Happy Halloween!

So we had a very busy October with our 5 year wedding anniversary, Jon's graduation dinner, Halloween/Dumont and just everyday happenings. Both the anniversary/graduation weekends were well deserved Daddy and Mommy time away. We stayed at hotels both times and the girls were with Cato and Robbyn one weekend and my mom and sister the other weekend. We had a great time just the two of us and decided we need to "get away" more often! Also in the busy-ness Jon managed to transfer tons of dirt from our neighbors yard (they were having a garage built had a huge pile of dirt they needed to get rid of) to our yard. We had a John Deere loader for two sundays so Jon was not only able to transfer the dirt but was able to get our yard level/ready for concrete around his shop and grass around the house when it comes time to put it down and of course there was enough dirt left over to build a few hills/jumps for the girls. Though they were long days Jon enjoyed himself and could hardly keep the girls off the loader. Of course the big weekend was Halloween/Dumont. I love that even though we are in the sand dunes for this holiday the girls don't miss out on all the fun, the girls still get to dress up and trick or treat. This year instead of just t-o-t from trailer to trailer in our camp we took the kids from camp to camp and I was very impressed with the level of decorating out there. There were some camps that rivaled the most decorated houses I've seen. It was surreal to see these rhinos loaded with costume clad children driving around the sand dunes trick or treating. It was great fun and I think Emilie and I will attempt some sort of big decorating next year, I can't wait!

BTW I also threw in some pictures of Daddy saving the day with his pumpkin carving skills!

Wanted: Experienced mother with background in creative craft making!

I'm sure this is the ad my children would place if they could. There should be all kinds of tests given to women prior to having children so as to test their abiblities or lack there of. I so would have failed the pumpkin decorating test! So here's the scenario....ooh girls let's get some pumpkins and we can carve and paint them and decorate the front porch with them! Yay, mom you're the best :) Uh yeah, we get home and all of a sudden the ideas I had in my head flew right out the door, I had even purchased a carving kit but it was no help. Here I am with 5 pumpkins begging to be done up and 2 girls all apronned up with paint brushes and eager smiles on their faces...dear God please take me now! Anyways it wasn't nearly that dramatic and luckily the girls could care less about what the pumpkins looked like but next year I'm hiring someone to do this with my children, I'll be in the background baking, at least I do that well. :P
Here are some pictures of the girls and the sad looking pumpkins, 3 of which didn't end up getting touched. Thankfully Daddy said he'll do some carving on saturday, my hero!

Fall Festival

I love the Fall Festival, although being in NV it's nothing like fall weather. In fact when we went to the parade Saturday morning it was 90 degrees at 9am!!!! We went with Jen, Ashley and Seth to the parade and then went to the fair for a bit so the girls could ride a few rides but it was 90+ degrees so we didn't stay long. We all went home to recuperate for a bit before going back later that night with the Daddies, since they had to work that morning. Also on Saturday we got a visit from Kristen and Lance who were in town for the rodeo part of the festival. It was great to visit with them for awhile and Lance relit Jon's desire for hunting, fabulous :P And for another pleasant surprise Chuck, Emilie and Gavin showed up to join us for the festival that evening. We all had a much better time in the cooler temperatures. Brook, Ashley and Gavin rode more rides, Bryn rode the carousel but didn't love it, maybe next year, Daddy won a huge doggie for Brook, and the topper of the evening was Jon and Chuck riding the mechanical bull! Too funny! They both did pretty well much to our surprise. Although Emilie and I didn't get any funnel cake we all had a great time together.
Oh and the kicker of it all....I actually took my camera to get pictures of the happy event and it wouldn't even turn on! I so need a new camera! I'll have to get some from Emilie and Jen and post some on here later.