Halloween at our house

 

We went to our ward trunk or treat and enjoyed super nice weather!  We loved that there was still daylight outside for trick or treating this year.  Wow!  I'm in favor of the new daylight savings date. 

Anna being enthusiastic.  She enjoyed casting spells on the people giving out treats with her pink glow stick wand.  "Bippidy Boppidy Boo!"

Style and Beauty Take 2

(It really should work this time.  Leave a comment if you still can't view it....)



She was really on one the other day.

Style and Beauty

On occasion Anna disappears into the bathroom where she expirements with styling her hair. Then she goes to the full length mirror and practices batting her eyes and posing. Sometimes she comes out and asks me if I'll take her picture.  Here's some from several weeks ago.

After checking out the pics, she decided she'd look better if she held a purse.  (I have no idea where she gets this from.  To my knowledge she's never even seen a fashion magazine.) 

Today as she was working on her look, I heard her murmuring something about being "stylish."  (Where'd she even hear that word?)  When I asked her later what she was saying about being stylish, she laughed.  "Heehee, I was just trying to get pretty."

Salsa Sunday

Our peppers are enjoying the cooler weather and producing at their peak.  The tomatoes are trying to rally themselves from the hot August hybernation and are putting out blossems, most of which won't ripen before November's frost.  Those yellow pear tomoatoes are so hardy, though.  They grow like weeds; produce all summer and as late into winter as they can.  Ironically, onions are the only other thing that survived through the summer, so we have all the veggies we need for salsa.  Yummy!

Radamacher Hills

I enjoyed hiking Rademacher Hills with the young women so much that Nathan and I went back for date night a few weeks later.  It's less than a 5 minute drive up our street and into the desert.  The first hill is a nice little hour hike up one side and down the other.  What a cool discovery and even I can do it.

Took the kids there for a short hike between Saturday's conference sessions.  We did the easy hike with them, up and over the saddle, rather than to the top of the hill.  They had a great adventure (so did Nathan and I.)  Nathan got his exersice in running back down the trail so he could drive the van around the mountain and pick us up on the other side.  He was there before we made it to the bottem.  It was a great way to break up the day.

The green oasis in the background is the community college.  Just about the only green visible in all the brown.

Applesauce Day

We took advantage of Columbus day holiday and the 39cents per pound sale at Stater Brothers to make our first ever (3) batches of applesauce.  Thanks for all the help, Nathan!

The cleaning crew.

Sam removed the stickers and plopped them in the hot soapy water.  Anna scrubbed the wax off and set them to rinse.

Nathan preps.

It takes a lot of muscle to stir that big pot.

Can't get over this amazing machine!

The Happy Helpers!