Since everyone else is doing their halloween posts, I thought I'd do my non-halloween post. :) Not to be a downer, but I don't love Halloween... I think I did when I was younger, and I probably would more if I had kids, but right now I just don't see the point. I'm not into going along with the whole retail extravaganza and getting caught up in decorations. I have a couple fall decorations, and we'll get a Christmas tree--but more for the tradition of going and cutting it down. And MAYBE Mike will let me dress Jasper up as Santa.. but no further than that (perhaps something similar to the picture below... lol). I guess I'm starting to get more into what the holidays actually mean, and Halloween just doesn't have any meaning for me so I don't see the point in putting the time and money into it.

So instead of doing the whole halloween thing, we just hung out and played with the dogs and worked on the house. It was fun, and especially relaxing since we got the extra hour of sleep!

…had a crazy dog weekend. I’ll spare you the long details of the story, but basically Sophie is in heat and the other dogs (mostly bandit) have gone crazy. I’m surprised our sleep-deprived neighbors haven’t yet organized something resembling the mob on Beauty and the Beast to kick us out of the neighborhood. Last night we ended up with 3 dogs in different areas of our house, and one left outside, hoping to minimize the barking noise. We didn’t get any sleep of course, but hopefully the neighbors got a couple hours.

The really sad news is, we might not be able to keep Bandit. He is just so aggressive and always has been, but now it is worse than ever. I don’t even think neutering him will help at this point. He starts fights with Jack constantly, and yesterday they both were limping around like they had hurt legs. We’ll give it a couple days, and then see.

Other than that, the weekend was busy but good. Lots of church stuff, also we went to see our brother in law Kyle’s band play at the U of U and then stayed up way too late playing basket weaving bacon at Denny’s. Then we slept in till noon… it was great! We also went to see the Body World’s exhibit downtown Salt Lake. It was really crowded, but super awesome! It was hard to imagine all the displays were once real, live people. The fetus display was my favorite… something you would never see anywhere else.

Overall, it was an okay weekend. But I can hardly keep my eyes open!

He is such a child, bless his soul...

So cute!

Hallway into kitchen BEFOREAfter! (minus the blinds--they weren't in yet)Office/2nd bedroom BEFOREAfter!
And this room gets the Most Improved award... here's BEFORE
AFTER!!! The colors look a little weird because the lighting made it hard to capture how it really looks. This is the closest I could get.

(3 pics... the last one is the laundry shoot door that Mike made from scratch!)