Books & Trunk or Treat

"When witches go riding,
and black cats are seen,
the moon laughs and whispers,
'tis near Halloween."
-Author Unknown

Our ward had their Trunk or Treat on Wednesday, and it was pretty fun! Jason, David and I didn't dress up, but Andrew was pretty cute in his costume. There was chili and cornbread to eat first, then a costume parade (that we all walked in, because Andrew didn't want to do it alone), and then the trunk or treat. Here is a picture of Andrew in his costume:

It was the cheapest costume ever! I got the idea from Pinterest, pinned here. All we did was dress him in a button-up shirt, sweatpants, and a big beanie. I put gray eyeliner on his face like a beard (which is rubbed off right around his mouth, haha), and wrote out the sign. The funny thing is, we didn't have any string to hold it up around his neck with, so we used dental floss. Haha, oh, how creative you have to be when you're poor! I'm excited to see how everyone reacts when we take him around my parents' neighborhood for trick or treating on Monday.

Again, I have to tell you about a couple books. I love to read (like, really), and this one was recommended to me by a friend from our old ward:

Click HERE for the Goodreads summary

I loved it! Then I read the second book in the series, and I loved it even more. I'm looking forward to the third book's publication (Spell Bound, expected to be published March 13, 2012).

Click HERE for the Goodreads summary

Also, my mom, sisters, and I went to Time Out For Women a couple weekends ago, and my mom bought me this book:

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Loved it. I can't help but love a foreign love interest - especially Italian!

Secret: I always secretly hoped that some foreign man with a delicious accent would fall in love with me. *sigh*

Our October

"Day: noun. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent." -Ambrose Bierce

I've recently come to the realization that most of my days are misspent. Especially lately. Hence the lack of updates. There's nothing worth writing about! I need to work on that.

It seems weird that it's been nearly a month since I last updated the blog, and that even then I only updated it twice last month. To tell you the truth, it's not because I've been busy. It's because I haven't been. Not a whole lot has happened.

I'll post a few pictures of most of what we've been up to.

1. We've gone to Lynd's Fruit Farm a few times. This particular time was to get pumpkins and take a look at what other fresh fruits and veggies they had.

Posing with the pumpkins they had to sell at the barn. We had already picked our pumpkins from their fields ourselves.

David riding on Grandpa Budge's shoulders.

This expression is priceless! He loved these little gourds they had.

This is Andrew's favorite part of the barn - they usually have some sort of tractor outside for the kids to play on.

We've also gone outside to play outside a few times. These pictures are from today, actually.

Can a kid get much cuter than this? I submit that it would be VERY hard!

Andrew wanted to push him in the swing! I wasn't about to tell him no!

I swear. I'm never going to get a decent smiling picture of Andrew ever again! This is the kind of face he makes every time I catch him facing the camera when I tell him to smile. Haha.

Mostly what I've been doing is looking at this darling face:

I'd include Andrew's, but I haven't caught a good picture of his face in a few months... Well, I just NOW got a pretty silly one:

We've also watched a lot of these:

and

I've had a bit of a cold for the last several days, so we've been stuck inside because of a combination of that and the rain we've been getting a lot of.

A few other things we've been up to (but I have no pictures for):

• We went to the zoo
• We watched General Conference
• We went to play groups
• Andrew started preschool, run by a group of LDS moms that are in our ward (myself included)
• David went to a pediatric ophthalmologist to get his eyes and tear ducts looked at, and he's going to get his tear ducts unblocked next Monday
• My sisters, my mom, David and I went to Time Out for Women last weekend
• I've read a bunch of books, my favorite being Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins
• And we've hung out with our friends and family a lot!

Hopefully it won't take me another whole month to update again!

Secret: I have recently become addicted to Pinterest...