Start of Somethings New

First of all, YAY IT'S FINALLY OCTOBER! October is my favorite month of the year. I love everything about it! I mostly love that it's still warm enough to ride my horse and chilly enough for a sweater. I love that it's full of anticipation for the holidays, yet it's before the craziness begins. But, my favorite part is the last day, HALLOWEEN! Halloween is my most favorite holiday of the year. I don't like creepy-gorey-gross-Halloween. I like fun and cutesy, carved pumpkins, trick-or-treaters, hot apple cider, black cats, jump-into-a-giant-pile-of-leaves-Halloween. And who doesn't love to dress up and pretend to be someone/something else for a night? Nathan hates Halloween, but he'll come around, he always does :)
Funny side note: Nathan laughs at me because, up here in the frozen tundra, all Halloween costumes have to be modified so that the children don't freeze. I guess in Hiko, NV there's no such thing as "freezing."

Foward and onward with news!

Nathan and I have had a crazy past couple of weeks. So here's an update for the fam.

Big changes came to our home the past week. On Friday, Nathan quit his job at Valley Implement. We just weren't making enough money with him working there. His boss also wasn't the nicest guy ever, so it wasn't too heartbreaking for him to quit. Not to worry, Nathan wouldn't quit without having a backup plan. He starts back at O'Reilly's tomorrow or Friday. He's excited to have a more reliable, better paying job. 

On Saturday, instead of going to that killer USU game, we were at the Ag. Days BBQ. It was really quite fantastic, we got free dinner, free corn, and free Gossners milk! Who doesn't love Gossners milk?!

One day I saw this funny thing on the internet and I decided to do it to Addi.

EYEBROWS!

 

 Then I added a mustache, it's so funny, I'm still laughing! For Halloween I'm going to make her a cape and then she can be the evil villain "Browser the Cat Food Stealer"

Also, I this past week made apricot leather. I hate buying the stuff in the store, but now I have my own homemade fruit roll-up! I don't think I can share with Nathan.

Tomorrow I have a TON of apples to can. I'll be making apple butter, applesauce, apple crisp filling, and cinnamon red-hot apple slices. I'm also drying some apples. Then I'll be done canning for the year!

 Addi is ready for Halloween, she has a super cute Halloween scarf!

She also loves her Daddy very much!

Addi seem to think that my pumpkin decorations are to be used for fetch. Silly dog. Good thing she's cute.

 Nathan has finally come around to the kittens. He loves them now!

But how could he not love these cute little faces?

Roxie was not happy with my decision to take pictures while she was trying to sleep.


The kittens are getting so big! Clover and Roxie are finally the size they should have been when we first got them. Now they're super cute "commercial" kittens, like the kittens you see in commercials that are so adorable you want to go out a buy a kitten right away.

Our three happy children! (The kittens don't like their picture taken.)

 Nathan took the picture, or else he would be in it too. Then it would be a family picture! Maybe we'll have to do a "family photo" and send out Christmas Cards! Nathan just said he'd rather be shot than do that because people will think we're even crazier than we already are.