Christmas list

Is everyone planning on doing a gift exchange for Christmas this year? If so I think that this is the list:

April and Ryan give to Daniel and Ashley
Crystal and Jake give to Eric
Heather and Matt give to April and Ryan
Daniel and Ashley give to Crystal and Jake
Eric gives to Heather and Matt

p.s. I think that April and Ryan are not coming out for Christmas so plan ahead Daniel and Ashley so that you can mail their gift in time.

Halloween

Okay, we are a bit slow, but it is not yet Thanksgiving so we are not too bad. Anyhow we had a nice halloween. The weather was warmer than usual and so we went trick or treating farther than the usual 7-10 houses that we hit every year. We also had neighbors and Grandma and Papa over for doughnuts and played the spiderweb game. Amelia says that since I got to pick the halloween costumes this year that next year she gets to choose my costume, that should be something to look forward to.

Thanks Papa for getting us the Chinese hats and shirts; the whole family was decked out.

Weird Invention of the day

Brent will still be hiking in 30 years thanks to these.

Underachiever.....

So, I said once a week, I missed it already.... But I do have this cool video to waste your time with today.

Engrish

If you haven't been introduced to Engrish...

Begin here.

You don't want to miss your chance...

Dog Park!

There has been a dog park open in South Ogden, just behind Shopko on Riverdale Road, this whole summer. Unfortunately we just decided it was worth visiting. We had a blast. We took the dogs for a romp a couple of times.

Lacy loved to run with the other dogs. She'd pretend to fetch the other dog's toys and then she wouldn't let them retrieve them. It was like she was playing defense. It was good for her. Winston played a little but he mostly stayed by us. He gets a little timid with lots of other big dogs around. I can't wait til it opens again in April.

April makes a joke

We are sitting in Stake conference, in the back, watching the screen. When the choir starts to sing an intermediate hymn, the guy running the camera decides that he should emulate the people who run the cameras at general conference (close ups, sweeping views of the choir, etc.) The problem is that the guy running the camera appears to have a combination of Parkinson's disease and ADHD. Watching the picture is starting to make my eyes tear up, so I lean over to April and say something like:

"Why can't he stop zooming in and out?"

Without hesitation, April responds:

"Be nice. He's just trying to magnify his calling."