Post-Halloween 2010

Adam came up with the brilliant idea for our costumes a few months ago.  We wanted to do something coordinated and while brainstorming, Adam thought of one of the super popular YouTube videos of the summer.  If you haven't seen the Double Rainbow video, you can check it out here.

I picked up some felt, styrofoam and sequins and that was about it!  We had everything else for the costumes so they ended up being pretty inexpensive.  I can't believe I didn't take any of my own pictures of our costumes! Saturday we went to an adorable birthday party for sweet Olivia, followed by a fun party hosted by the fantastic Nicole.  Here we are in dim light at Nicole's party:

The sun, the rain and a double rainbow!  What's funny is we ran into Melissa at the birthday party and saw her family's cute double rainbow t-shirts.  Great minds think alike!

Adam and I were laughing because this was Adam's third time as a raindrop!  Two years ago, we went as Rihanna and a raindrop (you know, standing under my umbrella...ella, ella. eh).  The other time was in high school.  In southern California students get together and create these elaborate airband perfomances.  Adam's group was the triple crown winner and won states!  The whole airband concept is pretty hilarious to me.  It seems so fun but so much work!  If you want a good laugh, watch the video below.  (Adam is in the red during the "Rock You Like a Hurricane" segment and then later gets tossed in the air as a raindrop on the left)

Along the Way...

If you've ever traveled with a newborn, you must know that it takes you several more hours to arrive at your destination. We stopped about every 2-3 hours to feed and snuggle Rilo. It was nice for us to get out and stretch our legs and take in the scenery.

Along the CA-58 is a little town called Tehachapi (my great-grandma would tell you there is a woman's prison there), that is so beautiful. It is full of green rolling hills, with a house on each hill. It was like something out of a movie. I wish I could've taken a picture of the houses on the hills, but I did get some pretty photos of all the green.










In addition to all of the pretty places we stopped, we also stopped at some not so pretty places. Ones with mattresses along the side of the road (yikes!). And dead animal skulls.











Hand sanitizing was very necessary after this stop...

Adam's Journal Entry

Adam had a very eventful night last night. This is an excerpt from his journal.



21 September 2008 9:01 PM St. Charles, MO

Ok. You are not going to believe what happened. So I go over to this family's house for dinner. They are this super nice family in the ward. They’ve had all of us summer sales kids over before. She makes this delicious roast. Mine is covered in gravy. I cut off a huge chunk and put in my mouth. I chew. It turns out I had cut off a big piece of fat and hard meat. (I didn’t know…it was covered in gravy.) I think, “Shoot, there is no way I can spit this out on my plate. That would be so sick.” So I just swallow it down. I chase it with a little water. My throat then starts making this very loud grumbling noise as air escapes back up and out. Of course the cup is still to my mouth and so my strange quasi-burp gets amplified and echoed. I keep making the noise…uncontrollably. The kids are looking at me; the parents are pretending not to hear me. Then I start choking a little. I lean over my plate. The mom yells, “Are you ok? Can you breathe!?” I shake my head. The dad stands up, comes behind me, and starts doing the Heimlich maneuver! I lean over and throw up water all over my plate and the table! Family dinner…done. I finish exuding fluid, look up and say, “That was really disgusting, I’m really sorry.” Of course they are so nice and tell me not to worry about it. The children, not knowing how to properly respond to someone throwing up all over their dinner table, just stare in disbelief. I stand up again and feel like I’m going to gag. I ask to use their bathroom. To my dismay I discover the pesky portion of roast still lodged in my pipe! Knowing that they had prepared dessert, I figured it best to try and dislodge the fiendish beef piece, so as to avoid further awkwardness in having to explain that their meat, still blocking my esophagus, would prevent the further consumption of any food for the evening. “But you guys go on ahead.” So after about 25-30 minutes of making awful heaving noises in their bathroom, I walked back into their kitchen, ready and cleared for cake! Wow.


I think my favorite part of the story is when Adam went home later and researched the Heimlich, and realized that he wasn't even given the Heimlich properly. I'll have a bunch of posts coming up this week, since I have been M.I.A. lately!