Pre-Halloween FUN!

Oh the fun of Halloween.  We carved pumpkins for FHE Monday with some of our neighbors and ate caramel apples (yummy, my favorite!) and other delicious desserts. 

Wednesday Brynlee's preschool had a halloween party.  The kids had fun painting pumpkins, making ghosts, etc. and eating brain cupcakes!  The brain cupcakes were actually pretty realistic.  I tried to eat one....but I only got a few bits down before I couldn't take it anymore.  I know, I know, it's all in my head but I just couldn't do it!

Stay tune for more halloween fun to come ;)

Lance and Brynlee cleaned the pumpkin out.  Last year Brynlee didn't want anything to do with the slimy insides, this year she was all about it! 

I was the masterful pumpkin carver.

The end product.  A bat!  The picture is not the best but you get the point right?!

Brynlee was so excited to paint her pumpkin and of course she wanted it pink.  She's such a girl.

The Jeep VS. Mr. Elk

Oh boy, what a fun night we had. We were on our way to Idaho for my cousin's wedding last weekend, which was beautiful by the way, when we were graced with the pleasure of seeing an elk with huge antlers standing in the middle of the road. We slowed down and watched until it finally decided to move off the road so we could continue on with our travels. Then about 2 miles later it happened. He was obviously on a mission, his mind somewhere else, because he didn't even see us coming (and it was dark so we didn't really see him coming either). He rammed right into the side of our car! Scared the living daylights out of me! I saw him coming our way about 2 seconds before the collision. I think I was about one heartbeat away from a heart attack! Luckily the only living thing that was hurt was Mr. Elk. The rest of us were fine, but the Jeep.....well Mr. Elk did a pretty good number on it. After the shock wore off and we check out all the damages - dented the hood and front part of the car including the bumper, smashed the back door in were Boston sits, the passenger door wont open, and we have lots of beautifully peeling paint, but of course I have pictures so you can see the damage for yourself - I made Lance drive back so I could check out the road kill. At first I don't think he thought I was serious when I told him to turn around so I could get a picture of Mr. Elk and see if he was still alive. But being the good husband that he is he did what I asked. Thanks for humoring me Lance! Sadly Mr. Elk didn't make it through the collision. Poor Mr. Elk

(Seriously?! If we were going to hit an elk we couldn't have hit the one with the huge antlers!? Sheesh.....)

The damages:

What have we been up to?

Well let's see. Nothing too exciting, a lot of football and volleyball games in Cokeville, 4 Wheeling, sewing, a new baby in the family, my mom's birthday, Conference, and a few other happenings. How about I just tell it all through pictures since everyone knows that's usually the only part most people look at anyway :)

SEPTEMBER 30:
It snowed. Ug. I can't believe it is SNOWING already. How depressing.....at least it didn't stick around for too long. But as I type the snow is once again falling....sheesh. It's going to be a long winter.....

I hardly have any pictures of me and the kids so I had my sister take one. Not too shabby, eh?

We celebrated my mom's birthday over the weekend.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!

Presents

My mom bought this fabric last year to make pumpkins out of them but never got it done. So I finally stole all the fabric and made them for her. They turned out pretty cute don't you think? I'm pretty proud of them, can you tell? Although they took me a lot longer to finish than I thought they would.
I helped my mom "arrange" them in her entry way. Don't they look super cute?!

It was cold, but my kids still wanted to go out 4 wheeling. We had to get them all bundled up.

Brynlee and Grandpa

Boston and Uncle Devin

Boston is 100% boy. Cars, trucks, tractors, trains, he LOVES them. You can hear the trains coming at my mom's house and the moment that Boston hears them he starts gibbering really loud and fast while walking as fast as he can (pointing the whole way) to the door. Then we step outside and watch the train go by. It's pretty funny.

My step brother Adam and his wife Shawna had their baby boy Austin on September 28. (Now we have Ali and Austin and Brynlee and Boston for grandkids on my side of the family. Kinda funny huh!)

Congrats guys!!

I can't believe Katelyn and Kalen are Seniors! So since they are we have been trying to go to some of their games. It's been fun!

(Katelyn is the one getting ready to spike the ball)

Boston and daddy (cuddling doesn't happen very often with our kids so we like to take advantage when they do!)

Go number 80!
Boston loved the games. So much so that he wanted to be out on the field with all the boys. Grandma had to hold him back :)

He loved playing with and looking inside the yard markers (or whatever they are called)

Playing with mommy's glasses. He thought he was pretty cool!

Brynlee came and found me before we left to go watch one of Katelyn's volleyball games and insisted that she wanted to wear this cowboy hat to the game. She's such a funny girl. But I have to admit it looked pretty cute on her!