Boo!!

Happy Halloween!! Halloween has always been one of my favorite holidays, so I was excited for Lucy to go trick-or-treating this year. We have been practicing saying "trick-or-treat" all month and reading all sorts of fun Halloween books in preparation. We started our Halloween festivities by carving pumpkins while watching our traditional Halloween movies including such classics as, "Disney's Halloween Treat", "Halloween Haunts", "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", and "It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown". My mom made some great chili and homemade root beer and it was a great afternoon. Afterwards we went to Jordan's parent's for "mummy dogs" and then we were out the door to go trick-or-treating. We had great plans of having Lucy take a late afternoon nap so she would be all ready for the evening's festivities, but she pooped herself awake and ended up not sleeping. The result was that she was SUPREMELY grumpy while trick-or-treating. Oh well, she looked adorable in her ladybug costume.

Grandma's root beer brew

Carving her first pumpkin.

I guess she thought that you were supposed to eat the pumpkin.

Jordan and his Bug.

I dressed up as a ladybug for part of the night.

Look at that cute ladybug bum.

Jordan's pumpkin

My much cooler pumpkin

Posing with her superhero cousins. This was about the point she started to completely fall apart.

Trick or treat!!

It's like they say. "A picture is worth a thousand words."

Cornbelly's

On Friday Jordan, Lucy and I headed to Cornbelly's at Thanksgiving Point. What a fun place! They have so many great things for kids to do.

Lucy immediately found the pumpkins.

One big ole' rocking chair

They had a short train ride through the corn. Lucy stood up in the front of the cart and was in heaven.

Watching the singing chicken show.

The corn maze was my favorite part. We may or may not have cheated to find our way out.

One Long October Post...

Oh my. So much to write about. I'll begin on Thursday, October 7th. I woke up about 2:30 in the morning and thought I was possibly dying. My throat hurt so badly I couldn't swallow and I had muscle aches that were literally painful. The next morning I sat on the floor of the doctor's office, shaking with my head between my knees. She did a strep test and surprise.....I had a horrible case of strep throat. For the next three days and nights I stayed in bed spitting into a cup because I couldn't swallow my own spit. Yuck. Thank goodness for antibiotics!! On Saturday, Erin and the kids came into town from Minnesota, and Mike followed on Sunday. My dad has a time-share at the Marriott Mountainside Resort in Park City, so he booked two condos for the week. We all headed up on Sunday afternoon. It was so fun! We watched movies, shopped at the outlets, rode the alpine slides/coaster, swam, hot tubbed, ate great food, and played cards. It was so nice to have our own rooms, so we had somewhere for Lucy to nap. I was still recovering from my strep so I laid low for the first couple of days we were there. Unfortunately, Lucy, Jordan, my dad, and my nephew, Noah, all came down with strep as well. However, everyone's doctors just prescribed them antibiotics when they found out I had been sick with strep, so no one got really sick.

Packing for Park City

Hanging out at the condo.

This turned out to be Lucy's favorite spot.

Abbie and Landon

Scott, Rach, and Mike on the Alpine Slide

Lucy eating a popsicle to soothe her sore throat.

One tough dude.

Wednesday was Jordan's 26th birthday. Here he is posing with his birthday brownie goulash. We ended up celebrating Jordan's birthday over the course of the week. More of a birthday season, if you will. Festivities included attending a pre-season Jazz game (in his new D-Will jersey), riding the alpine slide/coaster, going to dinner at Squatters, shopping at the outlets, and water volleyball. Happy Birthday Babe!

Once again, I had a hankering to make some caramel apples. This go around went much more smoothly. We ended up snacking on caramel apples for the rest of the week. Not so good on the waistline, but certainly good for the soul.

Cousin bathtub shot!

All snuggie in their jammies.

We got home from the condo on Friday afternoon. The next night we all went to the Real vs. FC Dallas game at Rio Tinto Stadium. It was a great game!

The Minnesota Five left for home on Sunday. The next night we went to Pack's Pumpkin Farm to pick out our pumpkins. Lucy went crazy over the pumpkins. She is walking like crazy now and had a grand time running from pumpkin to pumpkin.

Well, there's my post. It's been a fun week.

General Conference and a Hurt Momma....

How about General Conference?? So. Good. Once again, Elder Holland managed to touch my soul. I remember growing up how my parents would say how much they loved conference. I remember thinking, "Yeah right. That's just something grown-ups say because they're supposed to." Now I get it. It's so nice to hear talks that uplift, inspire, and prompt me to be better. We had an eventful conference weekend. It started on Friday night when my family drove to Logan for the BYU-Utah State football game. Oh boy. Congrats to Utah State is all I have to say. Let the record show that I am still a die-hard Cougar fan. Anyway, we spent the weekend with the Walkers. On Sunday afternoon Jenny and I made some bangin' caramel apples. I'm talking the kind dipped in white chocolate and cinnamon/brown sugar. They turned out great. Maybe a tradition has been born??

My lovely apples. They may look a little scary but they tasted yummy!

Naked Lucy. She would be happy if we let her roam naked all day long.

Jordan watching conference so intently.

On Saturday night we received some not-so-good news. My parents were staying at a cabin in Idaho and went for an ATV ride. They were on a steep trail with some crazy switch-backs and my mom accidentally rolled the ATV on top of herself. Good news: She's alive. Bad news: She has two broken ribs and two broken vertebrae (L1 and L2). It's been really hard to see her in so much pain. She doesn't do well on narcotics (they make her extremely nauseated), so she has to decide if she wants to be in pain or feel horrible. She has been watching Lucy for us two days a week, so our babysitting situation for the next couple of months will be interesting. I'm just so glad that she wasn't hurt worse.

Last month at Gardner Village. Get better soon Grandma!!

Lucy's new toy. She rides/pushes this thing everywhere!

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A Weekend of Fun...

This weekend we headed to the Utah State Fair. The fair attracts all sorts of people. I think I would pay the $9 entry fee just to people watch. Lucy couldn't get enough of the animals. She was a never-ending stream of "moos" and "baas". Too cute.

Watching the sheep-judging.

Jordan's foot-long corn dog. Typical.

We spent today with the Walker clan. These girls love each other. Abbi takes good care of her kid cousin Lucy.

Tonight we ate at Applebee's and then headed to Orchard Lanes for some bowling.

I was the bowling champion. Jordan wishes he was as good a bowler as me.

Jessica, Kyle and Jenny

Jenny and Emma

Cute Abbi.