OCTOBER

I'm sorry I'm behind on my blogging but 1, I kind of suck at it, and 2, October is a busy month. It started out with my parents, grandma and aunt/uncle coming up to hang out in Wyoming for conference weekend. I didn't get any pictures up there, but it was really fun to hang out with everyone. Kev-dawg and special Kay even arranged their flights so they could spend a little extra time with Ry and I doing millions of nice things for us. I've often said i have the best parents in the world, and they make an honest girl out of me.

Here's dad fixing our leaky tub ---leaking so very badly that it was a constant stream of water. He also fixed our sink which was almost as bad. Not only that, but he bought and installed a new radiator and hoses for the mazda which he says was only running by the grace of God. -he's said that to me a couple of times now.

Meanwhile, mom was buying me all of this at Costco!!! I love costco and I love food and I love my mom. Thank you guys so so so so much for everything that you did for us that weekend.

We also visited Oktoberfest to eat schnitzel and polka and visit one Walt at his pretzel stand. It was the best pretzel I've ever eaten, bye-the-way. Yet another year has past that I didn't have time to make some liederhosen for Ryan to wear, but one of these years... one of these years.

On the 16th we celebrated our year anniversary. We decided to visit a new Temple each year on our anniversary and since I couldn't take any time off from school it had to be a short trip. It was my year to plan it and I chose the Manti Temple. We stayed at this bed and breakfast in Spring City and ate dinner in Manti. Unfortunately, I'm not very good at planning and didn't bother to call and make sure that the Temple would be open. It wasn't. I suck. It was still fun though. Ryan liked the porch swing the most.

witches and pumpkins

My good friend Jenny came down to hang out with me for a night of witches. -it's sort of a tradition now.

We had dinner and set out for the witches at gardner village. I took a lot of pictures in hopes of getting my mom excited about heading up to see us again in October of 2010. You know you want to mom.

After the witches we went back to my place and she helped me decorate some sugar cookies that I had made. Hers had a little more character than mine. For example,...the one pictured below is "winking". I happen to think he looks like he had a stroke.

Thanks for coming down and having night of halloween with me Jfro.

HALLOWEEN

To get ready for halloween and get into the spirit of it all a little bit more, we went to a haunted ...something. It was up at this is the place where they have all these historical buildings and stuff. Most of the haunted walk was outdoors through trenches and tunnels and stuff and it was kind of creepy and then occasionally you would walk through one of the buildings and that was REALLY creepy because it was filled with old antiques and stuff. But it was fun --picture of us waiting in line below.


And then on the acutal big day we dressed in costume and went up to the AOs for traditional chilly and to hang out with the rest of the family. Ryan's costume was a labor of love. It probably took three times longer than mine took. It was totally worth it though. He got to wear it to our ward's trunk or treat night too, so he was pretty excited to have more than one place to show it off. hehehe.