Sophie the Witch!

Our neighbor, Susan, let us borrow this costume for Sophie. It was the greatest because my dad walked into the house and Sophie just walks right in with this ridiculously looking witch costume and I told her to sit so I could take pictures of her. She seriously didn't move for 5 minutes. She just sat on the floor while we were laughing and taking pictures. What a gem. (she looks very mangey because it's been 4 weeks since she was groomed! Appt is tomorrow!)

Look at what we saw today!

Papa Briggs came to Charlotte for 24 hrs!

My father in law, Larry, came into town today unfortunately for a funeral of a coworker. Ryan and I were able to meet up with him for dinner! We had a blast! We have definitely missed Ryan's family since they moved to Chicago. Larry gave us the latest update on the family and the house. We found out this week that everyone, except baby Joshua have a calling in their new ward! They have been in Chicago since the beginning of September and they are all serving in the Ward. What a blessing for the ward! We miss them SO much! Thanks for dinner Larry! We love you!

Larry said that we looked "healthy." Ryan and I both said that we eat well which makes us chubby. It is okay because in 2 months we will be living in very cold conditions. Fortunately, we will lose weight because we'll be shivering so violently!

Halloween House gone WRONG!

Ryan's mom surprised us with a Halloween package in the mail last week. And inside was this adorable ginger bread house pre-made, with packaged frosting, candy and pictures of decorating ideas.

I was SO excited to make it! We first popped in Hocus Pocus! Love that movie! And Ryan has NEVER seen it. I was shocked. Then we took the ginger bread house out of the box and sometime during the trip from Chicago to Charlotte one of the peaks on the house crumbled. While I mixed up the frosting, Ryan fixed the roof. I was a bit nervous to eat the frosting because it hardened like glue. Ryan was getting pretty annoyed of me because 1. I kept eating the candy, 2. I love using EVERYTHING, so the house looks cluttered, and 3. I kept messing up his design. Ryan frosted basically everything after I messed up the windows...My excuse is that I made the orange frosting too thin! I swear. But, all the added candy touches are mine! And this is what we came up with! I love you Dolly! Thanks for thinking of us and sending us the house!

Ryan's side

My side (I realize I'm no Martha Stewart)It's fine if you laugh, I'm not offended.

We both LOVE Halloween so we had lots of fun!