Melarky

We went to a trunker treat tonight. It was a tri-ward activity so there was a big turnout. It was pretty fun even though we were about 30 minutes late because I got the time wrong.

Wellington wore his Mario costume, Mark and I stuck to tradition and didn’t dress up (we’re so fun). I decorated the back of our van with spider webs, spiders, bloody looking material (sounds worse than it is), a scary talking head, and a flashing light. I had a cd of spooky sounds playing in the van, that was probably a little too scary for little kids, but it wasn’t too loud.

Wellington was very cute walking around with his treat bag. Whenever he was given the opportunity to chose his own candy from a bowl, he always picked a sucker. Doesn’t he know he’s supposed to pick the chocolate!?

He did happen to pick out some of my favorites though (Twizzlers) and I ended up stealing some of my babies candy!

We came home and lit his pumpkin. Wellington and I carved it last night. He hated putting his hand in the slimy pumpkin guts, so that left me to finish the job. His favorite part of carving the pumpkin was drawing on it with a marker. I think it almost would have been better and definitely easier on me, if I gave him a bunch of markers or paint and just let him draw all over it.

He’s so proud of his pumpkin and wants to show everyone that comes by. He also likes to say goodnight to it at bed time. I took some pictures of him tonight blowing out the light and saying goodnight.

Plans for tomorrow-more trick or treating!

I’m sure there are scarier movies out there, but this list is derived from ones that I’ve actually seen or that I haven’t totally blocked out of my memory.

Note 1: I suggest just reading the list and not watching the previews if your a scardy cat like me. I couldn’t even preview the trailers I was putting on the site, that’s how much of a sissy I am. Don’t watch these video’s Mom, Mark’s Mom, small children…)

Note 2:Oh, and if you’d like to see Barbara’s awesome impression of the girl from the Ring, just leave a request in the comments and maybe we can get her to do a video for us.

1. The Grudge

2. The Ring

3. The Shining

4. The Saw (one or two scenes are pretty creepy)

5. The Exorcism of Emily Rose

What are your Top 5 scariest movies??!

I just saw this on KSL classifieds, its a GREAT deal on a diaper bag, I have one and I love it! They usually go for A LOT more, like $60-$70 (as I’m writting this post, my husband learned the shocking truth that I bought one for that much) and this one is brand new with tags still on it for only $35. If your a Mom or a soon-to-be Mom in Logan, check this out, I bet it will go quick. And I can attest to it being a great bag!

Link to the KSL Ad

Also, as a quick reminder Friday is the last day to vote for Wellington’s picture at Stork Landing! I’m hoping to win the photo contest this month so I can buy a mattress.

P.S. It also looks like the seller of that JJ Cole bag is also selling other JJ Cole items…click here to check those out.

Wellington usually laughs at scary things. When we went to Disneyland, we took him on the Haunted Mansion ride. He was the only 2 year old in line that I can remember. During the ride he pointed and laughed. He watched everything intently and didn’t give a scared reaction. This Halloween I brought out my Halloween candy dish that has a head sticking out of it. The head talks and his eyes move when you go for the candy. Wellington loves it! He’s not scared of spiders or monsters, Halloween decorations or his Auntie Carrie. So I thought letting him watch a little Halloween video wouldn’t hurt. Now this is where most of you will judge me and think I’m a mean Mom.

I thought it would be fun to see how he would react to a prank video on youtube. Last year for Halloween I tried to prank Melarky readers with the “Scary Car Commercial” video. I expected Wellington to give a funny reaction to it, him laughing or something, so I grabbed my camera and filmed this resulting video.

That reaction was actually the third one I took. The first two he didn’t pay attention enough, he kept looking away right before the screaming part. Finally the third time he watched and gave me youtube gold. He was fine (don’t worry Grandma’s). He asked a couple times after that to watch it again. After a while he started laughing at it. He also loves watching the video of his reaction (vain fool).

Whenever we do see something scary; a show, a haunted mansion ride, we laugh and make fun of it, and he follows our lead.

How do you handle “scary” things with your kids? Would you let your kid watch that car video? Heidi and Troy, I think I know what your answer would be-YES! (Please say yes, cause it makes me seem like I’m not the only mean parent).

