We had an excellent few days last weekend. I thought I would put up a few of my favorite pictures from the good days and nights. Most of them are from Leah's birthday party.

I love this one because there is a mom, a daughter, an aunt, and a cousin and a bunch of papier mache pumkins. What a fun idea Morgan had for the cake-walk. I wish I had a picture of the Maren meltdown when Josh ripped open her pumpkin. Disco down Hannah . . . and Gabes and Leah.Leah was mesmerized with this noisy balloon. It was funny to watch Jonas try to blow it up without it blowing back in his mouth. Leah loved the noises it made. Pretty Esme and the pumpkins outside at the photoshoot. I love this one of Leah peeping around the corner at the skulls in Sara's lillys. And this one is a classic. They said pose in front of the pumpkins, and she did. Talk a bout a glamour shot.You have to click on this one to see Sara's face. Is she askeered of the spiders a crawlin up her blinds? Too funny. And a very cute little vest and one year old. I wanted to show the tomatoes I bottled before I came down to Utah. I got 10 quarts. These tomatoes are ripening out in the sunroom on the vine. The yellow ones are supposed to be yellow. And from the apples I brought home, I only got this much. Two two-quart bottles. I also made carrot cookies from the carrots in my garden. They were sooooo yummy. Alan ate most of them. Now I know that two girls will love this picture for sure. This is one of my most favorite fall pictures. Julie and Morgan helping pick up the apples at Grandma Baum's house. That was a big job! Look at the red wagon that they filled with apples. Now for some Halloween costumes. This is Morgan on her first Halloween. No costume. We had just got home from visiting Jenny and Jim in Billings that day. We were supposed to be at the stake Halloween carnival. I put Morgan in her little yellow furry thing and Roni had a witch hat that we put on her. That was her costume. This was Morgan's first Halloween costume the ghost. She was so cute and little though not very spooky. Posing by our jack-o-lantern. She got a few treats from the neighbors next door (we were living in Logan). She wore the ghost costume for two years. Then she became a pumpkin. A very fat pumpkin trick-or-treating at Roni's house. This is over at our trailer house in the kitchen before the carnival and trick-or-treating. Zack in Morgan's witch hat. He was 1 and four months. Morgan in her witch costume and Zack in the old ghost costume. Morgan had so much fun on Halloween. Morgan the spooky witch. Morgan in her genii costume. Zack the sad clown. At the carnival.

I don't know why he was so ornery that night.

Morgan doing a cake walk at the carnival.
Besides these costumes are several that I don'e have pictures of: Frankensteins's bride, the headless horseeman, a pirate, a skeleton, and others I can't even remember. They were all fun - some spooky and some scarey.

And some are just too cute for words. I love that tail on her.

Now for something completely different. When I came home I didn't unpack any boxes until today. I was tired and stressed - I have a coldsore on my lip to prove my stress. I didn't feel energetic, just tired. But this morning I decided to get busy and get some things cleaned up and put away. So as I was going through all the Halloween stuff I brought home from Sara's, I found this black box that I don't recognize. And it had this cryptic sign stuck to it. Hmmmm, I wonder WHAT it could be and WHOSE it is and HOW IN THE WORLD DID IT GET IN MY HALLOWEEN BOX?

October, Halloween, Snowstorms, Typical

I decided to put out some Halloween decorations last weekend. I took pictures of them and thought you would like to see them. My blog title picture is of a Pumpkin I made back in 1983. He's cute.

This is an arrangement at the front door.

These are the goblins that greet my visitors at the front of the fence. Today I pulled out all of my frozen Zinnias and sunflowers. It was a pretty nice afternoon so I got a lot of yard work done today. However, I still don't have the vegetable garden cleaned up.

This is my old, old ghost that I made back in the 80'. This ghost may be older than Morgan. It wouldn't be Halloween at our house without him.
This is the witch that Roni gave us many years ago when Zack was really young. He used to cry when we turned her on, because she has spooky eyes that glow and she makes an scarey sound that used to upset him.
I love pumpkins and love to have them around from September to Thanksgiving.

I made this cute wreath a long time ago. The ghosts are made from orange and black suckers and then they you wrap them with white fabric.

I still want to get some corn stalks out of the garden and onto the front lawn somewhere.

My frog prince crowned with a pumpkin.

I usually hang this skeleton inside at the door, but he wanted to be outside this year.

