A Texas Halloween

My first Halloween in Texas as a missionary we carved pumpkins on P-day and went to the Bishop's Storehouse Halloween night, it was fun. My Second Halloween in Texas we dressed up as Elders and passed out pass along cards with candy at a members home, it was fun. This years Halloween started out a little rough, it is so warm and green here it doesn't feel like Halloween and work and home projects have kept us so busy we didn't get into the Halloween mood as much. I was so excited for our Halloween in, just us, carving pumpkins, passing out candy, watching a movie... Well Halloween day I went to the store to get chili fixins and pumpkins, Pumpkins were super expensive and weird looking, I decided I would rather buy lamps for our bedroom, I bought little mini plastic jack-o-lanterns instead but I was sad we didn't get to carve anything! We ended up painting our window trim and baseboards while we passed out candy to the few trick-or-treaters who came then went to some friends house to hang out. The scariest part of the day was when I left the grocery store and stopped by blockbuster I realized I had left my wallet in the shopping cart, I darted back to the store and thankfully my cart was still in the cart return and the wallet was sitting in the cart! Even though Halloween had no costumes and no pumpkins, we enjoyed our chilli dinner and spending time together and the mini plastic pumpkins lined up and lit in our driveway looked real cute and festive, and only cost $1.49.

The day after Halloween we had some friends over for Training Table Style Burgers, Homemade fries and potato chips and I made this delicious and festive Popcorn

• 1/4 Cup Butter
• 3/4 Cup Corn Syrup
• 2 1/2 Cups Powder Sugar
• 1 Cup Marshmallow Fluff
• 2 tsp. Cold water
• 1 tsp. Vanilla

Melt ingredients and bring to a boil, boil for 1 minute while stirring, pour over popcorn and mix. It is a perfect popcorn ball treat, or mix in a candy- whatever, its delicious!

We enjoyed this popcorn while we watched the UT vs. Texas Tech, what a sad sad sad game!

Grandpa and Scout Sleeping

This was so cute. I had to take a picture of it. We had so much fun while mom and dad were here. We had a date night and went to a great place called Bardenay and dad said "This steak was the best tasting steak I can remember having". Mom and I went to Phantom of the Opera which was my favorite thing we did.

Practice, Practice, Practice

Dear Kate and Karl,

I am practicing for the big day!

Love you Two!!!!!! Congrats~

Linds

FYI: everyone, I just spent like 40 minuets posting this blog below and it came out all messed up! the text does not match the pictures. I'm way mad, I think this may be the end of my blogging career.

Conference weekend

It was a conference weekend miracle! Scott was asked to a dance! Dad wanted to save the corn dogs and eat them, we told him that gross, he said they're still frozen they're still good

Ethan needed a haircut and Spencer volunteered. It turned out looking fine, but it was an interesting look during the process

It was kind of traumatizing, but he pushed through with Lisa's support

Conference brunch was delicious! New to the menu this year was eggs in a bag (thank you sandy). They did look a little sketchy but tasted great! And of course we had all the other conference usuals: maple logs, waffles, sausages. we sure missed Lindsey's cooking this year, but i think we did o.k.

Our Jonas Brother

Scott and I got bored one night, so we flat ironed his hair...

He went from Geek...

... to Chic

Jonas Brother number 4... I think so!

Get your pictures with him now, this boy is gonna be famous.

September by Lisa

Had a great visit with Joy and Stephanie when they came to Provo for the weekend. Ate pizza at my house, played Wizard (card game) and roasted marshmellows in the backyard. We all talked for hours, and the night went by so fast!
Dan's beloved pillow. Pretty much a lump of dust mite feces inside a pillowcase. Dan doesn't care.
The peach thief! She stalks in the orchard behind our house (which smells so wonderful this time of year) and sneaks peaches a few at a time.
Ryann is so cute. Every time she comes to our house, she and Summer run straight to the dress up box.
Summer with her favorite food. Just plain hot dogs (all summer long), no bun, ketchup or mustard please.