good time had by all...

working backwards:

Saturday night Glen was involved in a murder mystery play "Reno: 1930" where he played Hammond Agze (pronounced Ham 'n Eggs). His sister, Teresa, went with me to this fund raiser for CAPS (Churchill Animal Protection Society). Besides the play, there was an excellent all-you-can-eat buffet catered by Suzie's BBQ. Teresa and I both pinned the murders on the wrong character, but that's OK because it was a lot of fun. It would have looked bad if I had won anyway...

[if the photo turns out that Teresa took of Glen and me, it'll go here]

I had asked Eric about Salt Lake looking "autumn-y." Eric sent this picture. I think he took it himself, but there's a chance his companion took it. I love it and think I need a print for my wall of it.

I know these next 2 photos were taken by Eric's companion:

too bad part of Moroni is cut off, or I might have wanted a print of this for my wall, too

Friday night was the ward's Trunk or Treat night. Alex won the most original costume. He came up with the idea by himself--he's holding lemons, in case you can't tell. Pretty clever. You can't really see my earrings very well, but I was quite pleased with them--I used shrinky dinks to make greenwave earrings to go with my Pep Club member costume.

I made cupcakes for the cake walk. I looked up halloween cupcakes on pinterest and chose this idea:

mummy cupcakes that kind of remind me on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

And one of my favorite costumes was a mother and her newborn dressed up as a spider web and spider:

Thursday night was the One Act Play competition with Glen's students directing Junior High kids. It was a lot of fun. There's some good talent coming up in the next year or two.

I was able to take a few walks this week. I brought my camera along to get some photos of fall. This is my favorite. I think I need a print of this photo for my wall, too:

Eric will be home in a month and other family news

We received the letter from Eric's mission President. It's official now. We pick Eric up on November 19th and his family history mission will be at an end. I'm happy and sad at the same time. What a great place for Eric to be, but I miss him, so it'll be great to see him again.

Alex, having just turned 14, attend his first church dance last night. Since it is October, he could wear a costume, if he wanted. Hannah tried to convince him to wear his pajamas, shape his hair in the front, and go up to girls and say that he was the man of their dreams. No big surprise, but he refused and didn't dress up at all.

He was  a bit nervous, but it seems he had a good time. He danced with 6 different girls...5 of whom asked him to dance (thanks girls!!!) and the 6th one, well, someone he doesn't know dragged him over to a girl he didn't know, so Alex asked her if she wanted to dance and she said yes. Too funny.

Our library is about to go through a big remodeling, so when you check out books this month you have the option to keep them until next March so they don't have to pack them up and store them while the building is under construction. Alex and I have our winter reading all lined up. I have 3 books on gingerbread houses, two on emergency preparedness, one each on making stained glass items, on making beaded jewelry, and on how to do family history research on the internet. I also borrowed 3 Harry Potter books in Spanish, one mystery novel (A Crossword to Die For--it has several crosswords sprinkled throughout the book), and 4 non-fiction books. One of them is Banana: The Fate of the Fruit that Changed the World (my dad worked for Chiquita for 30 years, so I had to get that one). Another book is Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes, which is a book I read years ago. Then there's Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers and also Hungry for Change: Ditch the Diets, Conquer the Cravings, and Eat Your Way to Lifelong Health that are in my home now. I'm excited to read them all. Glad I have until March to do so.

Yesterday, to celebrate a friend's birthday, a few of us went to Reno to the craft fair at McQueen High School. We had a great time. There were a ton of gorgeous and delicious things. I usually don't buy things, but this time I did. I love quails and am always on the lookout for them. I found this fused glass quail that I thought was adorable. I also found a family tree picture to put on our wall.