HALLOWEEN 2008

Johanna and Juli were my little witches. Juli was so cute with her fake eye lashes. We went to the ward Halloween party and people kept saying, " I can't believe she keeps those things on!" If you can't guess Kaden was a hockey player, Emily a ghost, Noah a skeleton man, Casey wore a shirt that glowed in the dark and had a flashing light, plus it had spiderman on it. Bryan wore his Tae kwon do outfit.

Kaden carved a pumpkin of a haunted house. The kids had fun carving pumpkings outside and the weather was so nice. We were really lucky this year that it wasn't totally freezing like usual.

Bryan's very impressive wolf scene.

For breakfast Noah and I made all the kids stay in bed while we made our Halloween breakfast. We ate by candle light to scary music. Yummy pumpkin muffins, oranges with body parts in them, scrambled eggs, and they even have Halloween cereal that comes out every year. Packed full of sugar! We played Halloween bingo and had prizes.

The tablecloth even glowed in the dark.

ON ANOTHER NOTE.............

Bryan and I are challenging the 5 older kids to read the BOM this next month. Kaden has already gotten off to a great start. We have been challenged so many times by the Prophet, out Stake President, and Bishop so we are going to make that our goal for November to get through the first 2 books. Take into consideration the time of the younger ones. Grandma Chandler has given Jo and Emily stickers that we never finished putting on so that is a nice extra for motivation. I haven't decided if we are going to do it in the mornings or night. I am trying to help the kids see how blessed they are and to be more grateful which should be easy this time of year. Bryan and I both wish we had family that lived nearby because we have a great family! There is an open invitation for any family to come see us any time!

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA NIGHT!!!!

A few months ago we got tickets to the Phantom in
Spokane. Bryan surprised me and told me he bought them because he knew I loved
the movie so much. We invited 2 of our friends from work, Ryan and Aubree.

We went to Luna's. This is our new favorite spot to eat. I had the koho Salmon, Bryan had prime rib and Aubree and Ryan had quail and duck. My favorite was the french fries and butternut squash soup with crab. Yummy!

We loved dinner so much. We barely got to the show on time, only a few minutes to spare. Good driving Bryan and Ryan!!! Some of those red lights don't count anyways, right?

Bryan took a trip to Green River, Utah last weekend to celebrate his dad's 70th birthday. He took Kaden, Noah, Emily and Corina. We still don't have a car to fit everyone yet. The kids got to meet Bryan's brothers and sister.
Noah by the Geyser before it went off.


Carolyn, Arden, Eric, Kaden, Corina, Emily and Noah before church. Noah got a special tie he is wearing from Arden. He even wore it all the way home from Utah. His has a bird on it. Kaden got one too.This is when they went to Goblin Valley. Noah and Ray sitting on the "motorcycle seat".
Lots of Sandstone in Utah.
Noah
Emily told me, "Oh yeah, I almost fell off a 40 ft rock today", when I talked to her on the phone that night. She wasn't kidding, these rocks are BIG!

Hi beautiful!

Today I broke down and had a "pop", this meaning Pepsi. I weaned myself and then a day goes by, and then days, and even weeks, but today I just needed one because Bryan has been gone to Utah for 4 days now! I didn't realize how much I needed him and how much my 2 littlest ones can suck out so much of my energy. So we went to Mcdonald's because my kids have informed me they will not go to Griffin's one more time. Well, I forgot to get them drinks so that left me with only one option... they got a drink of my pop. This is a rare occasion because they don't get soda normally. So, Juli takes her sip and then Casey gets his. Then, Juli wants another sip until they are rotating back and forth until gues what? No more pop. There is just enough for one more sip and I am very thirsty (and irritated) so even one sip sounds good to me. This is when Juli informs me that Casey has "mouthwashed" in the pop. I decided she has used this term way too often in the wrong sense so I correct her and say, "Juli it really isn't mouthwashed, ya know". She then says, "I know it's bathwashed. Mouthwash....bathwash, same difference". I then decided she might be right. It's all the same, isn't it?

Go ALL STARS!!! Emily starts volleyball!

Corina Camille Lybbert. Her favorite color is blue and green. Favorite drink is V-8. Favorite sport is gymnastics. Favorite animal is a cat. Favorite TV show is Spongebob. Favorite past time is computer games.

She loves the movie Brother Bear and her favorite part of the movie is when Kenign turns into the bear and you can see all the spirits up in the sky.

Corina is quiet but can be sneaky. She is sweet and gentle. She really wishes we had a cat. Our cat Sparkles ran away and she misses her very much. She was a good cat and Corina loved her.

CB UNITED BLUE TEAM