Murder Mystery party!!!

Some friends of ours in the ward, Jake and Chelsea D'Addabbo invited Bryce and I over to participate in a murder mystery party. A couple weeks ago everyone was assigned a specific character along with a detailed description. The theme was "Desperate Neighborhood" along the lines of Desperate Housewives. For the party each person was advised to dress up as their character. My character was a single southern belle girl who was very flirtatious with "ALL" the men in the neighborhood whether they were single or married. Bryce's character was an Irishman who owned many local car washing companies. The night of the party we arrived to meet and mingle with everyone who was going to participate in the murder mystery. The investigation started right before dinner where everyone introduced themselves in character. Everyone was to stay in character for the whole game. Before sitting down to eat dinner everyone was brought outside to the site where the "murder" took place. Dinner was split up into four different courses, at the beginning of each course everyone was handed envelopes with new information involving their character that was supposed to be discussed at some point during that course of the meal. No one knew who the murderer was until the very end. It was a lot of fun trying to stay in character and solve the mystery. The whole night was an absolute blast. The food was delicious and the company was even better. Thanks Jake and Chelsea for a fun night.

Linder Farms for Family Home Evening!!!

Yesterday for Family Home Evening Bryce, Kyra, and I went to Linder Farms pumpkin patch. We invited Ben and Lexie with their kiddos, and my mom and Brent to join us. When we first arrived we took a hayride out to the pumpkin patch to pick our own pumpkins. It took awhile to find a decent one because they had all been picked over the last couple of weeks. Kyra loved strolling around helping mom and dad find her own pumpkin. As far as the bigger pumpkins go, we decided to wait and go to Walmart later this week. Afterwards we took a hayride back to the main area to play and fun together. There was so much to do. The kids played in a huge corn box, we all sat by the humongous fire to keep warm, ate yummy treats, went on a train ride, went through kid friendly mazes, and looked at a variety of animals that included a camel. We had an absolute blast. We'll definitely go back next year.

Columbus Day

On Monday Bryce had the day off so we decided to go for a hike. We were trying to find something close and picked a trail called Hull's Gulch up in the Boise foothills. We initially thought that we were just going to do a simple 3 mile loop but once we got started it became apparent that we had misread the map. After a total of 7.2 miles we made it back to our car. We were surprised how good Kyra was. She loved all 7.2 miles of it and was happy all the way. We were well below the tree line so it was mostly just sage brush but we must have seen thousands upon thousands of Grasshoppers.

We would come across random outcroppings of rocks

All seven miles of the trail were covered in Grass hoppers...

If you turn the volume up you can hear all the noise they would make as you walked through them. Kyra enjoyed it.

Brent's Home!

Brent, Lindy's younger brother, returned home from his mission Wednesday, September 29th!!! He flew in at 11:30 at night so we had to wake Kyra up to take her to the airport. She started out pretty confused but got excited when we handed her some Maracas, a poncho, and a sombrero (we thought we would make her look festive since he was returning home from Mexico). She loved it. She has never met Brent before, but she was not shy at all. Lindy loved getting to see and hug him. She has been so proud of him and everything he has done.

Lindy's first 5k

Lindy and her sister Bethany ran a 5k on Saturday, September 25th 2010 at the Boise Womens Fitness Run. It was Lindy's first 5k and she did great, she may have even set a course record for females age 28 and 3 months pregnant.

Kyra and Abby (the dog) meet up with Lindy and Bethany at the finish line.

Kyra loved the fountain,

and liked the music even more! She just kept moving to the beat.