Time Out for Women / Halloween

Since I've been without a blog for awhile, I am a little behind.  I found some pictures on our camera of Halloween and Time Out for Women.

I went to the SLC Time Out for Women this year with Diane, Amy, Becky, Heidi and Bobby.  We had a wonderful time.  We went to both Friday evening and Saturday to the conference.  We spent the night at Dad's house and left together in the morning.  There were a lot of inspiring talks.  I was really excited to see the authors/chefs of "Our Best Bites."  I have both of their cookbooks and follow their blog daily.  Unfortunately, during their talk, an elderly woman fainted in front of us.  I ran to the back to grab some medical help and missed their entire talk.  (The woman was okay, she just stood up too fast.)

After the conference ended on Saturday, we headed up to Bountiful and ate at the Mandarin.  It was so good!  I've heard about this restaurant for a long time now, but have never eaten there.  It was a great weekend and look forward to next year.  St. George?  Logan?  Idaho Falls?  Phoenix? SLC? We shall see.

 The Monday night before Halloween we had all the kids carve their pumpkins.  These are pumpkins that we grew this year out of our garden.  Lily drew a "scary" face on hers.  She was quite proud.

 Eric is excited that we are letting him carve his own this year.

 Zac assisted Jennifer in the carving of her pumpkin.

 And Aubrey with the other pumpkins.

 She had a Halloween concert at school that night.  Here she is acting silly.  They sang a lot of Halloween songs. 

 Here are the costumes this year.  Jennifer is a bunny, Lily a cat/witch (this is one of those times where you pick your battles), Aubrey wanted to go as Cleopatra, and Eric wanted to be a ninja.