Down Week

Well.  This was a bit of a slow week it seems.  The highlights start with Monica and I playing a mean game of lawn darts!  We have a more safe version than legit giant darts, but that didn't stop me from driving one all the way into the ground (bottom right).

It was probably the best game we've ever played.  There were only a few rounds where neither of us got a dart in the ring.  Guess we're getting better just in time for winter and it being too cold to go out and play...

I made it a goal way back at the start of the year to run to work (and, ideally, run back home too).  Well, training hasn't gone quite as planned yet this year, but I have at least run to work once before.  I decided to run to work again as it's just a little over 4 and half miles away, so shorter than many of my runs that have me returning to home.  The new challenge this time was that I needed to pack not only my clothes but my lunch.  Last time I ran in was for a big meeting with a customer with free lunch provided.

Well when the morning came it happened to line up with the first snow fall of the year!  Lucky me.  So I had to wear extra warm clothes, and then when I got out running, it turned out I was over prepared and I could have left a layer or 2 behind.

Once I got to work I decided to play a fun game with Monica called "Does it make it to work safe" which revolved around my lunch.  Here you can see my once all yellow, really great looking banana:

And my PB&J sandwich:

So I guess in the future I'll have to plan a little better what to take for lunch.  Everything else survived all right though.

We went to a play at the high school on Friday night.  One of the teachers in our ward, Joe Robinson, was in it.  The play was "And Then There Were None" and it was really good!  He even had one of the main parts and made it down to one of the last 3 alive!  It was a fun night, and good to get back out to a play again.  It's been far to long since Monica and I last went.

Now well kinda jump a couple more days forward to today.  Monica and I went on a walk after church to go see the prairie dogs.  They ran and hid initially when we stopped right outside their homes, but after waiting for a little they came out to play.

Monica was so excited to be back with her prairie dog brethren!  Just look at the excitement!

We'll that basically bring us up to the current.  We're trying to get the baby's room finalized (this week I believe) so I should have some picture of that for you next week.

I'm not sure of anything else cool going on around the house, but if you're interested in anything else feel free to leave a comment, I do try to check them occasionally.  I think that's all for now.

I think this house is haunted...

Happy Halloween everyone!  We had a splendid week, which mostly highlighted Halloween.  

On Monday Colby came by.  We had a lot of classes together back in college, and he's off finishing up grad school in New York.  He was driving from Texas to Utah to visit family and stopped by on his way.  It probably didn't hurt that we offered him a free place to spend the night :).  We went and got ye ol' Indian food and played some Roborally and didn't take any pictures ever, so there's that...

Tuesday the youth had baptisms for the dead.  It's been a long time since I've been to the temple to perform baptisms.  It was a lot of fun to be there with the youth.

Fall is definitely in full swing out here in CO.  We have one tree that is red and another that is yellow in the back yard, and the leaves are currently fighting for control of our back yard.  I guess I could go out and rake some time, but we couldn't find any of those garbage bags that look like pumpkins at the stores, so really, the yard belongs to the leaves now.

On Friday we started to celebrate Halloween with a pumpkin shaped pizza from Papa Murphy's.  I would say the pizza we got did not look as good as the ad...  What'cha gonna do...

We didn't get around to carving our pumpkins until actual Halloween night.  Luckily we finished and got them outside before any trick-or-treaters came by.

We also got a couple of decorations for the house, such as these glow eyes.  I hung them up by the corner of the house in hopes they might scare someone as they rounded the corner.  I think they spend most of the night not glowing cause sunset takes too long...  I did go shine my phone flashlight on them for a while to get them to glow a little.

This is how we decorated our front porch.  We did all of this starting at like... 5pm.  Guess we're last minute decorators.

As the night went on there was a group of three little girls that came to the door and two were ready to get candy but one was lagging behind a little and looked kind of scared.  I coaxed her into taking some candy, and as they walked away one of the other girls turned to her and said "See, I knew it wasn't really haunted!!!"  Guess that orange tape across the door is just way to convincing.

While trick-or-treaters were coming by we watched Halloweentown.  It's an old Disney TV-only movie, and it was as scary a movie as Monica was willing to watch.  We made it through the night nightmare free, so that was a relief!

We ended up with 2 extra pieces of candy, so all in all our estimating skills were pretty good.

And with that, I think it's time I go finish off the candy!