Pumpkins

YAY for pumpkins! I don't know why I love pumpkins so much. Maybe it's the fact that I'm a Halloween baby, or maybe I like pulling the slimy guts out of a vegetable and carve a face into it. I don't know, but I love pumpkins. When we did our garden this spring, we did 5 mounds with about 5 seeds in each mound. The mounds were about 6 feet away from eachother. We thought that was too much, but it turned out that pumpkin plants do need that room.

This little guy was one of our first pumpkins. I would say that this was in July. We were so excited that they were growing!

This was after the frost. You can see how much the plants spreaded out.
We harvested 39 pumpkins! Some were rotten, but we still counted them.

Decorating our front door with festive corn stalks and pumpkins.

Steve definately has a carving skill that I wish I had.

Trace decorated his pumpkin like a 'potato head'. He did not want to have his picture taken.

Me, Steve, crying Trace, Johnny, Jenny, and Maddie

A Birthday Surprise!

Last weekend, Steve and I went ot Enterprise to celebrate my birthday. We played Wii at the Pickerings, went to the movies, ate at a nice resturant, and went to the temple with Eric and LaDawna. Right after the movie, Steve had a surprise for me. We went to the furniture store next door. A man came up and asked if he could help us. Steve said, "Yeah, we are looking for a...dresser." Wow! I was not expecting that! We looked at three places for a dresser and found one we both liked. We have to wait a few weeks for shipping, but I am so excited!

Jen also had a birthday surprise for me. Jenny took me over to Jen's house where some of the ladies in the branch had a surprise birthday party for me. I was so flattered! It was so fun!

Last night Steve took me on a date to Ely. There is a nice resturant called the Jailhouse. We both ordered steak and potatoes! Yummy!

A thanks to my parents and parent-in-laws for remembering me on my birthday. Thanks!

My birthday was so wonderful! I don't feel any older or wiser, but that's alright.

Steve's Crash

Two Thursday's ago, Oct. 8th, I was at dance with Jenny when I get a urgent message to call Brandon, Steve's boss. The horrible news was that Steve was in a wreck. He was already at the hospital, but he seemed to not be broken. What happened was that he was checking pivots and hit a ditch on the four-wheeler enough to make him fly 30 feet in the air and skid on his back for 70 feet. He hit his head pretty hard. The four-wheeler went front end over front end about 1 foot to the side of where he was sliding. They guess he was unconcious for 30 minutes. A Peruvian found Steve and drove him back to the shop. Steve couldn't remember the crash or working with the rams a few hours before the crash. On the way to the hospital, he kept saying the same thing. He got a few bumps on his head and road rash on his back. They did a cat scan and everything was fine, so they cleaned him up and sent him home. He had scabs and headaches, but the next Monday he went back to work. We were so blessed that the four-wheeler didn't land on him. His head is fine and the road rash on his back is healing very well.

The shirt we was wearing when he crashed.

His road rash

Our First Garden

Our first garden attempt went fairly well. Most of the things we planted came up AND we planted the garden in a really cool pattern.

What we learned from our experience:

• the plants at the bottom of the water ditch grew better because of all the water that collects at the bottom,
• buy peppers as plants for a garden, not as seeds,
• spread out the carrots,
• we only need two plants of squash, not seven,
• weed continuously, and
• (from Steve) if you are going to do something with your wife, she is in charge :)

The garden when things started to bloom

Harvest time

We had a good harvest. It was so fun to have this project with Steve. It will be fun to do it again!