Oh I Love Halloween !!

Halloween was a little different this year this neighborhood doesn't get into the spirit of things like are last one. But that won't stop the Johnson's from scaring the *!*#**$ out of the trick-or-treaters!! AHHH another successful year!!! Happy Halloween to everyone!!! This year as one of our tricks we have little candy butler and we put gelatin (with no sugar) in his bowl with candy wrappers. The kids would stick there hand in and squeal!!

Savannah went trick-or-treating with Dad, not to long he had to get back to listening to the kids scream!! I think there is something wrong with that guy!! So overall 4 Halloween parties later and a good night out trick-or-treating, Halloween is completed for Savannah!!
As for Travis and I we have one more night for the ADULT Halloween party. So I get to leave my Halloween blog page up one more day!!

Poor Dog!!

So I just got done reading my sister LuRae's blog and it had a picture of her little Sadie dog dressed up. So I thought since my Jetta dog is Sadie's sister I couldn't leave her out of the dress up fun!! I was nice enough to put her in a leather biker jacket instead of a Ballernia like her doggy sister!!

Dance Class Halloween Party!

The fun of Halloween has started!! Savannah had her Halloween party with dance yesterday. It makes me a little sad, last year there were a few princesses left. Savannah not being one of them! This year in her dance class there were no princesses. The first 6 Halloweens Savannah was a princess. The first couple years of dance everyone was a princess!! Ohhh my little princess is growing up!

Little Things!!

My wonderful husband brought me home flowers!! I know it is a little thing, but Travis does not do this very often. Actually I think this is the first time he has brought me flowers in 5 years!! He usually buy plants to plant in our yard. Which I love just as much. Sometimes in life I guess you need something little to remember all the little things in life you all ready have!! Thank You Travis I Love You!!

Easy,Halloween Treats!!

The eyeballs picture is cupcakes I could not find one of the brownies but it is the same idea!

Brain Cupcakes

1 batch of cupcakes (red velvet cake is fun)

Frosting: ½ cup of shortening, ½ cup butter, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 4 cups of powdered sugar, 2 tablespoons milk

Color the frosting gray with a little bit of black food coloring or use red, green and blue until you reach the desired color. Frost each cup cake with the gray frosting.

Using a round tip in your pastry bag (or cut a hole in the end of a sandwich bag) divide the cupcake in half and squiggle down each side to look like brains.

Cookie Ghosts and Mummies

1 package of Nutter butter cookies
1 package of white chocolate chips melted in the microwave 30 seconds at a time until smooth
Candy sugar eyes, small chocolate chips for eyes, or black icing for eyes

Dip the cookies into the melted chocolate and then place on parchment paper to set. Place the eyes while the chocolate is still wet. If you want to make a mummy, take white frosting and a thick line tip and do criss -crosses over the cookie until it looks like a mummy.

Brownie Eye Balls

1 pan of brownies baked soft
1 package each of red, green, blue and black color gel
½ package of white chocolate chips melted (for directions see above)

Take pieces of brownie and roll it in to a ball, dip it in melted white chocolate and place it on parchment to set. Then take the gel icing and put a round circle of blue or green in the middle of the eyeball. Place a black circle in the middle of the colored circle and then with the red gel draw blood shot veins.

Kitty Litter Brownies

1 new kitty litter box
1 new kitty litter scoop
1 pan of brownies baked soft
2 boxes of grape nut cereal

Place the cereal into the kitty litter box. Take chunks of brownie and mold into desired shapes. Roll the brownies around in the cereal until it looks appropriate. Serve with the kitty litter scoop! Trust me this is some funny “crap”!

Moving!!!

