Renaissance Halloween

THANK YOU ALYSON (and whoever else helped with this project). For Christmas last year Alyson had the brilliant idea to make Trevor and me Halloween costumes. I am sure the project turned out to be a lot more of a headache than she expected, but we are so grateful for her efforts. They turned out AMAZING. For Halloween we went to our ward's Trunk or Treat (which was pretty impressive I must say), and we were complemented all night long for how awesome our costumes were. One person even asked us if we were members of BYU's Sword and Quill club. For those of you who don't know what that is, they are a group of people who are really into renaissance stuff... I was happy to say that we weren't, but pleased that our costumes were that cool. Anyway, here are some pics to you can see for yourself.

Bethany's Birthday

"You've had another Birthday, a happy one we know..." That is right folks, I am now 23 years old. My younger sister's say that is old, but I don't feel old. Besides, 23 is still early 20s. Anyway, I had a good birthday filled with things that good birthdays are supposed to be filled with: presents, cake, family, pumpkins (if you are an October baby), and a long bubble bath.

Now I don't have to take my fabric to my mom's house to cut, I can do it at home

Because my birthday is so close to Halloween, we always carve pumpkins. We are all standing near our pumpkins. Trev and I happen to have three, the little tiny one in front of our two is ours as well.

This is the only pumpkin that our garden produced. It is a small variety of pumpkin... but I didn't think it would be that small. Anyway, I decided it was the perfect size for our baby Makayla. It was very fun carving it.