Octoberfest! Halloween is coming...but I got my blog's backwards.

Zach testing out a new costume for Halloween! "Baggie" overalls (no pun intended). :)

Zach's Halloween gifts from his birth family...he is one spoiled kid!

Zach insisted on helping with the carving. He actually did pretty good with a little bit of Robert's help.
Robert cuts out the final details before we get the pumpkin face below! Zach has turned into a pumpkin!


Traditional pumpkin face!

Zach here with his Vernal cousin Jenna...and below adding Adam. They were here over U.E.A. and we got to spend some fun times with them.


Zach laughing at Adam's funny face.

Happy Halloween!

It's Halloween night and the weather is beautiful...Zach was counting down the minutes until he could head out! He insisted on being a "ghost" this year and we ended up creating it after school hours before he went trick-or-treating. Here he is with Heidi and Katie, neighbor girls who sometimes babysit him.
Here he is next to the pumpkin he helped carve. Believe it or not, he was the only ghost we saw all evening!
Before picture of the empty trick-or-treat bucket...but not for long! :)

Zach taking a short cut through a neighbor's yard...he got an apple at this house! :)

Zach trick-or-treating at his friend Luke's house...We also hooked up with Lisa and John's family and went around their neighborhood! Zach had a blast and all the kids' legs were beat tired by the end...but their buckets showed the rewards of all that walking!

After picture of the trick-or-treat bucket...not so empty now!

Can you see something that does not look like the others? Zach went to a neighbor's house and said "trick-or-treat" and the neighbor said "I'll give you a treat" and came out with this apple. It was a really yummy apple!

Ohhhh...the wonder of fall...until you have to rake the leaves!!!

Caroline, Zach, and Stella creating the leaf pile that would soon become as tall as Zach!

Stella doing her part. She insisted on carrying the leaves by the arm fulls and then dumping them on the leaf pile!
Think how many trips it is going to take back and forth, doing it by the arm fulls, to get to the below picture's leaf pile height? The kids tried, but I helped Zach the next day by raking them into this pile almost as tall as he is.
Zach wanting to show how tall the leaf pile is....

Zach getting out into the street to get a better running start.

He said he wanted to head-butt the leaf pile...how do you head-butt a leaf pile? I guess you go head first!

This is all that is left of Zach after a dive into the pile. He completely disappears in the next picture.


Cool jumping action shot...I just hope there is no sharp or poky object waiting below the leaves.




Ahhhh! Zach is in leaf heaven. He loves jumping in the leaves and if he could have his way, he would rake the first batch of leaves in September in any condition just to have an excuse to jump in!
He cracks me up!

Robert's 37th Birthday - September 26, 2007

Robert making one of his typical faces because he is so impressed I made mom (grandma Higginson's) famous sour cream chocolate cake...thanks to mom, the frosting turned out perfect!
Does anyone want to look at the camera? Thanks mom, for looking! :)
The perfect frosting...I had no idea it was such a temperamental frosting...

Itty Bitty Bountiful City - September 24, 2007

Lisa and John planned a fun Family Home Evening for the whole Higginson clan in September and it was a lot of fun! We walked what felt like miles but in a fun way. We were to find various items that were located between certain streets just off of Main Street during a set time. I have lived here all of my life and never knew some of these things existed. What a fun event, and better yet, Zach, Robert, and I took first place thanks to Zach finding one last thing! Thanks John and Lisa for a fun FHE activity!

Here is the group gathered for the tallying of the points...no pressure on Lisa and John... :)


Here are the treats provided by Lisa and Tawnie... yuu uuuummmmmmyyyyy.




















Big "A" and Little "A". Lil' Aaron had just bumped his lip while playing on the the playground...ouch!




Baby Samuel sleeping...
Baby Etahn...





Baby Angus...

















Stella...

Grand kids playing on the playground while waiting for the point tallying...











Neat full moon on a crisp cold evening...

Tagged...better late than never...

Sorry I have been a bit behind on my blog....life has just happened. Here goes a new post.

The rules:
A. The rules of the game are posted at the beginning.
B. Each player lists 6 facts / habits / confessions about themselves.
C. At the end of the post, the player then tags 6 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know that they have been tagged and asking them to read your blog.

1. I am an organized, clean, neat freak!

2. I love to sleep late whenever I can.

3. I am what is called a "laggard" concerning any new trend. I tend to be the last to get it, catch on to it, or embrace it.

4. I love to save money, but I also like to spend it!

5. I mess up phrases such as "stitch in time", etc. like my mother. I come by it honestly. I also have a hard time identifying car makes and models. I think I see a family member because there is for example, a white van, and it is not even the right car make/model. Robert makes fun of me a lot.

6. I like to do things the correct way. As some family members can testify, I have to have "perfect form" (i.e. snow skiing, water skiing, tennis, swan diving, blogging :)).

Because I am a laggard, there is probably no one left to tag...if there is anyone out there, you're it!

While Uncle Robert and Aunt Pauline Were Here...

Zach, Robert, and I flew Zach's kite he received from one of his best friends (Jensen) who went to China this summer. It was a lot of fun and almost got the best of us. We are out on the lawn at Hannah Holbrook.













Zach trying out his new yo yo. The yo yo came from his visit to the dentist. They gave it to him because he was so good during all 4 sets x-rays, not too common with children his age!

Uncle Robert giving Zach pointers with the yo yo. When he got tired of the yo yo, he and Aaron wrestled, their favorite thing to do. It was sooo funny to watch.




Big and little Aaron, Zach and Uncle Robert. Uncle Robert was so cute to watch Zach play his little Scooby Doo video game, even getting on the floor with him.





Aunt Pauline. Picture taken by Zach.














Grandpa, Grandma, and Aunt Leslie (wanting to be seen)! :) Picture taken by Zach.

Aunt Leslie, Uncle Aaron, and Uncle Robert (notice Leslie again :) ). Picture taken by Zach.



A.J. Picture taken by Zach.














Me and Robert. Picture taken by Zach.

Zach's self portrait. Picture taken by Zach.