Jack-O-Lanterns!

We carved pumpkins for Family Night this week.

Here's Dallin scooping out the guts.

Sean wasn't very interested in gutting or carving the pumpkins. In fact, we ended up putting him to bed after he scribbled on his pumpkin and then ran off somewhere--probably to break some more DVDs.

But Daphne and Dallin enjoyed it.
Daphne requested a "cute happy face," which Arthur helped her with.
Very cute and very happy, don't you think?

Dallin designed his very own angry face, which came out great. And those straight lines make for some speedy carving action. It's the blasted curves that take forever!

I ended up carving a face Daphne drew since Sean's design was impossible to carve.
Halloween just brings out the creative genius in us all. Happy Haunting!

2007 Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta

This is one of my favorite things about Albuquerque. Every year at the beginning of October they put on the annual Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, the biggest ballooning event in the world. It is so much fun, and I think I like it more than the kids. We woke up this morning at 5:15 and headed out to Balloon Fiesta Park. It's normally a 15-20 minute drive, but with all the traffic for the fiesta, we arrived there a little after 7 a.m. The cool thing about Balloon Fiesta is that you can walk around the field and actually watch the whole inflation process from rolling it out to take off.


There are a lot of "special shape" balloons, but I think wind forecasts may have scared some off this morning. The one shape in particular that we all wanted to see was the new Darth Vader balloon from Belgium. But he must have left early because we didn't see him there today, much to Dallin's disappointment. (Mine too, I admit.) But we found a picture of it to show you all because it really is an impressive balloon. Hopefully he'll come back next year.


We did get to see a lot of other cool ones; Clarabelle the cow, The two bees who take off holding hands, give each other a kiss, and then fly separate directions, a scarecrow, a haunted house, and of course the traditional tear-drop balloons are fun too.




After the balloons have all taken off (there are hundreds of them on a good wind day--it's really spectacular) we share breakfast burritos (with lots of green chili) and fresh squeezed orange juice. Mmm-Mmm good! After such a fun morning, we will all enjoy a good nap this afternoon.

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Mike and Amber!

We were lucky to have Mike and Amber (Arthur's brother and his wife) come visit the last weekend in September. We visited the zoo on Friday while Dallin was in school, and then Saturday, we went to the BYU/UNM Football game. BYU won 31 to 24. GO COUGARS! We just wish Mike and Amber could have stayed longer! We love you guys!

Daphne is feeling a little nervous about that cougar. It was pacing because feeding time was approaching.

Sean and Uncle Mikey

The BYU football team doing the Haka! (a Maori war dance)

BYU FANS!