything and jumping up and down! And since Moe's a two year old boy, he went super crazy and hyper! :) Here's more pictures from Friday night:
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| Here they were still "getting in" to it so they weren't too happy lol |
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| Daddy and kids :) |
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| Daddy and his son |
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| It was suppose to be a family pic but she cute kesaia off.. she was in the stroller by our legs |
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| Me and my lil loves.. they were scared of the witch behind me lol |
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| Merry go round of witches |
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| a BIG witch on the wall :) |
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| the swimming witch lol |
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| Moe kept yelling "horsy!" and then we would ask him to say bye to the horsy and he'd yell "NO!" lol |
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| Then little miss finally got out the stroller and yelled out "horsy!" too :) |
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I LOVE MY MAN!!!
He seriously brings such a sweet spirit to our family!
I LOVE being in LOVE with him! :) |
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They had a little area under this tree full of lights..
Kesaia tripped over her boots that STILL don't fit her feet
even a year later lol so she crawled for a little bit... |
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| The beautiful lights :) |
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| Another one of the witches |
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| Daddy and his kids |
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| Me and my princess, she was happy to hold the pumpkin :) |
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| Just a fun pix |
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| She's such a daddy's little girl :) |
We spent a good hour there just letting the kids run wild, they didn't even want to go home, but we bribed them with ice-cream from McDonalds lol, did I mention my kids LOOOVE ice-cream, especially Kesaia! :)
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| She ate two kiddie cones! :) |
Family Date Night #2 (Saturday October 29, 2011)
All week we had a flier posted on our fridge about a community Trunk-O-Treat with dinner and games to follow. So I had planned for us to attend that. I worked in the morning, then came home and we cleaned up a bit then we got ready to go to the party. I told Fehi that he would
have to dress up because I was going to dress up with the kids, I didn't want him feeling left out ;) lol... So we ended up buying him a $3 mask from Halloween City. He was suppose to be like one of the
jabbawockeez (maybe if he wore a hoodie he would've looked morel like them) but he ended up looking more like
Jason (Michael Meyers) because a lot of the kids were either scared of him or like "Are you suppose to be Jason???!?!?" lol.
It was fun though, we went around with the kids and once again they fell asleep on our 2 minute drive up to the chapel (right up the road from our house) so it took them a little bit to get into it. But once they saw they were getting candy, they were set! Kesaia would NOT let go of her pumpkin full of goodies, even though I know it was getting a little heavy for her. After we did a round of trunk-o-treat they invited everyone to go into the cultural hall for dinner and games, but we decided to leave and go back to Gardner Village! lol. Yeah, we really did go back, just cause we wanted to :), but this time we were in costume. Here's some pics from last night:
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| Moe eating his treats after the trunk-o-treat |
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| Kesaia enjoying her treats as well |
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| Kids in their costume and the mummy |
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| Me and the kids :) |
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| "Jason", "Iron Man" (yes he's in a spider man costume but he thinks it's iron man lol), and the two witches! |
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| Halloween 2011! The Latu Family! ;) |
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Lol @ Moe. I told him to do "iron man" and this was his pose..
Kesaia on the other was not even trying to cooperate with me lol |
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| Me and the little witch who was being a real life witch this night lol |
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| He LOVED seeing all the pumpkins and would yell every time he saw one |
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| The hula-hooping witch |
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Kids watching the horses again.
We asked moe if he wanted to "sit down" on the horse and he said "Yeah" |
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| So we let them watch them a little bit more |
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Then we went on the "ride-to-a-wtich"
They had a trailer hooked to a tractor with haystacks to sit on..
They took us to another area with the "live" witches... |
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| Moe probably had more fun playing with the rocks lol |
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| Kesaia wanted to run free too, she was tired of pictures lol |
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Us having fun, I think this is the first year ever,
since we've been together,
that we dressed up for halloween |
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| Yeah the kids didn't want to cooperate in the pic lol |
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Leaving the "live" witches..
(to be honest it wasn't worth our $15,
it wasn't as big or fun as I thought the other "free" area was...
If they extended the haystack ride and
added things to it I would've considered
that money well spent.. lol) |
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| Then we decided we would let Moe ride the pony... and he LOVED it! |
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| He held on tight and kept going round and round |
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Then Kesaia wanted to ride as well,
but we just let her walk with daddy and get closer to them. |
Our weekend was amazing, and we had a lot of fun. Tomorrow (Halloween) I just hope it'll be warm enough for our kids, and I can't wait to take them out and get more candies! I don't know if we'll stay home to pass out treats, but I'll leave a bowl of candy out on the step for them to come and pick. Our little neighborhood is small, so I don't think we'll have too many kids. I'll probably make some pumpkin rolls to take in the morning for my co-workers (if I don't get lazy) and then make some goody bags for the little nieces and nephews tomorrow! :)
Last Weekend!
As if this post wasn't long enough already, lol, I just wanted to add in pics from last week and weekend. It was my best friend's little sister's wedding (Lote Livai now "Afu") and my nieces 5th birthday. Here are the pics:
Halloween Themed Bridal Shower (10/19/11)
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I took Kesaia with me, and the boys (Fehi&Moe) went to the East game.
She was a little mermaid (got her costume from savers!) |
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The bride LOVES halloween and SWEETS!
There was more sweets than there was food lol. for real! :) |
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All the treats were halloween themed as well,
except for the banana bread (what I brought) lol |
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| EYE BALLS! (oreo truffles.. yum! yum!) |
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The drinks.. and that white block in the middle of the drinks was dry ice...
worked well in the beginning for making it look foggy...
(even though you can't see it in this pic) |
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| Uila, Jean, Lee & Hoks :) |
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| Lote surprised! :) |
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| The toilet paper wedding dresses! :) |
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| Talk about going the extra mile! lol. This dress won the contest! lol |
Wedding Dance (10/20/11)
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He was one of those naughty kids at the dance, that they say
"Parent's please keep your kids by you.." lol |
The Wedding (10/21/11)
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Forgive me for the sucky pics.. we came late so we sat out in the foyer area...
Here's the couple dancing :) |
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| Love when my mommy's in town! :) |
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| Mommy and her namesake |
Saturday (10/22) Teli's Football Game/Day at the Park & Sunday (10/23) Ane's Birthday:
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| Moe was more than ready to put the football helmet on.. |
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| and he would NOT take it off! |
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| She was happy to be out in the sun (so was I!) |
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| He wanted to wear the football pads too.. so Daddy put it on him :) |
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| My little athlete! :) |
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After the game we went to the park because it was such a beautiful day! :)
I didn't want to waste the day sitting inside |
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| Kesaia spotted the dogs and yelled "Doggy!" and walked towards them :) |
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| Moe's favorite thing to do is swing! |
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| The beautiful fall trees :) |
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| Sunday was a eating at my sis in laws house for Ane's bday... |
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| These 3 little one's were all born the same year... 1st cousins :) |
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| Me and little chubby baby niece Teuila |
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| The birthday girl and her yummy bday cake :) |
And that's it! LONGEST POST EVERRRRRRR!!! lol :)
