Monday, November 7, 2011

Halloween

   This Halloween was fun and I absolutely love having two girls to dress up. Maddi decided that she wanted to be a mermaid. Marly I couldn't really figure anything out so a couple days before Halloween I made her a pumpkin costume. I might have put a little bit too much stuffing in it, but she sure was cute trying to crawl. My mom sewed Maddi's tail and it turned out really good. She was so excited to wear her swim suit. We had to leave for my parents house so Mitch could go hunting the next day for deer. We only went to our neighbors trick-or-treating. That was plenty for the girls and it was enough for Mitch and I. I also decide that Maddi needed a cool bag to stick her candy in. I think she was more excited about the bag than anything else!
    The Saturday before Halloween we had tons of fun too. We had a ward party at 5:30 and we ate soup and the girls had a lot of fun doing the fish pond, but we couldn't talk Maddi into getting her face painted. After the ward party we went to some friends house. Mitch and I thought really hard and came up with a deer and a hunter costume ideas. He was the deer and I was the hunter. We used a small set of antlers from a jackal-ope that Mitch had and duct taped them to a stocking cap with s some wire to strengthen it up. We were lame and didn't get any pictures. Sorry. We had a blast and loved meeting some new people that we are excited to get to know better. We are really starting to love Riverton even more.  
             
 The pumpkins in the pictures are from our garden. We were lame and didn't end up carving any pumpkins this year, even though we had 3 giant pumpkins from our garden. Oh well!

Long time no blog!

       So sorry that it has been so long! Our old hard drive crashed and it took a long time for us to get the new one up and running as well as setting up our picture files again. So here we are, finally, with a lot of catching up to do. We have been super busy! We have also been going to visit family a lot. All good visits, but we are home and it feels so good. The first trip was the middle of October and Mitch went to visit his parents and I went to visit mine. Mitch went to elk hunt and I went to avoid being alone in our house for a week. We both had good visits and it was nice to relax. The girls really had a good time and every morning Marly would want to go straight to the window so she could watch the kitties and the turkeys.

Marly liked to watch through the window, but not this close
Maddi has decided to wear her nightgowns  all the time

We were home for a full week then back up to my parents house. This time Mitch came with us for some deer hunting. We were there Monday night and came home to Riverton on Wednesday morning. We got home at noon and worked on the house. Thursday I packed and Mitch finished the stairs in the basement (that is a whole post in itself; which I will be posting soon). Then Thursday afternoon we headed for Mitch's parents 3 1/2 hours away. We got there in time to take his mom out to dinner. It was her 50th birthday and we had an awesome surprise party for her that Saturday. That is also a whole post on its own. We are finally home and so happy. The girls have been going around the house all day yesterday and just playing here and there. Marly wouldn't even take a nap she was so excited to be home.