Halloween...Yes Please!

hAlLoWeEn Has come to the Brown household!!! How can you tell? Could these little artistic gourds have clued you in?

Because we are so organized when it comes to our family activities, we didn't wait until 2 days before HaLlOwEen to pick out our pumpkins. Nor did we decide at 7:00, when it is nice and dark, that we should go to Black Island Farms for a hayride though a pumpkin patch to pick out our most perfect squash canvases.

 

Luckily, I am a super prepared "Mormon Mommy Blogger" or whatever they call us crazies that blog every aspect of their lives for the world to read. I had made sure that our nice camera had batteries in it and I would not have to use our tiny video camera with no flash to document this most important chapter in Lil' Pumpkins childhood memories book. You know The HaLlOwEen chapter.

 

The hayride was fun, the sweet Lil' Pumpkin had fun bouncing around and pointing out the moon and airplane's flashing lights in the sky. She got a little frustrated running around the pumpkin patch because the vines kept tangling around her cute little boots. Oh man she is the cutest little pumpkin hunter!

 

We decided that carving the pumpkins at a normal time would be too easy, so at about 10:00pm yesterday(after fulfilling some churchly duties) We popped in a couple of Tony's pizzas and busted out the carving tools.

Nora Bug loved spooning the guts out and trying to shove the spoon in her mouth before we could stop her.

 

The scariest part of the night was how long it took us to take a picture of the pumpkins at night without the flash so they would glow.

 

11:30pm and here were the fruits of our labors...or should I say squash of our labors, haha. Don't worry, I don't even laugh at jokes like that.

 

Clearly one of us didn't finish their art project for the night (notice the pumpkin on the left in the above picture). He gets an F. I had carved two pumpkins and ate a whole pizza and drank half a mountain dew while he had yet to finish half of his pumpkin...good thing he is a super cute vampire because his pumpkin craving skill leave much to be desired...like a beautifully, finished carved pumpkin.

HaPpY HaLlOwEeN!!!

My Thoughts On A Couple Of Furry Little Things

I love animals, I always have (monkeys don't count as animals in my book, so we are definitely not talking about those disgusting mutant creatures).  My parents have picture after picture of me with one of my animals.  Unfortunately the more I love them, the harder it makes days like Friday.

 

Friday we had to put down my Sweet kitty Moe Toes. He was 17 years old. The poor boy has had a hard couple of months. He lost a lot of his hair and looked so crazy that my nieces called him zombie cat

 

 

Then soon after he went completely blind and the poor old guy could hardly walk, his legs were so sore. That is when my parents and I decided it was time. Boy, does my heart hurt. He was such a good cat. He would jump into my arms on command and then he would wrap his arms around my neck making it look like he was giving my a big hug. When I would walk a block to my horse, Momies would follow me all the way to the pasture and hang out while I rode.

Moes was a cat that everyone noticed. It might have been because he had one blue eye and one green eye and he had extra toes on his front paws. Hence the name 'Moe Toes'

 

 

I also lost my other kitty, Blue this last summer

 

 

I guess it was a bad year to be one of my cats.

Blue was such a lovable cat. She would follow me around. She didn't have a mean bone in her body. Chris surprised me with her 8 years ago. She was such a pretty cat. 

 

 

She once had a surprise kitten. Which was curious because she was an inside cat and would go outside for 2 seconds and then get scared and run back in. I guess 2 seconds is long enough. 

 

 

I think Alaska will miss her too

 

 

Man I loved those kitty cats. Funny how much my heart hurts over those furry little things