Happy Halloween!

I know, I know, it's not actually Halloween yet but we've already celebrated and moved on. Yesterday was our wards Halloween party. There was a bunch of yummy chili and oh so delicious pies!! I went as a punk (again...) because I'm completely unoriginal. I did add a nose ring this time. I got a lot of open mouth stares from the kids in the ward. Haha.

Rory was awesome and went as Mort or Death or an otherwise skellingtony thing. He was a total hit and made a few kids cry... seriously. We were in charge of the put-your-hand-in-the-box-and-feel-the-creepy-stuff-inside booth for the little carnival and one kid wouldn't even come into the room because Rory was so scary. Hopefully we don't have angry parents knocking down our door in the next few days.

Ex Elder Pete

This weekend we went home and saw Pete! He got home from his totally honorable mission to Brazil on Wednesday. The visit was way too short but we stuffed lots of things in even though I forgot to take pictures of a lot of it. We went to the straw maze and rocked out to System of a Down.

We got lost in the straw maze and had to be rescued by Rory and William... twice.

We eventually did make it out of the straw maze.

We played lots of games and had lots of good food and hung out with lots of awesome family and friends!

And we even listened to Pete's homecoming talk! Way to go Pete!! It's good to have you home!

Apples and Fossils

This weekend Rory and I went to pick apples at the Kimberly Orchards. It was a beautiful day to pick and we got a ton.... sort of by accident. It's amazing how fast you can pick 220 lbs of apples! Luckily we have some friends that we're sharing with.

On the drive home we stopped at the John Day fossil beds and went on a little hike. The water was greenish blue!

One visitor to the park commented that they expected to see Kirk and Spock at any moment. we agreed.

We also stopped at the Historic Cant Ranch and the fossil beds visitor center.

Burnin Ring of Fire

Work photos! We've been doing prescribed burns. Everyone has to wear a yellow shirt. Rory being the pump man:

We're burnin medusahead plots here using drip torches. The cowboy is Rodney. His wife makes good salsa.

We're also burning some plots out at the Butte. They have a lot of sage brush so we had to chop some down so certain things won't burn. Like the H braces and electrical boxes. This is us in our sage brush chopping gear:

Our burns at the Butte didn't work to well. There wasn't enough wind or ground litter to get them to spread. Bummer.