Meet the Flintstones!

Hello all, and Happy Halloween!

(I stepped out the front door this morning and thought the sky looked quite ghoulish!)

So I have just about a gazillion pictures to put up today, and I hope you thoroughly enjoy them.

These first ones were up at the Great Pumpkin Dinner- Reesey in her tutu, that uh, I made. I just feel so darn domestic lately! And me as the 1980's aerobics instructor, complete with head and wrist sweatbands.

We went to our ward Halloween party on Wednesday night, and thanks to some random stranger's suggestion that Reese looked like a perfect Pebbles, we had the greatest costumes ever. The thing I kept telling Ryan, what thrilled me the most, was that for the first time we would not have anyone wondering what exactly we were dressing up as. I'm sure (at least I'm hoping) you can tell from the pictures that there is no mistaking our resemblance to a certain Bedrock family. We even watched Flintstone's cartoons, you know. . .doing our homework.

Your basic Modern Stone-age Fam-i-ly.

Our little Pebbles- she even left the bone in her hair!

Here are also a few pictures of our friends at the party who's costumes were AWESOME! I'm sad though, we didn't get a picture of Bob Ross, and his wife, the Happy Tree. Alas. :)

Ezra and Kim as Mr. Rogers (complete with sneakers) and, of course, Charlie Chaplin

Stephanie and Craig as Popeye and Olive Oil- I wish you could see the back of her hair-

it was so perfect!

Pebbles found a sucker- actually, one of the other little kids found them and opened up I don't know how many and was handing them out like, well, candy. :)

So. . .basically what I'm saying here is that we had a blast. We definitely decided that we will continue to go all out for the rest of our Halloween careers.

Next on the agenda, is the picture I promised sometime last week- my newly upholstered, absolutely gorgeous chairs. (Can you tell I'm proud?) As I'm writing this, I'm remembering one of my mission companions that majored in interior design telling me about one of her textbooks that was titled 1000 Chairs or something like that. Well Wendy, this one's dedicated to you. I don't know if it's quite up to designer caliber, but I'd like to think so. :)

Oh! And I have to update on my new job. I started on Tuesday at Kneaders, and I already love it. Oh, I am just so happy! So far I've actually been doing more baking than pastry - just call me pumpkin girl, in only two days I've busted out something like 250 loaves of their amazing pumpkin bread-- try some today! (DING!- colgate smile).

Anyway, back to the job thing, I'm seriously loving it. There's just nothing in the world that can compare with doing something you absolutely love, and getting paid for it. Also, I can't say how much I love being back in the 'business'- the restaurant, customer is king, bustle of the kitchen with a million things to do rush of it all.

When I was little, my cousin Jill and I would play restaurant with her play kitchen. Maybe we were a little weird, but we would create these crazy scenarios of irate customers and people who wanted their meal just so, and hundreds of orders that had to be filled in minutes. If her parents had popped their heads in to check on us they probably would have wondered what in the world we were doing as we ran all over the room, searching for foreign ingredients, trying to satisfy our imaginary customers, and yelling back and forth to each other about the impossible task we were put to now. I LOVED it.

Yes, I am now, and always will be a total nerd.

Well, I think that's enough reminiscing for now- thanks for endulging me. :) Have a very happy, incredibly spooky Halloween everyone, and Meg, I wish you the best in your search for a costume tonight!