Fun Halloween Week!

Guys' Hunting Trip

The fun week started with a hunting trip for the boys. Nate, his dad, and Landis left really early in the morning last Saturday with the dogs for Ellensburg, WA up in the mountains. While they were gone, Valerie and I went shopping (tee hee!). We checked out the grand opening of the new Costco here and did a bunch of other little errands. We walked around the Kent Station mall and had lunch at Panera Bread. It was a lot of fun! It was nice to get some girl time in while the boys were having their boy time. I will let Nate tell about the hunting trip:

It was a good long walk. The dogs were so excited they couldn't control themselves and couldn't be controlled. Kia scared up two pheasants and they were too far ahead of us to get a shot off. My dad shot once and missed. I went through another grassy area with the dogs and scared up two pheasants and they flew back towards my dad and Landis. I nicked one but couldn't find it. I think it hit the ground and ran. So we walked across the field trying to scare more up, but couldn't find any more. Meg got thirsty and decided to go down to the canal for a drink. She got down there and couldn't stop because it was steep and ran right into the water. It was too steep for her to come back up so I had to rescue her. She cried all the way back to the car because she was tired and sore. We got back to the car, ate some goodies, and came home tired and empty-handed. These are some of the pictures I took on the way, during the hunt, and back at the car afterwards.







Trunk or Treat

This year for Halloween we decided to reuse the costumes we spent so much money on last year (yay for thriftiness!). Nate was a pirate and I was Elizabeth Swan. We wore our costumes to the ward Trunk or Treat last Saturday and decorated our trunk with lots of fun pirate stuff, courtesy of Stacey and Landis (thanks guys!). We put the candy in a treasure chest and called it our treasure and we even put out a "plank" for the kids to walk in order to get their candy. Nate was a very mean and scary pirate (that smiled a lot...lol) and I tried to get my British accent on. It was fun!




Stacey, Landis, Heidi, and Cirdan and their kids came to visit us. They had such cute costumes! Check out Heidi's blog for more pics of that. The kids made bank on the activity because they continued to go around the row of cars over and over until all of the candy was gone. That's the way to trick or treat!

Casey's Baby Blessing

Last Sunday lots of family came over for Casey's baby blessing (Nate's sister Stacey's baby). The blessing was so precious and it was a happy time for everybody. There was a lot of goodies to eat and it was nice to visit with family members. Casey was so cute in his little white outfit!



Nathan in the kitchen, where he tends to be most of the time, making and serving hot cider for everyone. Yum!


Halloween at Work and Home

My work decided to let us have lots of fun for Halloween. They let us wear our costumes to work and had us bring in pumpkins that we carved for the pumpkin carving contest. This is the table of all the pumpkins that were entered. Can you guess which one's mine? Okay, okay I'll tell you. It's the weird one on the very left.


This is the full picture of my wormy pumpkin. I got the idea from the internet and decided last minute Thursday night that I would do it. I had to do it all really fast but after the customer and employee votes, I won scariest pumpkin!



I had to take a picture of the Wilson pumpkin because it just made me laugh. It was a lot of fun and everybody went all out with their costumes. Here are some other girls from work that had similar costumes to mine (princess/royalty type). I love playing dress up!

Then when I got home we had corn dogs and french fries (fried at home) for dinner and then made donuts and homemade root beer. YUMMY!


It was SO good! I think I can see the donuts piling up on my love handles...lol. There weren't a lot of trick-or-treaters so we were able to just chill and watch TV for the rest of the night. What a fun Halloween week!!