Pumpkin Carving!!

Last night we had our friends and family over for a pumpkin carving party!! I made yummy taco soup for everyone and then we carved the night away! It was so much fun and nothing gets you in the Halloween mood like carving pumpkins! We had a variety of pumpkin masterpieces including; a Y for BYU, a cat, a bat, a welcome sign, a smashed face, a frowny face, a ghost, and a 3D stretched face! Mikkel is the one who spend the most time on his! He started by peeling off the top 20 layers of the pumpkin and chiseled away piece by piece until the face was perfect! We made a giant mess and ended up with more pumpkin on the floors then on the tables but it was totally worth it! We had so much fun and hope you enjoy the pictures! (I didn't get pictures of all the finished pumpkins, just ours... sorry)

Vennis got cozy on the carpet while carefully carving hers

My mom and little sister

Trevor scooping away

Lesley flinging some guts off her hand

Matt acting super excited!

Jacine

Mikkel and Vennis are scooping the guts from the bottom of

their pumpkins instead of the top (new strategy i guess)

This is one of the giant messes

Mikkels masterpiece complete with guts spewing from the mouth

My cute kitty

Hailey with her tiny creation

Blondes For A Night!!

We went to a Halloween dress up party last night! The theme was Hollywood couples so we dressed

up as probably the most hated couple in the Hollywood Hills! We were Speidi... aka Spencer

Pratt and Heidi Montag! They are from a reality show called the Hills. I watch the show and

Mikkel always makes fun of me but he thought it would be fun to dress up as them! I found

this awesome blonde wig and Mikkel put yellow paint in his hair and beard to make it look bleached!

It was a fun party and I am so glad we had an exuse to dress up! Mikkel was such a sport and

let me pick out his costume and dress him up!Thanks honey for being silly and

dressing up with me! So how do you think we look as blondes?

Sadies New Do!

Sadie got a hair cut yesterday!!

I couldn't look at her long crazy hair anymore! I finally took her in to the grooming salon.

when I picked her up she looked like a different dog! When we got home she was acting a little weird. She buried her head in a blanket and just laid there! i think she hates her new hair do. She probably thinks she looks like a boy cause all her long flowing hair is gone. ah she'll get over it!

Before (hair in ponytail to keep it out of her face)

After

Any Costume Ideas???

This year for Halloween we are going to a dress up party!! I am so excited because I have not been to a dress up party in years!! I love Halloween because it is the one time of year that you can dress up, act like a kid, and get away with it! The theme for the party is HOLLOW- WOOD and we have to dress up like a Hollywood couple! We have a few good ideas but we are still stumped on what to dress up as. So if any of you have some ideas for us let us know! Thanks!

Fall Is Upon Us!!

Yes It is that Time of year again!! I Love this time of year!! Though I will miss my flip flops, T-shirts, and Bermuda shorts greatly, nothing is better than putting on a big sweater and fuzzy socks to keep warm! The beginning of this week was perfect weather! It was still warm but had that nice cool breeze and i was loving having our windows open in our house! Yesterday was the first day that we had to close the windows for good and turn on our heater! I like seeing how long we can go until we have to turn it on. I think winter maybe coming a little too fast though! What is with the snow today!? I am not ready for snow yet!! i love all the beautiful colors of the leaves and I don't want any snow to cover them up! :) What is your favorite part of Fall??

Paint

I have been wanting to paint my house for a long time now! I keep telling Mikkel I want to but we just never get around to it! Well my white boring walls just have to go. I want to paint them a neutral warm color to create a more welcoming feeling. I don't want anything too dark or bright. So I was wondering if any of you have painted your house a color you like and could maybe recommend a brand and color. I don't know anything about paint so any suggestions would be great!

I Found All of YOU!

So my tragic blog story just got a whole lot less tragic!! I thought I had lost all of your precious blog addresses but just now as i went into create a blog list you were all hiding in there... All of you that I thought i would have to search for again were there all along! It is weird that my list just didn't appear on my blog when I exported my old one. Weird! I am so glad that I don't have to stress over that now! Maybe I was blessed for going to the General Relief Society meeting in Salt Lake tonight! YAY!