October Photo Bomb

Here are the rest of the photos from October!

Brodie built a privacy fence to separate our yard from the neighbors

Didn't he do an amazing job??

Ever since getting our food dehydrator over the summer, we have been experimenting with different fruits. We have tried strawberries, bananas, grapes, and apples. 

homemade apple crumble pie for General Conference weekend :)

field trip with the fifth graders to Bonneville Dam

. . . which ended with the bus getting a flat tire. Entertaining 60 fifth graders while you wait for new tires is so fun!

literacy door decorating competition at school - we won "Best Theme" 

 and to finish off October, my class won the Fall Boxtop Competition (big deal!) 

October - Halloween

Brodie was in Kentucky the evening of our ward Halloween party, which is when we usually dress up together as a couple. In the past we have been Wendy & Peter Pan, Katniss & Peeta, Thor & Jane, and Luke & Leah. Since I was riding solo at the Halloween party, I didn't put any effort into a costume. Luckily, we were able to go with Cohan and Emily to their ward party the following weekend, which was a Halloween Hoe Down.

Thanks for letting us crash your party, Cohan & Ems! 

cowboy and cowgirl

Without kids, we had little motivation to make it to the real pumpkin patch. Instead, we walked two blocks from our house to Safeway and picked out a pumpkin from the "patch". 

Brodie is a master carver and I am . . . not haha. So I scooped out the guts and he did the carving. 

Fish pumpkin 2017!

Brodie gave me a budget of $3 to decorate for Halloween - I think he was joking, but I accepted the challenge! This was as good as it got. Thank goodness for Dollar Tree!

October - National Hardscape Competition

Shovel & Thumb (the Fish family landscaping business) competed in a regional hardscape competition in August and got second place! They then proceeded to the national level in October, but this time all the way in Kentucky. 25 teams competed, and Shovel & Thumb finished overall in 6th place - extremely impressive!

Fish boys in Kentucky!

built in under 50 minutes!

 While there, they did some sight seeing and visited Churchill Downs - home of the Kentucky Derby. I was only a little bit jealous!

and while the boys were out of the town, the girls went out for dinner!