Pumpkin Walk

This is a yearly event and we work very hard for 2 weeks before the Pumpkin Walk. This year was no different. There were a lot of really outstanding pumpkins carved this year. I won't put then all on my blog because I'll let the others have a chance. the grand finale in this picture you can't see them very clearly but you can see how they were set out. It was a LONG day Thursday I was down to the K.K. at 8:30 to set every thing out and get the school started. then to the park at about 9:30am setting the pumpkins out and doing all the little things that need to be done. Home long enough to get warm clothes on then back to Syr. for the actual Pumpkin Walk.

Not all the pumpkins are scary, Wendy carved this one of the Savior and a small child

We don't even have all the scary ones together as you can see with these two pumpkins.

All you "Edward" fans will recognise this pumpkin.

If you can't tell this is my mom and dad when they were younger.

But the pumpkins to see this year were "Grandma Beverly and Grandpa Chester" There were sooooo many comments on these pumpkins, It was extra fun to sit next to them and hear what everyone had to say. Thanks Sheldon for doing this. It meant a lot to me

Brian didn't think he would be able to come so we were glad when he came to help.

Just a couple ones that I carved.

Liseanne and I carved all the months of the year and they turned out really good, but 3 days under the hot lights they were pretty sad looking by the end of the 3rd day. So I didn't take a picture of them.

The Biggest surprise was that dad came over to walk through with me which he always does. But he STAYED. and STAYED, and STAYED. WOW! for most of the evening, it was nice to have him there. Thanks Galen, we'll look forward to having you there next year too.

I was tagged

Thanks Ann,
The Rules are go to to your picture file, pick the 4th. folder, then pick the 4th. picture and describe it. This was fun, my 4th. picture was. This Last March we went to Florida to meet Galen's sister Kelly. While there it was fun to play with the kids.

Jordan wanted me to read a book that he had checked out of the library. So we sat and read all of them. Thanks Jordan it was a lot of fun. And thanks Ann
I tag Liseanne, Wendy, Joanna, Melinda.

Fall is here!

The other day I was lamenting to Melinda that I felt sad that it's fall because now my house will look sad...all my flowers will be gone. So on Saturday she came over and pulled all the dead flowers and put up the corn stalks.

I really like the new look of the front of the house.

This is a close up of the corn stalks, flowers and bow. THANKS! Melinda we both love the new decorations.

Our October Fest

Well it must be October........ last Saturday we had our Pumpkin Walk meeting and after, it was suggested that next Saturday every one meet at the K.K. and carve pumpkins. Half the fun is just talking with everyone and catching up on each others lives. Oh by the way this party went from 9 in the morning until 9 at night. I went down at 9:30pm to check things out and it was all clean and put ready for Monday, I just had to turn down the heat. Pumpkins.....Pumpkins every where!!!!!

This was the scene when I walked into the school.....( I have the pictures back wards but Oh well.)

It had been raining and the pumpkins were wet so they were using a hair dryer to dry them before carving.

there were pumpkins every where.....Look out the window behind Mike. A little rain but every thing is nice and green now everything is covered with snow. You can also see all the pumpkins all over the lawn.

Everyone got into the act even the older kids were carving.....while the younger kids played with the toys in the other room. What an ideal place to carve pumpkins.

Even though there is talking, joking, and laughing to these carvers..... this is VERY serious business. All the "Jack-o-lanterns" are stored in the sheds which makes it interesting trying to get to things you need in there. But WE all love it.....well most of us love it. :)

3 posts in one week

Wow, I've never posted 3 posts on one week before. This one will be short, I just though it was such a cute picture that I had to share. Melinda ,Liseanne, and I were in the house canning and looked out the door to check on the kids and this is what we saw. Only none of us had a camera so I jumped on Parker's bike and hurried and got my camera. Thanks Parker even though you didn't know I borrowed your bike. cheap entertainment ....... but it kept them busy for a few minutes any way.

GRAND KIDS ARE THE BEST ! ! !

Sealing Day

This was a memorable day. One we have been waiting for for a loooooong time. It was very special to have all of our children that were here participate with dad. we missed you Joanna and Brady. But we did think about you wishing you could have been there also. We couldn't take pictures inside so we settled for one out side after it was finished. Notice the big smile on Galen's face We decided to go for ice cream after

So we all walked over to "Farr's Ice Cream" Brian had a broken toe and couldn't walk that far so he drove.

May I say that Farr's Ice Cream is the best.....It was hard to choose which flavor you wanted they have about 75 flavors.

Wow.... with that many people it Was a lot of ice cream Most of us had 2 scoops

Surprise !! Surprise !! Dad even got his own cup of ice cream. But only one scoop.

OK!!!! let's have some fun while we are enjoying ALL this ice cream.

Does this look we're having fun?

Her have a taste of mine? OK but I just finished ALL of mine

I want a taste too........we all had a taste of every one's ........ yummy

You thought I was kidding when I said that we got a lot of ice cream......Yup .......and we ate All of it.

After all the ice cream....a big drink of cold water

After we got home Galen said lets go to Fielding that is where his dad was born and raised so off we went. I'll send pictures on the next blog.

Stairs "Out with the Old in with the New"

You all know what our stairs have looked like for a very long time.....since dad and I couldn't agree on the type of flooring....carpet versus wood several months ago I told dad that I would pay to have the stairs done if I could have the wood and he said yes so down to R C Willey's we went to get floor samples. well after a month or so trying to decide which color I liked we placed our order.

They said it would take a week to 10 days to get the stairs in well a month later every thing was a go only to have the guy that was to lay the stairs out of town or not working...what ever.
so last week they called and said they would be there on Friday to put the stairs in ...only to have them call again and say the guy we wanted to do the job couldn't do it Friday and we could have someone else lay it, or we could Wait and he would lay it Tuesday so I said we'll wait I've waited this long I can wait 3 more days.

So they called Monday and said that he would be there at 7:30 am and was that OK so this morning at 7:30 there was a knock on our door...WOW right on time. But it was not the older guy that we thought was going to lay the wood. By this time I was just glad to have them being done. He told us that he worked with the guy we thought was going to be here. So Off to work he went. You can see from the next pictures that he was every where out front.

Yup... we couldn't even get out our front door. Well we could but it was a tight squeeze.

Hey Liseanne, look at the size of this chop saw...and a nice table too.

It was fun to watch him for a while he really knew what he was doing and he worked fairly fast.
By the time I came home to get ready to go to the Temple he was done, and was just cleaning up his mess.

The finished stairs......plus dad's toes

They really look nice, as you can see. We do have to be careful not to wear stocking feet and be in a hurry because the stairs are slippery and be careful if they get wet. OH GREAT!!! with my luck.......... :{