Halloween

Halloween was fun this year! First of all, I had my baby shower on October 30th (which is Saturday) and Halloween was on Sunday. My mom surprised me by showing up on Friday for my baby shower!! It was such an awesome surprise and I was soooo excited! So she got to be here and help us carve pumpkins on Friday night (which she "loves" to do...not).

Also, can you guess what I was for Halloween?????

If you guessed a PUMPKIN you would be right. The greenery gave it away huh?! Haha jk, if you didn't guess I don't blame you.

So I got 6 pumpkins this year. One for everyone in our family including that animals. 

There was one for Tristan, "Mr. T"

One for Megany, "Lil Mama"

One for Scottie, the grim reaper

One for Kitty, paw with claws and a "K"

And one for Meli, a paw with a "M", and one for Dash, a paw with a "d"

Scott's is definitely the best one and the most creative! He always amazes me. I was going to do a spider but it was taking too long on carving the others and Lil Mama just seemed easier.

Camping

This last weekend, our ward had a Ward Camp Out up Hobble Creek Canyon in Springville. It had been planned all month, and I had switched work with some of the girls at work so I could go on this campout. As it got closer, we saw that it was supposed to rain. But, we still wanted to go because we haven't gone camping in a while, and I love camping.

Meli and Dash came with us and as we were driving there, it started raining. The raindrops got bigger and bigger. Well... at the grounds where our ward was, everyone was huddled underneath tarps because it was raining so much. It eventually slowed down to a light sprinkle and that's when we decided to hurry and put up our tent before it started raining again.

We were a little too slow. Our tent was still lying flat on the ground when it started POURING! Even harder than it had been before. We hurried and tried to put our rain tarp over the tent, but water still got in it. We were soaked! Scott and I were going as fast as we could trying to get the tent up. Well, Meli had a blast! She loves water so she was off and we actually couldn't find her for a while because she was exploring. Dash was absolutely MISERABLE! I wish I could've gotten a picture of him (but it was pouring) because he was huddled underneath a nearby tree, frowning at us. His little eyebrows were just drooping because he was so miserable. We couldn't stop laughing.

Well, I ended up staying with the ward underneath the tarps (soaked in my clothes, literally...it was like I jumped into a pool and got out) while Scott hurried home, with the dogs, to get towels, new sets of clothes, and dry the dogs off. When he did get back, we cleaned up the inside of the tent and everything went smoothly after that. Funny thing was, it didn't rain anymore after we cleaned everything up.

I still had lots of fun! I sure had a heck of a lot of laundry to do the next day. It was worth the memories though! Here are some pictures:

I am starting to look like I actually put a small basketball underneath my sweatshirt! But.. I didn't. :)

And that one picture doesn't look like there was a lot of water, but that was the tarp underneath our tent. We had already got our tent on the tarp before it started pouring. And we also got rid of some of the puddles before we took the picture.

Introducing Dash

Over the weekend, Scott & I went down to St. George to meet my parents at my grandma's house. We also went down there not just for a visit but to receive our new puppy!! It's a boy and he is my lil half breed!

The story about him is this: My parents were walking into Petsmart and saw this woman carrying a cute puppy who looked like he was partially weenie dog (dachshund). They stopped to pet him and this woman started telling them her story. She had decided on getting a dog for her son and she went to the pound to go look. She found this puppy who was 4 days away from being put down. He was only 4 months old and was found wandering the streets. She said she couldn't just leave him, so she took him from the pound to give to her son. The son apparently couldn't take him, so now she was stuck with him, but she couldn't take him because she was going to California and she already had two dogs. She said her husband would be upset if she brought home another dog! Therefore, she was trying to get rid of him. My mother (who has become a softie in her later years) couldn't let him go either. She just looked at my dad and he told her to take him. She knew that we wanted another weenie dog so she thought of me when she was taking him. And they brought him up to St. George to meet us and give him to us! And thats the story!

This little guy is half miniature dachshund, half terrier (don't know exactly what kind) and he is so cute! My lil half-breed! Haha! He gets along really well with Meli who is my fat weenie dog! The cat finds him interesting and will play with him a little bit too. We had a lot of names picked out for him but couldn't decide on exactly who he was. My family named him Dug after the movie 'Up!' but he just wasn't a Dug. If anything, Meli is a Dug because she is fat, and has the same 'Dug' eyes, and smile. There was also Tigger because he kind of looks like a tiger with his orange and black stripes. But Tigger I didn't really like. We thought of Spock which would've been really cool! But... he just wasn't a Spock either. Then, I was listening to Dashboard Confessionals (one of my all time favorite bands) and I knew his name was to be Dash. It fits him just perfect. So here we are, introducing our new member to the family, Dash!

This is when my parents were bringing him up. He is the best traveler. He just sits in one spot (wherever you put him, he stays) and sleeps. The perfect travel dog. I love this picture because its so funny how he sleeps haha!

Here is Dash! He is with my brother Tanner before they brought him up to us. He has the face of a terrier and a body of a weenie dog! I love his face though, he has cute old man whiskers but an adorable puppy face. My lil half-breed...awww!

This is all I can do for now, but I will add some more pics.