Relient K and Half Birthdays.

Last week I was driving in the car with Coleman and Jenn and we were listening to Relient K in the car. It was then that Coleman told me that we would be going to see them the next week. Listen, I totally freaked out, started crying, the whole picture. If you're wondering what it looked like just search "Parents surprise their kids with DisneyLand" into YouTube and you might get the general idea of what my face was like. My love for Relient K started when I was probably in 7th grade. My friends liked them, so I liked them in return. I didn't own many CD's growing up and they were one of the only bands who's music I owned. They were my first concert as well. I think the love I have for them now is just because they bring so many good memories of growing up. They were the soundtrack to my junior high and high school years. So when Cole surprised me with these tickets I was thrilled. Firstly because   it was Relient K. Secondly because he's celebrating my half birthday which is basically the number one best trait a husband can have. 

This is a picture of me and Kim when I saw them for the first time. 

Me and Cole got there pretty early and were able to get right in the front row. Cole even caught Relient K's drum stick for me, what a dreamboat. This is one of the perks of having a tall husband. They came with Driver friendly who are pretty new but I enjoyed them and we were able to meet them after the concert and they were all really cool. They also came with Motion City Soundtrack which was also great. I don't know very many of their songs but I definitely want to. 

I was so glad to run into Kim and Tucker at the concert. It was like the good ol' days. I caught myself thinking during the concert about how lucky I am that even though so much has changed in our lives we have kept the same friendship and I'm so grateful for that. Yay for good friends. 

Speaking of gratitude we are headed to Parma Idaho this week for Thanksgiving. It will be my first Thanksgiving spent not with my family but I am excited to spend it with the Hansens this year. This Thanksgiving is also Extra special because its Coleman's twenty fourth birthday!! And then Jenn's is the next day! (and then my Half birthday, just saying)  So heres to a week filled with lots of food, laughter and biiiirrrthdaysss, which are my favorite thing. YAY

This is Halloween.

Halloween was a lot of fun this year. Coleman, Jenn and I decided to throw a little get together at our house the day after Halloween. On Halloween night we were able to go to a little haunted house in a neighborhood because Parker was working in it. It was actually really fun. There were all little kids working in it so that almost made it a little creeper. I was especially glad because I would have been really sad if I didn't do ANYTHING on Halloween. Plus our house was kind of lame. We didn't get a single trick-or-treater. I mean hello kids! I have candy! and lots of it. That might sound a little creepy but for real. The light was on! I get that most people don't trick-or-treat on the busiest road in North Ogden, but I may or may not have had my hopes up just a little bit. I would have even appreciated a "too old teenager" at my door. 

Jenn was able to spend the night at our house halloween night and we went and got all of our decorations 1/2 off. Smartest move ever if you ask me! We got a fog machine for fifteen dollars and napkins and plates for fifty cents! We spent all day buying decorations and food for the party. Lucky for us we had a ton of decorations already. When Linda Mom came down last weekend she brought us a ton of lights and cute decorations. When we were shopping with her we found this super awesome Willy beard from Duck Dynasty, so Cole decided to be that this year. Our only struggle was finding him a wig. We finally found the perfect one the day of our party for only five dollars. We even stuffed a pillow in his shirt that looks pretty realistic.  I decided to go as the deer that Cole hit with his car last August. It was really fun to go as something gross this year. 

We covered up our washer and dryer and used those as a table for drinks. We made homemade rootbeer in a witches cauldron and it was soo good. It reminded me of Halloween when I was a kid. We were lucky because I swear that we found the last rootbeer extract in Ogden. Shout out to Smiths for not letting us down. 

We had the whole back room covered in spiderwebs and all of upstairs with orange and purple lights. I didn't get a picture of the upstairs at all. Partly because I didn't take a single picture the whole night. I totally stole these pictures from Jenn's facebook and I feel guilty about it but what are you going to do I guess.. Shout out to Jenn for being way better at taking pictures at parties. 

Turns out throwing parties at your own house is pretty exhausting. I have a newfound respect for all the people who have thrown parties that I've attended. I mean Jenn has people at her house basically every weekend. She's a rockstar and a half. Overall it was a really great night and I'm looking forward to more fun in this little old house that I've become rather fond of.