I found it!

I found the camera and decided to post a few photos already on it.

Here's the front of our new house.

Here's the garage door (these photos could almost fit side-by-side to complete the front)

This is a photo of our "barn" in the backyard. Someday I may paint it red and white

Here's our girls in front of the new couch.

Oh, and I found a new thing to be super excited about today - Fancy Nancy! If you haven't read the books you absolutely should. Apparently there is a delightful doll at Target that goes with the books. I totally want to add these books and this doll to my collection!!

Where is my camera?

I'm all set to take some photos of the new house but sure can't figure out where I "moved" my camera. :o(

Oh what a night!

We closed on our house yesterday afternoon. Hip hip hooray! We had a great showing of elders quorum members to help us move. It was wonderful! I'm sooo grateful they were willing to come help us. (And there was only one minor mishap to remember them by...) BUT there will be a whole nother post about the house. This post is about last night.

Last night after we closed and when shopping at Lowe's for new locks, we had our date night - creating Richard's EQ Pinewood Derby car. It rocked! Here are some pics.

The finished project


The back view

Me almost passing out when he tried to cut his thumb off with a table saw.

Masterpiece and pieced together thumb.


The time we finished - yes that is AM!

Happy end to the story - Best in Show (and not even last place)!

Exciting new things!

Well, today I went to Super Saturday and learned a couple of new skills and strengthened friendships with a couple of friends. I went to Pet Smart to price invisible dog fences and adopted a new dog (although she will stay with the foster mom for another week or so.).

And I held off sharing because it's still in the works but we are closing on a house on Nov 17. It's in Hurst (so we'll stay in the same ward). We are really excited about it. I'll post more about it when it's actually ours!

Halloween shenanigans

Just a quick post with a few photos from Halloween. We sure do love dressing up. It's definitely a tradition for us. We LOVE doing couples and this year we chose Shrek and Fiona. I put most of it together from Thrift Town items. The crowd reaction was phenomenal. We had people running us down in the store to get our photo.


Richard totally shaved his head and super-glued on the ears. That's real dedication! How did I get so lucky.


We won 1st place in the costume contest.


Other costume contest winners.

Here are a couple other costumes I really appreciated.

This is Tim from my primary class

This is Melissa as a Muppet.