Cornbelly fun

Last night we went to Cornbelly's Halloween extravaganza at thanksgiving point. It was a blast. Here are some pics from our evening.

First the Barrand trio (not counting the forthcoming baby) went to Emmits food shack. This place is expensive but a lot of fun. If anyone reading this has "Emmit" in their name, then we need to hook up, becuase this little food shack gives away free meals to people who can prove their name is Emmit.


Then we met up with the Runyans at Thanksgiving point for some more fun. Sam and Josh's favorite thing was these pumps that would send water down pvc pipes with little rubber ducks. They had a blast, and before long they had taken all ducks from the other, bigger kids.



Marcia and Jamie got in on the fun too.



Here is the Monster that they have there. We went into the mouth, and heard the loud heart beating, and I decided that we better get Sam out before he starts developing a fear for monsters. The thing was pretty scary.



Here were some fun balloon trampolines. Sam and Josh loved these too.



Then, those who could fit in the child-sized cars (ie Marcia, Sam and Josh) rode on the cow train.



We played a game of tetherball Barrands vs the Runyans, where we could only hit the ball with our sons. It was fun, till we got excited and were swinging the boys around a little too hard :)





We also watched some robotic chickens sing, did a corn maze, watched people shoot corn and pumpkin cannons, and really enjoyed ourselves.

October's getting colder

Yesterday things really turned cold here in Utah. It was sad because I had my little plane all ready to fly and it was very windy. I guess I'll try again next week. We went over to Jake's to watch the game. (good job byu, by the way) and it was snowing very hard by the end of the cougars romp on E. Washington. It was a great day to sit on a nice couch instead of a frozen bench at the stadium :)



Afterwards we went to the 5th Brazilian ward activity in 4 consecutive Saturdays. This was a Halloween Dance and here is a picture of our outfits. Sam's is the same Frankenstein costume from last year (sometimes having a kid that doesn't grow much is a good thing), and Marcia and I reused the caveman apparel that mom sewed for our last family picture.

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I had a great b-day this past week. Marcia got me a cool rc airplane and some gift certificates to a Japanese book store online so I can buy some Japanese movies. Mom and dad got me a remote for the wii, and wii play, Jake and Jamie got me season 3 of the office, Marcia made me a cake, breakfast, took me out for a Brazilian lunch.
Jake and Jamie brought over pizza and then we played a little wii, then watched a Japanese movie. It was a great day. After I get a chance to fly my plane, I'll try and post a video, or at least tell you all about it.

It's another boy!!

According to Brazilian "voodoo" I was supposed to have a girl this time. Since this pregnancy has been a little different from the first one, I thought so too. The funny thing is that I had a dream that I was going to have a boy. The dream seemed so real but because I'm not the type of person who has "prophetic dreams" I decided to just ignore it. Also, whenever Bryce thought about the baby he could only imagine a boy. He decided to ignore that too. Bryce and I were quite sure we were going to have a cute little girl and this time we even had a name picked out. But when I had my ultrasound this week, we found out we are having another BOY. I asked the ultrasound technician "Are you sure? Sometimes people make mistakes." The lady laughed and said " I'm so sure that it is a boy that if I'm wrong I'll buy you a whole girl wardrobe then come to your house and repaint the room pink". Though Bryce was kind of disappointed, he was happy about not having to spend a lot of money on girl's outfits and bedding set. The hardest part now is to think of a boy name...

Chuck E Cheese

Because Josh had been doing well with his potty training, Jake and Jamie wanted to reward him by taking him to Chuck E. Cheese with his best friend Sam.

The night was probably the funnest thing the boys have done in a few months. They played just about every game in the joint, and in the end they got exactly 1000 tickets. They were running around very giddy, and kept returning to Marcia and Jamie to show them excited fists full of tickets. Oh yeah, Josh and Sam also had some fun, but nothing compared to their Dads.

We "persuaded" the guy at the counter into giving us two toys worth 900 tickets, for only 1000 tickets. So the little tool kits you see in the pictures were worth a lot more than what we had :) It was better this way so that both boys ended up with a cool toy. It was a nice cap for the evening.

Goodbye to Shawn, Natalie and Mia

Utah is now a much darker place. It's not just the rainy weather. My best friend from high school has moved out of the area, all the way down to Dallas :( Our last little Hurrah was to go the "the Pie" in Salt Lake and then for some ice cream with Shawn, Natalie, Mia, Wally, Lindsay, and Sadie.

It's been a blast to live so close and hang out on a regular basis. Good luck in Texas Shawn! and you are always welcome to come back!

Zoo

Since the summer was winding down, we decided to enjoy some of the last nice weather by going to the zoo with the Runyans. It turned out to be a great trip. The highlights were the bird show, the baby monkey and rare white alligator ( not albino).