Sunday Photo

What a great day.

We attended church, came home

had lunch, lounged around, watched a family movie

then Jolene challenged me to a game of Sorry.

She is very competitive!!

While I was getting things cleaned up she was

setting up the game, little did I know she had

stacked the deck!

She was able to get all the good cards right away!!

Needless to say, cheaters never win!!

Happy Halloween 2010

It seems different to have Halloween on a Sunday.

We made our Carmel apple pie, still played games,

and still went trick or treating. Except this

year I made my crust from scratch! I can't tell you how

excited I was to have it turn out. It looked so

beautiful, but like I told Ward, "looks aren't

everything, how will it taste". For years all I

have heard is how hard it is to make

your own crust and have it turn out!! It tasted

so yummy!! I was very proud of myself!

After dinner, the girls dressed up, Raychel changed

costumes so she could be warmer, and Jolene layered up. It was

a really nice night. There were so many families

out and of course kids were running everywhere.

I know it was Sunday, but we have some very special

neighbors who had very special goodie bags for the girls.

We made our visits, enjoyed visiting with several friends who

stopped by, hung out with the neighbors and completely

enjoyed the fall night.

Trunk~or~Treat

This year the girls decided they wanted to go to the

churches annual trunk~or~treat party. They had lots of

fun seeing their friends all dresses up, playing a few games

and of course the trunk~or~treating.

Hard~Fun work

The pumpkins turned out

Amazing!!!!

Raychel's pumpkin

Jolene's pumpkin

Pumkin Fun

These are the second set of pumpkins we had

to purchase this year. The first one were

PERFECT!

The girls spend precious time

looking,

feeling,

picking up

and deciding if the carving idea would work on the one

the wanted. After carefully consideration they picked

the cutest,

roundest,

fattest,

biggest ones they could find!!

The girls carefully placed the pumpkins on the

front porch to be worked on the next day, only to

discover they had been stolen during the night.

So off we went to find the

next perfect set of pumpkins

to be carved.

Bee~utiful party

I know it may sound crazy but at Halloween I become

very grateful.

I am so grateful I have a hard working husband

with an amazing job so I can attend class parties and enjoy my

kids,

their friends

and their teachers!

To be able to sit and visit,

help the kids with their costumes,

serve up the goodies,

and of course take pictures!

Sunset~

The girls had been outside playing when Raychel came

running in grabbing the camera and back out she went.

This is what she captured.

The two of us have an

addiction to sunsets!!

Weather~

Today I think Fall left for the day and winter was introduced.

It was so cold this morning!

The rain, wind and thunder were AMAZING this morning.

As the day went on the storm calmed down.

By the time I was done subbing, picking up

the girls and hanging out at a friends house

the night sky was breath taking as we drove home!!

Sunday Photo~Mission Bound

Mission Bound!!

Tonight we went to Sterling's to attend an open house

for our nephew who is heading to the MTC (Mission Training Center).

before leaves on his mission. Austin will be serving 2 years for

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

in the Argentina Neuquen Mission.

He is our third nephew to leave for his mission this year.

As I sat watching all the friends come through their home to wish

him well and shake his hand, I thought this is only a few of the people

who have been touch by him. So many are waiting just for

Elder Austin Page to come into their lives and bring them

the true gospel of Jesus Christ.

A Day Away

What a great weekend!!

Friday after school I took the girls to their cousins for the night!

They were so excited to get to spend the night with their cousins.

We met up with Ward to say good byes then we got to go on a DATE!!

It was so nice to be alone with Ward.

After dinner we headed home to finish getting ready for

my elk hunt in the morning. Yep, you read that right, my hunt!

I went about 8 years ago and figured it was time to go again.

We got up VERY early to load up and drive to the ranch.

It as a cold, rainy, windy, fall morning. We were expecting some

snow and luckily found none!!

We checked in at the ranch and

headed off to sit, watch and wait for the elk to appear.

The only thing that appeared was fog and lots of it!! It really was

a beautiful sight to watch the fog roll in. We sat in a cloud for a couple of

hours then did some walking but he fog was so thick we were unable

to see anything but each other!! Which isn't a bad view!!

We walked around some then headed back to the truck for a snack

and to regroup. While we were having our snacks Ward started up the

truck and the horses that were off in the distance came RUNNING over

to check us out!! They must of thought we were there to feed them because they

started bumping the truck and trying to go through the things in the back.

We ended up driving around the ranch scouting for elk and saw some really

beautiful country side. It was so peaceful to be out there in nature, to

visit, laugh, talk and enjoy each others company.

The rainbow was almost reachable when we picked up the girls.

So bright and beautiful!!