Fun Times

Last night Kevin's work hosted a party at the Hockey Game. We were treated to the suite with food to eat all night, plus money to spend at the gift shop. We had a blast! Braxton actually enjoyed watching the game. He's getting old enough for that kind of stuff.

Each year our ward supports a "Make a difference day" where we sort, name, and hug over 3600 stuffed animals. Can you find Adria in the picture? This is a great service project for the kids. The boys enjoyed it even more this year because they could write names on the tags instead of just telling us. Kanyon tried to name a stuffed animal "pukey" thinking it was really "pumkey". That was my favorite moment of the day.

Friday we went to a museum where they had these hide and seek camo's that the kids had fun dressing up in. Fall Break officially starts Monday. I'm hoping to have one activity for each day. It's supposed to be great weather, maybe one last trip to the zoo, raking leaves, playing at the parks.

Backyard Party

"Gettin' a little thin in the back"

"Good Times, Good Times."

Friday night was our backyard Halloween Party. Les invited a bunch of families from the ward over and we had dinner and then carved pumpkins. I was the talk of the night when I pulled out my jig saw and started cutting pumpkins. It was a little breezy that night and I was worried that people would get cold, so I borrowed a page from Erik's book and had a fire. The barrel was left over from ones I made for the pioneer trek. It turned out that was the hit of the night. We brought out the mallows and everyone had fun roasting around the fire. Wives had to drag their husbands away at the end. There is something about fall nights and a good fire. The weather ended up being beautiful -- windy up until the party started, and nothing again until people stared to go home. (The weather prayers do work)

Saturday night, we attended an adults only party with other couples from the ward. We had dinner and then sat around and played games and visited. It was fun, but after two nights of parties, I was ready to come home early.

Today was our Primary Program. The program was great and Tyler and Aimee did a great job. Katie even got to go up and sing a song with them. The highlight was a full primary singing "Called to Serve" at the top of their lungs. We've got some great future missionaries. The best part of the whole thing- I got to sit with Leslie!!!

Happy Halloween!!!

Brant

where is everyone?

The highlights of our week...
I purchased a merchant site through Yahoo! for strawberrypearl.com. This means that you can now add things to your shopping cart and pay online. It is a fabulous idea, just more work than I expected. When I purchased the site, it annihilated everything I already had on there, so I'm starting from ground zero and trying to work on it without neglecting my kids.
Seth's costume for the Ward Halloween Party arrived and the battery pack for it was broken. We fiddled around with it for awhile and then I googled it and learned how to spell solder. I checked out heathkit.com but that didn't help and then I found something at Radio Shack. Seth went down to the store to see if they could help him and he ended up buying the parts for a new battery pack. We went to the parent's and Dad was able to solder the new pack to the connection on Seth's costume. Brant, we were wishing that you lived closer because we figured you would already have had the missing piece for the battery pack that came with the costume and could have fixed it in five minutes. I'm just glad it's fixed.
Seth made waffle cookies tonight and he and Weston are home teaching right now.
Hope all is well.

And My Next Project.....

What do you think?
From the inside

I don't know what I'd do if there wasn't one more thing to fix or replace. Mom and I spent about 6 hours tearing out the old door and installing this one. I still have to paint the trim the same color as the trim on the house. We really like it except that you can see right into the house. The glass is sort of antiquish but you can still see pretty clearly. It lights up the stairway a lot more from the natural light. Next week we install the new glass door in front of this one.

Not much to report. The weather is getting colder but the days are still nice. Lots of leaves to rake.

Today was Ward Conference. It's nice because the stake brings the whole program and we just sit and listen (we also get out 1/2 hour early).

Mom has parent-teacher conferences this week so she is busy getting ready.

Our ward Halloween Party is Thursday night. It has become a tradition with good food, a costume contest for kids and parents (this gets pretty intense), and trick-or-treating from classroom to classroom in the stake center. Each family decorates a classroom door and then the kids go from room to room down the hallway.

Enjoy the week and watch out for those little goblins.