Kaci's Halloween Birthday Party

It was Kaci's big 21st Birthday Oct 28 !!!!! Wow, where has the time gone? She had a great party with her best friends drinking, eating great food and enjoying the night. What kind of drink is that, Kaci?

Her friend's all came to enjoy the night of Goblins and Ghosts as they carved scary pumpkins, and wow, were they AMAZING. We should've put them in some kind of contests. They spent most of the night carving these beautiful outrageous pumpkins. Drinking Martinelli's and birthday cake and having a great deal of fun.

Then we got to enjoy the great art work on our front porch for Halloween!!!!! We had some great comments on how nice they were and who did these masterpieces. It was fun to decorate with them. Kaci has some talented buddies.

Hope you had a great Birthday Kaci, now that you are a big 21.

Oregon Trail Bananza

We went to Baker City last Saturday. We went to see a museum that people have been telling us is so neat. We got there and it was closed for the season. So we went to small city above Baker City to see the steam engine. We got there and the Engine and Drudger was closed for the season. So we ate some pie to drowned our sorrows. We saw plenty of deer on the drive so we felt it wasn't a complete loss. So we started home when on the way out of the mountains we got stuck in a real live Cow Drive and the kids loved to see the small dogs boss the big fat cows down the street. Finally the cowboys/girls told us to drive through the cows and they will move for us. As you can see they gave us some resistance. (sorry for the sideways pict. thought I could move it around) As we left Baker City we saw a old hotel that was the largest hotel from SLC to Seattle in the 1800's (Syd didn't like the hotel because it was haunted said the owners.) As we got near the freeway out we saw another sign for another museum. We thought what have we got to lose so we went to the Oregon Trail Interpretive Museum where we only had 45min. to go through before it closed. It was neat and the kids learned about how much you can bring on the trail. Which is very little. But we did get some shots of the kids on the real wagon davits of the Oregon Trail.

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!