Thanksgiving

For Thanksgiving this year we went to Casey's mom & dad's house. It was a small get together this year. Shelby, Shayden, Brad, Mona, Casey, Caleb, Gma Sorensen, Gma Freeze & myself. The food was WONDERFUL. I made my Grandma Anderson's rolls again this year & they are delicious. I can't figure out how to fold them though. I remember that my grandma's rolls were all the same size & looked identical. Mine go from one end of the spectrum to the next. I need to perfect the fold! After we ate we watched a couple of movies & then headed to my parents house to play a game. We played Apples to Apples. Always a good time. I sent Jordon a list of ABC's of what I am thankful for. So many things - but some letters were hard!! I hope that he had a great Thanksgiving.

I told Caleb to smile & he struck this pose.

What a cutie.

Yes you can probably see your reflection in my forehead - (it's so shiny in pictures lately!),

& yes Caleb has his finger right up his nostril.

Casey & I were going to attempt a date night on Saturday - but Caleb ended up with a fever & was very cranky. We stayed home & put up our Christmas tree instead. Cheap date :) I have no idea what Caleb's fever was about. He always gets sick on the weekends so it's hard to get him into a Dr. His fever finally broke yesterday & he ate breakfast this morning so the little guy is on the mend.

Enriching Women's Lives

....& Caleb's as well! I ordered some Mary Kay last week & I think Caleb was just as excited as I was. He loves to make a mess of things....dog food, marbles, paper, puzzle pieces & we can now add Styrofoam peanuts to that list. He'll really quickly make the mess & then lay down in the middle of it on his belly & make a 'mess angel'. Strange kid. See his dirty socks sticking out of the left side?

Caleb has also started checking himself out in the mirror. Can you blame him? He's such a stud! We'll get ready to go outside & he has to run the mirror & point out his shoes & his hat & carry on a conversation with himself.

I haven't been up to a whole lot. I've been covering at work for a gal that was on maternity leave & she is now back, so I feel like I have a lot of extra time on my hands. I even cleaned my blinds the other day. For those that know me - that's a lot of ambition for my lazy butt. Since we have the windows open most of the summer days - they sure to get dusty. Speaking of my job - hints from higher ups suggest that I won't have a job come mid January. I really need to start looking for something else - but I need hours after 3pm. I'm going to apply a couple of places & if I get hired see if they can work around my Flying J schedule until I get laid off.

My older sister just had ANOTHER birthday & I made her a cute Rainbow Brite cake. I was totally bummed because every color that I used wasn't the color it was supposed to be! Does food coloring go bad? My pink was supposed to be red - my blue was supposed to be more royal - and the yellow wasn't supposed to be so orange!! Still cute - but dang!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANGELA!

KISS KISS

I had a thought the other day - "I think I'll take Caleb outside to play while I start raking up the leaves" bad thought. He was ZERO help, but very cute. He would fall into the leaves, throw them over his head & take handfuls from one pile to the other . . . back & forth, back & forth, back & forth. I didn't get a lot accomplished, but it was a good time.

He LOVES to swing. He got the swing for Easter & acted like it was a torture chamber whenever we'd try to put him in it & now he can't get enough of it! He'll go up to it and say "wheeee, wheeee, wheeeee" which I've figured out means "Swing me NOW!" He'll also grab a blanket when we're inside & bring it over & say "wheeee, wheeee, wheeee" meaning that he wants to swing in it. Cute stuff.

I went to my mother-in-laws relief society enrichment night last night & learned how to make the cute watch bands that you see everywhere. I LOVE IT! One thing on my body that is small is my wrists & most of the watch bands you can buy are to big for me & my watch face ends up on the underside of my wrist getting all scratched up. Now I can make them to fit just me!! Here are a few that I've cranked out already. I think I've found a new obsession.The 2 on the ends look like they are far apart, but when you stretch it over your wrist, they lay just perfect :)

I am SO proud of myself. I have all of Caleb's Christmas & birthday presents bought & wrapped & waiting for the moment! I figure this way by the time the occasions come I will have forgotten what I wrapped so it will be a surprise for me also!

