Trunk or Treat and YW Mystery dinner

Who is the real pregnant woman here? No one better say that it's me! We got to dress up in order to serve our Laurels and thier dates a dinner of 'severed limbs, bloody entrails, pus pockets...' (Chicken enchiladas, beef enchiladas, salad, chocolate cake and strawberry sauce... We leaders had as much or more fun than the girls and their dates!
Once again, I pushed the envelope at our ward annual Trunk or Treat. I donned by Billy-Bob redneck costume complete with pot belly, wife-beater t-shirt, whiskers, sideburns, 'tatoos' with ma and pa in the heart and blacked out teeth. But I would have to say that it was my 'briefcase' that stole the show!

My redneck briefcase!

Pumpkins in Queen Creek

Our traditional trip to the Schnepp Farms was the best so far! Not too hot and not too crowded.
Here are the tons of kids that we had with us all abroard the spooky train ride. (NOT!)


Long time friends-Kathy Partridge,
Janeen Erickson, Faith St Clair


Brooklynn is 5'3"!

We thought this old piano was so cool just sitting out in the weather.

Brooklynn on the swing!

Megan Cruz, Brooklynn, Emily Erickson, Ciara St. Clair on the man-powered go carts.

Faith, me and the goats!

The whole crowd!

Harvest happiness

The Barry Halloween party was a blast! We had our regular cake walk, fish pond, and parade, plus we had a fun target game with prizes from Adam and Anya, pumpkin decorating and of course eating! Scottee and Charlee even played us their songs from their piano recital!

Here's Adam the stud-muffin waiter!

These are the parade on-lookers...Treslee, Adam holding Greg's Ande, Greg in his new do(!), Ryan with Carter, Allison with Mollie and Brooklynn.
The parade! Scottee is Grand Marshall, Oaklee-turtle, Nina-Peter Pan, Charlee-the beautiful witch, Ella-Angel, Jaxson-pirate, Elle-Wendy of Peter Pan, Rich, Bastian-Mario, John-the mad scientist.

Ashlyn is Cinderella and Sam a skeleton.

Elle's "pumpkin" All the kids decorated their own 'pumpkins.'

Jaxson and his pumpkin

Showing pumpkins are Bastian, John, Charlee, Nina, Elle, Ella, Oaklee and Jaxson-the good-lookin one in the back is GoGo!

Bastian's 'pumpkin'

Charlee's pumpkin

John's pumpkin

Sam with Adam's wig

Oaklee's pumpkin

John, Anya, Ella, and Adam

Sam is sneaking a ride under Ande's man-power!

Camilla and trailor-trash

Don't ya wish your girlfriend was hot like me?!?

Scottee's rendition of "When the Saints Go Marching In."

Rich and his youngest, Camilla

Charlee, Ele, Nina and Bastian

Charlee and her "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" etude!

Peter Pan and Wendy

Allison and Scottee with baby Mollie-the Barry's newest!

B and Jaxson

Charlee

Oaklee

Me and Rich

Nina

Oaklee

Moab pictures

We hiked all over these smooth rocks and got some beautiful pictures. This is a world famous place called Slick Rock where bikers and hikers try to show their stuff!

I'll bet NO ONE ever took a baby in a stroller on a hike at Slick Rock until Susie Lundberg came along. Nothing stops that woman! She is macho!

Here is Monument Valley. It is worth the drive to see it!

Monticello, Utah Temple.

In the field behind the Monticello Temple was a herd of deer!

Milt's Drive-in had the absolute BEST food we have had in a long time! We ate there every chance we got, which was only twice...but, oh so yummy!

John and Susie Lundberg with Monroe, their grand daughter.

We passed by this gorgeous sight and just had to get out of the warm car and into the rain to take pictures.

John and John taking their morning walk.

Susie's stained glass picture with the early morning sun showing through it.

This is the view from the Lundberg's cabin. Moab Rim and Castle Valley beyond it.

I captured a rainbow on our way through Monument Valley.

Mexican Hat formation.

Behind us you see Indian Petroglyphs! This was after the hike to Delicate Arch and boy, was it hot and tiring!

I can't believe we were there!

Susie and I climbed that steep hill in order to see through this small arch to a beautiful view of the Delicate Arch and the valley.

This is the museum at Delicate Arch.

Dead Horse Point

John Lundberg took us on a white knuckle ride through the mountain dirt roads with deep ruts at top speed to get us to Castle Valley overlook so we could see the sun set there. I had my eyes squeezed shut so scared was I! Then when we got there John L. made us climb onto a rock that jutted out over a sheer drop off in order to get the maximum view. I have to admit, it was worth it!

My favorite picture of Castle Valley.

On the way home, we stopped in Bluff, AZ to see a site where some of the pioneers were called to settle after going over the most rugged terrain of any expedition. It is known as the Hole in the Rock expedition and is incredible to read and see what those faithful people went through.

REPENT!

The sweet little church at Bluff.

This is one of the original wagons that came across the Hole in the Rock expedition.

Bluff hogan. It was so cool inside even though it was hot outside.

Inside the hogan.