The busiest month of the year.

Happy List : October 2011

-babysitting the twins and successfully getting one of them asleep
-girls goodbye lunch with my co-workers
-a sweet e-mail from Jayme
-last day at POST
-girls night with Hannah, Whitney, and Chelsie. It seriously made my week.
-laughing and talking while cuddled in blankets
-having a dead phone and having to shout back and forth to Whitney while driving in separate cars. Hilarious.
-going to lunch with my mother in-law after a cousins sealing
-going to Midway with the Witts to do their pictures
-lunch at a small town pizza diner
-going to pick pumpkins at a pumpkin patch
-dinner with the Buhlers and Reimschiissels & bobbing for apples
-taking family pictures with the Toblers
-Nephew, Jaces’ first birthday party
-First Day at new job
-having Jared home on Monday evening
-finding out the Witt’s are having a girl by getting a call to come over and seeing a pumpkin carved, “it’s a girl!”
-the twins birthday party
-getting our family pictures taken
-going to Red Robin
-funny things Oaklee says
-going to the movies with Jared
-running into to Jeremy and then Jared’s parents at the theatre
-going to church
-visiting baby Fallen
-a neighborhood Pow Wow campfire in the front yard J
-taking Jake and Ashlie's pictures and then going on a double date
-going to the Haunted Village
-going on a walk with my mom and Aunt Jody
-visiting Whitney
-making cookies with Jared
-re-arranging our front room
-watching a movie
-lunch with my old co-workers! I miss them!
-watching old videos from high school! HILARIOUS!
-Jared coming home early.. happy day
-the Preisthood

Halloween tradition

One last post on Halloween. :) This is the 3rd year of this tradition and it is one of my favorites! It involves:

-the Buhlers

-Red Robin

-the best haunted house ever, The Haunted Deseret.

p.s. this was exactly one week before Travis and Cami had their twin baby girls!

Why yes, I am trying to catch up..

One Sunday after church, I had a friend come up to me and tell me that his wife had a great idea! Her idea was for me to throw a neighborhood Halloween Party. Others joined in and encouraged the thought, and if you know me.. you know I like to throw a party! It was too hard to resist.

So, I brain stormed, made lists, cooked, and sewed my Halloween costume with my dear aunt Dee Dee. I have been dreaming up my mummy costume for quite some time and despite a few little problems during the creation, I was very happy with the outcome. (Thanks again, auntie!)

I love Halloween.

(More Halloween posts coming..)

carving pumpkins

We gathered with our friends and neighbors to carve pumpkins a couple weeks before Halloween. We might have done it too early because, by the time Halloween came around.. our pumpkins were looking kind of sad. I love our little tradition! Click here to see last year.

I think Allen's pumpkin looks like a Powerpuff Girl. Remember them? :)

The last weekend of October

(picture from a Halloween photoshoot last weekend)

Last night, I hosted a Halloween party with a handful (or two) of our neighbors. It was an incredibly fun night with Dr. Seuss characters, Mario & Princess Peach, and even a little airplane pilot. Tonight, Mr. and I are going to another party. I have so many Halloween festivities to post but, November is on it's way!! Is it bad to do a Halloween update in November?

... Oh well! Have a great Halloween!
(ah, I love this time of year.)

Sunday agenda

-go to church

-visit my favorite little twin girls in the NICU

-take brownies to their mommy & daddy

-make my Halloween costume with my auntie

-read scriptures

:) Sounds lovely.

Happy Sunday, my friends.

sweet bliss

Hello, dear Autumn. I am so excited you're here. I can't wait for Halloween, pumpkin cookies, sweaters, leaves, hot chocolate, haunted houses, parties, pumpkins, and costumes. Jared wants us to be Popeye and Olive Oil... I am dying to be mummies. :) It's such a dilemma, isn't it?

This is Halloween

Frightmares (soo much fun) and pumpkin carving to celebrate the Halloween season. I love Halloween! :)

The Scarecrow

On the highway from Knappa to Astoria,

there's a turn off to go to an Eagle Sanctuary.

On this road is a neighborhood where my aunt walks a few times weekly.

Last Halloween, she saw a scarecrow. She told me how amazing he was and how she wished I could see for myself. When I went to Oregon a few weeks ago, at the being of October, we drove by this particular house a few times in hopes to see the scarecrow. Even on the way to the airport, we hoped to get a peek but, no luck.

One day, the scarecrow was put up and she was

there with her camera so that I could at least see this scarecrow on film.

As she approached, she noticed a full yard of spooky decorations.

As she began to snap some shots, a man then approached her.

The man asked if she'd like a tour. Camera ready, she gladly accepted the offer.

She was able to get these amazing shots.

Next year, I will be in Oregon for Halloween.

"This is Halloween"

Haunted House Making

After the voting of Travis' cousins took place, Jared and I won first place!

Cami and Chelsea made some wondeful treats!

Including this mummy shaped cheese ball!

The Spooky Neighboorhood.







Halloween Night



The Jester and the KING



A King, a jester, a hula dancer, a grim reaper, a vampire,
a 3Musketeer, and 2 pirates.
(Roman not pictured)

The Haunted Village

On Friday, Jared and I went to the

Haunted Village with Cami and Travis.

It was a great Haunted House and unlike any that I've been to!

Haunted Houses.

This is why I love Halloween.

That and.. the costumes, carving pumpkins, the trick or treating,

the Halloween parties, scarecrows, witches, the memories... :)