Posting Extravaganza!

Okay so I was really, really, really behind in posting so I decided to sit down and catch up on everything all at once. So I realize that there is a lot here, but most of it is pictures. So please read all 7 of the next posts! Most of them are short on words and big on pictures so it shouldn't take too long! I just wanted everyone to know that everything that is showing on the page is actually new. Okay thanks, enjoy!

Halloween Night

For Halloween Night we got together with Jesse, Cat, Ryan, and Kaylee. We all met up at Cat and Jesse's house, and of course little Pupface was there as well.
Jesse was a ninja, Cat was a geisha (but she got chocolate on her costume before we got a picture), and Pupface was Picachu.

Zac was a King, and I was a Queen. For anyone who might be worried, don't worry, I didn't actually dye my hair (or grow it really long overnight) this is actually a wig. I thought it would be fun. I look so different right? The little blurr you see at the bottom right of the picture is Pupface jumping up trying to be in the picture. Our costumes turned out pretty well considering I only had four days to do all of it! I made Zac's top and pants, my dress, and both capes. Plus factor in that I had to buy the patterns in kid sizes since they were out of adult sizes, so I had to alter the patterns, cut out all the fabric, and my sewing machine kept freaking out on me and making my life just that much more difficult! We tried to make these really cool crowns too, but they ended up looking more like chef's hats than crowns, so we just used these pre-made ones. It was hard work, but I think it paid off, because they turned out really cool.

Ryan and Kaylee were presents. I thought that was a pretty cute idea.




For our first activity we made gram cracker haunted houses. We decided to make it a competition of girls vs. boys. I think you can guess who won. The girls of course! I will have to admit however that the boys had some really good architectural ideas, but it took them so long to put it all together that they didn't have any time to decorate. This is a picture of the boys haunted house.

This is the front side of the girls.





And this is the back side.


For our second activity we broke up into couples and we each got a bag of random stuff and we played Halloween "Project Runway" for Pupface to see who could make the cutest costume for her.


This is Jesse and Cat's witch costume.







This is Zac and my witch costume.





And this is Ryan and Kaylee's pirate costume.









She looked so cute in all of them that we decided to call it a tie.

After that we did a murder mystery game, and that was really fun. We all picked character books, and learned secret information, played charades, and revealed information. After we all submitted our guess as to who the murder was we discussed it as a group. All though no one guessed right on their individual guess, as a group the majority of us did correctly guess Zac's character as the murder.

We had a really great time, and we are so grateful that we have such awesome friends who like to get together and do this totally fun, yet somewhat corny types of things with us. All in all, we had a great Halloween!

Halloween at Stryker

Stryker celebrated Halloween on the Wednesday before Halloween (why I don't know, seeing as how Halloween actually fell on a Friday, but that is how they decided to do it). Each group dressed up together with a theme. Joint Preservation (Zac's group) decided to go as gangsters. So this is Zac's thug costume. He looks so tough huh? And yes he did grow and shave a goatee just for this occasion.

This is Zac's team. From left to right is, Kyle Pilgeram (he is in R&D), Lindsay Matz (Buyer), Zac Greenhalgh (Planner), Eli Perez (Material Coordinator), Vicki Onyabor (Quality Engineer) and Gabe Castillo (Packager). They discovered when they got to work that they were all different types of gangsters, but it still worked. Kyle was a mobster type, Lindsay was an East Coast type, Zac was Malibu's most wanted, Eli was a Bay area thug, Vicki was a Mexican chickida type, and Gabe was scare the crap out of you if you cross him type.

Pumpkin Carving Night

The Friday before Halloween Zac and I got together with Jesse and Cat to carve some pumpkins. It was a fun and yes, messy night. Zac and I went to the pumpkin patch first, mostly for the fun experience, and decided the pumpkins were too expensive (we would have paid $36 for 2 pumpkins!) there so we went to the grocery store and bought the same size pumpkins for $7 for both!

Obviously the cat is mine, the skull in cross bones Cat and Jesse did together, and the haunted house is Zac's. So cute huh?!

Halloween Decorations!

Ok so I was really proud of the awesome decorating job that I did for Halloween so I had to post some of the pictures. Cute and spooky all at the same time right?

I understand that all the pictures are rather random and probably hard to put together if you haven't been to our apartment before, but it all looks cohesive when you see it together, I promise!

Our Trip to Utah

A couple of weeks ago we went on a trip to Utah. Zac was coming back from a business trip in New York, so his work actually paid for his ticket, so we only had to pay for my ticket, so we decided to go out for the first Real Salt Lake soccer game in the new stadium in Sandy and go to the BYU homecoming football game that was against New Mexico. We had a ton of fun at both games. Real Salt Lake tied their game against the New York Red Bulls. We went with Zac's parents, his brother Rawleigh, and my friend Brittany. Luckily BYU won their game! We went with my sister Kayla, and we had a ton of fun! We all really miss going to the football games together!

The Randomness of Living with Zac

Just so all of you know living with Zac is never boring! This is why I married the man! He is so funny and random. So I have two random stories about him. The first I like to call "The mystery of the empty can." One night Zac was cooking dinner, and he went to cook some green beans, I was busy doing something, I don't remember what, but it will suffice to say that I was distracted. Zac walks over and says, "Kira, look at this can of green beans!" I didn't look up, because, honestly how can green beans be interesting. He continued, "No look there is nothing in it!" And then I said, "Yeah Zac, that usually happens after you dump the contents out." And this is where Zac got really excited, "No! This is how I opened it! Look it's just water! There are no green beans! What are the odds that we would buy the only can of green beans on that shelf that didn't actually have any green beans in it." So I said, "wow, yeah that is really weird." Needless to say this little oddity really excited him, and so he wanted to take a picture of it to document it. At first he wanted to send it in to the green bean company to show them how they gypped us, but I pointed out that even with a picture that would be pretty hard to prove. So then he decided he needed a picture purely for his own enjoyment, because this was such a weird thing. Thus we have a not one, but five, pictures of an empty can of green beans.

My second story is not for the faint of heart, so if you are you should turn away now. I don't think these pictures need much of an explanation, they mostly speak for themselves, other than you should know that he didn't actually do this to in some weird way to be romantic or anything like that, this was purely to make me laugh. And now it is to make you laugh too.

Oh and just so you all know, these are the "clean" pictures. You should all be thankful I didn't post the one of Zac bending over to put a pan in the oven! And I also thought about making a little black box to cover his cute "bubble" shaped behind, but I didn't know how to, so... sorry, I hope your eyes aren't blinded from the whiteness.

Tennis Game Night

Here are a few pictures from another one of our group date nights. We played tennis at a local high school. Since we have three couples we decided to make up our own game. We decided that you could bounce the ball on your side as many times as you needed to, you just had to get it to the other side before the ball stopped bouncing. This way everyone could play, no one would be left out, and the games could go on a lot longer. We did teams of 3 on 3 and played 3 games rotating teams so everyone got to play on the same team as their spouse. It was pure random chaos and it was so much fun! I suggest everyone try it at some point in their life!

This is Ryan and Kaylee

Jesse and Cat
Kira and Zac- and yes Zac is in fact wearing my shorts. He really wanted to win the costume contest! And he did!

The whole group.