Pumpkins

We took a quick trip up to Mike's house.  We are getting our pictures taken here in a few days at 4:00.  The photographer wanted us to find a location in the shade.  We decided to look around at 4:00 today to see what we would find.  We took a lot of pictures!  We sure do love it here! It is going to be sad when Mike's dad turns the keys over in a few weeks. There are a lot of pictures - we have a lot of memories. Hopefully we will get some good ones with the photographer in a few days.  Hopefully it doesn't rain!

Stockton, Preston, Jorja

 Maysen, Jorja, Scoop, Preston, Stockton

 Driveway

 Backyard

 Preston

 Jorja

 Stockton

 Maysen

 I love this picture!

 Preston & Mike

 Preston

 Playhouse

 Mike, Jorja, Maysen, Preston

 Preston

 Preston & the face in the tree

 Preston & Stephanie

 Maysen

 Stephanie at the bridge

 Front yard

Maysen and Stockton had a youth choir practice today for stake conference.  Because we went up to Mike's house, we were about a half an hour late.  I was unsure what to do.  I thought, maybe I will not have them do the choir.  I know they don't want to and it was more important to spend time at Mike's house.  I said, "We will be about half an hour late to choir practice.  Are you guys okay with that?"  Stockton said, "YES!" in an annoyed voice.  I tried again asking the same question later, I got the same response.  I thought, "Well, then to choir practice you go!"  They have no idea how close they were to getting out of the choir.  Maysen came home really upset because she didn't like it at all. "You should have told us what to do if we didn't like it there!"  I'm thinking, "You should have been respectful to your mother and you wouldn't have been sent there today."  That's not quite fair.  They weren't completely rude, but sometimes I want a conversation instead of being shut down for asking a question.

Anyway, they survived, and they will survive next week as well.  As soon as they got home, we went to a neighborhood pumpkin carving party.  It was a lot of fun.  The kids were able to carve pumpkins and the mess was at someone else's house!  Win-win.  Mike is going to help Preston finish his pumpkin tomorrow.  He poked holes through the paper and has quite a cool looking spider.  I shaved off my pumpkin, so it doesn't light up.  It was a lot harder than I thought it would be.  After I finished my pumpkin, I realized I had the blade on backwards.  No wonder it was so hard.

Jorja's cat and Maysen's Unova Trio

(I think that has to do with Pokemon)

 Stockton's - I'll need to get a picture in the daylight

 Mike's