Ha ha no we did not move again!! PHEW!! My in-laws did and being the perfect kids that we are went and helped yesterday! Travis and I made a pack and signed in blood hehe, that the next time we move, we will pay to have it done for us! So moving is bad enough they bought Travis's sisters house, but my sister-in-law has not moved out. They are still looking for that just right house. While we were out in Payson helping move, we went and looked at a couple of houses with them. It was funny to see the faces when we all unloaded to see the houses there was 12 of us!! It was good fun for me I love looking at houses as long as I am not the one buying! Overall great fun!!

Which Sports Car Are You?

I'm a Chevrolet Corvette!

You're a classic - powerful, athletic, and competitive. You're all about winning the race and getting the job done. While you have a practical everyday side, you get wild when anyone pushes your pedal. You hate to lose, but you hardly ever do.

Take the http://www.tomorrowland.us/sportscar">Which Sports Car Are You? quiz.

I needed a smile today!!

Thinking of my beautiful, hand full of a daughter, to help me get through the day today, I started thinking of her funny sayings.

The one that always stands out in my mind, one day she was being quite the little pill and Travis yelled at her and said "dang it kid why can't you just be good!!" she looked up at him with her beautiful blue eyes and smiled and said " daddy sometimes I justdon't like to be good!" Ya the both of us lost it and started laughing!

Another day that Savannah was being her "perfect" little self she started arguing with me and I told her she needed to stop. I warned her a couple of times but she just kept going. So I finally told her if she didn't chill out I would call her cheer coach and tell her that Savannah would be done with cheer. Just as I was finishing talking Savannah froze and looked at me and said "mom you couldn't do that to me, cheer is my life!' I did hold in my laughter on this one but inside I was laughing so hard. For a couple of reasons for one she is only 8, and another I can not believe that my daughters "life' is cheer. Boy does life like to play fun little jokes with you!!

I know I have mentioned this one in another entry but is shows how Savannah is a combination of every thing. We were eating dinner and she was smacking her lips and just not having any manners at all!! I said to her "Savannah you need to act like a girl." She says, " but momma I am a tom boy" again with her ever strong attitude of DUH!!

The other day Savannah won a inflatable chair. She asked the boys (Travis Jr. 18 and Austin 16) for help blowing it up. They agreed so I went on doing some chores around the house. A few minutes later she came to me and said "mom the boys are so dumb!" I said " oh Savannah please don't talk like that." She said " but mom I asked the boys to help me blow up my chair and they are using there nouths and not the little blower that I all ready got out!" Ya I laughed really hard and said " well maybe they like doing it that way better" She said " well it will take forever!'"

This one always makes me laugh and she is quite aware of it so she does it often. Whenever Travis and I kiss or hug or anything mushy like that she makes a disgusted sound and says "oh could you two please get a room!"

Another one and then I will stop for today! We were in the truck and a song came on the radio, I turned it up and started obnoxiously singing to it and she looked and me with this look, and said "mom you are so weird!'" I said " I am, are you sure?" Savannah "oh yes I am so sure, but that is okay mom weird is fun!"

What A FANTASTIC Day !!

First gas is $2.99 a gallon, second ya I don't think there was really anything else I was just excited to see gas at $2.99 after this summer of having $4 plus a gallon gas !!

I do get to go out to lunch with Kathy today, that is always fun! Travis is in sunny St.George so I am jealous of that. During the summer I always tell myself that the winter is not that bad, and then it gets here and I wish I wasn't!! I would much rather be hot then cold!! The sad thing is it hasn't even got bad yet!! I am glad the holidays and cheer competitions keep me busy so I don't have to think to much about the cold!!

Day By Day!!

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Expecting life to treat you well because you are a good person is like expecting an angry bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.-- Shari R. Barr

All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it.-- Samuel Butler


There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. -- Albert Einstein


Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyways. -- Anonymous
HAHA Love this one it made me laugh!!

These are some quotes on life that make me think and make me laugh!!

Happy Birthday LuRae!!

Ha Ha you will always be older!! There is some benefits of being the youngest!! Hope you have a great birthday filled with great chick flicks and fattening foods!

