Old school is the best way

Our society has hit a new low. I thought the whole idea of Halloween, and dressing up is fun. When I was a kid we would print off maps of our neighborhood and plot our route with a highlighter so we could get the most houses in the time we had. Now parents and kids are too lazy to even walk around (curse those trunk-or-treats). Last night was raining (like that would stop us as kids) and we only saw three groups of kids going door to door. Not only are we collecting candy that is very unhealthy, but we aren't even getting our exercise before we poison our bodies with a sugar overdose. It is almost as bad as our favorite habit or pigging out on ice cream while we watch Biggest Looser. Many people say that is is much safer... I don't know anyone who lives in the bronx. If you live in a sketchy part of town, then trick-or-treating seems like a great way to meet your sketchy neighbors without a fruit cake. Going door-to-door seems like the only way to go, but nobody went. What is the world coming to? Now that I am stepping off my soap box here are some pictures of our holiday that we really enjoy.

Ba is using her long tongue to eat the doughnut off the sting at a ward party. She was lightning fast.

Ry dressed up like a tin foil dinner. When we carved pumpkins, we would pick an expression and someone else tried to capture that emotion on the pumpkin's face.

Bobbing for apples made Ry get tons of water up his nose. He was also lightning fast.

A friend party celebrating pie night. LE is a s'more (because she looks like a marshmallow when she wears white) and Ba is a hot dog. Ba made LE's gram cracker crust with chocolate oozing out. It was a family theme of camping food items.

We are ready to go door-to-door trick-or-treating. Remember when your parents made your costumes super big so you could put them on over your coat...

all the 'ings

There are many fall activities that we have participated in and we realized that they almost all end in "ing". ING can make nouns into action words, so I guess that makes sense because we are INGing type of people.

We really love the INGs up Logan canyon this time of year. The colors have been changING givING us the chance to enjoy hikING, climbING, and cavING.

This backpack sure is nice when Ry is carryING LE around.

LE is eatING solids. I guess eatING is an overstatement. LE has been emptyING jars of baby food with a lot of it ending up on the tray, on her face, up her nose, on the wall, and in our faces. We had to use a plate as a shield to block the spray. She is doING much better now and has this thing for sweet potatoes.

The problem with the spittING is that we think it is funny and we start laughING. This just encourages her even more.

I guess LE thinks toes count as food. This week has been a break through as far as sleepING goes and LE makes it through the night. Ba is very happy.

Ry enjoyed fishING on the Snake River near Grandpas house even though he didn't catch many fish. When he was younger he never caught anything big enough to eat, but you could actually fry this one up.

Fly fishING is much more fun than sittING on the bank for hours with the worm in the water.

We went to Ry's childhood friends wedding. It was really interesting going to a wedding that wasn't in the temple. The couple looked very happy together and we were glad we could join them in their celebration.

It was nice to have family watch LE so we could enjoy the evening.

LE 4 months

So I know LE is now 6 month old, but I never posted these adorable pictures of her two months ago. A good friend took them and I think she did such a great job.




These next two pictures should be on a Johnson and Johnson ad.