Where Mindy Likes Living... Plus an Update

I have enjoyed something about everywhere I've lived. I don't remember Utah much, but I used to love the plum trees in the back yard. Or were they in the Hardcastles' backyard? In Colorado I loved having Pikes Peak out the kitchen window. Watching the fireworks off the Peak on New Years'. I liked the hail storms, even though they were scary sometimes. In Rexburg I liked having so many Mormons living all around. In Pocatello there weren't quite as many, but a lot and I Iiked that there too. I also loved being able to watch Conference on TV. I liked having everything we needed, but not living in a huge city. I liked having a temple so close. I really liked being able to take a jaunt down to Utah to see Jeny, Holly, and Nickell. And here I like all the activities they have for families all summer. I like the climate. More mild than Pocatello, and more humid but not too much more. I like the friendly people of a smaller community. I actually like that there aren't as many Mormons here so that the kids get the experience of being in the minority too. I like living out in the country. It's very quiet.

The kids had a fun Halloween. Jonah told me a month ago that he wanted to be a dragon, so I've been working on that. Megan told me two weeks ago that she wanted to be Cookie Monster. That one didn't happen. Fake fur costs too much. So she was a cheerleader. Kate told me Monday that she wanted to be a princess, and could we go look at pattern books. She was devastated when I told her there wasn't enough time for me to make her a costume. I had her look through my dresses and she found one she was happy with. I had her hair all up in a pretty do, but the bobby pins started hurting her head after a couple of hours and she wouldn't leave it alone, so it fell out. I wish I'd gotten a picture before. It really was pretty. Dylan put on his suit and said he was James Bond. Jason found a Superman costume. I'm not going to tell where he found it. His last class on Friday was canceled, so we went trick or treating early, about 2:30, up and down Main Street. It was a good thing we went early, because we got home and it started raining and didn't stop all night. We didn't have a single trick-or-treater come to our door. I wasn't too surprised though. We had tortilla soup for dinner, watched the Goonies, and went to bed. It was a fun day.