Halloween Night Trick or Treating!

Tanner didn't want to go trick or treating, but Kiersten did, so I took her around the neighborhood. It started to rain and we had Dad bring us some umbrellas. We had a great time!

Wax Museum and Halloween Parade

Tanner was Hades for wax museum on Halloween. It was great! He kept saying, "My father ate me and then threw me back up!" What a great story.

This is Kiersten's expression when she saw me waiting to watch the Halloween parade in the gym. How cute is that!

 

Kiersten after the parade and just before the class party. Meow!

New Dining Room Table and Barstools

Here's our new barstools downstairs.

And the new kitchen table and chairs!

Fall in Utah

This is the view out behind our house. Wow!!!

Our Earthquake! DRILL

We had an emergency preparedness drill in our ward last Monday night. We were given an envelope on Sunday at church and told to open it at 7:00 pm Monday. Our paper said we had had an earthquake and we had specific damage and injuries that we had to deal with. We had broken glass all over and a broken water pipe. We had a gas leak and a small fire. We went over how to put out the fire, turn off the gas and the water, splint Jared's broken leg, and use our first aid kid for other injuries. We also had one of our children locked in their room because of the house damage and needed to get them out a different way. Our block captain came over to assess damage and see if we needed any assistance. After we took care of our problems, we had to walk up the hill (about 1/4 mile) to our neighbor's, carrying our 72-hour kits, where we met and discussed our solutions. What a great exercise! We learned so much and figured out where the holes are in our preparedness!

Here's Jared with our water in our rolling coolers.

And our 72-hour backpack kits. They worked great!

Christi's baby!

Christi (Penrod) Higham had her baby at 2:53 p.m., Sunday, October 26, 2008. 7 lbs. 5 oz., 19.5 inches. Mark and I got to go see them at the hospital. So sweet!

Proud Grandma Fawn!

Tanner's friend

Tanner had his friend Jordan over. Macaroni and cheese is always a hit!

Brittany Choir Concert

Brittany had her last fall concert in high school!

Backyard ice sculpture

Our neighbor's sprinkler has a little leak and it sprays on our back fence. It iced up overnight for several nights and looked really cool in the morning sun.

Crazy Hair Day!

It was crazy hair day at the elementary. Kiersten had a three ponytails with two braids in between. We sprayed the braids purple and ran a Barbie hair coloring thing through the front two ponytails. It was great. 

Kiersten was really bugged that she didn't "win" for the best crazy hair day look!

New Job

I got a new job working for a lady in my ward. She makes jewelry. Her business, Jewel Kade, is growing a lot and she needed someone to help her get some of the business details taken care of. I am learning Quickbooks and helping with her blog. Here it is; feel free to order! The blog is still in the working stages; we are getting new photos shortly.

The Day of Snow

  
  

In the morning, mom came rushing in and said there was snow falling! I got out of my bed. I looked through my big window and it was snowing outside! I wanted to go outside and make a snowman. After awhile Dad helped me get on my snow clothes. I went outside with my snow clothes on, of course. I got a couple of balls. Mom rolled them. I put the head on and Mom put on the face. After church the snow melted and the snowman tipped over. I wanted to pick up the stuff that was left from the snowman, but I decided not. I had some warm hot chocolate instead. - by Kiersten

Last of the Canning!

   

     

I managed to get all the tomatoes picked the day before it froze. Made them into marinara and salsa. Yum! So glad to be done and get all the canning stuff out of the kitchen!

Jared's 15th Birthday

  

Jared turned 15 on September 26. He wanted the Nike+ for iPod (a sensor that fits in your shoe and turns your ipod into a pedometer), and he spent a lot of time the first few days running on the treadmill. He also got his very own Costco-sized bag of M&M's. Now he won't have to eat mine!