"Pudge Controls the Weather"

Can you guess what movie I'm thinking of from these clues?

No?

Take your time.

Here, I'll give you a hint:

It's "Sandwich Day."

The items in the picture are tuna filling, bread, and peanut butter.

Still not getting it?

It's kind of a tricky, isn't it?

O.K.  I'll give you one more hint.

Now do you get what the movie is?
It's Lilo and Stitch.
And why am I thinking of that movie?  I'll tell you.
Toward the beginning of the movie, Lilo is late for her hula class.  She gives a big long explanation of why she's late.  To summarize, on Sandwich Day each week she takes a peanut butter sandwich to Pudge the fish.  Her sister told her to make a tuna sandwich since they didn't have peanut butter that day.  But since tuna is fish, she couldn't do that.  So she went to the store to get peanut butter to make a sandwich for Pudge and that's what made her late for class.
So since November 3 is indeed Sandwich Day, I've been quoting that part of the movie throughout the day.  For dinner everyone was able to choose tuna sandwiches or peanut butter sandwiches to eat.
I love simple silly celebrating.

Plan Your Epitaph Day 2015

Here lies Lucky

He was clingy and tired

So his mom put him in his crib

And there he retired

Jr.'s Turn

My favorite quote from the book Bunnicula is "As a kid, I saw the classic movie Dracula and became instantly afraid of vampires. Many years later, I read the classic children's book Bunnicula. Now--in addition to vampires--I am also afraid of bunnies. I hope you're happy Jim."
--BARBARA PARK


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The (long) "AAHH" was not part of the quote.

Relaxed Halloween

Today was a relaxed Halloween.  All Jeremy's Halloween shows were done before today so he didn't have to work.
We all got to sleep in (I woke up a few times last night for different reasons, including a couple kids- so it was a good thing I got to sleep in).
The kids had fun playing together.

We watched The Nightmare Before Christmas as a family.

Then we went trick-or-treating to just a few houses, because the kids already got candy at school and at the ward Halloween party last night.

We came home, ate pizza and candy, the kids watched Garfield's Halloween Adventure and the Halloween episode of Studio C, then we sent them to bed.
It was a relaxed Halloween.

Halloween Costumes 2015

For Halloween this year, Nichole dressed up as Ella Enchanted. 
Jr. was a ghast from Minecreaft.
Jr. Jr. was a magma cube from Minecraft.
Lucky was Linus from Peanuts.
I was a witch.

Jeremy had to work so he came late to our ward party.  He had on a Superman shirt and a Batman overshirt.  He called himself The Justice League.

Happy Oatmeal Day

October 29 is National Oatmeal Day.
I made oatmeal muffins to celebrate.

Nobody complained.

Arches With Friends

The day after Scarlet and Dorothy left our neck of the woods was the first day of Fall Break for our school kids.  So we made the drive down to Moab, met up with Scarlet and Dorothy, and all went to Arches National Park together.  We didn't make our annual trip this Summer because Jeremy was doing the balloon wonders so this was a fun treat for us.

Our family at Balanced Rock and their family at Double Arch

 They were still so good with our kids.

 Kids with arches

Hey, kids.  Pose like elephants with the elephant in the background.  (Elephant Butte)

We made it to a lot of places in the park this trip.  At times we separated so we could explore different places and hike at different speeds.

Looking up we could see so much beauty.  Lucky only wanted to look down and play with the rocks and sand on the ground.

At one point, Nichole started making whistling sounds... and something responded.  We're thinking it was a bird, but it happened a few times in the same spot.

Jeremy and the older boys saw several bunnies as the sun started to set.  Nichole, Lucky, and I saw one.  Scarlet and Dorothy didn't see any, but they did see a group of deer.

It was a great trip and I'm so glad we were able to share it with friends.