Pumpkin Walk

We went to the pumpkin walk last week. For those of you who don't know what a pumpkin walk is, let me elaborate. North Logan has this quirky tradition of creating still-life scenes composed almost entirely of pupkins and various other squashes, arranging them all around the park and letting the community come to oooh and ahhhh. It actually is alot of fun. This year they had scenes including Thomas the train, pirates, an old west town, frankensteins labratory, farms galore, and even elvis. We only stayed an hour because it was stinking cold, but fun none-the-less. These pictures are of the kids at the end, where they had those boards that you put your face through. Andrew thought those were so cool.

Meet Shelob

We've had her for a couple of months now, even long enough to experience her moulting process (verry interesting)! Shelob the Tarantula is the newest addition to our household and I find myself absolutely immersed in teh world of "boys". Really. There's a spider living on my kitchen counter.

We do love her though, and she makes for a great pet. Right now she is about a year old, and she could live to be 25. Josh can take her to college. She eats crickets, which is quite violent, but the main reason for getting a spider in the first place. Like I said ... boys.

Email!!

We've given up our netzero account, and the email account to go with it. So we have a new email address. Just thought you all might like to know! Here it is:
thebarlows@digis.net

More Pictures

Here are a few more Yellowstone pictures.

Yellowstone Trip

We're only a month late getting these pictures up, but we have a great announcement to make.

Drum roll please.......

we finally got a decent internet connection!

Anyway, it will be easier to blog now, and to enjoy all of your blogs as well.

As for Yellowstone, we had a fabulous time. My family is, if nothing else, entertaining. We stayed at the Grey Wolf Inn in West Yellowstone. The kids (my brother brought his four) thought the hotel swimming pool was just as cool as anything we saw in the park. But Mike and I definitely prefered the scenes in the park. It was so beautiful! Our favorite part was the Yellowstone canyon, and the water fall there. There was this great trail that was 600 steps down into the canyon to a viewing area. The kids all did really well with the hiking.

We saw every animal except bear and moose in the park. But we got close and personal to the wolves and bears in the preserve center in West Yellowstone. Joshua even got to feed the bears! They took the bears out of the habitat, let the kids go in and hide food under rocks and trees, and then let the bears back in. Such a fun experience for a 4 year old!

The highlight for Andrew was the imax movie about Yellowstone. There was this great grizzly bear in it that stands up and roars at the very end. Since then, Andrew has been roaring nonstop. Even now, a month later, he roars all the time. No words, just roars!