Mark’s side of the family had a kids Halloween party last weekend. Here are a few pictures of his Mario costume.

This was my first attempt at sewing a costume or any type of clothes. The hat turned out a little tight on him and the overalls a little big, but I called it good enough, since it was just a Halloween costume.

Wellington really hated the mustache, but did keep it on for quite sometime for as much as he hated it (wondering where we found it? Hastings.) I think for Halloween I’ll just draw on a mustache.

We have recently upgraded our recipe site to use a better recipe script. We left the look very similar, but if you’re familiar with the old site, there will be some new features you will have to get used to, but they should all be an improvement over the old script.

We were never really happy with the old script, we just kind of put up with its quirks, but this new script we have found seems WAY better, and should make adding recipes much easier and just be a better all around site.

As you might notice though, all of the recipes have not made their way from the old site to the new site. There was no easy way to transfer them over, so we have been doing them by hand for a while, and we’re still not even close to finished, so bear with us while we get the old recipes copied over. Feel free to add new recipes though, the site is up and active so it should work fine. Let us know if you find any problems etc… Also, if you had an account at the old site, you’ll have to recreate it at this new one.

We got to spend a day at Disneyland while we were in California, and Wellington loved it. We got up early and were at the park 30 minutes before they opened, and then we stayed until 30 minutes before closing. It was a long day, but it was totally fun. Welly did great on the rides, and only seemed to get scared once (at a 3D muppet movie).

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We were able to go to California last week to see my Niece get baptized, and while we were there we also visited a really nice Beach (Crystal Cove I believe the name is). Here are some pictures we took at the beach. We have some other pictures we will post later.

NOTE: This is a new image gallery plug-in we are trying, so hopefully it works ok, let us know if you have any problems viewing the images (just click the thumbnail and it should load a larger version for you).

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The time has come again to prepare for the arrival of a new baby. Buying adorable outfits and necessities like diapers, making list after lists of things that need to be done and things I need to still get. I remember only too well preparing for our little Wellington to come. I was very busy and occupied with making things perfect for our first babies arrival.

Mark was also busy preparing for Wellington’s arrival by building him an arcade. That’s right! Mark’s plan was and is to build each of our children their very own slightly smaller arcade. Mark built Wellington a Donkey Kong arcade. He worked so hard on it, making it perfect for our new baby.

When we brought Wellington home from the hospital Mark was so excited to show Wellington his new arcade. We even took some family photos next to it. Mark was a proud daddy and a proud arcade creator-ish guy. Of course newborn Wellington did not care. Screaming when we had a photo shoot of him next to his new toy.

Well for the last (almost) two years the Donkey Kong machine has been in Wellington’s room as a decoration slash biggest night light ever! Until recently, when Mark put a computer in it. The computer has games installed on it and is also networked to our other computer so that Wellington can watch his shows that are stored on our main computer.

The arcade is also hooked up to the cable so that you can watch tv on it. When I would nurse newborn Wellington in his room, I would watch tv on the arcade. It was so handy. The arcade also has a lock and key, so that one of us has to be there to turn on the games, tv or the movies.

And the night light I mentioned, is great! Lighting up the marquee (that’s the part at the top that has the words “Donkey Kong” on it) is a florescent light, that emits a soft light at night. Actually we finally just had to replace the light after two years. Pretty good for using it all the time.

Wellington loves these new features of the arcade. He sits up at the arcade with his Daddy and plays Hamsterball. He lays in his car bed and watches the movie Cars.

Click the image to see it super sized! It’s cuter that way.

Click the image to see it super sized! It’s cuter that way.

As most of you have probably noticed, we updated the side bar with a new navigation script. It’s set up so that only one section can be open at a time (clicking on the heading of a section opens/closes the section, and if another section is open, it automatically closes). The links and some of the other sections were getting a bit out of hand, so hopefully this will help, if you have any problems with it let us know, but it should work in all browsers etc…

And on a completely unrelated note, I saw this clip of Darth Vader being a jerk and thought it was pretty funny, it’s edited pretty well. Enjoy.