.Popeye the Sailor Man! toot-toot

Some people said, “Cool costumes! What are you guys?"

We say, “Popeye and Olive Oyl, of course!"

They’d ask, “Where did you get the costumes?”

“We made them… We got a few things from the second hand store and Aaron’s hat and pipe are made out of paper. Amber can make anything out of paper.”

It’s true. I can.

Only a few people asked where Sweet Pea was… I should've made a baby out of paper too?

And then we watched The Office on Thursday night and our costumes suddenly felt a lot less original. Oh shwell.

We had a spooky fun party with the family last night! {including lots of cousins!}

Costumes were required!

We had yummy/creepy snacks and played fun games together while the kiddies watched a movie and played barbies. haha

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

.HoooOOOrrribly Haunting Garb

We're looking forward to Hallow's eve around here for sure! Just taking in this time of year and enjoying every minute of it. Do you wanna know something that makes me really excited right now?

I get to wear all of my Halloween garb! And I didn’t even mention the costumes yet… I loooove wearing costumes!

Here are some pictures of our seminary kids in costumes this morning at our “haunted scripture mastery bat hunt” {which I had a blast planning btw}:

Have I mentioned that these kids are AWESOME??

Oh yeah, we've also been enjoying looking at Halloween decor on people’s houses, and watching all of the fun Halloween specials on tv!

I'm totally craving some of those old favorites too. For some reason I can’t wait to watch 'Hocus Pocus'. teehee!

See you soon! Sure hope you’re ready to see our costumes! :)

.pumpkins are carved

We had our first snow when we woke up on Sunday morning…

Goodbye green, orange, yellow, and red. ‘ello white!

.Grand Witches Council

Don’t you just love the sights, feelings and sounds surrounding Halloween? I do.

I do I do I DO!

This last month I keep saying to Air, “If we were in Utah we could be going to all kinds of awesome haunted houses”. Until I realized that Edmonton probably has that stuff too? Maybe I just don’t know where to find it?

And that’s when I googled it. There’s a lot of fun stuff going on here! But still, none of those fake crowded-haunted-house-tour type things that they have all over in the States. Weird huh? I loved going to those things every year—screaming and squeezing my friends the whole way through {I don’t know why I like that… it just sounds strange when I say it like that}.

And that’s when we received this spoooOOOoooky invitation in the mail:

We went to this on Friday night and had the most fun ever!!! AND we got to wear our costumes!

YES!

Here are some creepy pictures from the night:

We went with our “team” (our friends the Creightons) and found this black cauldron in our church parking lot with awesome rhyming clues in it:

One of the clues led us to the mental hospital, and another one to a grave yard:

A few of them led us down to the river:

And the final clue unveiled where our mysterious witch hostesses lived. So we went there and had an awesome party with some friends from our ward! It was such an excellent night!

Oh yeah, and we stopped at Tim Horton’s for some doughnuts. Dave and Jen’s Samson and Delilah costumes didn’t even phase the drive through person. haha

Tune in this weekend for the unveiling of our costumes!!

.Happy Morning!

The sun is coming up later and later in the morning. Just like every year. For a while we’d leave to seminary in the dark and come out of class and see the sun! But lately the sun has been waiting for us to drive home from seminary.

I love this because we get to see some BEAUTIFUL sunrises!

It’s a gift.

Seeing these pictures of the sun coming up is making me think of this hilarious Tube video I saw recently:

In other news:

Air finally got to try out KFC’s “Double Down” burger. It basically has two chicken breasts instead of a bun with bacon inside.

He wasn’t too impressed.

Also, our seminary kids are pretty much the best kids you can find. Anywhere.

I love teaching them.

Do you like my picture of the armor of God on the board? I thought It turned out pretty cute! hehe

.Thanks

Thanksgiving came early this year! What? Nobody told you??
Just a'kiddin'... it was just Canadian Thanksgiving of course ;)

Air's family went up to Cherry Grove to see the cousins for the long weekend so we decided to make our own feast for the first time. It. Was. Amazing.





I think that cooking his first turkey by himself made Air feel more manly… This random video I found may have attributed to that theory:

And who better to share such a wonderful feast with than family?

Speaking of family and Thanksgiving…
I am eternally thankful for my family. Canadians and Americans alike. I couldn’t be happier with the people I got stuck with. I only wish I could see them all a whole lot more!



Yes, we ate in the living room… and yes I need to clean my oven. So sue me!

Anyone want some leftover yucky pie?

.pie!

Mom,

Remember when I called you the other day for your banana nut bread recipe? Well, I made it and it was WAY BETTER than the recipe I used last time! It was so delicious! Thanks!

{I used chocolate chips instead of nuts though. I hope you aren’t disappointed.}

Also,

I made my first apple pie!

Sure I just went to an enrichment “pie making” activity and a bunch of Relief Society women basically "micro-managed" as I put it together, but it turned out GREAT! And now I (kinda) know how to make pie!

So I'm making some pumpkin pies for Thanksgiving tomorrow! And Air and I are making an entire Thanksgiving meal all by ourselves. Turkey, potatoes, gravy, stuffing, cranberry sauce, rolls... everything! I am so excited!

Wish us luck!