A Weekend With Xixi and Coco

Last weekend we went out to Roosevelt to see my sister Alisha (aka: Xixi pronounced she-she). It has been almost 3 1/2 years since I have been out to see her. I know I'm a slacker, but have you seen the weather for the Basin in the winter? -20 and I don't agree, so it only allows a few months of which I can go visit. (That's my lame excuse.) Anyway...we had a fun visit with her oh and her husband Albert (aka: Coco) too when he decided to stick around. Here are some of the fun things we did. We had to get creative, it is Roosevelt mind you. Warning...there are a TON of pictures.We made haunted candy houses.
During the process.

The finished product. (which is now partially eaten away)

Alisha had some 2x4 pieces of wood that we asked Albert to cut into 3 inch pieces. So what does he do??? He cuts them into all different sizes. We were kind of irritated at first that he couldn't follow simple instructions, but then we decided that different sizes could be cute. Mikkele and I did Halloween blocks, and Alisha did Thanksgiving. We used Alisha's cricut machine to cut out the vinyl letters. Yet another reason why I love cricut machines.
Mikkele's finished product.

My finished product. My straight edge of my K is a pumpkin man. Kinda hard to tell from far away. Oh and there is a spider on the S block.

Alisha and Grant posing with her blocks. Can you see her turkey on her L? He was pretty cute.

We went to a corn maze in Bluebell, UT. It was about 30 minutes or so outside Roosevelt. I didn't even know that we had a Bluebell, UT. Anyway Mikkele had fun with all the different activities that they had. Can I just mention that I HATE corn mazes? And after going with Grant it just gave me another reason to not like them. He screamed throughout the entire maze. I should have gotten a picture of it, but I didn't because Alisha had the camera. And this is what I found on my camera after I got home.

Good

Sassy

Scary. We have issues in our family about making crazy faces when the camera is pointed in our direction. She may be sorry that it was my camera that she was taking pictures of herself with though. Did you know I would post these pictures Lish?

Mikkele measuring up next to the pumpkin.


Mikkele took Grant on a cow train ride. I think this was one of the only time he didn't really fuss while we were there.

She also took him down this slide made of PVC pipes.


They had this barrel thing that the kids could get inside and then get tumbled around in and get dizzy. Mikkele thought it was fun.

They had this barn filled with corn. Kinda like a ball pit, but no balls, just corn. Talk about the germs in that thing. YUK. And yes she thought she needed to lay down in it and make a corn angel!?!?

They also had this sling shot thing that you had apples and tried to shoot them at targets. She didn't hit the target, but had fun trying.

Oh and you can't forget the Moki dog. Moki had fun giving Mikkele and Grant kisses. He is a funny dog. I bought him a hot dog costume for him to wear on Halloween. We didn't get any pics of him wearing it, but it was really cute on him. I'm sure Alisha will have pictures on her blog within the next couple weeks of it.
And finally you may wondering why we call Alisha, Xixi and Albert, Coco. Well here's the story...when Mikkele was little she couldn't say Alisha very well. She said She-sha. Well when Albert and Alisha started dating he said that it was similar to Xixi (she-she) in Portugese which means "urine". So she is Aunt Xixi. And you can probably guess what Coco means...POOP.
And there you have it.
Thanks to Xixi and Coco for a great time! We'll try to make it out there before 3 1/2 years goes by again.