October 2014

October was a crazy month for us for so many reasons.  At the beginning Gia came to visit us over General Conference weekend, and we went to an apple orchard with her and watched conference and enjoyed that very much.  Mr. Brown and I read The Feminine Mystique for book club and spent the month feeling out a new way to be married (that was very hard work).  Also there was the ward Halloween dance, which was super fun.  And my job moved from one military base to another so now I have a 40-minute commute in the car instead of on my bike, which was a big adjustment.  Then there was the clothing distribution project at church that I was the deputy organizer for, and that kind of ate our lunch for a full week, but it was still rewarding to give out literally tons of clothing to people who really needed it.  We did cow eye dissections with some homeschool friends and an eye doctor from church, super fun!  Then it was Halloween.  So here are some photos from Halloween because I didn't take any the rest of the month.

Rose Pink mostly carved her pumpkin by herself!  I helped Nut Brown- his is a representational Lego Chima scene.  Everything is Lego Chima for him.   I carved Bobo's for him, although he had his hand on the knife for part of it.  Here are the finished products:

 Costumes: Nut Brown wanted to be a Lego Chima phoenix.

 Rose Pink is Hawk Girl (DC comics character)

She initially asked to be a centaur, but although I wanted very much to make that costume, I didn't think I had enough time.  I told her she could be a centaur next year if she's willing to commit in March.

Bobo was (no surprises here)... Batman.  Because that's what he tells you his name is if you ask him.  Because he will only willingly wear Batman shirts.  And also because we have five Batman costumes in the house.  And now that he's discovered that we own Batman capes, we have a hard time convincing him to take them off for bed.

 Mr. Brown was a creepy guy handing out candy.  We didn't have a lot of trick-or-treaters, so his effort was not appreciated as much as it might have been!

 It was cold and rainy that night, so the kids didn't want to stay out as long as they usually do, but they still came home with quite a haul.  We poured theirs in with the candy we didn't give to the trick-or-treaters that didn't come.