Natural History Museum and Christ's 40th B-Day!

Hatsuho invited Vienna and I and Kealy and Evelyn to go to the Natural History Museum to use up some of her free passes before they expired and I'm so glad she did. All of us have kids that are only a few months apart and they had so much fun! Look how cute they are...
looking at the ducks and quacking

playing the bird symphony (when they push a key a bird lights up and chirps)
looking at the deer that was so close to them.
They really had a good time. Thanks so much Hatsuho!

Christi (my bishops wife and running buddy) turned 40! Her party was fun. We were suppose to dress super fancy, which was fun to do and we went our for a nice dinner where I even ate escargot (which wasn't my favorite) The 2 planners made each of us crowns to wear, which added to the goofy-ness.
left to right: me, Kim, Molly, Karen, Christi (b-day girl) and Monica

Carving Pumpkins and Hallo-weekends...

Just a side not...so I uploaded pictures and thought I actually posted this like over a week ago, but apparently it never got posted. dah...

We invited a family over from our ward over Canadian Thanksgiving weekend (and Taylor - the husband) is actually from Lethbridge, so that is cool, but anyway we invited them over for some apple crisp and to carve a pumpkin. It was lots of fun, especially because their little girl, Pepper is just a few months older than Vienna, so they have fun together.
The Christensen's
Our little fam
The talented carver
These are the final products, we did the goofy face and they did the headless horseman
In the dark.

The next pics are from our adventure at HALLO-WEEKENDS. Mike and I decided to get seasons passes to one of the biggest theme parks in the US called Cedar Point. Anyway, it goes until the end of the year, so we had planned to do the HALLO-WEEKENDS a long time ago, but the logistics of this and a baby sitter and the time was super tricky. None the less we were determined to go, as we had our passes this year and won't any other year.
They turn the whole theme park into haunted houses and haunted mazes/walk throughs. It was neat to see the whole park transformed. Anyway, from 5-12am is when all the fun begins and it is about 1.5 hours away so needless to say it was a super late night for the old married couple (us) and our babysitter. (Im sure she loved it cause she made some good $$$) Lucky for her she actually got to sleep in, but our built-in alarm clock never fails us. (hehehe) It was fun and I wasn't as scared as I thought I would be. Dont get me wrong, it was scary, but not horrifying.
club blood, the first one we went into
The decorations were super cool
This graveyard in particular
More of it...
This ogre guy would wake up, say some stuff, move around. I thought it was AWESOME!!!
I want a bunch of these for my lawn someday, I loved them (you can't tell but they are about as tall as Mike and there were a whole bunch of different designs)
This is an old car all scare-i-fied.
On the one called "Blood on the Bayou" there was this boat with the double headed freak (if you look closely in the door) that was super disturbing.
This one was way creepy, and at the beginning it was a maze of all mirrors. It was cool, firghtening and annoying.
creepy toys...yuck!

Luckily we were able to do all the attractions, so that was super! I couldn't believe how many young kids there were. Either way, Mike and I had a great time and are glad we made it happen.
We are looking forward to our first Trunk or Treat and costumes this weekend!

Conference Weekend

Conference weekend is always so great! It was so nice to listen to all the inspired words. I was able to watch 3 out of the 4 and I am looking forward to reading them through again. Everything that is said is really powerful. I really enjoyed the one about having children. I needed the reminder, that even though Mike is in school and I am working part-time, continuing on with our family is what we are suppose to be doing, even if that means I won't be able to work as much and all that stuff. We will be blessed because we are following one of the first commandments given. Thanks for the reassurance.
We sure stayed busy!!!
every conference weekend we eat our 72 hour kits and re-stock so everything nots completely stale or bad when we actually need it.
My little stinker climbing up on her table, which she is not suppose to do. Look at that face.
Decorating for halloween was fun, but Vienna is more of an UN-helper at this age. Either way she had fun!
See what I mean.
Well I realize my halloween decoration are lacking, this is what we've got thus far.
I've got time to work on it for sure!