You Just Gotta Love Kids!!

Tonight on our way home from Savannah's cheer class we were listening to the Moulin Rouge soundtrack. She says to me "momma you should play this song for papa when he comes home tonight" I said " oh ya why would I play this song for him?"
Savannah: " oh because it his birthday and so you can dance in your room alone tonight" (with the attitude of DUH.) then she said " I think you guys dance in your room a lot that's why you lock the door, right!" I just let it end there but I was giggling inside!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! MY LOVE!!!

October 14, What a great day!! I get to celebrate my best friends birthday ! I think back of our years together and this is the 13th birthday of Travis' we have celebrated together. I think of our vows together and we have been through it all, and honestly on our second go round! I don't know where to start to honor my husband on his day, he is it all a great friend, lover, husband, father, provider, he is my strength!!
On a perfect day what would Travis do!! Well this time of the year, he would wake up at around 5 a.m. get dressed in camo clothes and head out the door. The night before he probably stayed up till midnight or later getting ready! General would be first out the door cause there is no way he would be left behind, Travis and Austin would follow right after General, and then Savannah would drag her feet but would make it to the truck very slowly. Then they would head off to Strawberry ( if it was an absolute perfect day they would all ready be in Flaming Gorge) with the boat in tow. The day would start off duck hunting, and then they would finish off the morning fishing. Depending on the weather we would either cook fish for lunch on the boat, or head home and cook it there when we got home. Travis would clean up after he got home and then take a nap!! Wake up a little later to have some steak and fish, and if I could convince him that he didn't have to be on a diet on his birthday we would have some chocolate cake and vanilla ice cream!!
What will Travis do this year on his birthday?!! Well start off the day slowly getting out of bed no need to hurry he is not going fishing or hunting today. Then Savannah and him will get out the door so she won't be late for school. He will get to work and plan the rest of his schedule. For lunch I will run down there and try to squeeze in a lunch with him (planning on Tucanos) then after that he will finish his appointments for the day. Then he will go to Austin's football game, stay for father and son pictures, and dinner. Then he would come home and maybe have a cupcake, to make Savannah happy! All though this day does not fit the "perfect day" Travis wouldn't have it any other way. He loves his family and friends!!
Again Happy Birthday To My Love!!

Soooo SCARY!!!!

You all know that October brings Halloween and Halloween brings scary things, Right!!! I just wanted to share our scariness with everyone, Austin is the finishing courses of drivers ed. I think this will be our scariest Halloween EVER!! Ha ha we love Austin and our very proud of him. He turns 16 in 4 weeks!!

We Are Ready!!!

Let It Snow!!! Let It Snow!!! Yep that's right we have snow Yeah!! Travis and I try not to procrastinate but sometimes it happens. But not this year we are Ready. We have winterized and cleaned the garage, and got the snow blower running. This will be our first year not in the valley, we are now on the mountain benches, so what does that mean, MORE SNOW!!

Halloween!!!

Halloween Time At The Johnson's!!!!
Some say we are Crazy! Some say we are just down right mean!! Some Say Oh My *@#!!!
WE SAY THIS IS THE BEST!!!
Halloween at the Johnson's is the better than Christmas, this is Travis' favorite time of the year! We decorate are yard, and have so many crazy things, that scream, jump up, and fall down. We started this a few years ago and have a blast doing it. In our old neighborhood everybody had something going on, it was great. We started giving out full size candy bars to the kids that could make it all the way to the front door!! I wouldn't let Travis scare the little ones and I usually give them a great big handfull of candy or if they were just too cute I would give them a full size candy bar. Travis is so excited this year to be in our new home were the kids have no idea what Halloween at the Johnson's is like. The past couple of years my parents have come over, to enjoy our insanity with us!! We love it we laugh so hard this year Travis wants to set up the video camera, we will see about that! So of course pictures will follow, we have to set up little by little so nobody really knows what is going on!!