Pumpkins!

It’s pumpkin carving time! Yesterday we carved pumpkins with Andrew’s brothers and our friends Jordan and Lacey. This year we bought the actual pumpkin carving knives because last year we attempted to carve pumpkins with kitchen knives and surprisingly (and luckily) kept all our fingers! It was quite a dangerous feat doing it that way!

Jordan and Lacey

The band of Brothers

Me! (Lacey took a picture for me cuz I’m always the one taking the pics.)

The finished products from left to right: Andrew, Lacey, Alex, Alyse, Anthony and Jordan (the one with the glowing eyes you can barely see)

And here are some close ups:

This is what Jordan’s actually looks like. It is only carved through the skin, not all the way through and it glows pretty cool but the picture just didn’t show up very well.

Our New addition…..

We recently decided to add another dog to our family. Sasha has become a bit of a spoiled brat being an only child ;) and so we figured if we added another furbaby to the family now, she would get used to us splitting our attention between her and another creature so that when we get a baby of the human variety, she would deal with it better. So far, it has been fun with the new addition. We adopted a beagle from the animal shelter and named her Cassie.

Cassie is a total snuggle bug and we have come to call her our damsel in distress because if we ignore her and give our attention to Sasha, she gets very jealous and whines a lot like she is being tortured. Sasha is our Drama Queen. She likes to bug Cassie and if Sasha feels like Cassie is getting too much attention, She will go and SIT on Cassie! Like literally go over to Cassie and try to sit on her head! Needless to say we have had our fill of laughs this past week between the two dogs and I’m sure we will have many more. She likes to burrow into blankets

Cassie, with Andrew and his brothers

Me under the dog pile

Oh and last Saturday, I decided to attempt and walk both dogs by my self. I was nervous that it would end up being both dogs trying to walk me and that it would be just a joke trying to deal with the both of them but I found out that walking two of them is actually better than walking one of them! it was so much easier for some reason. Any way I was quite proud of myself. :)

Antelope Island

Recently, I got to visit Antelope Island with my Good Friend Jasmin and her parents from Switzerland. It was wonderful to see them again and to spend time with them. When I visited Switzerland 5 years ago, I stayed with Jasmin’s family and got to know how wonderful they are. They are such sweet people. I miss them and I hope I can go visit them again in their homeland someday.

Well we did a short hike on Antelope island and although the hike was hot with NO shade it was fun to spend the time with Ruth and Heinz.

Heinz taking pictures of the buffalo

 

The view from the top of the peak on Antelope Island.

Heinz and Ruth at the top of the peak

Ruth trying to rope a cow in the small pioneer village.

View of the lake. The reflection was cool.