It's "Fall" Again

Well it's fall again and I have been very reluctant to change my blog from Hawaii cause I loved the Hawaii design we had along with the music, but life must go on.
Not much has happened lately, hence no new posts but now I have something to blog about. "HALLOWEEN!"
Not much has happened around this time of year cause we don't have kids to dress up or take trick or treating but we did carve pumpkins. Jackson was reluctant last year about carving pumpkins, but this year, not a problem. I think he is starting to enjoy carving pumpkins again now. He said that he only carved pumpkins when he was really young but he's a good sport to start that up again.

So for this year, the pumpkin with a carved face is the one Jackson did this year, I like how the eyes turned out. My pumpkin is of course the monkey. This is my third year for carving a monkey. I've taught myself how to draw pumpkin carvings from looking at pictures. So all my monkey carvings have been my own design. I thought about making a carving pattern book but I haven't been that ambitious yet. I have drawn a Dalmatian carving pattern for my sister Emily one time, minnie and mickey for a past co-worker, skeletons, monkeys, eagles, etc. One day I'll make a book, but I just think to myself that there is someone else out there making similar books, so why bother. Maybe someday. Anyhow, carving pumpkins was something fun Jackson and I enjoyed doing together this year. The monkey below with the banana on his head is the one I carved last year.
There's one more thing that was fun that happened this month. About a month ago, my mom told me about a halloween trunk or treat that their ward were gonna be doing and my mom asked me if I could try and think of a cute way to decorate the trunk. So I did some googling and not until just a week ago, I thought, lets do a MONSTER!! My mom first thought I was crazy especially since I said, "Lets use the back of dad's truck" but it was such a good idea compared to using the back of a car or van. So I have some pictures of that as well, it was a lot of fun to put that monster trunk together. It was all made out of my black sheet, a red sheet, cardboard and lots of Gorilla Tape. And to be honest I didn't want to take it down afterwards. So luckily my ward was doing a halloween trunk or treat too so I was able to convince my mom and dad to drive the trunk up to my ward as well. So we had to undo just parts of it in order to drive it to my ward, only 20 minutes away, but well worth it. Plus it was fun to show it off again. It was a lot of fun. I would love to do the monster trunk again someday. It turned out so good!! My mom and I did a great job! I love it!! Anyway, that's about all that is going on with us. Jackson is still working graveyards at WinCo and going to school at EITC. I can tell he's getting tired of working at WinCo, but for now thats just how it's gonna have to be until we both can get better jobs. I do appreciate all that Jackson does for us. Me on the other hand, I have felt so pointless lately and really bored. I have done somewhere around 50 plus job applications for my RN license but no luck. It has gotten frustrating and quite depressing but I just need to try and keep positive. It's just hard to go from constantly doing something like full-time schooling and a part time job, to nothing. Plus money has started to get tight lately and I have student loans requesting money so that doesn't help. But I know that god is teaching me patience and I just need to keep hoping that I'll get a job someday. Only god knows how much we can handle. I'm hoping to get a job by Christmas (fingers crossed). Luckily my mom helped me somewhat out of my great depression by coming up with the idea for me to sub for teachers and special Ed aide's at the schools as a side job for some type of income, so thats been nice to start doing. I've only started the subbing about 2 weeks ago but at least I started something.
Well thats pretty much the news with us, not too much going on. We hope that everyone is doing great and enjoying this time of year as well. Lots of love!