Halloween Party

We had our annual Halloween party on October 30th.  We invited a lot of the same people and a few new ones this year.  We had such a good time.  Everybody brought a treat to eat and everybody dressed up.  It was so much fun and it was fun see everyone dressed up.  We even had a costume contest.  There were enough categories everyone won a category.  It was a blast. Warning:  there will be several pictures.

We decorated our outside again this year.

And our Costume Contest Winners

Most Traditional/Best Cartoon

Brad and Melissa Blodgett as the couple from UP!

Most Original/Cutest Couple

Justin Redman as Jimmy Buffett and Yadira Redman as Hula Girl

Most Halloweeny

Sue White as a Scarecrow!

Scariest Costume/Funniest Costume

Lynn Dietrick as the Mad Hatter

Best Animal

Dee Robbins as Bullseye from Toy Story!

Best Homemade

Avena Lock as Mrs Potato Head

Best of Show 

Toy Story and Alice in Wonderland

We had such a blast.  Thank you everyone for dressing up and celebrating the holiday with us.

Carving Pumpkins

Tonight for FHE Jon and I carved pumpkins.  This was the first year since we have been married that we were able to carve pumpkins.  We haven't been able to do it in the past because Jon worked so much.

I did the Frankenstein and Jon did the Spider

Halloween Costumes

Every year for Halloween, Jon and I do couple costumes. This year we decided to be Woody and Jessie from Toy Story.  I made the costumes.  It took a lot of work and I had a lot of fun working on them.

I was so pleased how they turned out.  We got to wear them a couple of times too.  We wore them at our Ward Halloween party and at our Halloween party we had at our house with friends.

Family Discovery Day

I was on the Family Discovery Day committee this year.  I was surprised at how much fun it was.  We had such a great turnout and the decorations were awesome.  Our theme was Learn it, Live it, Love it.  We decorated like Old London. It really got me excited to do some kind of family history work. We had all kinds of displays and classes that talked about different ways to do family history.

We had this guy dress up like an ancestor and talk about a story that happened to the ancestor he dressed up as.

We had great food and help that made it so we didn't even have to worry about the food.

The opening of the New Family History center

I worked at one of the registration tables

Carol was our chairman.  She always does so great.

Different displays

I had people write stories and testimonies down that they had received from doing family history.

First Day!

Jon finally got a job with a regular schedule and one that he loves.  He Started a new job at Central Washington Comprehensive Mental Health as a custodian/maintenance worker out in Gleed at one of the group homes.  He loves it.  His first day was Sept 8th.  He was so excited.  The best part is he has the best schedule.  He works Monday-Friday from 7-4.  It is so much fun to see him so much more at home.  I wake up with him every morning, make him breakfast and then we get dinner together every night.  It is so great spending so much more time with him.

His first day!