Choctoberfest

Krispy Kreme had a thing on Saturday, October 9, where you could buy a dozen donuts and get a dozen chocolate glazed donuts for $1. They called it, "Choctoberfest." We didn't go to Krispy Kreme. Instead, I made those doughnut muffins again, but this time I made a double batch and dipped half in chocolate so we ended up with a baker's dozen of cinnamon sugar topped and a baker's dozen of chocolate topped. And one plain that Jet went at.

October 9 was also Chess Day. We played a video game that had characters playing chess.

It was Moldy Cheese Day. Jr. says he celebrated that one but I don't know how. I got rid of moldy cheese a few days before and I didn't take a picture this time.

 

It was also I Love Yarn Day. Nichole started knitting a puppet for her Halloween costume which she never got to use. More on that later (I did mention a while back that there was sickness in our home).

Nevermore

October 7 was Bathtub Day. Jet had a bath. Boom. Celebrated.

 

October 7 was Chocolate Covered Pretzel Day. We had those for after school snack. Boom. Celebrated.

 

October 7 is the anniversary of when Edgar Allen Poe died. Normally we don't celebrate death dates like we celebrate birthdates but it's Edgar Allen Poe so...

Nichole has been reading a lot of Edgar Allen Poe stories and enjoying them. I told her that evening she should wear all black to celebrate. She took my advice. Of course that was the concert attire for her orchestra concert so... heh heh. Boom. Celebrated.

The next day, October 8, was Fluffernutter Day. We had fluffernutter sandwiches for dinner with something else. I didn't take a picture so I don't remember what it was. That's what happens when I try to catch up on the blog a month later. But we did celebrate.

Grandma's Birthday

We wanted to celebrate Grandma's birthday, so we asked her what we should eat kind of like we did for Grandma's birthday in May and Paco's birthday in January. Mmm, Grandma had some good suggestions.

We were going to make salmon burgers to go with homemade hamburger buns but when I went shopping apparently I didn't realize that some cans of salmon have skin and bones in them. Eww. So we heated up fish sticks instead and some of us made them into fish stick sandwiches.  

We also had cherry ice cream with chocolate chunks along with gooey brownies since Grandma would prefer that.

I took a video of Jr. Jr. and Lucky wishing Grandma Happy Birthday and sent it to her along with a video of Jet singing Happy Birthday. That was cute.

Catch of the Day

 

Taco Day

October 4 was Taco Day. We had soft tacos, except for those that crisped up their tortillas and had hard shelled tacos.

The End

General Conference

Nichole: I can't wait for General Conference.

Lucky: Me, too. Nachos... and learning stuff.

 

Jr. Jr. and I finally got our hiking trip in. Before the first session of General Conference, he and I headed up to Big Springs to hike. It was beautiful weather. There were turkeys, of course.

And the Fall colors? Mmm, I went to my happy place again.

 

We reached our goal destination then hurried back down and made it to the van before the first session of General Conference started. Yay. 

Talk about the benefits of technology. Jr. Jr. and I listened to Conference on the radio during our drive home, then I listened to it on the internet on my phone while I was getting something to bring inside, then everyone was watching it on TV when I got inside. Woohoo. Love it.

We of course had our traditional General Conference Nachos both days.

For the Saturday evening general session, we made brownies which everybody got to eat at the same time since we all got to watch the session together. Woohoo. Yay for a general session on Saturday evening. They were thinking of just stopping having the Saturday evening session completely but I'm glad they changed it to having a general session.

By the way, we did start the brownies from the middle of the pan as is our tradition.

Sunday afternoon after the last session we thought we'd head up to Big Springs as a family, maybe take some family pictures. Apparently everyone else had the same idea. So much traffic. So many parked cars. We drove up South Fork Road, didn't even turn into the parking lot at Big Springs Park, but turned around and joined the long line of cars going down the road back to Provo Canyon, where we turned right instead of left so that when we turned around later, it was easier to be on the road already to join the long line of cars just past Bridal Veil Falls heading out of the canyon. Wow. I'm so glad Jr. Jr. and I were able to get out Saturday morning.

So no family pictures. But we found Waldo.

And Nichole found him another day at the library.

The Boys Got to My Blog

What happens when Nichole and Mom have to go out and Mom leaves the blog open?

 

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