Ugly Christmas Sweaters

What happens when you get some of my siblings together at Christmas time?

Ugly Christmas sweaters!!!

Halloween Fun!

Halloween has always been one of my favorite holidays! It must be the whole changing your identity thing. Actually, I think I just associate it with our Halloween decorations at home. I asked my mom if I could come home for a weekend just so we could put up Halloween. I don’t think she would do it if I wasn’t there and I couldn’t bear that thought.

Here is the parade of costumes this year:

Bryn was a zombie flapper.

Megan was Velma from Scoobie Doo.

Venice and Forrest were Esme and Count Olaf.

Professor Trelawney.

The Party.

We had a pumpkin carving contest and I got my “Y” pumpkin :)

For our ward party, Venice was Dolores Umbridge so obviously we had our differences throughout the night.

Harry Potter nerds forever!

Happy Halloween!! (Thanksgiving and Christmas around the corner….. YAY!)

Pumpkins and Mission Calls

This week, I was able to drive down to Cedar City and spend time with friends and family. The special occasion? My best friend Andrew opened his mission call!

Naturally, all of his siblings wanted to be there, so he waited over six hours in aggravation before he opened it. I have never seen him so jumpy. We came up with ways to distract him though:

(Sorry the pictures are terrible quality; I forgot my camera.)

We Carved Pumpkins! (Or as Andrew would say: “punkins”)

He carved an Oregon “O” with duck prints around it… surprise, surprise.

I did a violin, although now I wish I had done a “Y” with cougar prints around it, ha ha.

My Papa took us out to dinner. It was so good to see him. (Also, my dad told the waiter it was Andrew’s birthday…eh it might as well have been.)

We read George’s Marvelous Medicine.

He waited anxiously.

Then finally the moment came….

Andrew has been called to serve in the Argentina, Mendoza Mission!!!

I’m so proud of him. He’s going to make a fantastic missionary. I’m so grateful I got to be there for that special experience.

P.S. later in the weekend we fulfilled one of my life dreams of going to a corn maze….. so much fun!