There was something.....

A week or so ago, my dear Duckie asked me to blog aomething that had happened to me, or us, or someone, but now I don't recall what that something to someone was.......... oh well. When she reads this blog, she'll probably remind me.
Anyways, my life is good...... real good.

Okay, having been sufficiently reminded, I know what I was supposed to write about. Almost three weeks ago, my two mission boys drove all the way down from Utah to visit their daddy. All I can say is, I was blessed to have trained two of the greatest young men that I have ever known. Brandon Orr and Brian Kissell are simply amazing and nothing short of being two awesome guys.

On the left- Brian Kissell; Middle- Me; Right- Brandon Orr

They arrived at our house on a Saturday night (I think it was October 25th) around 7:00pm. We stayed up until 1:00am the next morning eating pizza from Papa John's and reminiscing about Curitiba Brasil.

Here I am with the boys right before I returned home. We were in the city of Ponta Grossa at the Stake Center.

The following morning, we had a gourmet breakfast of eggs and pancakes. Unfortunately, they had to leave the house by 7:00am so we didn't get any more chat time in.

Halloween

The night before Halloween, Britt and I went to his brother’s house to carve pumpkins with the family. Unfortunately, we forgot our camera, and no one else had one there either. Bummer! It was fun to carve the pumpkins, and I think this is one of the only times I have actually used a stencil. We had our niece pick out which pattern to do - a ghost. Britt poked the holes to mark the lines, and I did most of the carving. My brother-in-law decided to get the most sophisticated with his and actually carved/shaved away on the pumpkin instead of merely cutting pieces out. It took a while before everyone finished, but the end products were great.

After we got home from making our Jack-O-Lantern, we remembered we had one more Jack-O-Lantern to make. My Halloween costume! Even though I was tired, we made my costume so I could wear it to work the next day. It really only took a few minutes with Britt's help.

I received numerous compliments at work on Halloween, so I guess Britt did a good job. And, it also confirmed for me that you do not have to spend lots of money to have a cool costume.