Michelle and I took a tour of LDS Business College today. She's leaning towards NOT going there now. It is a nice campus, it just didn't feel right to her. She's looking into other options. I'm sure she'd love advice from her college-attending cousins and those involved in medical (nursing) programs. She wants to either commute from home this next year, or at least know someone wherever she ends up going.

Meanwhile, the kids have today and tomorrow off of school and we're gearing up for our annual Halloween party. We'll be showing "The Lost Skeleton of Cadavre Cave" again thi s year. It looks like we'll have about 12 guests!

Halloween 2006 at the Dupaixs

Here are Lisette and Dallin, dressed up to go the ward Halloween party. Lisette found this costume idea in a Family Fun article I'd saved, and insisted that I make her this costume. It turned out great. She won first prize in the costume contest!

The ward also had a pumpkin carving contest. We were to bring an already-carved pumpkin. I wanted something different, so I was searching the Internet for patterns when I found a website that told how to convert a picture to a pumpkin carving pattern. The ones on the website were very impressive. The guy used Paint Shop Pro, which I already have, so I decided to try converting a picture of Joseph Smith. This was the resulting carving.



I was kind of disappointed, until we turned off the lights. It was really hard to get a good photograph of it, but here are the best ones. I was amazed at the three-demensional detail!

I'm definitely going to have to do this again. If anyone would like me to convert a picture to a pumpkin carving pattern, just let me know. Hey, we could do one of Dad!












Just a week before Halloween, we got hit with the first snowstorm of the season. Tooele got quite a bit of snow, and Ben was SO excited to get out in it and build a snowman. I wasn't sure where he was working, and was surprised when I saw his creation. He did this little snowman all by himself. Pretty good for a 4-year-old, huh?