if you've got it- flaunt it

brig found another useful way to make the most of his special features! that boy rocks.

his basketball tryouts began last night. they last two stinkin weeks! torture. preston's wrestling season officially began last night also. he informed me that i would HATE his coach. (i hate all high school sports, and usually the coaches as well.) but i deal with it, even though i'm not sure if that is the right thing to do or not.

"it all comes of not having front doors big enough"

we extracted the honey yesterday. it took approximately 10 hours- due to massive complications with the extractor we rented. we ended up with 25 lbs. of honey. we were told we had about 40 lbs. in our hive. we realize we must have wasted a lot. (in not knowing exactly what we were doing) however- we were the only ones who harvested any at all. cheryl and gerald's hive is almost completely dead, and our friends trent and lisa's aren't doing much better. it was insanely messy!!! we had honey every where!

i think we'll be much better at it next year. and hopefully we'll get more honey.

Halloween 2009

from halloween night- a skunk, dracula, and firefighter. (quince was supposed to be frankenstein, but he wimped out and wouldn't let me paint his face green.)

from the night of our party, after it was over and we were looking a little spent.

notice the awesome fear factor sign in the back. james and abby were awesome and did so much for the party!!! amy came and helped get all of the food together the day of. i absolutely couldn't have pulled this off on my own.

i wish i had better pictures of the table. i had so many compliments at church about how great the whole place looked. one couple (their opinion mattered to me) told me that it was the best party they had been to in a long, long time.

and although these pics don't do justice to brig's fantastic make-up or preston's sparkly chest, this was the *twilight* of the evening for me. i loved their costumes. mostly because we actually pulled it off. brig wore crutches and his knee was wrapped. spencer's hair was darkened black, although you can't tell, and preston had the pants, converse, and sparkly skin from the movie.

it was the best halloween we've had in years. i'm already planning what will and i want to be next year. :) and for the record- will tried to eat a worm. (chewed it and all) and i tried to get down a dog biscuit. it was far more diguisting than i had anticipated. but hey- james almost puked with a jar of baby food. so we're all pathetic.

***thanks everyone: for all of your decorating, painting, planning, shopping, baking, cape-sewing, ideas, and for coming to our party! you guys are awesome.