Happy Thanksgiving

We spent Thanksgiving with Rory's mom this year. Thanksgiving day we went to his Uncle Scott's place and ate loads of yummy food. And, of course, there was the Thanksgiving quail and pheasant hunt. I actually went this year although I didn't carry a gun. My weapon was my camera.

They ended up with quite a few quail but the pheasants on the property lived to see another day.

We also went to a nifty wreath making class at the local nursery. Here are the products. One for Jolene and one for us!

Jolene was so nice to buy me poinsettias. We also went Christmas shopping. So many people! I'm getting used to teeny tiny Burns. We hope everyone else had a great Thanksgiving too!

Watch out Oregon!

That's right. We are official Oregon drivers. Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat! (Psych reference) You could miss 7 questions on the test and I took full advantage of every one of them. Rory did better. But like the DMV lady said, a pass is a pass.

Wizard of Oz and other things

Last week I got to accompany the Missoula Youth Theater as it (with the help of Burns kids) put on the Wizard of Oz. Basically traveling directors come to your town and have local kids audition, rehearse, and perform a play in one week. It's amazing that it actually all comes together in that time period! The kids were awesome! I even got some roses for my efforts at tickling the ivories... although they may or may not have been meant for Michelle... either way I got roses and they have been beautifying my kitchen table.

Other than that we've been mourning the loss of a kitten and going to the Crane Hot Springs. No pictures of either though.

First SNOWWWWW!!!!!!

The cows are thinking 'dang it'....

But I'm thinking this:

And this:

Mountain Biking Take 2

We took a mini vacation this weekend!! It was stake conference so we headed to Bend and went mountain biking and shopping and soaked in a hot tub and sauna, ate a good dinner, and listened to stake conference. Aaahhh.... so relaxing! Except for the sore bottoms from biking...

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!