More Halloween, Happy Birthdays, and Haircuts!

Well, on actual Halloween night, we were scrooges and only handed out candy to one group of trick or treaters before heading out to dinner with some friends. Then we ended up at the Shaheen's house to carve pumpkins. I guess we're all getting rusty on keeping with traditions, because no one was too eager to jump into the pumkin guts. So between three families, this is the only pumpkin that got to fulfill his "Halloween destiny". Trav gutted it and Bron and Doug each carved a side. This was Bron's side, a tooth. He's gonna be a good dentist :)

Got to have a family picture! I'm sad you can't see Collin's onsie, because it was a cute ghost face that Grandma Evan's sent in a Halloween package. (This package even had REAL Mexican tortillas from AZ. I love good tortillas, you know the kind you can sort of see through)

Then on Sunday, Nov.1, Rachel and Crescent had their birthdays! We celebrated by having the Carters, Shaheens, Camille, Cardons, and of course the Shaws and Marchants over. We scarfed on Cafe Rio and got sugar highs from Megan's yummy cheesecake and chocolate cake.Then on Monday the celebrating continued with dinner at Olive Garden. (Luckily, there were no surprises for Rach in her napkin)These are some friends from the Amherst side of town :)... Kendra, Megan, Jen, Rach, me, Crescent, and Heather. Afterward, we went to the mall to go shopping. When I told Trav that we were going to the mall to hang out, he sarcastically asked if we were going to go pick up on guys. We all kind of agreed it felt a bit high schoolish to go to the mall but it was still a lot of fun.

On to Tuesday! This little guy was in desperate need of a haircut. His mohawk was so long, it kept flopping over, looking much like a curl. I started trying new styles like a comb over, "butt crack hair", and even a ponytail hehe, but Trav was not likin' it. (The only way he let me even do the ponytail, was if I swore I wouldn't post it on the blog :( sad, cuz it was stinkin cute)

In the Bumbo, ready to cut....

Ta da! No more curl :)

Later that night I had Bunco at Camille's house. We decided to get creative when there happened to be a "tie" for a prize. In this case, there was a three way tie for Most Buncos. So they all had to do a {jig}. It was hilarious.

I believe Natalie won.

Then we had another tie and Tiff and Chanda had a push up contest. So glad I wasn't involved in this one! I only do {girl} pushups and not many at that!

As for Wednesday, we had some more "Mesa-onians" come to the Buff for interviews, so Amy and her husband, Bret came to stay for a couple nights. Last week we had Lucas Brimley come stay with us while he interviewed. We're crossing our fingers that we get some more fun people out here next year!

And finally, today and tomorrow we get to have Miss Lily come hang out with us while her mom is working at a shot clinic. Collin is all smiles when he sees her. She is such a good baby, but it is a bit of a wake up on what it would be like to have TWO kids. Just a bit more juggling. Hopefully, I'll never have two kids this close in age though. :)