Halloween Fun

For work another gal & I arranged a fun Halloween competition. We sent an email out to everyone in a few departments saying to be thinking of a fun Halloween treat & donate a dollar to one of us & then the treats would be voted on & the winner would receive the cash that had been collected. I wasn't super creative, but made these cute candy corn cupcakes that I found on http://www.ourbestbites.com/ Cute - but not the coolest or scariest thing ever. I thought for sure I'd lose. But I won!!! My competition was a bag of Reeses....a dozen Albertson's glazed donuts....a pumpkin cream cheese cake from Kents....a bag of Almond Joys....coconut macaroons from Smiths....and pumpkin chocolate chips cookies from Smiths. I won a whopping 5 dollars. I'm like Angela from the office. The party planner who tries to make things super fun & then it bombs. Will I ever learn??

For the past 2 years we've met my Aunt Sandra & her daughter Amber at Gardner's village for some dinner & some shopping. It's always a good time. I fell in LOVE with a witch hat but couldn't allow myself to spend money on it. I said that if it was $20 or less I'd buy it, but it was $28. I bought a cute pillow pattern for a decorative Thanksgiving pillow (I hope I have some ambition to get it done before I'm 80) and a couple of cute Halloween decorations. Good food - good shopping - good times.

My new Halloween decoration!! (the witch hat)

It says "I'm melting"

The hat that I would not spend $28 dollars on.

Sandra was driving by Gardner's Village a couple of days ago & called to see if I wanted her to stop in & see if it was in my price range. It was marked down to $21 so she grabbed it for me. What a nice auntie!!
Amber - Angela - Sandra - Brittni

Angela - Brittni - Amber

Halloween was quite interesting. Angela called me at 9:00 AM because she HAD to have the hat she tried on at Gardner's village. I wasn't planning on dressing up - but since Sandra had already bought my hat for me (which I wasn't planning on getting until around Christmas time when I saw her again) I figured I'd better dress up. We drove to West Jordon & met Sandra & Rick & got my hat & Angela got hers & then we drove home. Blake had a joke book......it was a long 3 hours. What says quick quick? A duck with hiccups. We drove by a Kohl's & Blake piped up "We should stop at Nicole's. They have really great deals" Talk about random!

After we got all dress up we went to Angela's to get pictures & then out to Casey's parents house for some pizza & then to Casey's brothers house to visit. A lot of makeup for so few stops. Blake is on the downside of the Swine Flu & since I sat in a car with him my mom banned me from her house & my grandma's house. :( I was bummed. My grandpa is old & my dad has bronchitis, so she didn't want to take any chances.

Griffen (Master Chief) - Blake (Snake Eyes)

Caleb (A cute skeleton!)

What a scary family!

CUTE!!!

Eeeeee heee hee hee hee!

Like father like son.

Picking our Pumpkins!

On Wednesday, October 14th - one of my baby brothers left for the MTC. It's weird to think that he's that old! (let alone that I'm that old) He will be in the MTC for 2 months & then be shipped away to the Philippines. I hope that he has so many wonderful experiences that he can't even stand it! He will be missed so much!! We met at Jeremiah's in Ogden for breakfast before he went to the MTC. I love that place. It's worth the drive from Brigham...Berts sucks & is so expensive!

What a stud!

After breakfast, we drove home on Highway 89 to check out the pumpkin selection at the fruit stands. We found some GREAT ones!

I had Casey take Caleb to the far end of the pumpkin pile so I could get his picture with the pumpkins which he was NOT interested in. . . . .

...he couldn't run fast enough....

...to get the the wagons with the sweet wheels!!

I heart Halloween. . .

BUT - I'm not really big on the idea of LIVE FREAKING BLOOD SUCKING OUTDOOR DECOR!!!!!!!!

Casey happened to be home this morning when I saw this critter & I made him wake up & told him to go smack it with a shovel. He went out & asked if I wanted to watch it fly away...I was like WHAT?!?!? Kill it! He said that it didn't need to die. Mighty hunter my butt. So - he nudged it with a broom & it was already dead. Probably froze in the night. What is strange is that I felt bad that it had froze to death, but had no second thoughts about him smashing it to mush.