i'm currently listening to dal yell at the t.v.

he takes this whole election thing pretty seriously.

i'm not really as into it as he is, and so while he gets heated, i'll document my weekend.

dal and i headed home because smack was going to get the priesthood. i had planned on getting dropped off in salt lake to watch squid play basketball, but we were running a little late. so instead i just met up with her drove home with her. it was a good time singing at the top of our lungs to celine dion and justin bieber.

after i got home i found out that i was going to go on a date. dal, mel, and chad christensen all showed up at my house and we had a pumpkin carving contest. dal and mel chose batman, and chad and i did mario and princess peach.

after we picked out our design the race was on.

not sure whose idea it was to give me the massive knife...

as we were cleaning the pumpkins out my dad could not stop laughing. i looked up to see what he was finding so funny..it was mel. poor girl wasn't real thrilled about pumpkin guts.

i, on the other hand, was completely fine with them. 

we were serious about our pumpkins and i must say, they turned out pretty cool. i was a bit wary about mine, as i was carving it looked bad...and then as soon as i was done, peaches eye fell out. but thanks to a toothpick, all was well.

in case you were wondering, team mario/peach won.

after that we weren't quite sure what to do with them. after a long debate and many rejected ideas, we decided to light them and then set them on the welcome to declo sign...just to spruce it up a bit.

for the rest of the weekend we all had fun texting each other, just to let the others know that our pumpkins were still there.

on sunday they were removed, but don't worry, we have some nice future plans in the making.

on saturday we had to keep old tradition alive...hello haunted mansions of albion.

we really did miss kk though.

it was also the first year we went without boys...terrifying, yet hilarious at the same time.

the first house we walked into rachel and i were in the lead.

we were walking down some stairs when a hand reached out at us. of course it scared us half to death and then we rounded a corner which put us in the same room as the hand that had just scared us. i was trying to make light of the situation by telling the person that he had scared us and that he probably could again because we were wimps. next thing i know he reaches in his coat and rachel just screams at the top of her lungs "chainsaw!!" i am terrified of chainsaws and so i [tried] to make a run for it.

only problem was that i couldn't move, mel had a death hug on me, and she wasn't moving. but that chainsaw was headed right for me so i broke loose and ran as fast as i could. that chainsaw man chased me for way longer than he needed to but finally he gave up and so i stopped running, then rachel caught up, and then mel. then out of the corner of my eye i see mckay running way faster than he can...next thing i know he eats dirt. al my fear was gone as i was now rolling on the ground laughing.

did i mention that syd walked and was fine?

the next house we went into actually had no scary people in it, but no worries a random person walking through the house scared me...

and i have a problem.

i have a weak bladder, and i had to go, and i got scared.

so i peed my pants.

but just a little.

then we went through the haunted corn maze.

the stupid chainsaw man found me within the first five seconds. i ran out of the entrance, but syd talked me into going back in. i ran into the chainsaw guys like three more times. by this point i really had peed my pants.

good thing syds a gem and still stuck with me.

the last house was scary too, but luckily i knew where the chainsaws were and so you bet i ran out before they had time to chase me. and don't even worry, i made friends with some of those creeps.

i even considered dating one.

but in the end i didn't date him, i just stuck with the girls...which is fine since through most of the haunted houses we remained in the standard boy/girl haunted house formation.

any male takers for next year?