Quail Court House

Home Sweet Home

Over the weekend Duffy and our family went to the Tri-Cities for his brother's wedding . While there we drove over to the old green house, as we call it on Quail Ct. It looks exactly the same-well almost.
The first thing I noticed was the house was still the same color, never been painted--but wait, what is that I see? It has been painted! Someone painted ivy leaves all over the front of the house! How charming.

I also noticed the addition of a green arbor and a bird feeder. Sweet Memories....

Scary Family Halloween

Here are our Creepy Halloween Pictures-Finally!

Cooper was Grumpy because his one-year molars were coming in-we thought Eeyore fit him well--until he started walking, then he looked more like Frankenstein!

Brinley was a MAAAAAD Scientist. She had green teeth, a

rat, a bloody heart, vials full of gross lab experiments, and rubber tubing wrapped around her that connected to an old medical pump which carried glowing green fluid filled with eyeballs.

Kendall has wanted to be Cleopatra since last Halloween. So we decided to go all out. I made her a costume and she wore a black egyptian cut wig, she even had gold sandals. We copied the makeup from a picture I found of Elizabeth Taylor.

Duffy was a viking maiden. His work gets a kick out of seeing their boss dressed as a woman and humiliating himself on halloween, which he does very well...

For the ward Halloween Party Duffy couldn't dress as a woman so we went as a Sugar daddy (hence the sugar packets) and a trophy wife (hence the trophy's). None of the little kids understood our costumes and I think a few of the women thought I was being pretentious. By the way, I don't really think I am Duffy's trophy wife.

Here is a better picture of our Halloween Party. The Cooler was a big hit, by the way-that is root beer. Take a look at the army guy, he was scary looking in the dark-intense!

Happy Halloween!

They did the Monster Mash....

On Saturday night we hosted a devilishly good Adults only Halloween party. It was a lot of work to prepare for it, but when it was all done we had a ghoulishly delightful night. Here are some pictures of the evening.

Here is the invitation to the event

We had a really good turn out, there were ten of us all together and everyone dressed up for the party but one person, here are some of the guests and a group photo





The menu was the funnest part, here is a copy of our menu:




Menu le Mucous

Beverages: (We only serve the finest blends of sewage)
Waste Water
A fine vintage puss from 1941 Chef Werewolf Wendt
Port-O-Potty blue
Doc’s orders: Keep an EYE out for BLOOD in your URINE

Appetizers: (Fresh from the morgue, hardly decomposed)
Severed cadaver fingers and yellow puss dip
Deviled eye balls Chef Dead Dezember

First Course: (If you find the smell of rotting flesh putrid, you’ll love this dish!)
Septastrata purulent necrosis dip
Freshly picked scab chips Chef Mortician Maloy

Second Course: (We went deep into the dampest bat caves to scrape up this dip)
Bat wings
Guano dip Chef Decomposing Dezember

Main Course: (You benefit from this autopsy gone wrong)

Bloody chest cavity with beating heart Chef Snotty Smith

Dessert: (This dessert is sure to knock you off your broomstick!)

Decapitated witch head Chef Asylum Anderson


*Extra mucous is complementary
*Side of snot requires one good sneeze
*Hawking up a loogy requires skill-see Chef for demonstration
*Post-nasal drip is seasonal- only available in winter month


And here are some pictures of the food:







Decorating for the party was the funnest. We ate by candlelight, we had a glowing skull as our centerpiece, the place cards were tombstones with the guests names on them,we removed the light bulbs in the bathroom and put in one candle, on the mirror Duffy wrote Redrum in red, we also hid a china doll behind the glass in the shower. We played scary music the entire time and had a black and white horror movie on the tv with the sound off. We also placed drop cloths over our couch and furniture. Here are a few more pictures:






We also had a lot of fun playing "Scarygories" just like scattegories but with Halloween themed catagories like: Ways to murder someone, things found in a graveyard, provocative costumes etc.

We had so much fun, it may become a tradition!
(Sorry if the pictures are dark, it was by candlelight after all!)

Autumn with the Lucoff's

The kids had a great time playing soccer this year. Sydni is still playing with the same team she played with last season, and is now going to stay on that team for seasons to come (GO ORANGE CRUSH). Ellias is a better bowling ball then a soccer player he loves to take the
other players to the ground for a

wrestling match more then score goals. Now that the season is over we can relax without so many practices.

