Linus: Hell come here because I have The most sincere pumpkin patch
and he respects sincerity.
Sally BRown: Do you really think he will come?
Linus: Tonight The Great Pumpkin will rise out of The pumpkin patch.
He flies thRough The air and brings toys to all The children of The
world.
Sally BRown: Thats a good story.
Linus: You dont believe The story of The Great Pumpkin? I thought
little girls always believed everything that was told to Them. I
thought little girls were innocent and trusting.
Sally BRown: Welcome to The 20th century!

Happy Halloween!

Happy Birthday to me

Today is my Birthday! I love Birthdays especially mine. When we got together on Saturday for the pumpkin patch we also celebrated my birthday and

the Birthday of this sweet little girl Miss Ruby Reid

I really didn't turn 381

Blowing out the candles

How can you not have a great celebration when you share it with such a little cutie?

Then today at work we had a pot luck, all in celebration of me. I bought this cute cookie cake with my photo imposed on to it. They did a great job huh?

They did a great job huh? Like my new hat?

A co-worker brought me this cake

Another co-worker made this nummy cake for me, and we had cup cakes, chili, veggies, chips and salsa

It has been the bestest Birthday ever!

Here are some little no facts about my birthday in case you wanted know"

I was born on a Wednesday under the astrological sign Scorpio

The Julian calendar date of my birth is 2441251.5.

My birthday falls into the Chinese year beginning 1/27/1971 and ending 2/14/1972. I was born in the Chinese year of the pig (awesome)

As of 10/27/2009 6:33:53 PM EDT I am 38 years old.

I am 456 months old.

I am 1,983 weeks old.

I am 13,880 days old.

I am 333,138 hours old.

I am 19,988,313 minutes old.

I am 1,199,298,833 seconds old. (Wow)

Celebrities who share my birthday:
Kelly Osbourne (1984)
Scott Weiland (1967)
Jayne Kennedy (1951)
Carrie Snodgress (1946)
John Cleese (1939)
Ruby Dee (1924)
Roy Lichtenstein (1923)

In 1971 there were approximately 3.7 million births in the US.

In 1971 the US population was approximately 203,302,031 people, 57.4 persons per square mile.

In 1971 in the US there were approximately 2,158,802 marriages (10.6%) and 708,000 divorces (3.5%)

In 1971 in the US there were approximately 1,921,000 deaths (9.5 per 1000)In the US a new person is born approximately every 8 seconds.In the US one person dies approximately every 12 seconds.

My birth flower is MARIGOLD

My birthstone is Tourmaline -->The Mystical properties of Tourmaline
Pink Tourmaline promotes female balance and protection. Green Tourmaline promotes male balance.Some lists consider these stones to be your birthstone. (Birthstone lists come from Jewelers, Tibet, Ayurvedic Indian medicine, and other sources)
Opal, Jasper

My birth tree is Walnut Tree, the Passion
Unrelenting, strange and full of contrasts, often egoistic, aggressive, noble, broad horizon, unexpected reactions, spontaneous, unlimited ambition, no flexibility, difficult and uncommon partner, not always liked but often admired, ingenious strategist, very jealous and passionate, no compromises.

There are 59 days till Christmas 2009!T

here are 72 days till Orthodox Christmas!

The moon's phase on the day I was born was waxing gibbous.

The Great Pumpkin Fest

Some times life you have to something so out of the ordinary and that is just what my mom and I did on Sunday. Her sister was having a Halloween party of sorts where you bring your pumpkins carve them and roast hot dogs so we decided to go. What makes this out of the ordinary you may ask, her sisters live in Vernal and we wanted to surprise them. So bright and early we loaded the car with pumpkins, paints and carving tools and away we went. We got there a little early and just as Gage was getting out of church, so we met him at Smith's and drove around the area looking for interesting pictures to take. Love these two pictures

We arrived and what a surprise it was, despite what her sisters were saying. We roasted hot dogs and then got straight to the pumpkins

Young and old gathered on the grass to gut the pumpkins and begin carving them

Or in my mom's case paint them

Of course painting is easy and she was the 1st one done.

Oh his aching head....

The weather was nice which was good considering how it was Saturday afternoon, I was worried that once we drove the 3.5 hours to get there the weather would be icky and we would have to miss the fun

Toward the end of our time there it started to get a little chilly so we gathered around the fire to keep warm

I took some random pictures of the flames

All in all we had a great time, at least I know I did, not so sure about Gage and my mom. It was really nice to get to spend some time with Gage as I don't get much and he will be leaving soon to go on his mission. It has been a great Birthday week thus far and have I mentioned how much I love fall. There is so much to do and it is not super hot outside so you can really enjoy it. I hope you are all out enjoying this nice fall.

Pumpking pickin' and a little fall fun

Suprise, two posts in two days. It looks like I may have come out of my funk, but who wouldn't when you spend the day with the most amazing people ever. I am of course referring to my family. Today we got to go to the Barn for some pumpkin pickin' We alway go to Southridge Farms in Santaquin for our pumpkins. We started going years ago when Jared and I first lived in Santaquin and even though we have long since moved away we still continue the tradition.

We started with a hay ride to the patch. We rode on the trailer with the hay bales to make it as authentic as possible. This is is the 1st year that Amy has joined us and I hope she continues to come back

They alway have photo op's set up once you get to the pumpkin patch. This yar included benches and a little wooden fence. Ruby is just too cute not to take a zillion pictures of and I don't see her that often so I have to make up for lost time.

We could not get Ruby to look straight at us so we decided ot take the sideway approach to the pictures. Poor Kim was more that a litttle tired after haivng worked a grave yard shift she came right to the pumpkin patch.

The five of us

A look at the patch. I think this is where the great pumpkin lives

Cuteness

We tried to get the older kids to keep looking at us until we could get Ruby to look but it never worked out right

All but me in this picture. Maybe some photoshoping will make it right

Another look at the patch and the dark clouds moving in

Too cute to Spook, she is so dang cute and a little sweetheart once she warms up to you

mm.... ice cream. Poor wee one I had her on a bench to take a picture and she toppled right over ona face planted on the floor

After we got doen at the barn we all gathered back at my mom;s house for a little fall fun playing on the leaves. Ruby wasn't sure what to think at 1st but after Grandma got in and showed here it was fun she liked it. Sadie really wanted her picture taken too, she would not move.

Here she wasn't so sure

Having fun!

With Daddy

The kids got to decorate sugar cookies too and they thought that was fun until they found out the didn't get to eat all the ones they decorated.

Eryk eating his cookie. I realized that I didn't get a lot of pictures of the older kids and felt kind of bad.

We had a really great time as we always do when we get together and I am really blessed to have such a great family. I love them