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?