Happy Halloween!

"Are you kidding me mom? This pumpkin isn't scary at all!"

(Autumn had a scary week. So Halloween has been relatively uneventful. )

Happy USU Homecoming!

Last week we were invited to dinner at a Brazilian woman's home. We had wonderful Brazilian food. I made the dessert which needed to be sugar-free. Did you know that they even made sugar-free whipped topping? I couldn't tell the difference.

Welcome Molly!

Autumn's cousin Molly Kate was born October 17 at 6:30 am. Molly was 5 pounds 10 ounces and 18 ¼ inches long. She surprised everyone by coming two weeks early. Congratulations Amanda and Brendon!!!

Mommy Thinks I'm Crazy (by Autumn)

My mommy has this strange notion that I'm weird. Could a kid with a face as cute as mine ever do something weird? I think not. Here's my side of the story.

A week ago, Mommy noticed me admiring the potty. I was actually just curious about the miniature bathtub with the lid that I can hardly lift. What is that lid for anyway? By the way, we need more toilet paper!

One day when the light was off in the bathroom, Mommy found me crouched down behind the potty looking guilty. She was surprised that I could lift the lid and even more surprised when she found that I'd been cooking dinner.

(Notice the large candle, bag of noodles, and YWs' announcement.)

I'm practicing to be a dog for Halloween. Now I like to act like a dog whether I'm wearing my puppy costume or not. By the way Daddy, thanks for the new play table and chair. He made it all by himself.

I found a new pocket the other day. All of my onesies have them. I keep everything in them from blocks, to bottles of nail polish, to canning jar lids. You name it, the possibilities are endless!

I'm 13 months old. I have 14 teeth. My favorite word is airplane.

A fun assignment for EVERYONE! (Time Sensitive Content)

My young women have a chance to go see David Archuleta and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir perform in December. A very gracious person is donating 8 tickets to our cause. We need some more tickets for the other 3 girls and some leaders. Here is how you can help. There is a lottery for the rest of the tickets that closes on Monday the 18th. Each household is allowed to register for 4 tickets. I figure if everyone applies for tickets we are bound to get enough for all who want to go, but only if everyone applies. The tickets we already have are for Thursday, December 16.

Here is what you do.

1. Click on this link to the LDS events page.

2. Click on the Register for Tickets icon in the upper right-hand corner.

3. Accept the terms and conditions. (It doesn't say anything about not giving your tickets to other people.)

4. Click on Register Now.

5. Fill out your real personal information.

6. Where it says Performances Preference, select Thursday Dec. 16 and for # of seats put 4.

7. Save your confirmation number.

Finally, leave a comment here letting me know that you have signed up for seats for us.

Thanks so much for your help!!!

Vacation Day 8

On Thursday, we said goodbye to our condo.


And the bears.

We said goodbye to the Tetons, which required going on the Moose-Wilson road one last time. We saw a real bear that was already being looked at.
We stopped in Montpelier, Idaho for lunch. Autumn liked hanging out at the park with her dad and eating corn dogs from Artic Circle.

Yeah! We made it home from our grand adventure. I can't wait to plan next year's vacation!

Vacation Day 7

On Wednesday we headed back up to Yellowstone to see Old Faithful and that segment of the park. There were three lovely hot air balloons flying over the Tetons. I got these shots from the car as we drove passed them from very far away.

Once we got to Yellowstone, we headed straight for Old Faithful Geyser. We watched it go off as soon as we arrived. I got video of the eruption, but I can't use it because someone is swearing in it. From there we hiked ALL the way to Morning Glory Pool. It's kind of shaped like a Morning Glory blossom. It's the furthest away from Old Faithful so we got to see the rest of the geysers on the back half of the loop.

We watched the Grotto geyser go off. It's really close to the Morning Glory Pool.

This is Chromatic Pool.

There was a raven who thought he was a golden eagle.

Saphire Pool.

We watched Old Faithful go off again when we got back from our hike. I was very, very tired.

We ate lunch at Old Faithful and then did Biscuit Basin and Black Sand Basin which are very close to Old Faithful. Here Autumn is showing off her hat at Black Sand Basin. This hat never actually stayed on very long because the wind wanted to blow it into the geyser.

We had planned to go on a 5 mile hike to Lone Star Geyser, but we were too tired after our Morning Glory Pool hike. Jonathan took this picture of Kelper Cascades while the rest of us tried to sleep in the car.

On the way back to Jackson Hole we stopped at the bend in the river to take a picture of Mount Moran.