The Yates Family: Pumpkins, Costumes and Snow

Busy times here in Utah recently. My job is going well and our company recently signed some big accounts (Comcast, GE, McAfee, Vodafone, China Telecom, etc.) but....that means a lot of work for me. Since I'm on the front lines with customer requirements this has equaled a lot of late nights. Good problem to have though!

We had a recent bought of sickness at the house. Nothing serious - just some nose blowing, headaches, sore throats, etc. Lauren seems to complain the least but she got the brunt of it and spent some time with a nebulizer (sp?) which Sarah had a ball hooking her up to. It's been a challenge trying to get this swine flu shot and finally got some 'tickets' for next week to get the girls inoculated. Part of me thinks this is just a media circus but we want to be safe.

We did more harvest-type activities including Sarah's school trip to another pumpkin patch and our own trip to buy some pumpkins. Utah pumpkins are cheap - we got 4 for about $10. The girls decorated them 3 or 4 times before we finally carved them last weekend. And we roasted some pumpkin seeds which were a household hit.

The girls got to come by my office for some early candy-collecting. They had fun seeing where Dad works and everyone enjoyed seeing the kids dressed up. Thankfully one of my co-workers who dressed up as a crazy zombie was in a meeting at the time. Sarah had a Halloween party at school so basically stayed in costume 2 straight days.

Halloween went off pretty well and it's fun to see the girls get so excited about going around the neighborhood.

We had a little bit of snow last week as well. Nothing that caused any problems but it is certainly going to be an interesting winter. The tops of the mountains are now covered but we expect 60 degrees all week so some of that will melt off.

We are looking forward to some visitors for the holidays. Becky's friend Shannon is coming out for Thanksgiving and my Mom will be here for Christmas. I hope they like snow!

Here are a few pictures - check out our flickr site (Click Here!) for the full report! Click the pictures for bigger versions.