Halloween 2010. I had a big daycare party on Thursday. My sister Chantelle dressed as a rockstar,came to help me which I was really grateful for. We made Halloween party bags, did a candy walk, musical chairs, ate donuts with no hands of a dangling string, dunked for apples, hide n go seek, and pin the wart on the witch! I thought I would be creative and be "Static Cling". I dressed all in black and then pinned bounce sheets, assorted socks and even some of Tiara's old underwear to my clothes. To add some pizazz I stuck a couple of glue dots on my scalp and then stuck a balloon to my head and tried to rat my hair to look like static cling. No one got it.... the kids just asked me if I knew I had a sock on my leg. Or... " Konda... is that your costume"?A Couple of 10 yr old girls came to pick up their sister and I asked them if they knew what I was. They said no. Even after I explained it they had a blank look on their face. I knew that costume had failed. I don't even think I got a picture of it. That night my friend Jann and I planned a party for some adults. I was digging for the blue tux that Rex will dress up in every 3 or 4 years and found my wedding dress. So we stepped back in time. Thanks to Zumba I could still barely squeeze into it. We had fun playing the "Newlywed game" and Bonko!
The real Halloween night was fun to have my Mom and Marcia here to visit. We machine quilted a quilt for Mom in Idaho Falls and then handed out candy and cheetos and capri suns to our favorite little monsters. Chantelle came for supper and to visit. It was fun to see some family trick or treaters... Zac and Lindy, Ryan and Analynn and George Benson and Tela (Claire Benson's daughter). To my little grandchildren.... I love you and miss you and wish you lived closer! Blog Grandma Konda some pictures, ok?

Mom and Dad out on the town. Steppin back in time 30 years!
And still honeymooning....


My good friend, Phyllis Diller! aka Caryn

Katelyn Lords, Aralynn Crapo and Jaidynn Moon.

Gracie's Pirate costume was one of my favorites...

Some of my friends I hang out with every day! Super heroes and such....

We throw a wild daycare Halloween Party! "no autographs please"

My Awesome Birthday Cake

Thanks to Cienna and Chantelle for this creative cake!
You really scored high on this one!

My Half a Century Old Birthday!

Somewhere Over the Rainbow...

Rex and I had a wonderful opportunity to go to Spokane
for Valentines/Presidents Weekend. We got there late
Saturday night. Sunday morning was James' Blessing
day in church. Jimmy pronounced a beautiful blessing
upon his son James and Rex was honored to be able to
stand in the circle with several of Jimmy's friends. Carly
was surprised when the Stake President, who just
happened to be speaking that day, asked her to come up
and bear her testimony of the blessings she's received
from the Lord. It was wonderful for us to be able to hear
our daughters beautiful testimony. Afterwards, in Primary,
Hallie got up and said her first scripture. It was a great
day for us to watch our children, learning, growing and
serving in the gospel. After Church we made Valentines
mailboxes and painted Valentines crafts. Monday, we
took Savannah birthday shopping while Hallie was at
dance. Then we all went swimming at the YMCA. Hallie
did some amazing jumps into her mothers arms. Savannah
and Grandma started a game of tag in the pool with Grandpa,
Carly and Hallie. Monday night was a fun treat for all of us
when we got to go to Red Lobster for FHE. Yummy cheese
biscuits and coconut shrimp. Rex and I are so grateful for
Jimmy and Carly and their sweet family. Too bad Spokane
is so far away.

Swimming in Spokane

Future Olympic Diver

Sharing the goods

Savannah snarfs her own bag of cheetos

Our Greatest Joys

My Blessing Day

Valentines crafts with Grandma Konda

Hallie loves flowers!

Sweety pie Savannah

Hello there James.....

Christmas Memories 2009

We had a wonderful Christmas. Ben and Aubrey came, bringing
three of our wonderful grandchildren with them. It really
made Christmas fun for all of us. We had a bowling party, a
Christmas eve talent night (Chad and Britt played a duet,
"Still, Still, Still" that was the talent winner), visits
to Hopes and Bensons, our missionary phone call from Treagan,
eating our Christmas eve feast to candlelight, presents, games,
lots of food... we truly missed Carly's family and Treag but
we are proud of the good things they are doing and hope that
we will have many more Christmas's together.

Basketball Ben

Color Coordinated Christmas Clothes...

Momma and Poppa

I love presents....

SNUGGIE!

Happy Stocking Girl!

Talon the Terrific Toddler!

Super Transformer Boy

The Tinkerbell Queen

Our Christmas Tree 2009

Christmas Bowling Party Surprise 2009

We had started a tradition of going bowling with the
Neilson family sometime during the Christmas holidays
three or four years ago. Then two years ago, we added
the Parkinson family to our party, since we've been good
friends with them forever and Kurt Neilson married
Michelle Parkinson. Britt and Chad kind've did some
flirting at that bowling party and started dating
shortly after that and are now married. This year
we added the Sutton family to the Bowling party since
Ben and Luke Sutton are best friends and Luke is married
to Lisa Parkinson, who is also one of Carly's best friends.
(we are all connected!) We had six lanes with 5 or 6 on
each lane. We all brought pizza and an assortment of
sides including, fruit, veggies, banana slush and
chocolate chip cookies. Yum! We had lots of food
and a ton of bowling and visiting fun. We were
surprised when it came time for each family to pay
for bowling.... a Christmas elf had snuck in and paid
for all six lanes of us! Thank you so much Christmas Elf!

Christmas Bowling Party