Halloween 2023

Happy Halloween!

This Halloween is one we will never forget.

One of my favorite things about Halloween is the picture sharing in my family of the costumes.

From Alaska:

Pregnant Caitlyn as a disco ball!

From Michigan:

Nora, a character from "Among us".  Miles riding a skeleton dinosaur,

Dex as Captain Jack Sparrow, (and Dexter's friends)

From Utah:  Braden as Oogie Boogie, Hanna as Sally, Rex was Mario.  Dean and Erika as old people, Livy as a troll, and Lucy was a mermaid.

My friend Ronna, and her Real Estate company put on a trunk or treat each year, and it has become tradition that we go to it a few days before Halloween.  They do a great job of having fun things for the kids!

Hanna asked if we wanted to make a Frankenstein for Rex's school class party.  We may have gone "full Perry" on this one.  (inside joke for those that know the Perrys)  The idea here is that you put your hand in Frankenstein's nose, and you either get you hand in snot (slime), or you get candy.

Livy invited us to watch the elementary school Halloween parade.  I love seeing the cute kids and the creative costumes. 

I think Lucy was being a spider while we waited for the parade to start.

Hanna, Lucy and Braden watching the parade.

Livy

Rex

...and my good friend Sherri Morrill teaches at the kids school, so we got to see Sherri Barbie!

After the parade, I went for my walk.  There was zero wind, so reflection pictures were a must!  This is from the other side of the pond behind our house.  Our house is the very last one on the right.

Braden and his family came over to show off costumes before trick-or-treating.

We have amazing neighbors, that provided us with entertainment!

The Mitchells and the Rogersons are so fun!

We have a Halloween tradition of having our firepit in the driveway, and inviting Lana over.

My parents stopped by too!

This is a fun holiday for our neighborhood!

 

Annular Solar Eclipse 10-14-2023

I happened to be in St. George for the Sr Games during the Annular solar Eclipse.  I went over to Krista's house view it with her.

I ordered these eclipse viewing glasses on line.

We thought we were pretty dang cute!

We tried so many ways to get a good picture of the eclipse, it was super entertaining, with very poor results.

Kurt using his welders mask to try to get a good picture.

We held glasses up over the camera lens to get these.  I guess taking pictures of the sun should be left to the professionals!

We kept trying to get a picture, but we couldn't see the phone through of glasses, so we had to just aim it in the general direction.  We were laughing so hard trying to get the perfect photo....I guess you had to have been there!

With a little cropping of the photos, we got a couple with both of us in them!

...or if we hand our phone off to Kurt to take a picture, we can get one with both of us in the frame!

 

Senior Games, 10-13-2023 Spikealogical Warfare

 This year for the Huntsman Senior Games I got invited to play on two teams.  The first session, was for 55 and older, and I played on Faith's Spikealogical Warfare.  Oct 13-14 were pool play, and the tournament was on Oct 16, and 17.

Karen, Erika, Faith, Jodi, Ramona, Bernie, and Ilene.

Karen is our Setter.

She got injured in the second game of pool play. 

 We sure missed her in the rest of the games!

I play Outside Hitter.

Faith plays Middle Blocker

Jodi is our other Middle Blocker

Ramona plays Opposite

Bernie is our other Outside Hitter, but shifted to play Setter when Karen got hurt.

...and Ilene plays backrow for Faith.

Having to pose with Mexico after they beat us! 

 Maybe should have taken the picture before!

Karen, Ilene, Ramona, Bernie, Jodi, Faith and Erika

Hope to see them all again next year!