Monday Blues

I'm not too excited it's Monday, but we did have a great weekend. We were invited to be in a group that once a month eats food from different countries. There are 4 different couples and we get to try French food. I chose the appetizer and drinks and I'm thinking of doing something called Gougeres or cheese puffs. They look really good, but I"m having a hard time thinking of a French drink... Since we don't drink wine I wanted to think of something creative besides "fancy" grape juice. Do any of you readers have any ideas? Please leave me a comment!

Recently I've come into contact with a family I got to know almost 13 years ago and I'm so grateful that they found me as well as being able to keep tabs on each other after all this time. I love the parents as well as the children and am so grateful for them being apart of my life.

It's been raining a lot and now we're looking at some snow!! I don't know if I'm completely ready for that, but we'll see shortly right? My kids are way too excited for the snow and can't wait to build another snowman or snow woman like this one we did last year.
Here's to changing weather and upcoming holidays! I'm excited for Thanksgiving and all the yummy food!

Being Thankful...

So I've decided to write a few things that I'm thankful for today...

My family (this is an older pic)


Fall colors and how beautiful they are


A husband who works hard so I can be a home

Finding special people on Facebook this week
The gospel
My mother
Friends
And all the simple things I take for granted every day.

What are you thankful for?

Early Halloween fun!

We had our annual family Halloween party and it was tons of fun. I won scariest and Marc won most original and my sister in law Kim won funniest. Here's some fun pics of our party!

BTW: my mom got a new kitten the other day, not sure of the sex since it's still too early to see, but it's really cute and sweet. It's a Tabby (I think that's what it is when they're orange and white) and sure loves my mom.


Some of thees pics are at the zoo earlier that day






We had our annual family Halloween party and it was tons of fun. I won scariest and Marc won most original and my sister in law Kim won funniest. Here's some fun pics of our party!

BTW: my mom got a new kitten the other day, not sure of the sex since it's still too early to see, but it's really cute and sweet. It's a Tabby (I think that's what it is when they're orange and white) and sure loves my mom.

One Last fun in the SUN!!

This weekend we went down to St. George and are having a blast so far... I really don't want to come home tomorrow but I guess all good things come to an end.

One big thing that happened yesterday was Hannah finally jumped from the side of the pool!! She refused all summer to jump in from the side of the pool at our apartment, but yesterday she asked me to throw her in which I did, then I told her it was just like jumping from the side so she walked over to the side and jumped like it was no big deal. I was so proud and clapped and yelled for her. It was made even better by two aunts and uncles and cousins watching her do it. WOW!!! Now all three of the kids jump from the side with no problem. Hannah looks like a dolphin in this shot... I thought it was pretty cool!


We're going to shoot our new gun tomorrow before we head home, it's a 9mm Ruger hand gun and it will be my first time shooting it. Should be fun times.


On a sad note, the Thursday we left for St. George my mom and I had to put "Kitten" to sleep. She's been with us for about 10 years and has been the most awesome cat. She all of the sudden was loosing weight and not eating so my mom took her to the vet and he kept her over night and discovered she had a massive tumor on her liver which was causing it to shut down as well as a stone in her bladder. He suggested they could do surgery, but would most likely end up having to put her down. My mom decided to do it the next day which was Thursday. I was so sad but grateful we could be in the room with her when she went. I cried many tears as well as my mom. It's been really tough for her... I'm hopeful she'll get a new cat when she has had time to get over Kitten. We buried her in the back yard and put a big rock over the site as a nice little marker.
Bubby Kitten 10/16/2008 RIP my friend


Well, to end on a more positive note we're having a great time here in St. George and at the same time are anxious to get back to things at home. It's been a great trip so far and we love being able to spend time with our in laws down here. Here's to a good week! Hope yours is good!

Fun times!

We had fun doing pumpkins this weekend! Here's our creations which were really fun, but I still want to carve mine and roast the seeds... Yummmmmm.

Here's Hannah's creation

Jaidyn's creation
Shaylee's creation!

Pumpkin Family!
We found the kits at Wal-Mart and think they were a hit! The kit includes more than one face and is about $3.50. Marc and I gave our pumpkins to neighbor kids who really wanted one so Marc and I will have to go buy two more and get creative in carving really soon! Happy Halloween and pumpkin carving time!

The Halloween Fun begins!

I'm so excited for Halloween! It's my favorite time of the year. I especially love going to pumpkin patches and going on hayrides and going through the mazes. I ran across a really great website yesterday that has so many different locations that do Halloween fun! Here's the link
Check it out and have fun with your families this season!

HEROES!!!

So I'm really excited for Heroes again! I really enjoyed the season premier and am really excited to keep watching it. If you haven't seen it before I highly recommended you check it out, this season looks to be really good!

Friday

I don't have anything to say other than Happy Friday! I'm really excited for Halloween and already have decorations up including a lighted spider that hangs in my window. The kids that also live in my apartment complex are all amazed by it. My kids love Halloween too and can hardly wait to put on their costumes. Hannah is going to be a devil princess, Jaidyn is going to be Spiderman, and Shaylee is going to be a bee.

For anyone in Utah County that reads this, I miss being there and being closer to my friends. It gets kinda lonely up here and since gas prices are so high it makes it hard to travel back and forth... So I'm sending you big hello's and big hugs!!!

Thursday

Well it's Thursday and there's really nothing to look forward to other than The Office season premiere tonight! That's pretty exciting, but other than that there's nothing else to really report. Marc has a big meeting tomorrow for his text message coupon company and I'm really hoping that goes well for him.
Shaylee told me for the first time yesterday how to spell her name all by herself! That was really exciting for sure!
We bought little face pieces that you stick into your pumpkin instead of carving and the kids as well as myself are really excited to try those. They didn't really like carving last year, I loved cooking the seeds though. Yummmm......
Other than that, things are just ok and I'm grateful for that. I hope your Thursdays turn out good as well as the upcoming weekend.

Broken Fridge!

This morning when we got up, the fridge was making an awful noise and I thought to myself oh great here we go! Well not an hour later it started smoking and had a horrible smell. The kids were really scared and thought something was on fire which could have happened I guess. I called the manager and she sent Eric our maintenance guy right over. It turns out our compressor was bad as well as the starter thing and one other thing I can't remember. So.... We got a new fridge! It's bigger and a bit better and white instead of cream. He brought it over from another empty apartment and did a switch around and so now someone else gets my small fridge and I get their big one!