Headlines should read: "Eric Price Gives Utes Birthday Luck"

We had another fun-filled weekend. On Friday night we went over to Secelia's place - her apartments have a super sweet kick-ass theater room they can use. It's huge with big comfy couches, way cool. We watched "Across the Universe" It was a musical that used only Beatles songs, really good movie. It starts out kinda wack and you're thinking, "Crap, I gotta sit through 2 hours of this?!" But then it gets really good and you're lovin' it.

Unfortunately, Eric was sick over the weekend, definitely stemming from a lack of sleep. On Saturday we went to the BIG game between the U of U and BYU. It was an even bigger game than usual because the U was undefeated and if they won they would get to go to a BCS Bowl game and it would mean over $400,000.00 for each school in the division. If the Y won it would mean no Bowl game for anyone and only around $100,000.00 for each team.... Eric brought along his birthday luck (we figured it worked out well bringing Syrena's birthday luck to the Oregon State game) and with it the Utes pulled off an amazing victory, 48-24. Of course, you had to know the fans would definitely storm the field on this game, but it was funny because people started piling on the field before the game was even over. The announcer (Mike Runge from Fox13) had to yell at all the people to get off the field so that they could finish the game.

Sunday was my big boy's bday... I got him an outdoor wood rack (his request), comes with tarp to keep it dry; 2 South Park season DVDs (seasons 6 & 7 - has Eric's favorite episode, "All About Mormons."); Bruce Campbell's book on CD - "Make Love, The Bruce Campbell Way" narrated by him; and a new "do-rag." (The thing he's wearing on his head in the below picture).

Here he is at his momma's... his brother (Andy) got him a new extension cord... May seem like a weird present, but there's a good story behind it. I almost burned down our house and the neighbor's with our Christmas lights. I had an extension cord running out to the bushes that apparently caused a short in the system and the electricity was grounding out on the metal shed and running into the chain link fence. The fence was welding itself into the pipe that runs along just outside our property, sparks were flying everywhere.... After the fire department came out and figured out what was going on, Andy came out and discovered where the problem was- gee, I can't believe it was the extension cord with about 10-15 cuts in it (Eric used it for the weed wacker and the chain saw) covered with electrical tape. Who knew?

Hopefully my baby starts feeling better soon, breaks my heart to see him down and not doing well; especially when there's not a whole lot I can do. I've been pumping him full of vitamins, not allowing him to do any physical activity and forcing him to get extra sleep. Get well soon sweetie! We are getting excited for our trip to Vegas!!!!!

Been awhile...

I haven't blogged for a little while, up until this last weekend things were mellow and I didn't have much going on.... it was nice but also a bit boring. I stayed home with the kids on Friday, Tommy had been sick -throwing up and running a fever on Thursday night, but he was well enough on Friday afternoon to give his costume a try....
They insisted we do the pictures outside where the tombstones were....

We took the doggies and childrens to Wheeler Farm, it was cute. Just to give some perspective on Nanuk's bigness, here he is next to a donkey.
I just thought this looked like a cute picture of Eric and the kids going down the path.

This was the only animal there that could give our "big" a run for his money, a massive draft horse.

Then we were off the Gardner Village. Eric thought it would be fun 'cause they always deck it out in Halloween decor and since the kids are way into Halloween..... Well it was packed! We could scarcely take more than 2 steps before we were stopped with a million questions about Nanuk and people were wanting to pose with him for photos. We should start charging for those!

That night we were going to take Tommy to a haunted house. He has been begging me to take him to one since last Halloween. I wanted to do it, but was unsure of which one to go to that wouldn't be too scary but also not too lame. I was undecided until I heard on the X96 morning show that they had "chainsaw guys" on the show that you could call and ask questions. So I called and they put me on and I explained the situation and asked their opinion. They suggested we go to Carnival of Fear because they offer glowsticks for special situations like mine that signal to the actors to take it easy on the bearer. I thought this would be perfect, so off we set. The SECOND we stepped in the doorway, he just lost it. Completely freaked out.... so we left, went to FYE while I tried to talk him into it. We came back for another try and though he was nervous, he was willing to give it a shot.... until we walked past the end of the line and a car horn honked suddenly (part of the haunted house). Again he melted down... just a total sensory overload. We tried, with the help of the owner, to talk him into giving it a try, but there was just no way. They had a special area for him to play video games that he was happy with, so we let him play while we took Syrena through. She did awesome! Wasn't the least bit scared, so next year we'll try Nightmare on 13th..... I felt so sad for Tommy, I hope he gets over this and tries one next year, he loves Halloween and spooky things so much, but the anticipation was too much for him.


On Saturday we went to the U of U game... they spanked Colorado State so it was a nice safe game, I love those. On Sunday we watched some football, cleaned and mostly relaxed. Before we took the kids back to Ben's house we took them to feed the ducks and they loved that. My Broncos play tonight so I'm headed over to my Dad's to watch the game.... GO BRONCOS!!!!