Ellias started preschool and has had so much fun.
The preschool has already gone on several field trips to pumpkin patches, and to the fire station. He is now out for the fall session and goes back in November.

Now to more important things

"HALLOWEEN"

Our families favorite holiday(if you cant tell by the picts.) .

We are all ready with our pumpkins and our costumes.

Sydni is sporting her new nightly past time of sucking blood from unfriendly boys from school.

Ellias is showing off his manly muscles for the camera, and is green with anger.

The house is now so scary that the kids love to sit in the yard all night looking at the spooktacular lights of the three blow up decorations, and the orange and eyeball lights hanging on the porch. I am sure we will see many goblins this Halloween with our display. Aaron says he despises it, but we take that as he secretly loves it.

There is still a little boy in there even if it is deep, deep down there.

Hopefully you enjoy your Halloween as much as us!!!!

The Baptism of Kendall Dezember

Last weekend Dad, Mom, Kaci and Luke all traveled to Bend, Ore, for a very special day. On the way we were so glad that we had prayed before we left because we were traveling along the highway when we came accross a big spot about 200 yards of a inch of hail. All cars started to put their breaks on and we started to slide. We all thought we were going to spin, then go off the edge and down a 5 foot drop, thankfully dad looked in the rearview mirror and saw the semi behind us trying to stop and swirved out of the way. The semi came about a foot from moms mirror and kept on a going still trying to stop. I think my heart was in my throat about that time. We were very thankful after that we had stopped and prayed as we left home.
BUT after arriving we played games and had a great time with the grandkids. It's always so much fun when we get to see our kids.

Kendall's day has finally arrived, we were so excited for her to be baptized. She has been waiting for this day for a long time. We all got ready and went to the church, where Kelli gave a wonderful talk and Kendall and dad walked down the steps to the baptismal font, as Brinley asks Kendall, (is it cold?) It was a wonderful day and we are so proud of Kendall and her choice to Choose The Right. Way to go Kendall!!!!!Kendall wore a beautiful white dress, she was so beautiful and looked like a little angel. She was so careful to keep it so clean and pretty all while she wore it.

The next day she was confirmed as a member of the church. What an awesome weekend!! Her cousins, Grandparents, and uncles were there from the Tri-Cities . Also, Kaci, Luke, and Grandma and Grandpa Stapley. We all played games and ate a ton of junk food and just enjoyed being together.

Here's the proud dad, I put this picture in here so Kyle can change duffy's picture in our Brady Bunch, so Duffy doesn't have to wear a bra anymore. So, here's your chance, Kyle.

Cooper got a ton of attention, everyone loved holding him and playing with him and all the kids there spent most of their time entertaining him. COOPER WAS IN HEAVEN!!!! Except for all the accidental wake ups from family members walking into his room.

Brinley had a great time at the baptism and enjoyed every minute of the social time we had with a house full of people. She was grinning from ear to ear!!!!! She always hates to see everyone leaves but we'll be seeing her soon as we get into the Christmas holidays. So she can look forward to that. Hopefully there won't be too bad of weather to get over the pass.

Kendall's new kitty, provided by the Lucoffs for her birthday has been a joy to the kids. Kendall named him Johnny, even though he still comes to them if you call him "Monkey". ( the name Cori named him although she thought it was a girl at the time) He curls right up in your lap and loves to cuddle. He's a cutie!!!!!Well, we had a wonderful weekend and we are so happy that we all could get together for such a wonderful celebration. WE are SOOOOO PROUD of YOU, Kendall!!!!

Cooper's 1st Birthday!

School Starts Again!

So I think we all have really boring lives! Haha, just kidding. We need to so more stuff on this blog! Haha. (I'll get off my soapbox now) So the past few weeks have been pretty interesting and tiresome for us here in Provo. First off we finally got all moved into our new apartment. We love it! It's really nice and has a huge kitchen. But we didn't really get a chance to enjoy it since school started two weeks ago. This semester looks like it will be my hardest. I'm taking a ton of credits and a couple of online classes that are pretty time consuming. We have hardly had any time to sit and enjoy. Oh the joys of school! But hopefully I will be all done by the summer. Laura is still working hard at her salon and the MTC, But I think that we are both anxious to get on with our lives away from school and Provo. Hopefully.....maybe the Northwest?....hmm....