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Halloween

This is what the kids wore to school. They were studying vikings and egytians, can you tell. We bought Ben's vest in the ladies dept at Target. Funny huh?

Here are our pumpkins, and the neighbor kids who carved with us. Ben's is the first one, it is a witch's face in the moon, and roxy's is the bat.
These are the neighbor kids with us, we drove to the nearest bunch of houses, since our street is so spread out.

On halloween night ben choose to be the Joker, his costume from last year instead of a viking.

Trick or treating at my moms house. They wished they could have also gone to Grammy and Papa's.

It's not even Halloween yet...

and it's already been a busy week.

These are pics from Blaine and Roxy's big date night on Saturday. They went to a place called Cornbelly's. It is a little Halloween carnival thingy at Thanksgiving Point. They had a great time.

What a great shot of her on the blow up tramp they had!
They had to wear these glasses in the fun house they went into. I love Rox's expression in this photo.
The same night, Ben and I went on a big date to a dance show called Thriller. It was really fun. He even got his pic taken with a zombie!
It was at the U of U in a place without very good parking, so we took the train up. He loved the ride, it turned out to be a major part of our date. He thought of Papa often while on the train :)

I think we look really alike in this photo.
On Mon and Tues of this week Benji got to spend the day with a group called the Young Americans. They are a song and dance group that travel the world performing for kings and presidents and such. They had a workshop at the school and Ben got to miss class and then on Tues evening they put on a show. It was fantastic. I can't believe the number of songs and dances they learned and put together in two days. 

At one point they had dance solos for select students, this is a shot of Ben break dancing. He even did a back flip, he was AWESOME! He performed in front of so many people.
He also got to say a line, he introduced the upcoming performance. Keep in mind there were almost two hundred students in this show and he got TWO individual things to do. Some people only participated in the group things. It was nice for us that the Young Americans recognized his natural talents.
The next two shots are of some of the group dances they did. 

He is in the middle of this one (in case it's hard to tell)

This girl is one of the cast members of Young Americans, during the training process she and Ben really hit it off. After the show we were looking for her in the crowd to take a pic with her and Ben, but when we found her, before we could ask, she asked for one, and her friend took a pic of them together for her to keep as well. Ben really has an amazing personality. These dancers meet so many people and kids, the fact that she wanted to remember him personally, really says a lot about Ben. They exchanged addresses and will be pen pals. Yeah, she is like 20 years old. 
And sadly, that brings us to today. 

This sad, sad pic was taken during the time Roxy was waking up from her surgery. You can see the fear and confusion in her face, I hate seeing her like this.

She was at the Orem hospital, they were great. You can see how they gave her bunny bear all the same treatment she had. When it was time for them to take her back, they wheeled her back in a wagon to make it fun. They even brought me a blanket and pillow while I waited for her. I thought they had tremendous bed side manor, then when we got home and I was looking through the paper work, I found a get well soon card, signed with a personal note by all the nurses who worked with her. How great is that?

Well, tomorrow Ben has dental work to get done, then all the Halloween stuff is coming up this weekend, so I'm sure I'll be posting again soon.

Roxy's field trip

Roxy's class went on a field trip to the zoo on Monday, I came along to help out.

I can't get over how cute she looks in her school uniform.

This was our group. They look innocent enough, but holy smokes, it was a lot of work keeping track of them.
Roxy is a bit smaller than an adult female gorilla.

This isn't exactly what the color looks like, but it shows the basic idea.

  

Sunday dinner in the living room.

What's it like in AZ today?

This is what it's like in Mapleton:

That is snow on the trampoline.  Crazy!


Snow!!! on the mountain tops.

it's time

I recommend double clicking on these pics to see them better.

and it's time to post pics of Benji's baptism day

Hombre is eightre

Bahama Mama

Poor Bentley, we hadn't told her yet that she didn't get to come with us.

We had such a great time on our trip~ We NEVER would have been able to go if it hadn't been a free trip since we nearly had to take a 2nd out on our apt just to pay for food. SOOOOO EXPENSIVE. SOOOOO nice though. We feel so blessed to have won! Our pictures don't do it justice. To get the appropriate amount of jealousy, you should google the hotel. It's called The Atlantis.


This is another part of the resort by the marina. We had a really fun night one night eating down there and walking around the multi million dollar yauts that we oh so amazing!!! The boats you see here literally look like dingys compared to all the ones that were there. The blur in the last picture is a bird. :) they were all over at the marina.
This is the ceiling in the lobby when we check in. The whole resort was just as amazing it is design and decor- so great!


This is the top of the aquarium called "the dig". It was supposed to replicate the lost city of Atlantis. Inside the aquarium, they had some of the most amazing fish and ocean life. They had built it with amazing artifacts and pieces to resemble Atlantis. They had some MantaRey fish in it that were at least 10 feet in diameter. AMAZING. We walked down in the aquarium every night before going to bed.

Part view of the HUGE MantaRey inside "the dig"


Here is one of the many many walls of the aquarium. Beside it, my hot husband.






More of the beautiful grounds and fountains around the resort.



They had a private acoustic beach concert for us the night we got there. Justin Moore is an up and coming country star apparently, he sang.

It was open bar, thank goodness...



This was our room. Our view looked out over a lagoon that had about 15-20 sting rey swimming it it. It was awesome!!


Two of the MANY water slides there went right through the shark aquarium. You can see the tube behind Cody in this picture. Cody was brave enough and in less of a fragile condition to go on it.

So many of the hallways and corridors were just so pretty. This one was all white. The tile in it was shimmery and so pretty.


One of the beaches from the hotel. The water was absolutely beautful and perfect temp for swimming.

One of about 20 different pools. None of them looked alike and they all had something like a waterfall or slide or artifact or something to make them unique.


We got to go the the Reba concert one night. We met her right before the show. They took our picture with her but I haven't downloaded it yet. I ll add it when I do.



They had a really neat 4th of July show on the beach. The fireworks were set off from a ship out in the ocean. It was great. We watched them from the water. They had cool bands come out on a big stage and dancing and picnic tables all set up for the show. It was really cool. The Dallas Cheerleaders preformed a couple of times. My cute husband is so sweet, he was really embarrassed when I ran up to take their picture.

They took us back to the airport in a limo. What service. It was a great trip and we have a million more pictures but this takes so long to post them so I just gave the highlights.