Pumpkin

Since Halloween was "rescheduled", yes in New Jersey apparently when you have an emergency you can reschedule Halloween for the following Friday and Sunday, weird I know. We finally got around to carving. Instead of doing all of the pumpkins we did just this one so we could put our own little pumpkin inside.

It was a dark and cold night...

and it stayed that way for three days while our power was out. Although we found out at church today some were without it for six and seven days, yikes! A crazy snow storm came to visit us on October 29th and dumped about 6 inches of heavy, heavy snow on still fully leafed trees. This broke all kinds of tree limbs, knocking out the power all over New Jersey and much of the northeast. I'm not positive what the final number was but I know at least 600,000 people were without power in our state alone. It looked like a tree war happened outside with branches everywhere and trees in the street (not to mention the power and phone lines they took down with them), it was crazy and clean up is still happening. Lets just say it was an interesting experience, the kids were not too fond of the cold house and dark nights but they fared pretty well. The baby was the most miserable :( lucky girl got to sleep with mom and dad. We were very grateful for our awesome friends and ward.

My friend Randi and her husband came to stay with us this weekend and take our family pictures, they are super nice and a pleasure to have as our guests. They are off to finish the rest of their weekend in NYC.

All in all a very interesting week as we have spent most of it replenishing food and cleaning up after the outage.