Happy Halloween

Prepare to be amazed by three totally non-related costumes.

Here is a picture of all three kids ready to go and get some candy. Ellie's excitement quickly fizzled out with about four trips in and out of the car. We took her and dad home while the boys and I hit the town hard. Hudson kept saying this is the best halloween ever, until the car began smoking. Chevy was certain that it was on fire and after the three of us were safely evacuated, Hudson turned to me with a look of horror on his face. "GET ELLIE'S BAG" he yelled. Yes no need to worry about the fact that we can't make it home, or mom's personal safety, no, we must save the candy. Everythings fine, just a leaking coolant hose.

Licking the batter!!

So I am finding that I am not good at blogging as things happen. I seem to save them up and then do a few entries at once. I need to be better. Here are two of my kids helping "do the dishes" shall we say, after a cookie making session. Even at a young age, there is something irresistable about raw cookie dough.

Hudson had the day off of school for teacher preparation. I decided to take the opportunity to go and check out the pumpkin walk. As we came in the parking lot, I was very nervous about all of the buses that were there. Luckily, most of the kids were leaving as we were coming. We saw some amazing things made out of pumpkins. My favorite had to be the emergency room display. They were operating on a pumpkin that was cut open with pumpkin guts spread all over. Very impressive, just like every year.

Mitch has made a couple of late night fishing trips to Bear Lake. They fish at night for the mac's. He hasn't gotten home until about 4 in the morning. The fishing has been great, except for the chilly weather. You have to be impressed by his hat flashlight.

Well, it is that time of the year. Halloween is just around the corner, and we've been waiting to carve our pumpkins. Hudson made me pencil it in, on the calendar, so I wouldn't forget. He has been wanting to carve them for three weeks now. I kept telling him "they won't last if we carve them too early". Ellie's experience was interesting to say the least. First she wouldn't touch the inside of the pumpkin. Then I couldn't get her to let me help clean it out. Once I coaxed it away from her, she tried a taste of the pieces that we had already cut out of the boy's. Amazingly, she decided that raw pumpkin does not taste good. Who would have guessed.

Mitch has got his deer for the year. No, it isn't big and fancy, but it did taste amazingly better than the last deer that I ate. It will also supply us with an abundance of jerky to enjoy over the long winter. What great food storage, right? The boys were a little nervous to get to close. We have lots of deer around the house and they have been told not to play with them. They have tried on several occasions to shoot them with their pretend bows. Unfortunately, as they run through the field yelling "we're gonna shoot you" the deer seem to run away.

We decided that there were probably not going to be many more good days to go on rides, so we loaded up the ranger on Saturday. We made our way up to Franklin basin and enjoyed a picnic in the dirt.

We continued on our jurney to the "hollow tree". There are a couple of different stories about it. One is that the post office used to use it to store mail that was coming from one state to the other. Another story is that butch cassidy would hide his bank robbery money in it. The third story that I've heard is that the bootleggers used to use it to hide moonshine. Whatever the story, it is pretty cool to see. There is a blackened upper branch on it that Mitch said was struck by lightning last year. We had a great time, and ended the season perfectly.

Ellie got to enjoy her first ever oreo cookie. I had bought the special Halloween addition so the frosting in the middle is orange. I'm not sure, but I think she liked it!! Her brothers have taught her that she has to dip her cookies in milk. So I have to take the lid off of her sippy cup. The bad thing now is, she wants to dip everything: bread, chicken, noodles it all needs milk.

I am sure as many of you did I awoke to snow this morning. I got a sweet wake-up call from Chevy, who came in and told me that there was snow everywhere!! He said that he went in the front room to look and see if we had a christmas tree and presents. I told him that it was a little early for that yet. We had to use his Halloween costume first. We did have more than is in the pictures, but it melted during church. I didn't take any until the afternoon when it started up again. I told Mitch that I did feel like going Christmas shopping though. It seems I need the weather to get me in that state of mind.