November

November 8-9, 2008

Pulse

November started with a trip to Las Vegas for Jen, Kelsie and Rachel. After a nearly two hour wait at the airport for a cab, next time I will look into alternative transportation, we got to our hotel. Once at the hotel we found that all the rooms with double beds were gone, even though I booked a bed with two beds. They put us in a room with a king bed, and promised us a roll away bed for Rachel. Well at 1 a.m. we gave up on the extra bed, so Rachel slept on the couch. Not so comfortable. Even with the hotel problems we had a great time.

Pulse is a dance convention where several big name choregraphers come to teach the girls. The girls love learning different styles and moves from them. I love to watch the classes (I tried to read my new Eragon book, Bringsinger, but I didn't get very far), the choreographers are so cute with the girls. This year they had a class from Tyce Dioror, he is a popular choreographer on the girls favorite show So You Think You Can Dance, he taught them a way fun routine. The other favorites were Mia Micheals, of course, and Dave Scott (Step Up Choreographer).

November 14, 2008

A tour of the House

We took some friends on a tour of the house, and we wanted to check out the trees that were just getting done and the cabinets that they had started to install.

My new cabinets in the family craft room



Kelsie and her friend Melia (this is the hood that goes over the cooktop)



The artificial tree and cottage in the play room





November 20, 2008

Twilight

Today was the day we had been waiting for, Kelsie put the date in her calendar on the phone months in advance. Twilight the movie came out. We were able to get tickets to the midnight showing, at the new theater in Orem. After Rachel's performance (she and her friend won an award for reflections at school for a dance they choreographed), Kelsie, Melia and Nell went to the theater to save our spot in line. Rachel and I went after Jason got home from his sales appointment. They let us in the theater at 10 a.m., luckily we weren't waiting in line outside until midnight.

I ended up liking the movie, Kelsie and Rachel loved it. We can't wait for the next one.

Waiting in line outside before it started







Kelsie & Melia sleeping in there seats before it started



Jamie was such a good sport, she wasn't going to come because she was so busy that week. But she couldn't resist when we were all planning to go, so she slept for a while before it started.



November 27, 2008

Thanksgiving

We spent the last Thanksgiving at our old house. We had about 40 relatives over, from the Richins side of the family. We only had to cook the potatoes and cheesy cauliflower, so that part wasn't so bad. And since we had to clean, we really cleaned and started getting some packing done. We made huge progress!!

Thanksgiving dinner was so yummy!! You can't go wrong with turkey and mashed potatoes. After dinner we played games for a long time. The favorite game was Curses, I don't think we have laughed that hard for a long time. My favorite was Kelsie having to talk like a vampire, with her nose plugged the whole time, and Jamie who had to hit herself in the head every time she talked. It was hilarious.

October at the Lott's

October was a busy month at our household.

Here is a summary of what we did:

October 4, 2008

Playing in the Rain

As soon as the kids saw that it was raining, they ran outside to play. I quickly followed with the camera. At first Kyle was a little unsure of the raindrops, but he soon joined the kids jumping on the tramp in the rain. Of course they started posing and doing tricks for the camera, but I guess I would be worried about them if they didn't.








October 6, 2008

Curly, Curly, Curly

Aunt Jamie found these fun new curlers for us to try. You can see what they look like here:

http://curlformers.com/englishcurlformer.htm

It took me about an hour, but I got curls in all four girls. They said they were a little uncomfortable to sleep in, but they all loved how they look. Here is a picture of Katie with her cute curls that Kelsie took. You can see pictures of Rachel and Brinlee in their curly hair for Halloween (later in post.)



October 7, 2008

Kindergarten Field Trip

I got to go on the twins first field trip this year. We went to Hee Haw Farms, they have a corn maze, slides, pumpkin patch, hay ride, etc. They even have a 1000 pound pig named Larry!! Katelyn and Austin had their first bus ride ever, they loved it a lot more than mom did. Overall we had a great time, and even though we got a little lost in the maze at least I didn't have any of the kids take off and get lost (that is what happened last year when I went with Brinlee's class).




October 12, 2008

First Snow!

We were shocked to wake up to nearly 3 inches of snow. Before church Rachel wanted to get some pictures, so she went out on the deck in her jammies. Since it was still snowing when we got home from church, she took the camera out on her own and here are some of the pictures she took. The snow didn't last long, but it was a pretty good storm for the first one of the year. I hope we don't get to many more of these before winter, we need to get the house done first!!






October 14, 2008

Kelsie, Rachel and Brinlee take trip to North Carolina

The girls went to visit my sister Melissa and her family with my parents. They had a great time and my nephew Dallin loved having them around. I was sad that we all couldn't go, but things were to busy with the house and Jason and I couldn't leave.




October 17, 2008

Witch Festival

While the girls were in North Carolina, we went to the Witch Festival at Gardner's Village. We went with Aunt Angi, Kennadi, Lexi, Aunt Lara, Sara and Blake. The only drawback was that nearly the entire state of Utah was at the Witch Festival that day as well. But even with the crowds we had a great time. The kids loved seeing the different witch displays, and doing the game to find all of them. There favorite witch was the one stuck to the side of the building who apparently needs some flying lessons.




October 20, 2008

We've got Drywall!!

This construction process has been long, and the kids (OK, Jason and I as well) have been anxious to see the house really take shape. Once the drywall was up we could really see what it was going to look and feel like. The kids love running from room to room and especially in the tunnels in the youngest kid rooms. Everyone had to get a picture in their new room, and of course I had to get one of the kids in front of the fire place. Most of the brick on the back side of the house is done as well, so we are making progress.





The living room area looking into Kitchen



The upstairs loft area, with Jason's catwalk.
(Also the waterfall over the fireplace)



Brinlee and Katelyn in their bedroom



Rachel in her bedroom, with her sewing nook



Austin and Kyle in the tunnel in their bedroom.



Kelsie in her bedroom (it has a huge closet)



October 31, 2008

Halloween

We started out the day with the parade at school. This is the first year at this elementary school and it is a lot larger school then the one they went to before. The parade took forever, but Kyle wasn't bored. It was weird not recognizing anyone but my own kids. After school we were the first ones in our neighborhood to go out trick or treating, they left the house right before it turned dark. The kids had a great time. Kyle loved knocking on the doors and trying to say Trick or Treat, it came out more like rick reat, but everyone seemed to get the idea because he came home with a lot of candy. Kelsie thought she was to old to dress up, but I made her take pictures anyway. Her friends mom hosted a party (we all donated candy, so the kids still got their fix, but they stayed home and off the street, SO SMART!!!) Rachel had a friend over to go around our neighborhood, then they went to her neighborhood, twice the candy. Everyone else went to grandma's for yummy chili and scones. Overall it was a great day.

Not so far behind!!

I'm a little (ok maybe more than a little) behind on posts, but don't want anyone to miss out so keep checking back!

See I got a little more caught up, keep checking back and I will work on October next!

So You Think You Can Dance

This is the girls favorite reality show, and they can't wait for it be on every year. This year they were thrilled when we learned that they were stopping in Salt Lake on the tour. We invited our friends Brina and Brianna (Rachel's dance partner), and Kelsie's friend Melia to come with us. We had a blast. One of the dancers has taught at the studio where the girls dance and taught Kelsie and Rachel about a year ago. It was fun to see Thayne dance. There were three dancers from Utah so it was a fun crowd. About half way through the concert Katelyn leaned over and said to me, "But Mom, we saw this dance on TV at our home." It was so cute to see her recognize some of the dances and dance along with them.






This is Twitch, he was the household favorite!



This is Thayne, it was fun to see him dance!