Hedgehogs

The Hedgehogs are doing so great! They are past the infant stage and are now getting into the "toddler" age. They have their eyes open and are exploring new things. They are so cute! Nanay is definately busy trying to take care of and feed her 5 growing babies! We are really enjoying them. It is sad that they will be leaving our home in a few weeks. There are a few more pictures online at http://www.familyhedgie.blogspot.com/

Happy Halloween

Natalie and I are having an awesome Halloween! We have our apartment all decorated (we will have to add pictures later). Last saturday we had our ward halloween party and had a pre-carved jack-o-lantern contest and a costume contest. We wanted to enter into both, so after about 2 hours at the D.I. we found some great costumes. We were inspired by finding a torch-like basket. This reminded us of the statue of liberty, and so that is what we ended up dressing as. Natalie was the statue of liberty and I went as Uncle Sam. It was a lot of fun! We were going to carve a pumpkin, until we saw the prices of pumpkins.... so instead, we carved the large zucchini that grandma Steel had given us. It was hilarious! We put it up on the stage next to the other pumpkins and it sure did look weird. However, despite its green color and oblong shape, our carved zucchini actually got 3rd place! It was a lot of fun!

Balloon Fiesta

Natalie and I were able to go down to Albuquerque, NM for the Balloon Fiesta. Natalie had school off for the potato harvest, and we decided to make it into a vacation. It was a lot of fun! Saturday morning we went at 5am to the balloon fiesta park and were able to watch all of the balloons taking off. It was a great weekend!