A Spooktacular Halloween

This past week, Mark had a training in DC and I took a trip to Texas! Wahoo!

Many exciting things happened in Texas. I don't know if I could even choose a favorite. I started to type about what we did in order, but I keep getting the days mixed up, so here's a little list of some Spooktacular Halloween Events in no particular order:

1. Costume parade at Lu Lu's school. She dressed up as "fries" with a ketchup bag. I thought it was the cutest costume there! These little munchkins were good kids at the parade. One of them couldn't keep out of the sand on the playground!
2. Play group party-- we made some spooky bowling pins out of pop bottles
3. Playing the hairdresser with Lucy. First her, then me, then her again. :)
4. Sea World Halloween Fest
5. YW night with the sis. I made several magnets and took them all home!
6. Many delicious meals. We devoured pumpkin pancakes for breakfast. On Halloween, we ate "mummy pizzas"

7. Face Painting time-- just for fun.

8. Watched a chick flick (While you Were Sleeping) and two musicals (Singing in the Rain and Fiddler on the Roof), love it!
9. Dance Class --dress up day (that's what the hair dresser outfit was for)
10. Carving pumpkins
11. Hanging out with some of my favorite people in the world!!!!!!!!!!!!
The fries, hot dog, and burger!

Here are a few pictures from Mark's trip. Mostly, he was working hard but found time one night to see some cool things.

SOLD, Ever Unpacking, and Growing Grass!

I realized that my blog posts were getting a little boring. So, for your entertainment pleasure, I have composed a rap for you to perform as you read our blog. Feel free to be creative and get your rappin' skills on......(start with the beat box rapper thing)

The Rappidy Dap Dap of the Tew's

I haven't blogged as of late
So here is our life as to date
We live in the middle of the States
And so far, there are no complaints! :)

We drove up here from very far
From down South in the town of Texar
Since then, Marky hasn't golfed par
Because the golf course back yard is no...mar (must rhyme)

On the way up, we stopped in OK
Lacey listened to Harry Potter the entire way
Mark enjoys his job so they say
Lacey is still job hunting today

We now live with lady who
Let's us live in her basement, foo' (short for fool...learned that one in the south)
On the house hunt..that's what we do
This is the life of Mark and Lacey Tew

OK City Temple

-Getting the grill skills going-
-Labor Day-

We ARE alive!!!

We are safe and sound in our new town. We found a sweet lady who is renting her basement to us until we find either a house or something to rent longer term. However, she doesn't have the internet...how did I EVER survive without it?????? I can't believe how much we rely on the internet until we try going without it for a few days. We make trips to the library a couple times a week to do our business. (side note--she DOES have TV...all of the channels I love...HGTV, Food Network, TLC, etc...heaven)

Mark is enjoying his job as a real businessman! More updates to come.

conGRADulations!

We may now call him....MASTER MARK!!! He is a recent MBA graduate!!!!!!!

Our lovely friends, Stac and Chris...too bad we aren't moving to the same spot. :(Rob and Tam - Fellows buds plus Math Lab buds

The PROUD parents. Thanks for coming to visit and support us!!!!!!

WAY TO GO MARK!!! YOU ARE INCREDIBLE!

You might be a redneck if.....

...you eat footlong corndogs at your hometown's county fair.(notice the array of southern cuisine...mmm mmm good)

...you ride this bad boy to work

...your idea of some goooood cookin' is crawdads or alligator on a stick (things on sticks always taste better, right?)(this is our friend and he thought the fried gator stick was pretty tasty and worth trying, just in case the reader is interested)

...you buy this type of hot vehicle for your wife to drive.

...you are a 3 time defending champion at lawnmower racing!

(or you watch the three time defending champion and yell "ready...set...mow!!!")

If you aren't a redneck and you do/did these things, then I guess you are just hard core :)

Ok, Ok, we need some explanation...the Tews have officially experienced their first Watermelon Festival in Hope, Arkansas (birthplace of big Bill C.) Mark played in an all night softball tournament and we experienced the "hardcore/redneck" festivities as explained above. It was really fun!!! I can't believe we missed out last year. We even came home with a juicy, delicious watermelon!!!

Home Sweet Home

Visiting home sweet home was such a pleasure!!!! It seems like no matter how long we stay, the time always goes by too quick. Most likely it's due to the fact that we always have a blast doing things with our family and friends. This vacation was full of enjoyment!!!First thing we did was attend the Bees Game and stayed at Little America. We went swimming and saw a very small percentage of the Days of 47 Parade the next morning (we saw a float, horses, one marching band, and a few fancy cars and the parade was over. "repeat that about 100 times, and you have the Days of 47 Parade" --quote by Geo)
We then went to the big GUNDI reunion in Heber. Three words might be able to sum it up. Food. Family. and Fun. At the reunion we always partake of delicious meals, are surrounded by roughly 120 family members, and enjoy each other as we play sports, chat, and have a program consisting of singing, dancing, and a little competition. This year my mom was in charge and she did a fantastic job planning the whole thing. We stayed in cabins with about 8 bunkbeds in each. We participated in challenge courses which were fun and also went down to the lake for some volleyball and canoes. It was a great time. Good luck to all Gundys next year on the volleyball court...Coles came out champs this year. :)
We met up with Mark's side of the fam in Alpine at his cousin's home after the reunion. Mark along with his brother, cousin, and dad thoroughly enjoyed playing RISK until the wee hours of the morning. They played for hours and enjoyed it!!! Yay for boys who play Risk while I play Guess Who and Pictionary with the girl cousins. :) Above you see the boys taking a tour of the Church History Library downtown SLC. We went to the Oquirrh Mtn. Temple open house while we were there too.
The enjoyment continued for a short time for Mark, he had to come back to real life but I was able to stay some extra days. During that time, we went to Provo Canyon and enjoyed some time with my dad's side at the Covey Cabin. More food, family and fun. Participating in our annual tennis tourney and hot tub relaxation was great. We also added some new traditions of horseshoes and tether-ball. One night we even watched a chick flick, Somewhere In Time, I couldn't help but chuckle almost the whole way through. oops. Might have ruined it for everyone else. Pretty sappy stuff. Anyway, it was yet another wonderful weekend.
We celebrated mom's b-day and I traveled to Logan for an overnighter that Sunday. I made a visit to Brother Needham because my diamond is cracked...I know...it's bizarre.

I finished the vacation off with a BANG by participating in the first annual PRINCESS TEA PARTY with all of the girl cousins. We even had teacups and everything.

WHAT A VACATION!!!!!