Guess What??

This is what Burrito did this weekend...

She said, "Yes!"

So Much to Do

Between the sewing and editing Dog Walker's book, doctors' appointments, Baby Doll's homework, and birthdays, I have been swamped.

You get pics of my latest sewing project, because sharing the new book early would get me in so much trouble with Dog Walker.

Guest Blog: Halloween 2026 by the Dog Walker

It seems that nowadays, Mom's been asking me to write on her blog for her, but for some good reasons. First, she's been preparing her presents to give to Drama Queen, Teach, and her family in New Jersey for Christmas. She's also preparing other presents for other families. Second, she started editing on my latest Samy Kind book, which will be a Holiday Exclusive story to publish, and I'm excited about that.

But what I'm excited to talk about right now is how Halloween turned out for me and the family. I've been helping Mom get some ham and bean soup ready for Halloween dinner, along with some homemade apple cider, which we were a little short of. So we improvised by adding store-bought apple juice to mix into it. (We suspect that Curly drank so much of it before he embarked on his mission in Baltimore). She and I prepared the treats to give to the children in costumes. I was really excited to give out the treats to the kids, just to watch them go through the corn maze.

I put on some fun Halloween music to go along with the party. Baby Doll, Scout, K, and M showed up to dress up like the Fates from Hadestown. They also set up a really nice inside display of their spooky candles to put on the living room coffee table. I added the shimmering pumpkin that Mom gave me to go with it, along with some blood stained lightbulbs.

I dressed up in my latest Halloween costume ever. That's right! I dressed up as a big pile of money! A lot of the teenage girls in costumes thought it was really clever, that they even asked for a dollar off it, but I just gave them a treat, not wanting to deceive them with fake money. Plus, it wouldn't be fair to the other kids. Even when Mom had some treats to give to the kids, I always had back-up treats to give out, because we really hate to be one of those neighbors who runs out of candy.

Beauty and the Beast dropped off Little Warrior and Little Squire to come trick-or-treating at our house, and Bossy and her kids trick-or-treated our whole neighborhood. Her little daughter sure was cute when liking to dance to the Halloween songs with Mom. I'm sure that Dad up in heaven is really proud that I still continue on with the tradition of a corn maze and giving out treats to the kids. I would always wonder if he would've thought it was silly of the way I paid tribute to him with the display. Happy Halloween 2026!

PS, those cute owls were sneak-or-treated by Bossy. Isn't that a clever place to put them?

More Trunk or Treat pics

Happy Halloween!

 

Trunk or Treat!!

Last night we had our ward trunk or treat Halloween party. The Beast brought Little Warrior and Little Squire over so they could join us in the fun.

We offered to bring soup, so in true Dog Walker fashion, I brought a crockpot full of Spaghettios. It was the first one gone...

After food, we had a costume parade and games for the kids.

Then it was time for trunk or treating. The kids had so much fun! Bossy's family joined us near the end. Baby Doll, Scout and her friend K, dressed up as the Fates from Hadestown.

Dog Walker even came over for dinner from work, and he also took all these fun pics for me. His costume got a lot of attention! He was a large pile of cash.

Movie Preview - Cat In The Hat

Beauty took Little Warrior, Little Squire, and a friend to see a sneak peek of the new Cat In The Hat movie. Beauty wrote a fantastic review! She just might be after my job... 😉

"We knew we were in for some fun when we saw the balloons for Cat In The Hat. I hoped the kids would have a good time and that it wouldn't feel like a little kid movie. 

I was happy to say they watched intently, felt like celebrities getting pictures, and said they liked the movie more than they thought they would on their way out. 

I was also entertained and loved the message of the story. It's kind of like Wreck It Ralph + Boss Baby."

A perfectly family friendly movie. There is even a horse on roller skates!

Opens everywhere on November 6th.

Frightmares

On Friday, Baby Doll had the opportunity to go with Beauty and her boys to Frightmares at Lagoon. I don't know many details, but according to Baby Doll, they had a great time! 

Beauty sent me all these cute pics today.

Calling Elder Curly

 

This week has been fast and busy and I have seen the Lord's hand a ton! There is so much I can't begin to list everything so I am going to try the highlights and lowlights method this week. 

Highs 

👍 Brother Hoffman's "beanless chilli" and hearing half of his life story including every car crash he has ever been in. 

👍Our very spirit-filled lesson with our friend Rick who only needs to stop drinking and then he is going to be baptized! We also gave him a blessing and the spirit was so strong!

👍Elder Taylor telling us all of the super niche Bible stories as well as some super deep complex doctrine. He is a dawg!

👍Elder Peck being a great comedic relief with his out of pocket sayings coming from the back seat.

👍The Hitzemans bean-full chilli and their company.

👍The Wendy's, Chipotle and Canes that we demolished throughout the week.

👍The cows mooing soooo loud last night cause they were called. There is a video on the Google photos. 

MVP: The Allens. They are dawgs in helping us out with missionary work. Too bad they are moving in January 😭

Lows 

👎 Church being canceled for the second week in a row because of the carpet. Don't worry we went to a different building, but it meant some of our friends couldn't come.

👎 The Eyers getting Scabbies so we couldn't meet with them and we had to push their baptism dates back. 

👎It being cold already, as well as the rainy days. 

LVP: The SHEETZ chili dogs. Never again. 

Spirtual thought: 

This week I studied a lot about hope. The key takeaway I have is that hope is not only being happy or positive about the future but it instead is having trust in God that everything he has promised will happen! 

This is an awesome conference talk about it. Go read or listen to it this week! https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2008/10/the-infinite-power-of-hope?lang=eng 

Elder Curly

Wordless Wednesday - Bingham Volleyball Formal

And Baby Doll's 1st date. 

Never the Same Weekend

A couple of weekends ago, Baby Doll and I had the amazing opportunity of attending Aspen Service Unit's Never The Same Weekend overnighter at Trefoil Ranch.

After waiting for 20 minutes to get through the gate, we had so much fun! They put us in charge of a game...toss the ping pong ball into the cup for a prize. Baby Doll was amazingly good at it.

We had tacos for dinnner, then we set up our rather large bed. It was nice, we slept on 2 large mattresses.

But first, we played a board game instead of taking the oxygen near the campfire.

We ate camp food (candy!), Baby Doll did a craft, and we actually slept. 

Sort of.

It was so nice to run away from home and just hang out. There were no phones and no service, so it was pretty primitive (not really). The lodge is beautiful and we had a great time.

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