The House, the Hoop-lah

Thar she blows!! Here is the house, yeah we bought it virtually sight un-seen. It has worked out okay so far. There are few things that I don't like about this house, but we can and will change them. For example, the paint almost every where, the kitchen counter tops, the carpet in the living room, family room and the stairs that go to the upstairs. I am thrilled to have all the room we have, that is a big bonus. Having a place to put the kids toys, down in the basement out of sight is really great. Our yard is not too bad, although its sloped in the back, so a trampoline would literally have to be dug into the ground so the kids don't slide right off of it. On the up side a flood would have to work real hard to do some real damage. We have a handful of ward members in the same area, yay! For the first time ever Justin and I have been married longer than our Bishop, that was weird. Getting settled in the ward has been a snap so far. I have a great calling as the CTR 5B teacher, those kids crack me up. Austin is in my class and no, he is not at all worried that since I am his mom and the teacher, he should not be a turkey and crawl under random chairs, just like one of the other kids did. I think he was better behaved when I was the President in the old ward. Oh well. We will work on it.

Yesterday I went and got all the Halloween cuteness I could from Hobby Lobby. If everything hadn't been on sale my poor hubby would have choked when he saw what I spent. My favorite is how the mantle above our ugly fireplace (really? brass trimming, ick) turned out. The boys really like that we have candy corn lights on the stairs banister. And a big purple spider on the entertainment center that is actually made out of large jingle bells, very creative. Not my creative-ness, but for 4 bucks I was sold!

For the last few years we have had a tradition to do a fun ding and dash for Halloween. But since last year was so nuts with Justin getting deployed, I forgot to do it in Clovis. Sorry about that, it's so fun. Hopefully it will make it around this year. So tonight we have our "victim's" picked out, the goodies are ready to be dropped off, I will cross our fingers that no nosey neighbors think the kids running off to the mini-van in the dark are up to no good and we all end up in the Clink! If we do, well at least we won't miss church, its Conference weekend!