Pumpkins!

In celebration of Cody's favorite holiday, Halloween, we spent an afternoon carving pumpkins! It was a lot of fun! This year we decided to try actually carving out our images instead of cutting through the whole pumpkin. It wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. 

Here are our two best pumpkins! Unfortunately I couldn't get a good enough picture of them lit up, but they look awesome when they are! Mine is the one on the left and if you can't tell, it's E.T.  Cody's pumpkin, on the right, is a picture of Jason's mask, from the Halloween movies.  We won't be doing too much to celebrate Halloween this year. Cody will be working all weekend and the only thing I have planned is the trunk-or-treat at the church tonight. I'm taking chili! If their Halloween party is anything like Welling's then it should definately be a good time!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Babies...

Who needs 'em?!?! When you've got a dog and a cat like these two, babies are the last thing on your mind.

This is a picture of our dog Ruby and our cat Nibbles. They seem harmless and cute sure but as soon as night hits I swear it is their sole purpose to keep Cody and I from sleeping! They are just like having babies. They whine and scratch to get out of the bedroom so we let them out. 3 minutes later they whine and scratch to get back in the bedroom. I'm up at least 6 times a night battling with them to go back to bed. I have to get up to let Ruby out because she is thirsty. They climb all over the bed trying to get comfortable and pushing us out to the edges so we have the least amount of room possible. The other day I had to grab Ruby mid-poo off the carpet while I was visiting with some girls from the ward. Usually she runs to the door and lets me know she needs to go outside but when she really has to go, she means business. And after we finally get them to settle down the cat starts playing with anything she can find that makes a lot of noise, such as plastic bags! And then the whole charade starts again. After battling this all night, 5 AM comes way too quickly when its time to wake up and for Cody to head off to work. They should be nick-named the night terrors. But they don't care! Right now it is the middle of the day and Cody is at work and I'm trying not to fall asleep so I won't be late for work and both Nibbles and Ruby are curled up in their cozy corners fast asleep without a care in the world. So if anyone is wondering when we will be starting a family of our own, I would tell you not to count on it to be anytime soon!

Post for Mom

Mom check out the pillow case I made today. I didn't have enough material to do two of the big rectangle ones so i decided halfway through to make it for the little pillow instead. I am pretty impressed with it! It is actually too big but you can't really tell while its on the bed anyways so i didn't bother to try and fix it. But ya...I pretty much made up the pattern as I went along. What do you think??

Wedding Part 2

We got our wedding pictures back from our photographer and we couldn't be happier with how they turned out! Big thanks to Angie Higa and her good friend Kyla! Here are just a few of the hundreds, literally, of pictures we received.

Thanksgiving weekend!

This thanksgiving Cody and I are very grateful for such good friends who were so willing to help rebuild and re-shingle part of the roof on our house in Magrath. Thank you so much to all of you who came and spent the whole weekend helping us! That has lifted a huge weight off our shoulders, at least until spring when we need to replace the other half of the roof! 

We were also very grateful to have the opportunity to come home for a few days and visit with our families! We are happy to be up in Fort McMurray working hard and having a new adventure but we also are sad that we can't be with our families most of the time. We love all of them very much and are always grateful for the chance to visit!