Halloween Fun!!

showing off their candy Alexa

Braxton

Dylan (don't know what I did with the camera :)

Finding a clue on the scavenger hunt

dylan in the spook alley (it was pitch black)

The traditional pumpkin light

I'm shocked that Braxton wanted to do the spook alley!

My scary kids

Last week we took the kids on the Haunted train ride, it was fun, not too scary though which was good for the kids. Well I take that back, Braxton was freaked the whole time. He is so funny, he freaks out over the silliest things. Ethan wasn't even scared! We also had our annual family Halloween party last night which is always a blast! Jed's mom and her sisters always go all out. Everyone dresses up ( Jed was a red neck like he is every year :) We had a fortune teller, spook alley, fishing pond, horse rides, and the scavenger hunt. It really was a blast!! Thanks everyone for such a fun party!!

Me and Ashley's Editing Session

You owe us big Donna, it is 3 am and we are slaaving over your photos!!!

see we can't even speeel right!
This is Ashley by the way!

Send Chocolate right away to keep us awake!

Cooper & Croix

I can't get over how cute these little guys are!! Donna, I had to hurry and post this for you...sorry it is just one, but I had to put it up! Your boys are so cute it makes me baby hungry again! (Good thing I have my older ones to remind me what they grow into :)

***I updated with some that I have finished, let me know what you think!***

Here are some more...

My bro & future SIL

Carly here is one of the pictures from last night, I'll post more when I get them done, but I wanted you to see one of them so you're not waiting so long! You guys are so photogenic it is not fair!! Let me know what you think. I haven't cropped them yet so your gold sword in the background won't show. The one over Aus's head will be in it though, but since we had the castle nazi breathing down my neck there wasn't much I could do about it, I kinda like it though!

Ash, Jeremey, & Elliette

Jeremey I probably spelled your name wrong huh? Sorry! Anyways, these guys are so awesome! They were troopers putting up with cold, rain, many different locations and don't forget my "didn't get any sleep blondiness"! (Really, someone cut your powerlines?) Ashley's known me long enough to know that I really am a blonde, but so much for impressing her mother in law! Oh well! Here are a few of my favs, I hope you like them Ash, it was kind of a sucky day for pictures but they turned out okay in spite.

Thankful...Really?

I usually don't mind doing laundry, yeah it never ends but I don't mind doing it...until fall, that is when normal laundry turns into hunting laundry. I hate hunting laundry! Dirty smelly clothes that are shoved in a pack for days after hiking all week, covered in stickers and thorns and sweat and animal blood (and spaghetti if you're Dylan). I dread opening the laundry room door when I know the pack has been emptied...the smell...ugh! So when listening to Pres. Monsons talk about enjoying the journey, (which totally felt like he was talking just for me), when he mentioned something about piles of laundry and that one day I would miss it, I couldn't help but think that Pres. Monson or his wife probably haven't done a lot of hunting laundry!

Hunting...

This guy was shot at 77? yards with a bow and as you can see it was a pretty good shot!
I really don't get the "let's take the kids picture with a cut off head" idea!

I have to say that this year has been crazy with hunting, and usually I get really frustrated with the whole institution and turn into the crazy anti-hunting hag, but I promised myself this year I would not let it bug me. I am tired of fighting about it and being angry, so although it has been another crazy hunting season, it really hasn't been that bad. I just now really don't "get" it...why is it fun to wake up @ 3:00 a.m. to go hike all day, come home at 10:00 at night and do the cycle over again for a week? Why is it fun to sleep on the mountain on one of the coldest nights so far with no sleeping bag or tent or anything, why is it fun to cut an animal up and carry it down the mountain? Honey, I love you more than anything, and I love that you love this, but I really think you're crazy!! Here are some of his antelope pics, these are the first antelope he got this year, he is presently in New Mexico getting another one. (another "why"?) I'm sure I will have more cut off head pictures to post as I haven't gotten Scotts Elk pictures and we still have the deer hunt...oh yeah!! **still not letting it bug me :)**