Luke's new favorite toy

One of Luke's favorite new toys is his dad's head. Luke loves it when Austin puts him up there; he pulls his hair and pokes out his eyes. It's pretty painful even to watch.

Award-winning Pumpkin

Austin spent about 2.5 hours on this baby...and I do mean baby!

Pepe Le Peu - Halloween and the Corn Maize

Austin's family has a tradition of the father making the costume - which is a sweet deal for me! This year he made Luke's skunk costume. Mom did a lot of the work, I have to admit. She sewed this jacket thing we bought from DI so it would fit Luke and had buttons. (Thanks a million mom!) Then Austin spray painted Luke's black hat and jacket with the stripes of a skunk. It was pretty cool although we had to turn Luke around at every place we went to trick or treat because you couldn't tell the costume from the front.
We started out the day by stopping at the library to trick or treat there and then went to grandma's shop to show Luke off and say hi, etc. She was doing some lady's hair and had no candy for Luke. We did, however, get the opportunity to sweep her walk and stairs before we left.
Later, we went to the trunk or treat at the church at 5pm and got some pretty good stuff. Then we headed out to the corn maze that my visiting teachee had given us tickets to. Before we went to the maze, we made sure to stop at a rich neighborhood for some more candy.
About 7pm we headed over to the corn maize and had fun getting lost and trying out their jumping pillow, seeing their animals and other stuff. Luke was so tired, he fell asleep on the way home. He got to go through his candy this morning though (after we had already taken our percentage). Anyway, it was really fun!

New Suitcase - Bling, bling

On our trip back from Dallas, Delta accidentally ripped one of the wheels off our biggest suitcase. Although it was a huge hassle, I (Austin) went and complained. They had us bring our suitcase back empty (another hassle to go back to the airport and drop it off) so they could "fix" it. I expected them to say, as the airlines always try to do...."Oh, well we are not liable for that part of your luggage." Anyway, to our amazement, they sent us a new suitcase! It's really nice (much nicer than the old one which was my mission suitcase that I bought at K-Mart as a 5 piece set for 80 bucks!) and has fancy "bling, bling" wheels on it. It costs $120 on ebay so this baby is worth some money. Thank you Delta!

Halloween Cookie Party

We went up to dad and mom's house after we went to the temple on Friday (thanks a million to Whitney watching Luke). On Saturday, Austin, Derek, Dillon, Joel and some other branch members played football for about 2.5 hours. They had a great time. Later Cassidy made 4 batches of Halloween sugar cookies! It was wild and so fun! Austin spent a lot of time on the few he made, but they were perfect! We're thinking of sending them to the dental schools as a sample of his work. Melanie also did some real winners not to mention all the kids and their double deckers, etc. Anyway, tons o fun except for the fact that mom was out of town. Thanks for the party!

Hot Spring Heaven!

We had a ton of fun on Friday morning. We met Joel in HSB at 8:20am and headed to Garden Valley to the hot springs. We hiked about 15 minutes straight up a mountain to get to these amazing hot springs. We had never been before and it was so fun! Luke especially liked it because he had a two hour bath in a huge tub! We spent a couple hours there, had lunch, then headed back down. An hour later we wanted to go back. Whoever comes to visit next - let's go there! It was so fun!

Scary daddy!

Austin had to dress up for a haunted forest activity for the youth in the ward. Luke was pretty scared so hopefully those other kids will be too!