Tuesday, October 27, 2009

October happenings

October has been fun so far and I am looking forward to Halloween! Here are a few pictures of what we have been up to ...
Lauren, Elisse and I went to Thriller with the Drill Team. If you haven't ever been, you need to go! It is fun and makes me miss dancing.Then it was Elisse's 24th birthday! All the girls (minus Kaitlyn) at the birthday dinner at my moms
On her actual birthday, she didn't have any plans, so I invited her along to lunch with my mother-in-law Joanne and me at the Lion House. The company was great and the chocolate cake was delicious!
We had a good hard laugh because of Elisse.... she found a fly in her salad dead on a hard boiled egg (GROSS) so on the comment card they leave on the table, she put "there was a bug in my salad" and then took the bug and a piece of egg and stuck it on the comment card so whoever read it would know that she wasn't lying. Joanne and I were rolling on the floor we were laughing so hard :)
After lunch in front of the temple
Joanne works at the church office building so she took us inside to check it out. I have never been on the top floor, but it was so neat up there! You could see everything. I took this picture of the temple.. I thought it was a fun view that you don't see every day. They were also having a health fair at her work so Elisse and I got to go around and get a bunch of free "healthy" stuff like hand sanitizer and a go green "save the earth" snoopy doll that Wrigley just loves.
It was a fun little outing... thanks Joanne for the tour!
Yesterday our Friends Jen and Mike invited us over for family home evening. They were nice enough to get Jed and I a pumpkin and we did some carving. I haven't carved a pumpkin in years and I forgot how much fun it can be! After a lot of frustration, my pumpkin turned out looking like a Frenchman.

The finished product. It was really cold and windy and for some reason my camera flash made it look like the middle of the day, but this was late at night and the candles wouldn't stay lit. I think they still turned out great though

Thanks Mike and Jen for the fun evening!!

3 comments:

Elisse said...

hazzah! A new post. Delightful pictures. I was thinking about the bug- maybe I have changed more policy due to that comment card... Maybe that is my calling in life. To help point out the weaknesses in the system. ;) Also, at least the bug did not die in vain! (I may never eat a boiled egg again though) based on the thriller pictures, I think I need new makeup. just thinking out loud here.

Jason and Emily Gruber said...

i'm a little hurt you went to thriller without alisha and me...next year...

Sara said...

Looks like a fun month so far! We carved our pumpkins last night. :-) I need to move your name down with ym private list, so I remember to check it more often! We're excited for tomorrow!