Genentech Party

Last night was Genentech's Halloween party. Abra was REALLY excited!! She got to see her friends and show off her beautiful princess costume.

To the left, Bobbilee and Abra are holding hands waiting for costume contest.

To the top, Carl (her betrothed) are coloring after going through the haunted house.

Orange, really

Monday there is an extra garbage pick-up day so I decided to get the curtains in the family room taken down. Underneath the whatever color that is I found the original paint job!

Weekend fun

I got a call Thursday night asking if we wanted visitors. I said OF COURSE!! I know that all of my local friends are tired of hearing and seeing my house:) So, Friday night, Jim, Dorothy, Ethan and Andrew arrived on our doorstep. It was a COMPLETE surprise for Abra and she didn't know what to think!! Friday night was spent playing and playing and playing!!

Like most celebrations, there was a dance on Saturday night. Ethan and Abra were HILARIOUS!! They started dancing and then Ethan tried to "dip"her and they fell over!! They figured out the whole dipping problem by Abra just looking up at the ceiling. Then they started to twirl eachother!! It was GREAT!! I can't figure out how to uplaod videos, but it is on facebook if you want to see!

After the dance, it was TRANSFORMERS time!! Ethan got ready by getting his guns out.

Cookie time

A few weeks ago, I got to some fun cookie cutters from Ikea. There is a moose, fox, squirrel, porcupine, and some other things that I don't remember. Last week was just wet and yucky, so we invited Bobbie Lee over to make Halloween cookies and funny animal cookies.( I also made 2 pumpkin pies and 2 apple pies) It was a great fun day!!

Pumpkin time

Our neighbor gave Abra a pumpkin for Halloween. It wasn't really big enough to carve (plus she doesn't get to do much of the creative work) so this morning we got the paints out and I let her paint her pumpkin.

After it was dry, she wanted to put the halloween foam stickers all over the painted pumpkin.

What a weekend!

Saturday I decided to make pies. In total I made 7 pies and have enough stuff to make at least 4 more pies!!

Abra helped the first batch and then had a great time playing in the flour. She quickly got bored and decided to go to the backyard and "work" with daddy.

Sunday we went to church and then the real fun began!! Rich and Rick decided at "drunk campfire" the night before that they were going to cut trees down. Our yard looks HUGE with these trees gone (and there are more things that are waiting to get cut down)

Here is the five in one tree that they cut down

The winch got it's first real use

And now look at that space. This is going to be where my garden will be next spring.

Any of you who have seen the backyard know that there are TONS of trees. My goal is get rid of most of the trees and bushes in the backyard and replace them with fruit trees and bushes and a little larger grass space. This tree was one that Rich didn't want to cut down, but again, at the drunk campfire, it was decided that he would suprise me and cut it down. We got both trees cut up and this week (in between raindrops) are going to be chipping the branches and cutting some of the larger branches for firewood!

Friends

We had the old neighborhood friends over to play/show off the house. It was a great time since there was NO school for the older ones and Mc Donald's for lunch! I forgot to get pictures (and trust me, they enjoyed the playroom!) But thank you for everyone coming over to play. We will have to do it again or Abra and I can "go into town"