Carson on Halloween

Carson wearing Aunt Gina's wig

My twin sister Gina as Joe Dirt. She won 2nd place for her costume!

Grandpa Unck with Carson at Gardener Village

Carson at Grandma and Grandpa Unck's house eating some candy

Mom and Carson at Gardener Village

Today my sister Gina and my parents went with Carson and me to Gardener Village. My mom and sister wanted to do the witch hunt and it was the perfect thing to do since it is Halloween. We then went to McDonald's and then went home to get my mom and my sister off to work. They had to dress up as a character from a movie. Gina went as Joe Dirt and my mom went as Liza Minnelli.

Later on we went to Ann's pizza party and got to see all of our friends and their kids dressed up. We ate homemade pizzas and had a lot of fun seeing all of the kids from the neighborhood all dressed up.

Then we went trick-or-treating at grandpa's since he was all alone. After that we went to trick-or-treat at Nana and Papa's and then went to Harmon's to show my mom and my sister Carson's costume.

One Large Day

Dave's festive pumpkin...for Valentine's day

Dave's festive pumpkin...for Christmas

Beau carving a pumpkin into his pumpkin

My Dad's witch!

Carson eating raw pumpkin.

My pumpkin

After we went to the Mangum's Party and Nana and Papa's Chili Dinner, we got to carve pumpkins with my family. Here are the finished results.

Nana and Papa's Halloween Chili Party

Carson with his cousin Maile

We even got to meet Hannah Montana!!

After a fun long day in Carson's costume at the Mangum's party, we got to go to Nana and Papa's to eat chili and check out every one's awesome costumes. Peggy and Randy used to do this on Halloween night before all the grand kids left for trick-or-treating, but since they go so early now, she decided to do it the night before. It was so fun to see all of our cute nieces and nephews in their costumes.

Mangum's Halloween Party

My sister-in-law Angela called me up a week ago and invited us to a Halloween party. Carson and I were so excited because we had already had his monkey costume by mid October, so we were set. The party was a blast. There was BINGO, a pumpkin matching game, bean bag toss and we even got to decorate sugar cookies. Good job Angela! We had a blast!

Pumpkin Patch

This one dad, this one!

Carson with our pumpkins

Having a "ball" in the pumpkins

Tonight we went to the pumpkin patch to pick out pumpkins for the Unck family annual pumpkin carving party. Here are some cute pictures

Trust Me, This Was Dave's Idea

Dave has bothered me forever to post this picture of his handle bars. He had a beard and he wanted to have some fun and decided to shave it this way. We happened to run into some of my closest friends, family and people from work...all on the day he decided to look like a redneck! Thanks Dave!

Witch Hunt

Carson

Malia

Malia, Cole, Mason and Carson

Carson and I were fortunate enough to be invited for a Witch Hunt at Gardener Village with Jen, Malia, Cole, Jen's sister-in-law Sherri and her little boy Mason, Jen's mom and her friend. I feel bad because I am horrible with names! It was a lot of fun! Carson loved his cookie and he didn't fuss at all. We got some really cute pictures of the kids.

Sunday Drive In Big Cottonwood Canyon

Today after conference our family went for a drive to look at the fall colors. We were a little late because there wasn't much red, but it was still beautiful! I hardly ever take shots of just nature. We think they are pointless when you don't have someone in them, but I couldn't help myself. I love this beautiful earth that was created especially for us.

Three Day Pet

Today our family had a nice lazy day. We watched conference and after we went for a ride to visit some friends. We came home, and I was on the stairs going down to the apartment and I saw what I thought was a mouse. I freaked out started running back up while Dave and Carson were opening the apartment to rush inside. Of coarse Dave had no idea why I was freaking out. Finally I calmed down enough to say the word mouse. If all of you know Dave well enough, he gave me the famous "Park Look" as if he didn't believe me and he said, "whatever". He never believes anything I say anyways. I got the guts to run outside with the camera and zoom in on the little rodent in the back corner under the stairs. I snapped some shots and ran inside. When I showed Dave, he said, "that's not a mouse, it's a hamster." I immediately felt better about our little friend and suddenly became really worried for it. I kept taking Carson out to look at him and he was fascinated by it. He begged all day long to go outside in the cold and wet weather to see our friend. We even named it Albert for Albert Brenaman off of the movie Hitch.

The next day I decided to fed it some cheese. (can you tell I've never had a hamster?) Jer and Ann told me to feed it cheerios, lettuce and carrots. I made him a little bowl of food and he downed it! I then felt bad that he was out in the cold, so I trapped him in a cardboard box and let him come inside. I wish I would've video taped my attempt to catch the thing! I was freaking out the whole time, but my worry for it overcame my fear and I finally got it into the box. I got it some water and food and he dug at the box the whole night. Monday morning Dave and I knew that if I didn't set the box outside, it would go through it and get into the apartment. We were right. I came home from work and Carson and I saw he had chewed a hole through the back of the box. That thing would've been roaming around the apartment if we didn't out it outside.

Finally, Tuesday after work Carson and I came home to find the back corner and the box totally empty. The hamster had moved on. Carson still goes out and looks for it every time we leave the house. He's so cute. I knows what a hamster is and hopefully he'll understand when he is older that we will never have a pet hamster!

HELP

Somehow when I changed my template. my friends and family list erased! The blogger dashboard has changed and I don't know how to get to the layout to fix things. If anyone knows how to help me, I'd really appreciate it. It's sad how I don't know how to work things!

Freaking Excited

Carson with his upset tummy

YAY!!!! I just wanted to tell EVERYONE on the planet earth that my computer is now working! I am getting all of my pictures downloaded and copied on discs. When we sent our computer in, we were afraid that we had lost a lot of pictures and videos that we had of Carson. Luckly it was just the mother board of something and not the hard drive. So, we have all of our pictures!! I haven't checked our internet from home because I am at my parents using it. I am so happy that I can blog and look at everyone's blogs are well! I have really missed staying in contact with everyone.

Carson has had some sort of stomach problem lately! What else?? He was throwing up and now he won't eat anything. I think is on the mend though. Dave is my hero. I do not deal well with throw up. I can have my hand in someone's stomach, do vein strippings, etc...but when someone throws up, I'm done. I cry.

Things are going great. I will be adding pictures to past blogs and I'm going to start blogging about past things as well, so feel free to look at them!