Picking our Pumpkins!

On Wednesday, October 14th - one of my baby brothers left for the MTC. It's weird to think that he's that old! (let alone that I'm that old) He will be in the MTC for 2 months & then be shipped away to the Philippines. I hope that he has so many wonderful experiences that he can't even stand it! He will be missed so much!! We met at Jeremiah's in Ogden for breakfast before he went to the MTC. I love that place. It's worth the drive from Brigham...Berts sucks & is so expensive!

What a stud!

After breakfast, we drove home on Highway 89 to check out the pumpkin selection at the fruit stands. We found some GREAT ones!

I had Casey take Caleb to the far end of the pumpkin pile so I could get his picture with the pumpkins which he was NOT interested in. . . . .

...he couldn't run fast enough....

...to get the the wagons with the sweet wheels!!

I heart Halloween. . .

BUT - I'm not really big on the idea of LIVE FREAKING BLOOD SUCKING OUTDOOR DECOR!!!!!!!!

Casey happened to be home this morning when I saw this critter & I made him wake up & told him to go smack it with a shovel. He went out & asked if I wanted to watch it fly away...I was like WHAT?!?!? Kill it! He said that it didn't need to die. Mighty hunter my butt. So - he nudged it with a broom & it was already dead. Probably froze in the night. What is strange is that I felt bad that it had froze to death, but had no second thoughts about him smashing it to mush.

Sibling Night!

Before my brother left for the MTC we planned a sibling night. We went to Toads and had a lot of fun & then went to the Pie for delicious pizza!! Toads is EMPTY on a Thursday night. We pretty much had the place to ourselves. I even managed to knock off go-carts & batting cages from my 30 by 30 list!

The set up for this picture took forever!!

It's a good thing we had the miniature golf course to ourselves!

Camera timers are awesome!

Funny: We were all wandering around doing our own thing for a bit in the arcade area & Angela started this one game where you jump & it scores you somehow. She kept jumping....& jumping....& jumping....then Dylan came over to me cracking up and says "She's not even playing!!" She had been jumping for so long that she had to brace herself on the sides of the game to assist her with her jumping. We just let her keep on jumping (rude - but funny) When she finally realized she wasn't even playing - she said "I don't even think this is working!" Dylan, Ashley & I just cracked up after that.

Funny 2: We were eating our dinner at the pie & we were getting quite full & Jordon (who is a TOOTHPICK) said "Did you know that I can't even poke my stomach out?" I said "Did you know that I can't suck mine in?" Angela cracked up & started choking & managed to give herself a big smack on her chest & the piece she was choking on came out. I thought Dylan was going to lose it. It was a funny time.

Our pizza was HUGE!! Speaking of HUGE (one of Dylan's nicknames) he ate so much pizza!! And then he said "I could eat more. Ya know...I've never been hungry & I've never been full" How would it be!

I think we all had a blast & I'm excited for us to all get together again in October 2011!!