Our Jack-O-Lanterns. When I bought them Morgan liked the happy face and I liked the frowney face, so we bought both of them.

Our oh so scarey skeleton. He says. "Boo! Did I scare you?

Fearless hunters of sharp-tail grouse. They shot a couple and cut out the breasts and put them in a bag in the fridge. So yesterday I thought I better cook them up. I was a little skeptical of how they would taste, but you know what? They were pretty good. They tasted like steak and were much more tender.

Hernon has worked for us for the last three years. He's a pretty good kid, and they thought they would give him a taste of shooting a shotgun. i guess he liked it.

On Saturday we had a crazy snowstorm. The flakes coming down were huge. Zack came running in to tell me and I got great pics of the snow storm.

It was so cold up here last week. Everything was frozen. We got down to 17 degrees and there was snow and ice everywhere. Hope your days have been a little warmer.

I just finished watching the last presidential debate. I thought McCain wasmuch stronger this time, and I liked that he got after Obama. I cannot handle the thought of Obama as a President. I fear that there will be more taxes, bureaucracy, programs, etc. I don't want to have government health care for everyone. I don't want my taxes to go up and I feel sure they will. I question everything about Obama from his friends to his stance on Iraq. I feel that we are between a rock and a hard place. What can we do? Vote, Vote, Vote!!!

I Thought This was Funny Enough to Post

Statements Made in Sacrament Meeting & Ward Newsletters

(I don't think all of these were from LDS announcements, but they are funny.)

Our opening song is "Angels We Have Heard Get High"

Don't let worry kill you -- let the church help.

Remember in prayer the many who are sick of our church and community.

For those of you who have children, and don't know it, we have a nursery downstairs.

Homemaking this week will meet at 7 p.m. The topic is weight management. Please use the large double doors at the side entrance.

This afternoon there will be baptisms in the South and North ends of the church. Children will be baptized at both ends.

Tuesday at 6:00 p.m. there will be an ice cream social. All ladies giving milk will please come early.

On a fast Sunday the opening song was listed as "Because We Have Been Given Mush.

Anyone wishing to may donate money to defray the cost of the new carpet. All those wishing to do something on the carpet should come forward and do so.

The Relief Society has cast off clothing of every kind. They can be seen in the cultural hall on Saturday.

At the fireside tonight, the topic will be "What is Hell?" Come early and listen to our choir practice.

Bishop Smith spoke briefly, much to the delight of his audience.

Some of the youth are in the high school presentation Shakespeare's Hamlet Friday at 7 p.m. The congregation is invited to attend this tragedy.

The 1991 Girls Camp will be hell the week of May 10.

Harvest is Over

We've been busy these last two weeks with harvest. When the nights started to get near freezing alan suggested that I dig up some of the tomatoes and bring them indoors to the sunroom. so I did. We're hoping to extend the life of these four plants so that we will have tomatoes a little longer than usual. the watering gets a little crazy. But so far it's working. the plants are wilting slowly, but we saved them from the frost.

My yellow tomato plant.
I have three good sized early girl plants that are in the sunroom.
My curing onions. This will be enough for the whole year. I got an excellent crop of white onions. The first time I have ever grown whites. They are the huge ones. Somehow I got one red onion. It grew up with the white and yellow ones and does not feel any racial prejudice. it has always been accepted by its brothers and sisters.
Are these not the most beautiful sunflowers?

This is my autumn sedum. The pink is really nice.

I love the look of the corn tassels against the dark sky.

Yum. I picked these and was going to make a pie, but we ate most of them before I could do it.

My jalepeno peppers. Kris says these are not jalepenos, but they are pretty fiery hot, and I do believe that I planted jalepenos.

Veggie man. One of my cabbages. I wated to show how big the head was on this cabbage. so look at the glasses to see.

I gathered all these delicious vegetables together and what do you think I got?

15 1/2 pints of Salsa! Aie, carumba!

I also had my own little peach days. This is the parade of the peaches.

Zack just starting in on the 40 acres of soft white wheat.

From left to right: Alan, Zack, and Kent.

Sunset. From the bottom of the windbreak looking west.

Field work .

When they got done Tuesday night, I took these pictures. They don't look so happy, but they were. they were just tired and hungry.

What a good feeling to done for another year. We finished on Tuesday and they have been helping others get their grain in. Soooo glad it rained today so we could listen to conference.