Halloween

McKinley bounced between being Jessie the cowgirl for Halloween and a cheerleader. Since we had both costumes, she chose one for her church party and dance party, and the other for the school party and trick-or-treating. The boys were Jeff Gordon. I'm not sure Sawyer will ever choose to be something other than a Nascar driver. He's been a race car driver every year since he was 2! (Oh yeah, I did make him be Harry Potter one year).

Hayden was sick so he only visited Grandma's houses then helped pass out the candy. Sawyer was done trick-or-treating less than halfway through the neighborhood. But McKinley kept going strong and we had to empty out some of her bag into Sawyer's so she could keep going.

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

New York Times Bestseller? Really?

I love all things Pride and Prejudice. I own three of the movies (and watch them regularly). I also love the book by Jane Austen. So I was kind of excited to read this parody of it. I fully expected it to be ridiculous and was prepared to laugh at a funny twist on the story.

I think I laughed twice. The rest was just stupidly weird.

He even twisted some of the story to be more...naughty. It was a big let down and most of the zombie parts were just weird, boring, and not well written.

Big Cottonwood

into the mountains today with the boys...

...good times

OhSweetSadie!

I submitted my silhouettes for the OhSweetSadie Show and just got an invitation to sell them there! Yay! I'm so excited!

2011

Did you know they ARE making it into a movie? Yippee! Back in March Lionsgate productions bought the rights and the author is actually supposed to be writing the screenplay.

That sounds promising.

They'd better be good at casting because I don't want another Edward mishap.

But 2011? Does that mean the third book won't come out until around then?

We carved our pumpkins on Sunday night after very persistent pleas all weekend long. I took the pumpkins, tools, and excited kids out back to make our pumpkins together. I ended up cleaning out all the pumpkins (I hate the pumpkin boogers), and then carving all the pumpkins by myself with an occasional visit from one child or another to let me know if they approved of the results. McKinley did draw a design on one of the pumpkins (a cat face), and Sawyer poked some holes in his pumpkin until we were afraid he would lose a finger. Hayden loves his "spooky" as he calls it.

yum!

We may have a serious Nutella addiction.