The Enslinger Family: October!!

I am slowly but surely chugging along at catching up this thing! One day I will be glad I didn't just skip all these months, cuz heaven knows I don't keep a journal so this is it! :)

The end of September and the beginning of October was a wonderful time for our family, but especially for Dustin. He was able to go and receive his Patriarchal Blessing. I was able to go with him, and it was one of the neatest experiences of my life. Only a week later, was another amazing experience when we went to Logan for conference weekend. When we got to Logan, that night Dustin went through the temple for the first time and went through his Endowment session. It was such an amazing experience. Next step: Get sealed this Spring! :)

This picture was taken after our session! Don't we look happy! :)

It was so neat to have so many family members there: Kirk & Amy (Kirk was Dustin's escort), Rick & Stacy, my mom & Dad, and my Grandma & Grandpa Belnap!

That weekend we were able to spend a lot of time with family, listen to General Conference, and we went up to the cabin for some fun activities!

This view from the cabin deck will never get old! :)

The kids painting pumpkins. Zander was so focused and totally intent on his art work. That kid loves to do "art projects." We were amazed how much time he took on his pumpkin. If you notice in one picture he is the only kid at the table still working on his pumpkin! :)

We also went for a walk, played Halloween bingo, watched movies, climbed rocks, and my kids had tons of fun with their cousins!

Other fun at the cabin: More climbing on rocks, cooking yummy food, making sugar cookies, playing a little football, and celebrating Rick's birthday!

What an amazing weekend it was! And such a spiritual week for Dustin and me!

Then it was back home and doing things like......spilling an entire container of Nesquick on the carpet! The little stinker....

Having fun jumping over Daddy and his legs....I like how Z kind of looks like a ghost in this picture cuz of our crappy camera...

Enjoying our first snow, and attending the UW Homecoming parade in the snow!

More October Snow fun, Z being silly, and in that tupperware container, under my cleaning supplies is the craziest little mouse you will ever hear about! I don't know why I would really want to remember this but I am telling the mouse story: We discovered we had mice in our house because we found some droppings. I was horrified and completely grossed out and they needed to be gone! One morning Dustin and I were in bed and we heard something in Chewie's food. We knew we needed to go catch it! So Dustin pinned it in this tupperware thing, pinning the mouses arm under the side in the process. My mom told me it would suffocate, Dustin went to work, and that darn mouse did not die. In fact, it chewed its own hand off then still did not die. I was disgusted and felt SOOOO bad for it and its suffering, cried all day about it in fact, but did not want to take care of it on my own. Dustin finally took it and threw it in a dumpster later that night. I joked saying that only a mother would gnaw her own arm off in desperation and that we probably had babies somewhere in our house. Throughout the next week I believe our traps caught Daddy mouse, then a few days later, when they were starving, baby mouses #'s 1, 2, 3, and 4. Yes when all was said and done, a whole family of mice died in my home. I felt bad, but vermin, you don't mess with my house!!

And enough about mice, we also did many Halloween activities in October! Even though Dustin doesn't like Halloween, me and the boys sure enjoy it!

Here are the boys painting egg carton bats and pumpkins, doing a Halloween sticker craft Grandma sent them, Z showing off the scary Monster Pancakes, and the boys showing their Halloween necklaces they made that Grandma sent also!

I had way too much fun decorating for Halloween this year! I loved my glitter pumpkins and skeletons, my haunted bird houses I crafted this year, my boys cute art work on the wall, our pumpkins and bats hanging from the ceilings, and my gross skulls and cockroaches in a vase! Oh the fun with Halloween decorations! :)

Carving pumpkins!

Zander trying on ever Halloween costume in the box! :) I love, love, love him as the clown! :)

At our ward Halloween carnival: a purple dinosaur and Spiderman!

Downtown Trick or Treating: An elephant and a skeleton! We met up with some friends, then when they left my boys had to sit down and test out some candy! :) Zander especially could not wait to eat some candy! He is the cutest little elephant ever!

And finally! Halloween night! We went trunk or treating at the Stake Center, then went around our neighborhood a little, then headed over to meet some friends for some amazingly delicious homemade donuts! :)

My scary skeleton and my cute little elephant!