October

Well, it's only the 7th of October, but already I've been keeping myself busy decorating for the coming holiday. I love fall! It has to be my favorite season!
I love the colors, the smells, the decorations, but mostly the food! You can get things now that you usually can't the rest of the year. I also get to decorate with gourds and I get to eat food from a garden well tended (though I admit, it's usually other people's gardens, I still get to eat food from them!).
The weather is cooling down and so is our apartment. It is only about 76 degrees in here right now. (a far cry from the usual 90+ of summer!) It feels wonderful! I've already had to start putting Alida in a jacket to go outside.
Michelle and Brian had their baby and he is adorable. They have run into a snag at the moment though. He has spent the last week, (since he was born pretty much), in Primary Children Medical Center with a lung infection (which has cleared up, thank goodness) and a heart defect which they will have to surgically fix. We don't know when he will go in for that, but hopefully it will be soon. Until he comes home from the hospital, Michelle and Brian spend about 7-8 hours per day at the hospital with him. While they're there, we get to play with their Little Sweetheart at our house. Alida LOVES having her cousin come over to play. They fight every so often, but it's been an all around enjoyable experience. (except for their darling sons predicament, obviously.)
I also rearranged the photos on my walls. Now it looks somewhat organized.
As some of you may know, Lana had been living with us for the past couple of months. Last Sunday she decided to run away and after a couple of days of not knowing where she was, she returned back at our house. Unfortunately, she had slipped back into her previous condition and that night we had to drive her to her parent's house in Spanish Fork so they could take her to Wasatch Mental Hospital and commit her. I don't know how long she will be there, but needless to say, she no longer lives with us.
I am currently trying to put my house back in order since she has left. Alida loves having her room back to normal (it gives her lots of space) and it has made keeping the house clean that much easier with the extra space back.
We recently had some excitement with a mouse as well. I saw it in the evening in our room a couple of weeks ago and it took a couple of days, but we finally caught it! We had been putting peanut butter on the mouse traps (they are attracted to it, for those who don't know.) but the mouse kept taking the PB without setting off the trap, so I put a chocolate chip on it instead and that finally got it! It was living in the pocket of the bathroom door. (it's a sliding pocket door.)
We have also decided that we are throwing our annual Halloween party again this year (we had to miss it last year).
Well, that is all the fun I can think of for now.