Lots to catch up on!

Life is just flying by! We have been ridiculously busy and are pretty exhausted, but it has been a fun month. Here are a few highlights...

We love family game nights! Butter decided to help us play Jenga, an interesting endeavor...


As I have continued to stink it up at Bowling League, one of my teammates quadrupled her average. I have never seen luck like hers! It has been fun to bowl every week!


Thomas flew down to Los Angeles for an interview with the USC dental school. He LOVED the school and had fun staying with my cousin Danny who kindly let him spend the night and took him out on the town. During his spare time he was able to visit the Colosseum and Tommy the Trojan- this filled him with utter glee!

Late in October Thomas and I danced our clogging duet and some fun steps at our ward variety night. He and some folkie friends also performed a Hungarian dance they had whipped up. They also performed that night for one of our awesome folk dance costume lady friends, Robin, at her surprise birthday party. She was thrilled at the surprise. We also had a special October birthday party with her, the two other fun costume ladies, their husbands and the Watsons at Brick Oven. This is an annual dinner that we love!

I LOVE HALLOWEEN! This year we dragged it out as long as possible. The pic on the right is us disco style at the folk dance party (I had to get a disco costume for a tap number and Thomas was forced to wear his during his clogging days- his director was a little mean!). On the left and bellow are at our friend Sarah's annual Halloween party. Her mother is CRAZY about Halloween and her house is always wonderfully decorated. We had a delicious Halloween themed dinner with lots of good friends. Oh and you must be wondering about my ridiculous costume- I found this funny dragon costume and decided to spruce it up by ripping the head off a frog stuffed animal (which had hilarious jagged teeth) and I sewed it up into this stupid mask. I could only keep it on for like 2 minutes, but it was fun to make!

On Friday we invited friends for our own Halloween bash. Our friend Jen has been waiting to watch the old movie "Wait Until Dark" for a year now so we hosted the event and supplied a bunch of junk food and root-beer floats. I also made a fun dinner for Thomas of spicy pumpkin soup in these cute pumpkin bread bowls that my mom always served on Halloween, and cinnamon croutons. I was really proud of myself! I've been in a domestic mood lately, which is probably my way of distracting myself from looming course work. Bring on Thanksgiving!