Pumpkin Carving

Soozee planted pumpkins in her garden this year and she got 11 pumpkins. So we got to carve home grown pumpkins for FHE. I took on the task of carving the Frankenstein in the BIG pumpkin. Chris did Mooneyes, John did a Harley Davidson skull, Holly and Amy did a Princess, Rusty did Igore!

Pumpkin Patch

Holly had a field trip with her Kindergarten class to go to the Pumpkin Patch. They got to go on a hay ride and each got to pick out a pumpkin that the school paid for. Chris was able to go with and bring Carson. The kids had lots of fun.

Temple Trip

This last weekend a couple from our ward were getting married and we had the opportunity to go to their sealing in Portland. I'm glad we had a chance to go. This was my first time going through the Portland temple. It's so beautiful.

I took these pictures about a month ago and forgot to post them. So-we got a new dog. She is a 10mo. old Border Collie Mix and we got her from the Saving Grace shelter here. We named her Page. She is doing well- loves to chase the cat, but hasn't killed him yet. Holly and Carson love to run with her. Holly and Carson got a new swing set as well. I've been wanting to get them one and a guy that Chris works with was getting rid of his-so he gave it to us. That worked out well!

Our Trip to the Redwoods and Redding!

I wanted to see the Redwoods so we planned a trip and went to the Avenue of the Giants in Northern CA. That was so neat to see such huge ancient trees and to learn the history of the area. Carson kept saying, "Big Trees". The Avenue of the Giants is about 31-miles of many stops and sights to see-we saved the drive-thru tree for last-the kids really liked that! So-we spent a day looking at trees and then drove back up the coast and walked around Eureka a bit and ate dinner. We had to see the Carson Mansion-Holly really liked the Mansion. Then we drove to Redding and went to the Waterworks Park there. The kids had so much fun and since Holly was tall enough she even went on the bigger slides. We went on the roaring rapids slide-Carson didnt' like that! They enjoyed the kiddy park area the best. And since we were in Redding (the closest In-N-Out to us)-we had to go there and pig out before driving home! We had lots of fun-only 2 1/2 days, but that was enough-the kids were so tired and Carson got car sick on the way to the Redwoods and to Redding-yuck!