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Trunk-or-Treat and Boo at the Zoo

We had a really busy weekend. It was full of Halloween Festivities. On Thursday night we carved our pumpkins. Here is how they turned out:

In case you can't tell, it's a spider, not a tree.

This one was Cody's pumpkin. I let him carve it himself (with a little bit of help from me).

On Friday night we had a ward activity. It was a Chili cook off followed by a Trunk or Treat. Of course I entered my Chili. It didn't win, but I thought it tasted delicious. Jade is a witch for Halloween and Cody is a Dinosaur. Below are some of the pictures from the Trunk or Treat activity.

On Saturday we went to Boo at the Zoo. It was really fabulous. We had a lot of fun. It was kind of a rainy day, but that was good because it meant it wasn't crowded at the zoo. Cody had a lot of fun getting candy and doing some of the activities. There were also some photographers there from the newspaper and TV station. They took a bunch of pictures of Jade and Cody. We even had to fill out some release forms so they could use the pictures they took. Unfortunately I'm not as good a photographer as they are. But, nonetheless here are a few pictures I took:

My Parting shot is Cody hatching out of an egg.

Tagged

OK, so we got tagged so I'll do it for me. Becca can do it for herself later if she wants. It's later and I (Becca) will just add my answers after Scott's. Anyway, here it goes:

4 JOBS I'VE HAD--
1. River Guide on the Snake River (Best Job ever)
2. BYU Custodial Services
3. Auditor for PriceWaterhouseCoopers
4. Accountant for Integra LifeSciences

1. Camp Counselor for YMCA
2. Cook for BYU
3. Office Manager for Body Shop
4. Clerk/Appraiser for Insurance Company


4 MOVIES I'VE WATCHED MORE THAN ONCE--
1. The Man from Snowy River
2. Pure Country
3. Lord of the Rings
4. Goal!

1. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2. Pride and Prejudice
3. To be honest I love movies and have seen a ton, all of which I have watched more than once.


4 TV SHOWS I WATCH--
1. Criminal Minds
2. CSI New York
3. Man vs. Wild
4. Mythbusters

1. Criminal Minds
2. CSI New York
3. Greek
4. Greys Anatomy


4 PEOPLE WHO EMAIL ME REGULARLY--
1. Becca
2. My Boss - Tom
3. Controllers of subsidiary companies I reconcile
4. GEICO – (I already have Geico, you don’t have to keep e-mailing me telling me that you have low rates. I already know. That’s why I have Geico. And No, I don’t need RV insurance. Although, I do love the gecko.)

1. Scott
2. Ladies from church about activities
3. my Aunts
4. I get more spam than anything else


4 OF MY FAVORITE FOODS--
1. Pizza
2. Tacos
3. Burritos
4. Berry Smoothies

1. Potatoes (made any way)
2. Enchiladas Poblanos (specifically from this place in the Outer Banks)
3. cheese cake
4. sesame chicken

4 PLACES I'D LIKE TO VISIT--
1. Alaska
2. New Zealand
3. Argentina
4. Colorado (Great snowboarding baby, Oh Yeah!)

1. Venice, Italy
2. Australia
3. Buenos Aires, Argentina
4. cruise to Alaska


4 PEOPLE I TAG--
This is the worst part. I don’t know who to tag. How about I tag all of my family members. I know that there are more than four of you, but oh well.
1. Greg and Jan Pearson
2. Tyler and Summer Izatt
3. Mark and Kristie Pearson
4. Brianne Pearson
5. Seth Pearson
6. Dennis and Shauna Brown

Fall Festival Aholics

OK, I admit it...We have a problem. That's right. We are Fall Festival Aholics. We apparently can't get enough of them. We went to another one out in Pennsylvania this weekend with Becca's sister. This one was a little bit more out in the country than the New Jersey ones though. It was a lot of fun. Of course we almost didn't make it there. We almost decided to hang out with some people who are always known for there fall colors, as they are always wearing orange jumpsuits. We took a detour to the State Penitentiary. Becca and I were following Thom and Sarah because we didn't know where it was. We followed them right into the parking lot at the State Penitentiary. Becca and I were wondering what kind of Festival they were taking us to. They had just made a wrong turn though, and we eventually made it to the festival. We got some good pics because we all had cute matching outfits on. Isn't my family adorable?

Here are all the kids playing in some hay.

And here is Cody trying to make some Apple Cider.

The kids also got to pick pumpkins and paint faces on them.

And of Course there was also a hay ride.

My Parting shot: Ok, I know I already put up this pic. But what can I say, I'm having a great hair day!!

Oh Please Becs...

What, Jane Austen? Come on, Becs! If you are going to put one of those quizzes on our blog, you could've at least put one up that would appeal to more people. Actually, let me rephrase that. You could have put up one that I like better. Let me think... how about "Which Lord of the Rings character are you?" I bet they have one of those. Just a minute let me go check......

What LoTR Character Are You?

See, I told you. But seriously, who cares if I like bows, or swords, or axes better? Anyway, my point is: Actually I have no idea what my point is. Have a good day!

Which are you?

I am a huge Jane Austen fan and thought this was cute!

Take the Quiz here!

Lenni-Lenape Summer

Confused by the title? Ok, here goes my thought process. I was going to title it Indian Summer, because that is what we are having this weekend. It was beautiful and warm all weekend in the 70's. (All you people in Utah can be jealous, because I know you got snow this weekend) Anyway, I was going to title it Indian Summer, but then I got to thinking that really isn't politically correct. So I was about to call it Native American Summer. But, then I remembered a conversation I had with someone a while back. The Native Americans don't really like to be called that either. They prefer to be called by their tribe names, since that is what they really are. So I did some research and the tribe that lived in New Jersey were known as the Lenni-Lenape. In any case, the weather this weekend rocked!!!

I could have also titled it Fall Festival weekend. That is because it felt like everywhere we turned there was a Fall Festival going on. We went to three of them ourselves. We went to Allentown, Hightstown, and Von Thun Farm Fall Festival. The last was our favorite. Take a look at some of the highlights of our weekend below:

We started off cruising the streets of Allentown.

Cody started off by taking a ride on a pony. Becca had to stand there with him because, well, you know Cody. He probably would have had the horse galloping all over the farm if left to himself.

Cody Also tried to wrangle in some sheep. Good thing we didn't give him a rope.

Not to be shown up, Jade takes her turn with some riding. Yee-haw! Ride that hay bale Jade.

All that fun stuff there, and Cody's favorite part was probably getting to see Elmo. Go figure. Hey, doesn't Elmo look taller in person then on TV.

This is us going for a Hay Ride to go pick pumpkins. Nice Smile Cody.

Wait, that's not a pumpkin.

There you go. That's a pumpkin

So, we get to the pumpkin patch and Becca and I spent probably half an hour walking around looking at all kinds of different pumpkins. We kept arguing about which one to get. I had chosen out a pumpkin and was waiting in the long line to get back on the hay ride to go back to the farm while Becca looked to see if she could find a better pumpkin. All of sudden I look over and here is Cody rolling this pumpkin. He rolled the pumpkin for probably 25 yards to get it to where I was standing. He had decided that was the pumpkin we were getting. So that is the one we got.

Parting Shot: