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I love that the holiday season is once again approaching!  It is such a fun time for family, friends, food, and gatherings with the people you love most!  

This month being the month of Thanksgiving we all know it is about giving and being grateful.  

One of my dear friends and old roommate Julie has finished her adoption papers!  She and her husband Lance are such wonderful people and I know they will be the best parents!  In this post I ask that you keep them in your prayers.  If you know of anyone who may be in the position to help them in their adoption quest to let them know.  

Lance and Julie are trying to build their family through adoption and they are having an awesome giveaway to promote their adoption cause! Please take a minute to look at their adoption blog (http://lanceandjulieadopt.blogspot.com). Then, make sure to enter their giveaway at http://lanceandjulie.blogspot.com. 

Go ahead, make a difference in the world and in someones life- and pass it forward!  

Happy Halloween!

Last night for Halloween, we had a little 'Ghoulish Feast' with the Phillips.  The menu consisted of: Drinking blood,worms, spiders and spider webs (dips and pizza versions). 

This Halloween I really felt like an adult since we had 5 trick-or-treaters come to our door!  It was fun and I'm glad that I was prepared!  Looks like I will have to eat all the rest of the candy by myself...dang!

 

 

After our feast, we watched Garfields Halloween and Clue.  In between movies we made sugar cookies and decorated them.  Mmmm...they sure were delicious! 

I think I speak for everyone when I say we had a great time.   Too bad it's fast Sunday today and that I can't pig out on all the junk food!  :) 

Halloween

I have SO many Halloween parties to go to this year and I am so excited about it!  Sometimes I feel like since I can't trick-or-treat anymore that it loses its charm- but there is still so much to do!

Ghost Cookies!

This past Saturday was the Pugh family Halloween party.  They do this every year but I have never been before!  His mom and sisters do such a great job with all of the games and activities they do!  All the nieces and nephews have a blast and the adults do too!

The Incredibles!

We started off with a big group photo- EVERYONE dresses up!  Then we sang some Halloween songs together.  After that we had a pumpkin walk and proceeded to play Pass the Broomstick.  We had a delicious lunch of soup, salad, and spider breadsticks.  To top it off, we had homemade root beer!

The brew and the bread

For dessert, we had a donut eating contest!  It was so much fun! I'm proud to be a Pugh!

Pumpkin Patch

Last week our ward organized a hayride!  We went out to the Red Barn in Santaquin.  It was a lot of fun talking and getting to know the other couples in our ward better.  I have never been to a pumpkin patch to pick out my pumpkin and this did not disappoint!  We selected our goard and took it home to be carved later.  It was a blast!!

Hayride!

Yes, I think his tractor is sexy

 

Our 'scary' pumpkin faces

ZAP!

Do you remember that game?!  Zap!  Here are the rules:

A friend will write ZAP! on  your hand with a time on it as well.  Example: ZAP! 5:27pm

On the inside of your palm they write what you MUST do if you happen to read it before the time they wrote on the other side of your hand.  Example:  give Jayden a hug (NOT something you would want to do of course...). 

If you look at the 'dare' on the inside of your hand before the said time, you have to do what it says.  Pretty tough game huh? 

My students have been playing this game like cRaZy this week!  I completely forgot about this game until they reminded me of the rules.  Do you remember playing this?  Glad to know it is still around :)

In other school news I was voted as a 'Most Wanted' teacher in another class.  I had to get my 'Mug Shot' taken and everything.  I felt pretty cool. 

Book Review: The Hunger Games

I am always looking for great books to read.  Whether or not I actually make time to read them is another topic for discussion. 

This week I only had 2 days of school and then it was fall break!  I was very excited for this much needed time off!  I decided to just relax at home.  You know, sleep in, clean the house, get all my errands run, and best of all to read. 

This book was recently introduced to me at school.  Yes, I was a little put off since it was a book that many of my middle schoolers enjoy reading but I have to say that I LOVED IT. 

Here is the synopsis: 
In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives alone with her mother and younger sister, regards it as a death sentence when she is forced to represent her district in the Games. But Katniss has been close to dead before-and survival.

It definitely is not what I would say is a 'super mature' novel, but it was a fun fun read, and I couldn't put it down.  If you are looking for a fun, quick read- pick this one up!  There is a sequel and I am already on the hunt to pick that up too! 

Rising Star Outreach 5k

I am sure if you read this blog, you have heard mention of our friend Shauna.  I don't know how it happened but she somehow has this power to talk us into anything, anytime.  Take this past weekend for instance....

She talked Zack and I into running a 5K with her on Saturday.  We agreed happily!  Here is where I throw in the downer...we had NO previous exercise!  Needless to say we are both still pretty sore! 

Either way we still had a blast!  The race was up Provo Canyon at Mt. Timpanogas park- it was beautiful but a cold autumn morning.  Zack and Shauna (the more in shape and fast running type...) ran on ahead and got awesome scores- 24:00 range!  I was slowly trailing along behind and got 32:01!  Not too shabby for never practicing before! 

After the run, we were given a yummy breakfast! The run was the Rising Star Outreach program which helps benefit the lepor colonies.  We thought it was a very worthy cause and a great way to spend a Saturday!