Halloween Adventures

There comes a time once a year, once a year when you have to forget about everything that pleads for your time and attention. Sometimes you have to set aside work, school and the stressful part of life and just dress up like Link or a buff man with a knife in his head and decorate your trunk like a giant monster in order to attract little kids to come by and take your candy. That was the case with Jolene and I this year as we attended our ward's 'Trunk or Treat' festival. It was fun playing Dr. Frankenstein and creating our very own monster... out of a red tablecloth, white paper, plastic eyeball candy bowls and our trunk. That idea was given to us by Jolene's mom (Thanks!). All of the little kids seemed to love it, or at least they loved the candy they so willingly took from it. The younger ones occasionally were too afraid to reach inside between the gaping teeth into the dark trunk for a 'candy' that they couldn't even see from their perspective. Others kept looking at my head, wondering how the knife got there ( a fun toy that we bought in Portland at Saturday Market). I told them that when they grow up they should never make their spouses mad or else... :) It was also fun seeing Jeff and Tia in the parking stall next to us dressed up as Robin Hood and Maid Marian bearing a little one by the name of Friar Tuck. Little Ben was very cute as he played in the leaves and smiled at the strangely dressed people passing by.



After the 'Trunk or Treat', we had a few people over and played a fun halloween game called NIGHTMARE. It's a very strange game that my parents bought for me when I was around 10 and I have played it every year as a halloween tradition since. There's a video trailer of it below that you can watch if you would like. If you think it looks weird... well, it is, but it is pretty fun to play with a group of people once a year. The game comes with a game board and dice that you roll. The object of the game is to collect all 6 of your keys and reach the middle in less that one hour. To spice up the came they give you a VHS tape on which a man who goes by the name "The Gatekeeper" yells at you and tells you what to do. He interacts with each player in different ways and awards keys or gives punishments depending on things that you do. After so many times playing it I had to search and buy newer versions of the game to get some variety, but we normally just stick to the first one unless everyone in the group has already played it. It gets a good laugh every time.



Later that night we received a wonderful halloween card from Jolene's friend, Carly. As we opened it and watched the video our halloween was changed forever... in a good way. We loved the video and wanted to share it with everyone, but due to the massive population of the world and our time limitation we decided to just share it with our families. All of the videos we made are posted below. ENJOY!!!

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To Tera and Nate Gibb (my sis and bro-in-law and there 2 yr old, Tanner)

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To Justin and Lisa Alcorn (my bro and sis-in-law)

Our weekend in Logan!

For conference weekend, we went up to Trav's parent's new place to hang out with the fam. It was fun! We got there Friday night. On Saturday, we went shopping and helped make a fort out of heavy-duty cardboard boxes. It has two rooms with vaulted ceilings, and a tunnel connecting them. Tanner loves it! It's big enough for Travis and I to fit through too.
That afternoon the Gibbs came to join us.
We went for a ride behind Dad's lawnmower with Tanner. Whee!

There's a garden in the back, and I couldn't believe how many pumpkins were hiding in it!





They had some indian corn back there too.



Happy Harvest!

Happiness

More cakes, and Ella's 1st birthday party! :)

Sunday, a time for friends

Our dear friend Carly was in town, and since we were unable to join the Saturday festivities, Travis and I decided to throw a little get together of our own. The main event: Pot Roast. Three full crock pots of it, made by my dear husband.

I made a chocolate cake, which I think looked better than it tasted.Travy even does the dishes!
Josh contemplates "gypsy"

It was a fun night! :)

Cake!

I love cake. More specifically, I love decorating cakes. Today I made a butter pecan flavored cake, with buttercream frosting, and sliced bananas drizzled with caramel for the filling. The bananas inspired me to go for a monkey theme (click on pictures to enlarge).
I am currently enrolled in a cake decorating class at BYU, so look forward to more cakes in the future! :)

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Blogging... everyone else is doing it so why not us? Well we decided to do this because it's a great way to let everyone know how our lives are going and to keep track of our friends and families. Hope you enjoy! :)