Halloween 2008

Halloween 2008 was fun. We had my niece Josie with us and I was able to make her a butterfly costume. She was so cute. I also tried to get chase to wear the lion hat that went with his costume,but he refused so he trick or treated as half a lion. And of course Colin had to be Bumblebee from transformers. He is obsessed with transformers.

It is a tradition that we have a Spooky Halloween dinner before we go trick or treating, and this year we were able to have my parents and the missionaries over to join in our spooooky dinner.
On the menu:
Mr. Bones Ribs (baby backs)
Eyeball salad (grape salad)
Witches fingers (yam and regular fries)
Pirates teeth (corn)
orange goo (orange punch)
Quite delicious if I do say so myself...And the missionaries agreed.





Cutie pie butterfly.

We hiked St. Mary's Glacier the first week in July with my mom, dad, and sister Diana. We were above 10,000 ft. and the temp. was in the 60's. Not bad for the middle of summer.

My mom in front of the Glacier and lake.


Our family On the trail going up.


The Mullen boys resting on a rock.

This is for Krys

I' ll start by sharing the pictures of my house that my sister Krysta has been waiting about 8 months to see. When we moved into this house it was very 1984. This room was a dingy blue-gray with a border of country houses around the room. The couch and chairs are "hand me downs" that I recovered about 5 years ago. I'm not about to recover them again, and it will be awhile before I will get new furniture, so I decided to paint and decorate the room around my existing furniture.

This room is my living room. It was dingy white with a midnight blue accent wall when I moved in. I thought I'd go a bit more neutral. My parents sold us their old furniture so once again I thought I would decorate around what we had. It has turned out pretty nice so far... I still have some touch up work on the paint, and a chair rail to put up.



I made the curtains for this room, my dining room, and recovered the dining room chairs in the same striped fabric. I will send pictured of my dining room at a later date.

I hope you enjoy these Krysta, this post is dedicated to you. I think the house has come a long way. Though it has even further to go. My next big project is finishing our basement.

Wow. It has been way too long since I wrote, and I have a ton of pictures and things to share with all of you that we did this summer, but it is almost too intimidating to start, because there are so many. Anyway, I was reading my sister Krysta's blog and was inspired to write, because I have two new little nephews, Ashe and Ronan Fecke. They are so cute and I am grateful they are here and are doing so well. Ill have to admit, I still worry about them since they are so small. Krysta is a trooper and is recovering well.
With that said...Im a new auntie.