Happy Halloweeeeen

Hi again everyone. Let's cut to the chase - not everyone who has been reading our blog has been leaving comments. For those of you (bless your hearts) who have been leaving comments, we have a special prize for you that you can pick up at our house. For those of you who have not been leaving comments, we encourage you to repent and start commenting so you too can pick up your special prize. So if you read this and don't leave a comment we might call the internet police on you. Also, Kate's older brother Jacob is a lawyer and he knows how to sue - so you better start posting comments.


We had our Halloween party here on Friday. As promised last week, we dressed up as the best suggestion from the comments you posted. The winner was Kristin - she recommended that Justin be Pamela Anderson and that Katie be Kid Rock.



The picture is a bit frightening, but you get the idea. You can't see it well, but Justin is wearing a super-short miniskirt and some leggings - needless to say, it was pretty hot!?! At the party we watched the Wizard of Oz while listening to Dark Side of the Moon, had a donuts on a string contest, bobbed for apples, and ate some good pizza. The house was decked out in black plastic, spider webs, black lights, and a smoke machine but it was too dark to take pictures so you'll have to imagine how cool it looked.

Finally, we would like to comment on the results of last week's poll. When we asked 'which is cooler' there was a two-way tie between mechanical pencils and jet planes. The tie goes to whichever is more portable - so mechanical pencils are the winner. Don't forget to participate in this week's poll.

Our Loudest Post Yet

Today is our brother (and brother-in-law) Jacob's birthday. Katie's brother Jake, not Justin's. So Happy Birthday!

We decided that we have now left you in enough suspense in the week since our last (and first) post. We just got home from our weekly religious meeting and we were noticing how extremely, unbelievably, ridiculously loud it was. Just imagine a jet engine, a speeding locomotive, a cruise ship horn, and the 1997 Blink 182 concert at 'Bricks' in Salt Lake City all jammed together in a room the size of a coat closet. That's only 1/100th of how loud it was in our sacrament meeting today - and it was only slightly quieter in the other two meetings. We don't think the other people in the meeting (the owners of the noise makers) realize how loud their children really are. There was a kid today crying at the top of his lungs in a high, window-shattering scream that didn't get taken out. They just let him cry while the rest of us tried to read the lips of the person speaking. Luckily the speaker was familiar with ASL so we just watched as he signed the rest of his sermon. We might just have to have a kid so we can pay attention to something besides everybody else's screaming babies.

We just finished a busy but fun week. It included going to Brettney's house where we had some delightful pizza and the best dessert this side of the Mississippi - pizookies! If you don't know what a pizookie is you should ask Whittney because she is really good at making them. While we were there we also watched Planet Earth (the BBC version) which is definitely worth your while if you have never seen it. The next night we were lucky enough to go to dinner with Kristin and Tanner. The best part of the night was watching them box each other on the Wii - we almost had to carry Tanner out on a stretcher.

The "Blog-tivity" (required for all readers of this blog) is to tell Justin and Katie what their costumes should be at the Halloween party that is this Friday at our house. We will both dress up as the best idea. Anybody that wants to attend is welcome - it will be all of Justin's friends and their wives and kids, so if that sounds fun we would love to have you. There will be food, decorations, and scary music to set the mood for the holiday.

First Things First

The purpose of the first post in our blog is two-fold.

First, we would like to let everyone know how to say our last name. It sounds like goff -not go (as in Van Gogh) or gew or gouge, or any other crazy combination of consonants and vowels.

Second, we are requiring everyone to read this before they read any additional posts in our blog. We are doing this as a public service because it is estimated that up to 99.8% of 'bloggers' out there don't even know what the heck the term blog stands for, where blogs came from, or how they got started. With that in mind, click here to find a definition of and a brief (not as in underwear) history of blogging. You'll be tested afterwards and only people who pass the test can read our blog -- if you don't pass the test and you try to read our blog, we'll call the internet police on you.

The questions are:

1. The term 'blog' is short for what?
2. In what year did 'blogging' start and why?
3. When did 'blogging' become popular?
4. True or False: Justin and Katie are AWESOME.