Tagging - a serious offense

So I'm sure that you all have played Scattegories with family/friends at some time in your life. I hope that it's not just our family that has this problem, but every time that we play there is usually some sort of argument that ensues (playful...mostly). Dictionaries get busted out as the debate begins on whether or not a particular word really exists or if a person should get double points or not. Emotions run high as the banter and throwing of pencils continue, but somehow we all walk away having a great time and itching for the next time we all can argue, I mean play a game together. So why all this talk about Scattegories? Well, I've been tagged by my dear sister, Katie. I suppose it's because she likes to play games with me so much even though I kick her trash!SCATTERGORIES...it's harder than it looks! Use the 1st letter of your name to answer each of the following. They have to be real places, names, things. Nothing made up! You CAN'T use your name for the boy/girl name question.

WHAT IS YOUR NAME: Sarah

BOY NAME: Santa...what? it totally is!

4 LETTER WORD: Sock

GIRL NAME: Sacajawea

OCCUPATION: Sanitation Specialist (it's what they prefer to be called) Double points, cha ching!

COLOR: Salmon

SOMETHING YOU WEAR: sweat shirt - another double whammy

BEVERAGE: Sarsaparilla

FOOD: steak

SOMETHING FOUND IN A BATHROOM: scissors

A PLACE: Sacramento, CA

REASON FOR BEING LATE: sleeping

SOMETHING YOU SHOUT: Short people in the front!

So there you have it. I'm now officially "not it" as I have fulfilled my taggily duties(I know it's not a word, but you know what I mean). I now tag McKenzie, Jessica, Whitney, and Bert. Plus whoever else wants to play!

Getaway w/o the kids, this brought to you by grandma and grandpa!

Hooray! Riley and I were able to go down to Utah overnight just the two of us. It was really nice and the first time that we have been able to get away like this since before I was pregnant with Jaxon. Don't get me wrong, we've ditched the kids before this, but it seems like whenever we did have the chance to get away I was pregnant (so really we still had a child with us, doesn't count.) So thanks to grandma and grandpa for looking after the kids and making our trip possible. Riley was able to score us some tickets to the BYU vs. San Diego State football game through work. Yah, BYU slaughtered them. But are we really surprised? It was a good time, the place was packed, but I took pictures at half time, so that's why you see some empty seats. I thought of my brother-in-law, Mark, a lot. I would some day like to go to a football game with Katie and Mark, it would be crazy fun. A bigger BYU cougar fan than Mark I have yet to meet. Here's us, kid less and enjoying the sunshine. It was such a perfect day! We even got a little burned. I called it "our last love affair with the sun this year". A burn is a fitting way to end it.This one's for you, Mark and Cole (another brother-in-law BYU fan), wish you would've been there with us!

Oh yah, I have to put these pictures of the kids in their church duds. They are just so dang cute, so I must show off.

Woody and "Bzzz"

Halloween this year was a lot of fun. Jaxon ran around singing his Halloween song which consisted of the following " Oooo oooo oooo, happy Halloween!" Over and over again. It's quite the catchy tune and he demanded that I join in regardless of what I was doing. Riley got home just in time from yet another work trip to play with the kids a little bit before getting ready and heading off for trick or treating. We did the whole trunk-or-treat thing that was in a subdivision right next to ours, and as if that wasn't enough, we took the kids up and down our little street to get even more candy. Jaxon had a great time being Woody and saying such things as "howdy, howdy, howdy!" and "stick 'em up". Sammi was just happy to play with the candy. I thought she was going to work through the wrapper of some of them, but she rotated enough that no candy was actually ingested. So all in all it was a pretty great time. Although something very confusing happened to Jaxon. There was a kid that dressed up as Santa and Jaxon would not talk to him, he just looked at him with this confused look on his face that seemed to say, "hey, wait a minute! You've got the wrong holiday, pal - you're not supposed to be taking candy from everyone, you're supposed to be giving me presents here in a couple of months!". Ah well.