Halloween is fun!

Some more updates. Halloween is a great time. We tried eating donuts off string at a church activity. It was hilarious!!
Oh yeah! I got my hair cut a few weeks ago. I was going to wait until I was done student teaching as a celebration . . . but I decided to celebrate making it half-way through instead. :) Here is a lamo before picture, taken after having my hair in a pony tail. I just wanted to show how long it was.


I cut over 8 inches off! I was waiting because I wanted to get 10 inches for Locks of Love, but then I found out that you can't have bleached hair. I have old highlights from a year ago, so I gave up. Then when I went to get it cut, they told me this other place accepts 8 inches and bleached hair, so they cut it off in a couple of ponytails for me and printed off the information for me to send it in. Then I was reading the requirements they printed off for me as I was walking home and found out that the other place doesn't accept highlighted hair either. So now I just have some ponytails for a scrapbook I guess. :)

My costume for Halloween was kind of boring. I just needed something simple that I could wear to school. My students kept asking if I was a mouse or a cat. I was catwoman of course! I wore a trench coat and looked all spy-like and stuff. Not good enough I suppose. Oh, and if you're wondering, that is my tail. :)

























I am so scary!! Really! I am! Look at those claws!


But, there it is, my new hair cut. Today I even managed to get it into a small half pony-tail while I was cleaning.

Update of our lives.

The most exciting thing to happen in my life so far is that Leif and Melissa had their baby girl! See their blog for more. It is beautiful. I love Melissa's perspective. Besides that, here are some things that have been happening.
DISCLAIMER: all these pictures were taken with my phone, so they aren't the best. But, I always have it with me, so when I remember to take pictures. This is what you get. :)





I dyed Kelly's hair. It didn't last. But it was fun for a day. She lets me play sometimes. :) love her.













We went home for Conference weekend. I played with the family, but Michael had to go to National Guard that weekend. Bummer for him, but I love what he does.







Anellisa washed her dog (yes, that's a dog! When he isn't wet he is pretty cute.











Reid helped Grandma, me, Leona, and their friends clean out the play house so they could play.After Jed went through some of his things, he recruited Reid to "wash his rock collection". Reid loved doing it and didn't want any help.
Jed & Leona and family, and Anellisa came up to visit me and Michael for fall break (for Jed and Michael) and UEA weekend (for me). I am so glad they were willing to come ALL the WAY up HERE!!! We had a really fun weekend with them. Ane came up first and hung out with me. She is such a great sister. She helped me and Michael deliver things to the ward. I road the bike, and pulled Ane on the rollerblades. (Napolean Dynamite flashback).






Here she is on Michael's bike.












We also got to be the "pilot" on an airplane. Mike Maljerick happened to be in Logan on a business trip, so we got to sit in the cockpit. We did calm pilot poses, then. . . plane crashing poses. We're dorks, but it was a blast.
Anellisa as the pilot.




































And me as the pilot. Not great pictures, but what do you expect in a crashing situation!!!
























We went fishing. With Jed along it was impossible to avoid.








We went and fed the ducks at first dam. Anything Reid does, William is sure to follow!










We also went on a hike up to the wind caves. It was a much longer/harder hike than Michael and I remembered, but it was still very beautiful. It was more of a workout for those of us who were carrying Reid and William. They only walked for part of the way. Here are some pictures of the hike.

as you can see, Reid was a little tired on the hike down.