Just to Give Mom a Heart Attack...

On October, 25th Nick and Julie Escobedo had their Monster Mash of a Halloween party, which lived up to it's ever-growing reputation of coolness. This year, Bob and Rita Marley showed up and rubbed shoulders with none other than Amelia Earhart and Barack and Michelle Obama. Barack and Michelle won the costume contest by popular vote and about ten minutes later, the McCain campaign called demanding a re-count. Also pictured below is Cedric's birthday party at Tucano's Brazilian restaurant. Good times.

"The Veggie Vampire"- a Halloween poem for you

Late at night, all dressed in black, below a moonlit sky,
I sneak into the orchard and I suck the apples dry.

The bitter juice of lemon fruit, with ripened nectarine
makes nice dessert for artichokes with turnips, beets and beans

Yes, oranges, peaches, passion fruit, zucchinis, peas and pears,
had better not stay out at night, and if they do-BEWARE!


For, in the early morning, farmers find the peels and rinds,
and shriveled up tomatoes hanging sadly on the vines.

And gardeners and cultivators grasp their produce tight
for fear that I, the Veggie Vampire, strike again tonight!

Stop... Apple time.

Here are some pictures of Scout and daddy-o picking what turned out to be a decade supply of apples from uncle Grant's haunted orchard. We gave a lot of the apples away to our neighbors in hopes that they would cook delicious things using the apples and then bring those delicious things to us in thanks for the apples. So far we've had some delicious apple pie from our upstairs neighbors, but nothing from anyone else. We have taken note of the people that we gave apples to who haven't offered us delicious apple-based treats and we plan on egging their apartments Halloween night.




Scout's first car- we told her she can start driving as soon as she fixes it up.

Catch up

In the past few weeks we went to the zoo, Scout sent her first text message, she also started learning how to do head stands and the whole family went to General Conference.