A smashing Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving morning Nels and I were asleep in my old bedroom, on a bed far too small for two people. My mom came in and said hurry and get ready your dad had an idea in the shower that we are going to go up to the property and smash pumpkins. She was very excited about the whole thing. So we jumped out of bed got dressed and headed up to the property. (My aunt and uncle and parents have a few acres up past Heriman, Ut, however you spell it) We met my cousins, aunt and uncle, and brother Greg at Aunt Lynda and Uncle Stephen's home in Riverton. And we were headed off. We we standing in the snow and throwing them over our heads granny style. Nels was the first to throw and his technique was imitated and nobody really thought to do it differently.
When we had thrown all the pumpkins we decided that we would use the bats that Uncle stephen had brought, for some batting practice. It was totally wicked!!!! Everytime you hit a chunk of pumpkin it disintegrated and showered you with orange mist that smelled like of course a delicious pumpkin. At one point Nels was up to bat and hit the chunk and a piece the size of my fist came flying towards me and smacked me right above the knee. It hurt like crazy!!! Man that boy is strong!
We finished up and headed back to our homes to cook dinner all covered in pumpkin puree. Nels and I were really glad we didn't shower before we went. Yes, we did come home and shower!

Playoffs

Nels' team made it to the playoffs. For those of you who didn't know, Nels was assisting in the coaching a football league of 12-15 year old boys for our town. He is great at it, but we kinda had a crazy power hungry head coach who didn't like to listen to what other coaches suggested. They could have gone further in their winnings if he had only listened. Enough about crazy coach though. Saturday was the first day of the playoffs and if you won you continued on if you lost you were out. We LOST!!! (I was excited) I was ready to have my Saturdays back and the husband. So the game was about 30 minutes away in Esparta CA. A very small town of only 1,000. The football field is a football field and a baseball diamond. I don't know if you can see it in the pictures but part of one of the end zones is half dirt. We played against the Richmond Steelers. Ghetto town, but great players. They slaughtered us with a 33-0 lead until the last minute, where we finally got our 3 point field goal. At least I think that's what it's called. So the boys got a medal and we are done with coaching....probably til next year.

What's that smell???

Halloween was interesting this year. I made Nelsie and I our costumes. You would think that sewing fake fur onto sweats would be easy. Well maybe for some, but for sure not for me. i sewed undid and redid about ten times before I finally got it right. Even then it wasn't perfect but passable.
We went to a party on Friday with some couples in our ward. It was fun, except that every person there made the same joke. "Are you standing by the door because you don't want to smell up the room." hahaha people really funny. No we were in sweats and in a house full of people it's warm. The door was open and right in front of the door was 10 degrees cooler. It was a fun party though.
Then on Halloween we went to Jeff and Alexis' (Nels sister) for a little party. There weren't many adults dressed up, but those who weren't looked like the weirdos not us. It was basically just a hang out. It was fun weekend.