2008 Pumpkins

So, Tyson is so busy at work, I think it will be a few days before he gets to his pumpkin. I might get another one myself and do something crazy hard, but I'm not sure about that. The one I carved on Monday is already horribly wilting and the carvings are warping, so I'm just going to post the pictures we got of the ones that got done on Monday.

First here is my pumpkin both candle-lit and just a normal shot of it. I was happy with how it turned out, and really sad that it is already warping so much!


Then this is Becca's pumpkin. We put a cat on it because she LOVES our kitty so much! The shot of her with the pumpkin was taken last night...you can see in the background how much mine is warping! (Especially look at the "l")


And this is our friend Andrew's witch. He usually leaves his pumpkins with us since he lives in an apartment where it is most likely his pumpkin would get smashed. Gotta love college kids....

Pumpkins

So...in our family carving pumpkins has always been a fun tradition. Even when I was a kid, I was the one who could not go one Halloween without carving one of those big orange squash! It kindof started in DT when we carved a BYU Y with bat wings on it for FHE, but every year since then we have carved pumpkins with our old BYU DT Ward FHE group friends. I don't have pictures from all the years, but I thought I would show off the pictures that I do have so you can see what we are capable of. I will post the pictures of our pumpkins from this year probably tomorrow (since Tyson has not done his yet).

2005

This is my pumpkin (sorry it's blurry, it's the only shot of it we got.

This amazing thing was Tyson's pumpkin! This was the first year I had seen him carve something so cool, and it showed me what pumpkin carving can really be! But I warn you, this is a LOT of work!

And so you can see some of the other fun stuff our friends did those years, here are some of the other pumpkins that year.


2006
This was Tyson's amazing Darth Vader (see a trend?).

And this, is my favorite, and most challenging pumpkin to date. It took me like 2 hours, but it was so worth it!

2007

Tyson had a HUGE pumpkin this year, so he did both of these faces side by side on one pumpkin. It was pretty cool to have the Autobot and Decepticon signs both on one pumpkin (If you don't know what those are, they are the Transformer symbols).

After the year before I wanted to do something really simple...so I did! But I think it turned out well.

This year's pumpkins, yet to be revealed...I hope you enjoyed this little walk down pumpkin lane with me!

Thain's Halloween Party

Saturday was our first dress up adult Halloween party since being married (P.S. A big thank you to Courtney for watching Becca for me!). The Thains started doing these last year and it was a blast! I thought I would post some pictures for all of you to enjoy.

Firstly, here is the beautiful mastermind behind it all, our shipwrecked pirate, Erin!

Tyson and I went as Hermione Granger and Harry Potter. Tyson was a "Hairy" Harry...post book 7 we decided.

Jake and Dialma, our Cowboy and Cowgirl!

Scott and Angela, our Weed and Flower. Angela's skirt was too cute and so much fun!

Travis and Sara were doctors. Travis was having fun with a breast pump filled with cows milk and pretending to milk Sara, but I didn't put that shot on for Sara's sake! ;)

Jared and Erin! Our Cheerleader and Shipwrecked Pirate. I mean wow. Jared really surprised us all with that one!

Clint and Tina, Our Circus Monkey and Banana.

Aaron and Colleen, The 70's Pimp and Chick.

This is our freaky Superman, Tim. Seriously he was frightening. That mask was so freaky!

Jared was practicing his cheerleader poses, with a new, more flattering wig on.

Group Shots!
The Neighborhood Girls! Erin, Sara, Me, Angela and Dialma.
The silly guys!
The lovely ladies.

It was such a fun night! Coming soon, our pumpkins!

Star Wars According to a 3 Year Old

You guys HAVE to check out this movie if you are at all someone who has seen Star Wars and loves funny kid stuff! It almost has 10,000,000 hits on YouTube it is that great!

Star Wars According to a 3 Year Old

Enjoy!

Becca's First Cold

Our little girl has her first cold. It just came out of nowhere! I don't even remember playing with any kids that were sick. Last night she just screamed at the top of her lungs for like an hour before calming down enough to sleep. Poor thing is so congested she has no clue what to do with herself. I am hoping it is getting better since she slept through the night last night for the first time. Fingers crossed that I don't get sick too!

Book Giveaways

Hey, so I am a bit late in the game, but you still have a chance to enter this week and next week for some AWESOME book giveaways. Go to http://brooketaylorbooks.com/blogset.html and follow her instructions for her MONSTER MONTH OF GIVEAWAYS. This week is all about Zombies and next week is Faeries. If you are a fantasy fan, or even just into Halloween you have to go check this out!

Becca's First Veggies

Hey everyone. Well, Rebecca had been doing so well eating cereal we decided to start her on veggies last night -- peas. I think the pictures speak for themselves as to how she liked them.

Look at that face!

Needless to say, we need to try a few more times to get her used to the flavor. We got video which is even funnier, but we have not downloaded the software for our camcorder yet, so I'll have to try and get Tyson to do that tonight.

So after the big green mess and a little bit of cereal to top her off (since she only ate about 1/3 of the container of peas) we took a bath. She has been sitting up much much better lately, and so we decided to give it a try. Here she is sitting up in her bath all by herself! And a fun splashy picture...she LOVES to splash! Water gets everywhere!

That's all for now!