HALLOWEEN

Its that time again! We celebrated tonight by carving pumpkins. Kandace carved the cat and I carved the whatever. We still don't know what it is. The ward is having a trunk-or-treat and we have a great scene planned for our trunk and surroundings. Pictures to come.

Our ward had a friends for scouting auction this last week. They thought it would be better than going around the ward, asking for money. We agreed and volunteered a baked good for the auction. For those of you who know my wife, she loves to make cake pops, and I being her little sous chef, assisted in making cake pops. We then dropped them off because we had to go to family pictures. At what first seemed like a good idea to make them for the auction, later turned to stress for her as she wondered if her cake pops would even be sold at the auction. I texted one of my sources at the auction, and they informed us that they had just sold for over $20! Talk about a confidence boost! We made them in honor of Halloween. We were glad we could help contribute to friends of scouting through the ward in a way that was so much fun!

Spiders!!!

So were sitting on the couch the other day, just watching some tv, and a little spider happened to descend from its web and land on Kandace's stomach. Before I knew it, she let out a blood curdling scream! (Exactly like the one below) I am talking about the one off Home Alone 1 when Kevin puts that spider on Marv's face. It was like 9:00 at night. I am pretty sure the neighbors though that I was killing her... Darn Spiders...

Trying New Things

I am finally getting back to crafts! I have seen so many things i have wanted try lately! This summer i fell in love with red velvet cup cakes and found a good recipe for red velvet cake on Bakerella. It turned pretty good... it tasted soo good just didn't really turn out red.. but im working on it. Next Jocelyn and I made Halloween subway art. I got the idea from the blog http://tatertotsandjello.blogspot.com/. It took a little while but turned out really cute! We just cut a bunch of Halloween sayings from my cricket out on vinyl. I know its a little early for Halloween stuff i just get so excited for holiday crafts! Here are the pictures!

Our new friend

Kandace walked outside into our stairwell the other day and asked what was up in the corner. I came out and looked up... and saw our new little friend. He is a small brown bat and his name is Charles. He has shown some signs of life. Does he really look that scary? He moves a couple inches, changing his spot throughout the day. I did a little experiment to see how good their hearing is. I ate potato chips below him. His ears would twitch frivolously every time I would crunch on the chips. He has done no harm to us and has posed no threat. He is growing on me and terrifying Kandace. We have called the apartment complex twice and they said they would do something about him. But they have not yet. I don't seem to mind... If you want to learn more about the bats of Utah, I found this cool pdf. I know, I am a biologist right? https://fs.ogm.utah.gov/pub/mines/amr.../batposter/pallidbatposter.pdf

My guitar history

My brother happened to do a post on his bicycle history and it was very intriguing. So I decided to do a personal history on something I am adamant about; my guitars. From guitar #1 to guitar #5. I don't have them all anymore. I ended up buying and selling them to see how good of an upgrade I could get for a small price. So far... I have spent only $50 extra altogether to upgrade from #1 to #5. It was a pretty sweet deal!

Guitar #1. Oscar Schmidt dreadnought-Got if for Christmas at age 17.

Guitar #2. Oscar Schmidt Acoustic Electric-Guitar used to win my wife over in song.

Guitar #3. Harmony acoustic guitar-forgettable.

Guitar #4. Ovation Applause AA-32-Second all time favorite guitar ever, would have kept it if not for the last guitar.

Guitar #5. Aria Hummingbird-Dream guitar (for now) and will not buy another one till after vet-school as of yesterday, according to the deal I made with Kandace.

Happy Anniversary! As of August 14th! We had a great time during our anniversary. Poor Kandace was sick the whole time though. It was hard for her to taste the wonderful food at the melting pot. We didn't realize how much food we were ordering until it was too late. Artichoke and cheese fondue, sirloin steak, shrimp, duck, veggies, salads, chocolate fondue, etc... We will definitely go again. We stayed at embassy suites for the night because we were up in Salt Lake for a wedding anyways. Great Hotel! We went there on our wedding night also. Love you Babe!