Breakfast with the Witches

So I did some crazy edits on these pictures. Why not right, it's halloween, a time to have some fun and be silly!

At Gardener Village this year we went to Breakfast with the Witches. The girls loved it! I thought that Tessie might be scared but she wasn't at all. She wanted to get right up on stage with them! This was a girls only outing so Luke wasn't there to take pictures, but I did take his old camera and I did my best with it. Fun times! Can't wait for trick-or-treating tonight!

There's a Little Witch in All of Us

Here are some pictures from our annual witches meeting hosted by Teri Harman. It was one of the most fun events I've been too in a long time, and by far the best Halloween celebration ever!

This image shows the school house in more daylight. It was the perfect spooky setting that night. The school house is 112 years old and pretty much out in the middle of nowhere in a small town called Camp Floyd. Jill and I carpooled out to the party and as it got darker we got further and further away from the city. The full moon was out but party covered sometimes by clouds. It was perfectly spooky! I wish I could go and do it all again tonight!

Colors

I checked out my sister's blog and discovered her color is Kelly Green. I decided to follow the link she had to the website Colorstrology to find out my color. Turns out my color is Burnt Orange. I do love orange so that is pretty fitting. Here's what the description says:

Action should be your middle name. You are never boring and your life usually moves rapidly. Your mind is quick and quirky. You can do more in a week than most people can do in a month. Scattering your energy in too many directions is often a problem. It is important that you care for your body and learn to stay in the present time. Your personal color reminds you to embrace each moment. Burnt Orange encourages loyalty, moderation, relaxation.

I do think my mind is a little quirky, but I really don't think I get more done in a week than others, in fact, it feels to me like it's the other way around. I see other people doing so much and I think, "Wow, I'd be lucky if I could accomplish in a week what others may do in a single day!" It's a goal to strive for. Anyway, it is always wise to live in moderation. Scattering your energy between too many tasks and people will result in a dissatisfied life. That much I know.

The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen

For those of you who don't know, I'm a huge Jane Austen fan! I just finished reading this book, which isn't written by Jane Austen but is about Jane Austen. I enjoyed it, a pleasant read, but of course not even comparable with the real Jane Austen! It got me thinking about some of my most favorite quotes from Jane Austen. Here are the top 4 I could come up with today: (this list may change day to day!)

1. The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. - Northanger Abbey

2. The power of doing anything with quickness is always much prized by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance. - Pride and Prejudice

3. A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. - Pride and Prejudice

4. A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can. - Northanger Abbey

The second quote reminds me of my Dad, because he has a saying that pretty much sums it up.

Haste makes waste.

And he's right about that!

Graveyard Scavenger Hunt

On 10/10/10 my mother-in-law Jill organized a Graveyard Scavenger Hunt at the Salt Lake City Cemetery. It was so much fun! We had beautiful weather that night. The assignment was to find as many graves as we could on her list and take a picture of each one to prove that we saw it. Here are a few pictures that we took:

Emo's Grave.

A prophet's grave. There are 11 Presidents of the Church buried in the Salt Lake City Cemetery.

An angel.

The most elaborate angel.

A broken tombstone.

Someone who died on Halloween.

Lily E. Gray - Victim of the Beast 666

A Soldier's Grave.

Some of the other items on the list to find were:

- same birthday as you

- same last name as you

- longest last name

- oldest tombstone

- A Governor of Utah (there are 5 buried there)

- An Apostle (there are 35 buried there)

- A Star of David

- A Lamb

- A Dove

- Most romantic epitaph

- Most humorous eptitaph

The Giant Pumpkin Festival

This festival was at Thanksgiving Point a couple weekends ago and we took the girls for an hour or so. They loved the giant pumpkins! Ava's still talking about it. The girls got to make some crafts and eat popcorn and candy corn. The pumpkins were later weighed and measured for the competition, but since we didn't stay I don't know which pumpkin won. Fun times!