High on Candy!

This is after the kids went trick or treating for 3 hours. We got one huge bowl full of candy, plus their pumpkins were all half way full after that. I have been eating all of the chocolate. =) The Lion, the Witch and the Pirate met other monsters and ghosts in the neighborhood. There is one house here where a handicapped child lives. Halloween is his favorite holiday and so his parents dec out their house with at least a dozen BIG, blow up figures. Visiting that house was the highlight of their Halloween night. Thanks to Andrea from William for sending him a pirate patch. He is not wearing it in this pic, but he was so happy to have it. =)

Lion and mommy

I love my little lion cub!

Happy Halloween from the Pope kids

Happy Halloween! We had fun at our yearly party and got lots and lots of candy! We sure miss everyone back home though. The kids had fun this year and it is good seeing how happy it makes them.

Vocabulary Day at school

For Leah's school Halloween party they had the kids dress up in costumes. They all wore signs with vocabulary words describing what they were or something about their costumes. This year Leah was a duck or less expressed, "a fowl." She was quacking all day. =)

Life and Times in Saudi Arabia

I was so happy to have my parents come down to help me with one of our quarterly Relief Society meetings. Mom helped me make Tabouli (a Saudi type salad), Umm Ali (a Saudi bread pudding) and other Arab dishes. They brought all of their Saudi keepsakes and we displayed them in the RS room. Dad gave the most interesting presentation on their life's experience in Saudi Arabia, as well as Lehi's trail through the wilderness. Dad looked very handsome with his suit on and I was so proud of him. I will make this an official THANK YOU to them for going out of their way for doing that for me. Thanks so much dad and mom!

Love, Julie

The Arlington airport "Fly In"

Today we went to the air show they put on every July. People come in from all over to show off their planes and flying skills. There were so many different kinds of airplanes!!! It was a good time!

p.s. Yes, I know my blogging skills suck!!

Helicopter fun

The helicopter on the left is the same helicopter on the right. We got to see inside after it landed.