Halloweeny Fun!

Early in the month my friend Randi has this awesome "Witches Tea" Party! We all dressed up and had yummy yummy herbal tea (LOVED the Orange and Pomegranite!) and snacks. We talked about some history of witches in America (ie. Salem) found out Jena was related to them! How cool is that! Here are some pics of our cuteness.

The whole group...Sorry Laci! I didn't take this!

Jena was awesome! Rachel and Randi were adorable. Randi was a great hostess with her mom who drove down from Wyoming just for this party!

Me in my Hermione stuff...I don't have any other witch stuff! Angela with that awesome hat and Theresa in her sorting hat!

Teisha, Sandi and Jennifer were beautiful as always.

This was a bad shot because my flash was off but I brightened it up as much as possible. Here is most of us in all our Witchy glory!

It was an awesome night! I had so much fun chatting with all these wonderful wonderful ladies!

Then we had this awesome couples party when we got back from Germany that my friend Erin throws every year! I didn't get many pictures, but this is what I got!

Erin LOVES LOVES LOVES Halloween more than even I do! Which is crazy! Her decorations are awesome!

This is our Curious George and Man in the Yellow Hat (Erin's realtors...I forget their names!) And Jake and Dialma as Pebbles and Bam Bam! We also had Juno and the guy who knocked her up, but um...I don't seem to have a pic of them. I was still really out of it from our trip to Germany!

Our hosts! Erin and Jared, the Roman Empress and "Scary" gay Gladiator...or at least that's what he was going for.

Travis and Sara rocked it! Literally! Trav won scarriest costume...can you see why???

Tyson and I were mobsters. I'll have to get the full body shot from Erin so you can see the whole thing, but we had a lot of fun! We actually won best couple's costume this year! Cool!

Then we played Halloween Pictionary. Tyson is so great at this game...cause he's great at drawing! The girls kicked butt though. ;) Then we played Sardines, which was tons of fun.



It was such a fun night! I wish we could have stayed and played guitar hero with everyone after, but we had a babysitter so we headed home!



This October has been so much fun! Tonight we have pumpkin carving and then tomorrow is Halloween! I am so so excited!

Germany Part 3!

I know I know, you're saying...there's more??? But yes, there are like two more installments after this one! So get used to them! ;)

The stairs of Alter Peter, the church in Mariensplatz that we climbed up the bell tower...306 steps up!
At the top...I was a bit freaked out...i don't like heights.

Tyson was cool as a cucumber.

This is The Cathedral of our Lady

Interior...it was huge!

I love stained glass windows. I sometimes wish our churches had them.

back at Alter Peter after their services, this is one of the sides.

And this is the center with the main alter. Wow. This is the oldest church in Munich.

Then we hit Viktualienmarkt which is right next to Mariensplatz and checked out all the cool stands.

Um...including this horse meat shop. Eek!

Then we went back up to the Residence to see the treasury (we didn't have time to go last time). This is the oldest crown in the treasury. I thought it was pretty with the blues and purples.

This piece is never allowed to leave the treasury, it is some saint slaying a dragon...the image can be seen at other royal residences though.

They had a LOT of religious items...being an old Catholic state I suppose that was natural.

Loved this set! It would be good to be queen.

Rock Crystal peices. there were lots of them and they were all amazing.

A LARGE rock Crystal pitcher. The little audio tuor said that they thought rock crystal had healing powers, so it was popular to drink from it...that is if you could afford it.

A close up of the really cool red glass. It said that an alchemist came across this combination to make this deep red, and it was really hard to get it just right.

They had lots of ivory carvings too.

Then we went back to that yellow church from a few days earlier and went inside. We were suprrised with this really cool rococo design, but all in white. It really was stunning.

Me being a dork pretending to be the huntress Diana.

My favorite picture of us from the trip...underneath the Diana monument.

This section of wall is being held up by scaffolding. It's an original part of the city.

You can't be in Europe and not take a picture of the tiny smart cars!

Okay, so its me and my salad...but it was SO GOOD! I think it had butter lettuce or something and the balsamic vinegarette was YUM!

Tyson and his german food. He was so excited!

Hooray for dinner out!

Our Yummy chocolate from Viktualienmarkt

Okay so I attmepted to embed this video...This first one is just the bells from all the churches going off at the same time, it was pretty cool...the second is of some of the Glockenspiel show that was going on while we were up on the tower...perfect view! I hope it works!

Snow!!

This is what is outside my door RIGHT NOW! And this picture doesn't nearly show how BIG the flakes are and how MUCH is coming down and swirling around in the cold cold wind. Welcome to Utah. October through May this is what I am going to see.

Germany Part 2!

Again these are already up on Facebook (it is SO MUCH EASIER to load pictures there than it is here!!!) But here is another snippet from our trip! Some of these are slightly different shots so hopefully those of you who see the FB stuff too wont be completely bored!

Our new hotel's artwork was just strange...this is a collage of Alf!

Tyson and I grabbed our first Dooners and headed to the UBahn to go to Nymphenburg castle...the Dooners were SOOOOO good!

Nymphenburg!

Me and the calstle.

Tyson with the front of the Castle.

Inside the mian hall...Tyson got a little blurred in this one.

Bavarian Coat of arms.

Queen's bedroom.

Crazy, crazy carriages!

Nymphenburg porcelain.

Tyson thought this one was pretty cool.

So strange to have the Asian influence on really old porcelain pieces from the baroque!



Queen's grotto

It would be nice to be queen and have this all to myself!

The bath house which is the farthest out there building of them all!

The really cool old church.

Snow!

Yummy bakery pastry breakfast!

BMW museum


Car model! With a 1933 car!

Those really cool morphing balls from the commercial!

Okay so Tyson isn't actually holding this up, but he could be! The car frame is really light!

My fave bike in the mueseum.

They had these really cool touch screen things that were just a projected image that you touch and it expanded the info...it was really cool.

The actual car that was used in one of the Peirce Brosnan James Bonds.

My fave concept car.

Tyson with the cloth covered Gina car.

View from the top of the needle at Olympic park.