Trick or Treat

We went trick or treating with my sister and niece in Greencove Springs. Julia’s favorite house was a big 2 story historical house. They had both stories all decorated, the owner stood out side, a guy in a blow up suite that made him real fat, and he had on a tutu and was dancing. Julia thought that was the funniest thing. This year the kids got to dress up for trunk or treat at church on Wednesday, for trick or treating on Friday and Saturday we went to the last day of Spooktacular at the zoo. They had so much fun wearing their costumes. Julia loves to dress up so of course she’s wore it everyday since Halloween. At Spooktacular she loved the animal costumes. She hugged the poor tiger about 6 times, he almost tripped over her trying to walk away . They had several areas set up where they played music and let the kids dance. Both Julia and Haley loved these areas! It was a little crowded for mom’s taste but the kids had fun!

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FHE fun

For family home evening a few weeks ago we went to the pumpkin patch and picked up some pumpkins to carve. The kids had fun running around looking at all the different shaped pumpkins. After we finally chose our pumpkins we took them home. They sat on our porch for about a week and on Halloween we carved them up. Bryant had no problems sticking his hands in to clean out the pumpkin. Julia on the other hand wanted nothing to do with cleaning out the pumpkins. She said it was gross! She stuck her hand in but wouldn’t pull anything out. Bryant had fun he said is was spooky!

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Strangers in the Box

I was trying to find questions that I could ask my grandparents to do an interview with them to get as much information as I could from them about them, (my grandparents are all still living, and I have a great grandmother still alive!) and stumbled across this poem. I shared it with Lonnis before she left on her mission I believe she had it posted somewhere in the FHC library. I actually have a box full of pictures I got from my mom. I am suppose to be putting them into scrapbooks for her. I’ve had them for almost 5 years and there still sitting in the box. I need to get busy! Thought I would share it….

Strangers in the Box

Come, look with me inside this drawer,

In this box, I’ve often seen,

At the pictures, black and white,

Faces proud, still serene;

I wish I knew these people

These strangers in the box.

Their names and all their memories

Are lost among my socks;

I wonder what their lives were like,

How did they spend their days?

What about their special times?

I’ll never know their ways.

If only someone had taken time

To tell who, what, where and when,

These faces of my heritage

Would come to life again.

Could this become the fate

Of the picture we take today?

The faces and the memories

Someday will pass away.

Make time to save your stories;

Seize opportunity when it knocks,

Or someday you and yours could be

The strangers in this box!

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