Pumpkin Carving

 We spent an afternoon carving our pumpkins.  This year all the kids carved them on their own.  I still had to clean out the younger girl's pumpkins but, Jason and Anne did everything on their own!  Lucy insisted on carving her pumpkin.  I am grateful for the child safe knives they sale at Halloween.  She was very determined that it would be her creation.

Nice job kids!  Now we just hope the deer do not come and eat our pumpkins!  Those crazy deer.

Off Track October = Fall Fun

 One afternoon Kurt Larson in our ward called us up and said to come up to his house to help him make apple juice.  None of us had ever made apple juice before and we had a  great time doing it.

 Kurt buys 5 of these huge crates of apples!  We couldn't believe it.  He juices all the apples and takes the juice to people in the ward and canyon.  What a great family.

 We would sort through and pick out the bad apples.  Wash the apples off and then put them in this apple juice grinder.  This machine would work by spinning a wheel which Anne is doing in the picture above.  It would grind up the apples and then it would squeeze all the juice out of the apples.  It was the most amazing juice I have ever tasted!  We worked for about an hour and earned some apple juice to take home.

 One afternoon we headed over to the pumpkin patch to pick out our pumpkins for carving.

 They had some corn the kids could play around in.  We were the only ones there so we played in it for a while.

We spent an afternoon at Ryan and Erin's home and visited with Aunt Carol from Oregon.  It always fun to catch up with family.

Spooky Dinner

 The spooky dinner is one of our favorite family traditions.  It's fun to see all the grand-kids in their costumes.

 Our random family.  Lucy is Little Red Riding Hood, Mike is the bad wolf, and I am supposed to be the grandma but, my costume didn't quite work out.

 The best part of the the night is all the spooky food.  We have very creative ladies in this family so, it's always fun.

 Bug juice

 Bread stick bones

 Spaghetti with eyeballs

 Witches hats and brooms

A spider web cake.

We did the traditional eating a donut off the string and a little spooky ally down in Grandma's basement.  It was a great party!

Fall Break

 Over Fall Break the girl's and I decided to head over to Gardner Village to see the Witches.  We had fun looking for all the witches and then we got our cookie at the bakery after we were done.  It was pretty crazy the day we went but, the weather was so pretty!

The boys went fishing instead and had a blast.  They brought home some yummy fish to fry up.

The Joe Young Family

 Joe and Jessica are always so kind and let me take pictures of them.  So, they came up the canyons with us to take family pictures.

 Cute Elizabeth looked so cute in all her pink!

 Daddy's little girl!

 These two boys can be a handful but, man they are also the sweetest things around.  They are both such handsome boys!

Cute couple!

Family Pictures

 So, again Mike convinced me to take our own pictures of our family.  Luckily, Jill was nice to come and take pictures and make kids smile.  I am still trying to figure out this whole photography thing I tried to take all these pictures in manual mode and so, some of my exposure is off.  But, practice makes perfect right?  I did save our family tons of money by taking these and that always makes me feel good!

Happy Fall!  It was beautiful up Millcreek Canyon!

Fire Pit

 I have been really bad about not posting about some of the fun things we did this Fall to our yard.  We put in this fun fire pit and it has been so much fun.  The kids love it and usually some great stories are told around it.  Eliza so far has told us some awesome stories and I can't wait to hear more through the years.

 Love these two!