October…

My parents came for a visit the beginning of the month and it was so much fun to have them come and see where we live! We enjoyed conference weekend together and went to Greenbluff, Bowl and Pitcher and visited the Spokane Temple. It was such a wonderful weekend and I loved having them here. I have the greatest parents and feel so incredibly blessed!  Love you maw-maw and paw-paw.

Neal's Grandpa passed away on October 9th. The funeral was that next weekend  so Neal and I hopped in the car and drove home for the funeral.  Neal gave a great prayer at the funeral and his brother Nephi gave a great talk. I enjoyed hearing the grandkids tell stories and reminisce about Grandpa Richins. It was a beautiful funeral and the family paid a great tribute to him.

We had 3 Halloween Party’s this year. We had the annual chili cook off/trunk-or-treat as a ward party and also the following 2 parties! 

Party #1: The Klain’s a cute family in our ward did an adult only party. We played Pictionary, family feud Halloween style, murder mystery and ate great food!

Heather and Ken Klain

Brian and Becky- A”SALT” riffle and peppered with bullets

The Rippey’s: Baby wranglers

Heather and Justin: Brick and Brick layer

Sarah and Brandon: The Farmer and the Dell

Shawn and Felicia: Granny and Red

The Urichs: Gladiator and Medusa

Schaber’s: Prisoner and Officer

Sharps: Scott Pilgrim

Anneice and Tim: UPS man and the Total Package

Cardoza’s: The Walking Dead

Emily and Gene: Kate and Will

Alex and Christy: Wonka and Oompa Loompa

Neal and I

Owl Cupcakes for Party

Party #2 at Sullenger’s:

We ate food, drank homemade root beer, played pictionary, the game of Things and chatted it up.

Cheese Ball for Party # 2

All the costumes:

Danielle and Bobby as a Bee and Captain America

Summer and Brian as Tinkerbell and Captain Hook

Cara and Kash as TMNT - Donatello and Leonardo

Angie and Tyler as angels

Kevin and Julie as 80's era.

Brad and Robin as "Bradman and Robin"

 

Me and Neal as crayons if you couldn’t guess :)

Erica and Landon as a bee and a genie

Ordered this little cutie from my friend Christine—she’s so talented—Love my new Halloween Doll!

Neal got bored in Sunday school and drew this

My fav hot chocolate of all time

Halloween…

The SSA at Neal’s school had an awesome party with fun games and I went as a flapper and Neal was my flapper boy (Thanks Tiff for letting me borrow your flapper dress). Here’s some pics of the night. Enjoy!

Flapper boy and Flapper and this is Neal’s sexy face..sexy!

This is Halloween…This is Halloween…

Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!

We started off this Halloween by going to Knott’s Scary Farm with some of Neal’s classmates. Oh.my.goodness. it was so fun and SCARY!

 

It was so awesome. These were  all the TERRIFYING MAZES:
*(1) “Sleepy Hollow Mountain” (Log Ride)
  (2) “The Labyrinth” (Flying Ace Balloon Race)
*(3) “The Doll Factory” (Wilderness Dance Hall)
  (4) “Lockdown: The Asylum” (GhostRider)
  (5) “The Slaughterhouse” (Main Gate/Camp Spooky)
*(6) “Fallout Shelter in 3D“ (the Lake)
  (7) “Club Blood” (GhostRider)
*(8) “Terror of London” (Mystery Lodge)
*(9) “Black Widow’s Cavern” (Calico Mine Ride)
*(10) “Virus Z” (Fiesta Plaza)
*(11) “The Corn Stalkers” (Stage Coach Trail)
*(12) “Dia Del Los Muertos” (Bumper Cars)
*(13) “Uncle Bobo’s Big Top of the Bizarre in 3D” (Xcelerator)

We hit up these *9  and even rode 2 rides. We wished we would’ve gone to this the last 3 years it was so fun. But seriously there were some creepy things….(weird Doll ladies bending their bodies in ways that seem impossible). They not only had the people jumping out at you in the mazes but they had people dressed up roaming the crowds randomly jumping out to scare you…one guy with a chain saw, freaky clowns (Neal’s worst), and MANY other creepers.

 

Neal’s classmate Teni made the night, she was TERRIFIED in the mazes. She’d just freeze up and scream and scream and scream so all the haunters loved her reaction and just kept following her around. I’m pretty sure she lost her voice.

Then Saturday night, was our churches “Trunk or Treat” Carnival thing. It was fun and they had cotton candy…here’s a Shout Out to some of our cool friends who dressed up: (P.S. CA Friends, I hope you don’t mind us sharing these, if you do let me know and I’ll take them down)

 

Us as Milk N’ Cookies

 

Anderson’s

Cook’s

Warren’s

Egbert’s

 

Tucker’s 

Urien’s

We didn’t catch everyone of our friends in their costume though so if you want me to post ya up here on our blog (since we’re SO cool :)) just send your picture my way!

Halloween Party and Pfau’s Sealing

This weekend started off our Halloween Happenings. The Optometry school’s SSA put on the first Halloween Party. It was a lot of fun. Neal and I won “Best Couple” costume. We were Edward and Bella from Twilight! (Neal’s idea I swear!) Neal even put glitter on his skin to sparkle like Edward’s does in the sun! You can’t really see it in the pictures but it was pretty awesome!

Looks like the book cover right?! :) haha

My sister had the idea to spray paint tree branches black and put cobwebs in them for decorations, we decided to miniaturize them and instead used them as centerpieces, pretty cute! Thanks Holl!

Again from my sis Holly’s blog (thanks again) she got the idea from Hostess with the Mostess! My sister has some great ideas for Halloween so go check out her blog!

The winner’s of the costume competition: The Scariest- Richardson’s, Best Couple-Us, Best Overall- Neville’s, and Most Creative-Owens

A first year couple Zack and Krystal Pfau and their daughter Ruby, got sealed in the San Diego temple yesterday and we were able to go. It was a neat experience to watch them make this step to becoming an eternal family. I got all emotional as Ruby was sealed to them, I was thinking how wonderful it was that Neal and I were sealed in the temple and because of that Jayden will be part of our eternal family forever. I would never want to lose him or Neal and I feel so grateful for the blessing of the Temple and being an eternal family!