Formula for Disaster

Recipe for ruining Halloween:
Work hard during the day
Mow yard
Apply fungus prevention
Apply fertilizer
Apply bug killer
Get the great idea to get rid of all the other bug killing chemicals in your garage
Spray down your front bushes, trees, and yard with this stinky bug killer
Water in to make yard wet
Let simmer for a few hours until it gets dark
Open the door to see why nobody is stopping at your house even though your lights are on and you have bowls full of Halloween candy and you can hear kids all over the streets outside
Smell the air
Go to the edge of the sidewalk and smell the air
Go to the middle of the street and smell the air
If you still can smell the stinky bug killer from the middle of the street, then you have successfully ruined Halloween!!
Epilogue: If some brave souls do knock on the door and and hold their nose while saying trick or treat, give them a handful of candy for being so brave and you can get rid of all the sweets.

Where did it go

Just sitting here in the dark waiting for the power to come back on. It's been out for 36 minutes so far. I hope it comes back on before "the office" comes on. Did you know our TV comes right back on after the power comes on? It has bumped on a couple of times and it makes me jump because the smoke alarm beeps and some other creepy noise is made in here somewhere. Never had this problem in Lewisville. Too many overhead power lines out here. Something else weird, the street lights don't go out. Uh, I take that back. Not all the street lights go out. Mom is at a relief society meeting somewhere and I hope they have power wherever they are at. I guess I'll turn on Hulu and just watch till the power runs out on the laptop. 40 minutes now. :)

General conference

All of the sweets were gone by just two people. We also ate 1 year 72 hour kit food. It was ok, but I wouldn't recommend it. We should probably change that stuff out every 6 months. Even chewing gum doesn't last too long.

3rd Times a charm

Good hard work - we're sore!

Color Question and The Moral to the Story

Before and after photos of the kitchen - baked clay then warmed peach. Which do you prefer? Mom - neither. Dad - warmed peach is awesome! (the pics don't really give you a good idear, please come and see)




Among the inspirations we've had to pay off debt, the one below from President Hinckley is one of our favorites.

"One of the happiest days in the life of President Joseph F. Smith was the day the Church paid off its long-standing indebtedness.

What a wonderful feeling it is to be free of debt, to have a little money against a day of emergency put away where it can be retrieved when necessary.

President Faust would not tell you this himself. Perhaps I can tell it, and he can take it out on me afterward. He had a mortgage on his home drawing 4 percent interest. Many people would have told him he was foolish to pay off that mortgage when it carried so low a rate of interest. But the first opportunity he had to acquire some means, he and his wife determined they would pay off their mortgage. He has been free of debt since that day. That’s why he wears a smile on his face, and that’s why he whistles while he works."

Gordon B. Hinckley, “To the Boys and to the Men,” Ensign, Nov 1998, 51.

Questionie

What temple is on the front of the October 2009 Ensign?

Randomness

Being random:
doesn't it just torque ya that Brant beat us all out to see Ver and family?! He's done that twice!

Dad: do you think our kids know how much we love them?
Mom: you don't think they do?
Dad: I know that. I wonder if they fathom how much.