The Barton Musical

One year ago, on our second date ever, we carved the amazing pumpkin that won us a gift certificate to Applebees. This year, we had a two-day pumpkin carving jubilee during which, four ordinary pumpkins were transformed into amazing carved masterpieces. And now the pictures: Getting ready to begin No Halloween is complete without a scary movie. Enter: The Great Bear Scare . See that creepy mountain? That's Monster Mountain where all the monsters in the entire world live. Now that's scary! Two pumpkins down, two more to go Junie B. Jones. This was Katie's first attempt flying solo at pumkin carving. All lit up It was only a matter of time before Jeff carved a Charlie Brown pumpkin ... ... and it turned out amazing First pumpkin of night two? Pikachu! Or should I say - Pika-Boo! And the grand finale ... The one and only Ash Ketchum-Pokemon Trainer The carvers and their creations.

First off, thank you so much to everyone who was mindful of us these past few weeks. Thanks for all the thoughts, prayers, love, support, putting our names in the temple, phone calls, and well wishes. It was deeply felt and we are so humbled and grateful. Prayers are being answered. We are both doing very well. Katie is getting better and better every day, and Jeff is being blessed in school, work, and his calling. The weekend before school started, we decided to take a vacation! So away we drove to St. George. We had such a great time! We saw Aida at the Tuacahn theater, went swimming at the city pool, ate some amazing food at the Brick Oven, climbed on big rocks, played four games of Scrabble, and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves :) One thing we didn't do is take a lot of pictures, but we'll post the few we did take. One night we stayed up late and played three games of Scrabble. We liked them so much we took pictures of all the boards. Notice all our amazing cool words? In cas...