Billie Jean is not my lover...Shane is.

On our way to see...

This is It!If you haven't experienced it yet - go now.
We LOVED it.
MJ forever!

Halloween Sunshine

Along with these 3 excited cute girls...
Shane, Sarah, Carter and I headed out on
Halloween day for some pumpkin patch excitement!

Below you can see our attempt at a group picture -Carter and Ella have both run off and Katie can't handle the smell of the rotten pumpkin at our feet.
Classic.

We could NOT get over how nice it was on Halloween day.
We spent the last 3 Halloweens playing USU's Howl (which was awesome). And every Halloween before that freezing in Idaho and Utah! This is a nice change to say the least!
Shorts and t-shirts!!
Uncle Shane.
He should get an award for this day.

Below you'll see Katie giving me her very animated version of what just happened to her: She flew down a dirt hill, thinking Sarah had her while Sarah was looking the other way thinking Katie's brakes were on! Sarah freaked and Katie wanted to do it again! Funny.

Before we left, Navy just HAD to stop by the petting zoo.

I could NOT stop giggling.

Cute? Yeeeeees!

That evening we were lucky enough to be invited to the Smith family tradition: Dinner in a pumpkin!

After dinner we went to some other friends house to watch a scary moive: 80's classic "Lady in White." Not so scary. More like cheesy and hilarious! But fun.
Thanks for a great Halloween, friends!

Weekend Warriors

Shane and I would like to share our
weekend with you all!

I enjoyed another "Mom's Morning Off." I particularly love when this little girl comes to play! Isn't she a doll?!
Here she's saying "Ohhhh, wook how cute dis wittle wady bug is!"

The kids loved playing tag and Carter cracks me up.

On Friday night we were lucky to have Navy Beans as our 5th wheel! We went with our good pals Daniel and Kiffy to a college soccer game - way fun!
The boys had fun teasing Navy and you can be sure she loved the attention:)

Saturday we did something I can honestly say I never thought I'd willingly be spending my
Saturday afternoon doing....
ARCHERY! Yes, you read it right.

There's a huge park in Long Beach and Shane spotted some archery targets while driving by last week. He found out it's free every Saturday. There was no question in his mind where he'd be Saturday.
I agreed to go with him to be a
good wife and have an open mind.
I'm glad I went becuase it was like I was inside an episode of The Office. No joke!

This guy above was our favorite. (Like the Dwight of the episode.) That Robin Hood leather holster is a novelty he brought from home.
Shane had to show his respects.

These are our archery friends. The type who choose to spend their free time at the achery range out in what our volunteer instructor called "God's country."

We mean business.

And then came the ward Halloween Party where we were
excited to attend as MR. & MRS. MOOSE!!!
Shane found these hats on Ebay and we had to have them :)

We were so glad to have Tinker Bell and her cute parents join the party!

We were asked to do a game for the kids at the party. This is what our car looked like on the way from Sarah and Bryant's house to the church...

And it was all for WIPEOUT!
We made a mini obstacle course for the kids to run. We were jazzed to see the kids get that little competetive spark in their eye and get their blood flowing!

3 cheers for a fun weekend!

Mom's Morning Off!

....brought to Long Beach mom's by ME!
Mom's need a break, am I right ladies?!
Well, yesterday a few mom's got just that.

I decided to provide a weekly Mom's Morning Off for the awesome local mom's in the area.
Yesterday was our first try, and as the Target lady would say, "SUCCESS!"

7 cute kids = one big, exciting play date.

We had a kid-friendly lunch of PB+J's with a side of bananas.
Then it was time for a little backyard story time in the
beautiful Southern California October weather.

Below you'll see our card making activity and our rousing "basketball" game :)

Our day wouldn't be a complete without a little Mr. + Mrs. Moose!
(I thought it wouldn't hurt to show them I won a crazy TV game show, because now they think I'm some kind of famous person and they may behave that much better. Hey, I'm working with what I've got!)
The voice bubble for the picture below should read
"GO SHANE! GO SHANE! GO SHANE!"

Ella and Navy mimicking our goofy Wipeout moves.

You can't forget these two cuties, who were happy just following the big kids around!

A HUGE thanks to all you Mom's for diving into this new adventure with me!
I think it's going to be a great thing for all of us :)

Until next week!

Dancing Queens

So last weekend some girlfriends invited me to a girls night out!
One of them got free tickets to a show from her husband's work
(thanks Becca and Ryan!)

The group we saw was called
Bjorn Again:
an ABBA cover band!
And they are legit.

I'm no ABBA expert, but apparently these girls are right on the money.
They were way fun to watch - a bit corny but super good at what they do.
Some of those ABBA songs are great girlie classics.
By the end of the night all 4 of us were out of our
seats dancing and singing along:)

Oh, and did I mention we were in the very front row of this fancy performing arts theater and that we were younger than everyone there by about 2 decades?
Yeah, that's right.
I think we ended up being part of the show for the rest of the audience!

This is what we came home to:

It's IBC Rootbeer and "Just for fun" poker.
Hilarious.

Needless to say it was a good night for everybody!
Thanks friends!

Birthdays and Cowboys

So, by now you should be familiar with my pal

Sarah Hull.
Thanks to her in the last few weeks we've had some major fun.
Here are two events that deserve to be highlighted:

She threw an AWESOME Wild Wild West party.

Don't worry, it's not real:)

Cowboys + Cowgirls

Boot scootin' boogie...

The party was a serious hit! So much fun!!
If you ever have the chance to attend one of Sarah's famous parties,
don't you dare miss out!

The other fun-filled event: Sarah's Birthday!
We celebrated with gusto!
Bridge jumping across the bay from us in Naples Island...
What you don't know is that I'm screaming
"Haaaaappyy Biiiirrrthdaaay Saaaarraaahh!!"

Then out for a tasty Mexican meal!

We continued the celebration into the weekend
with a relaxing Sunday BBQ in the backyard.

The fun never ends with this lady!
Thanks girlfriend. You're the bomb.com.

Another First!

Saturday was a milestone in the Shally (Shane+Sally) Harris family:
We competed in our first race together!

We ran the "Heartbreak Ridge" Half Marathon at Camp Pendleton.

Uh, yeah, I did not know that the race was called "Heartbreak Ridge" when we signed up.
I read the description: This course offers a little bit of everything - it’s an out and back course, including rolling hills and some flat and fast stretches intermixed throughout.

Sounds pretty easy, right?
Wrong!

Rolling hills the whole time and that little thing they call "heartbreak ridge" at mile 3!
And did you catch that it's an "out and back" course?
That means we hit heartbreak ridge again at mile 10. Yep.

This guy below is running "heartbreak ridge."

It was hard.
But we did it.
We stayed together the whole race, keeping each other alive.

We came across the line to find these military finishers doing this:

Nuts.

Shane keeps it cool.

I am promptly on the ground.
With barely enough energy to show off my prize.

13.1 miles.
2 hours and 7 minutes of running.
One heartbreak ridge.
2 chaffed thighs (mine).
1 sexy husband.

I just want to mention how proud I am of my man Shane.
He only started running a few months ago and he owned this thing!
One night he was watching the Biggest Loser contestants running a marathon and said "Ah man, if these guys can do it, I can. I think I want to do a race."
I was promptly on the computer signing us up and printing a training schedule :)

We started slow, he didn't complain, kept at it, and was in awesome shape by race day.
I'm so proud of his dedication and so stoked we have something else to add to the list of things we love doing together.
I am currently loving seeing Shane discover what an awesome athlete he is.
I'm not sure he knew what he was getting into marrying an Osborne :)
But I'm happy he did!