Halloween Fun!!

Welp, Tim and I didn't really do much for Halloween this year. We went grocery shopping for the first time in almost four weeks, but we didn't bother buying any candy to hand out because I was pretty sure we weren't going to have any trick-or-treaters. I was right. The doorbell didn't ring once, which was a little disappointing. It was our first Halloween in our first house and I couldn't even talk my sister into bringing her munchkins over for some Halloween goodies! Oh well.

Tim and I did go to Hollywood video and rented a couple of movies - not so much scary because I don't do scary movies - using a giftcard I got at a bridal shower, I believe, and they were pretty intense! We rented "Premonition" with Sandra Bullock and watched it for Halloween and it was enough intenseness for me for a while! Then later in the week we watched "Red Eye". I'd seen it before but it still made me so nervous at some parts that I couldn't watch!

Anyway, we did dress up our little Howie for Halloween (not that anyone saw him in his costume since we had zero (0) Trick-or-Treaters). He was a super-cute, if not fierce, Pirate Puppy. Here are a few of my favorite photos!


Howie and Scallywag Tim


In this picture he looks a little bit stealthy and pirate"ish".


Here he just looks humiliated about the costume we made him wear. Poor sad Howie!


And this is how he felt about his hat!

Finally, just for kicks and giggles, and because I think they are the cutest ever and deserve to be adored, here are a few pictures of our nieces and nephews in their Halloween attire!


The Sandall Coven (Stephenie Meyer's Edward Cullen has nothing on these vampires!) and Spider Man to save the day!


The Harry Potter gang - Hermione, Harry and Dobby!


A Butterfly and Iron Man!

HOWIE'S LITTLE EARS

This post will be dedicated to the evolution of our little How-dawg's ears. I can't say what they looked like when he was born, because, well, I never saw them. The first time I ever saw his ears he was nine weeks old and they were really cute and flopsy forward and looked like this:

And just because he is so dang cute, here's another picture from our first day with the How-dawg!



Then, a couple weeks after we got our little bundle of hair (he doesn't have fur and therefore doesn't shed too much! Happy Day!)his ears looked more like this:



They were flopsy backward and they were so cute! Tim thought he looked girly and he wasn't such a fan, but everyone at the vet's office thought he was just the CUTEST thing! And he was!



These days Howie's ears look more like this:



And he's still the cutest dog ever!

Our House - Doot doo DOO!

Now that it has been about six ages since I have posted on my blog, I have a lot to catch up on, and will hopefully be doing so over the next (let's be honest here and not commit me to catching up on too much, too fast) several weeks or months. Whatever it turns out to be. I probably won't write too much tonight. I'll post lots of pictures though, since I finally have a few pictures of our house that I can post! So, enough of the chit-chat! Here are the pictures.

Well, I'll say a couple more things, I guess. The first pictures are from our move-in day, June 21st. The rest of the pictures are more recent. Probably within the last two weeks when we finally got pictures on the walls downstairs so it looks decent enough to show to people!

So, without further adieu . . . here are the move in day pictures.























This is our free piano!! The bishop of our ward down here knew we were moving on the same day he gave his wife a baby grand piano for their eighteenth anniversary. So when the new piano was delivered they just had an extra piano and nothing to do with it. Tim got a phone call with their offer for their free, old piano. All we had to do was figure out how to move it.
Fortunately, we had the moving truck and a two other people (thanks Brian and Claudio!!) who were willing to help us haul it up the eighteen stairs from the garage to the living room! You just can't beat a free piano! Thanks Bishop and Sister Bruce!!


This is our free couch! Thanks Brian for looking out for us, and thanks Larry and Nancy Shannon (Brian's parents, and Brian is my brother-in-law) for hooking us up with a great couch! Now that Howie is big enough to get on the furniture there's no keeping him off of it. He loves it!



And now, the more current pictures!

The plant corner! We love plants and have recently started growing some herbs and some vegetables, now that it's not so hot that everything will sprout and then die from the heat!