Halloween

In talking with one of my doctors at work on Friday, I was reminded of how the wonderful Halloween costumes my mom made for me as a kid often had to fit over snowsuits or other various pieces of winter clothing.  I was everything from a caterpillar (picture below) and Spanish dancer to a lion and princess.  If you ask me, I had some pretty cool costumes.  Too bad I didn't inherit my mom's sewing abilities!  My kids (one day) will probably fall victim to store bought costumes, unless my mom wants to make costumes and ship them (hint, hint).

The weather here in Utah hasn't been too bad.  It's a bit chilly, but I think the Trick or Treaters will escape from having to bundle up under their costumes; lucky ducks!  Scott and I have a few decorations up outside, but didn't go overboard.  We do have this neat grim reaper that hangs from the roof and shakes and makes scary noises when someone walks by. 

We also carved pumpkins with Jack, Brandi, and Jaycee.  Since Brandi doesn't trust Jaycee with a knife just yet, she painted her pumpkin.  I don't think Jaycee was a fan of the paint (see below).  Regardless, she did a pretty good job for a 6 monther.

Once Jaycee was done, it was time for the adults to carve their pumpkins.  I made a ghost with the word "BOO" in it, Scott made the Apple logo, and Milo (yes he can carve pumpkins...he's a super talented dog) made Mike Wazowski from Monster's Inc.  Mine and Milo's pumpkins turned out great, but Scott had a little trouble at first.  When people say that duct tape fixes anything, they mean it!  Scott fixed up his pumpkin and was able to re-do the design.  Below are pictures of the pumpkins we made.

From left to right: Scott's, Ariane's, Milo's

Scott's ghetto pumpkin fix up

Overall, it was a pretty fun night filled with lots of laughs!  I'm looking forward to seeing what all the neighborhood kids will be dressed as tonight.  Let's hope we actually get kids, unlike our second year living in Arizona.  We bought candy and not one single kid came by!  Happy Halloween everyone!

Birthday Celebrations

I find that as you get older, birthdays tend to become just like any other day. When I was a kid I loved birthdays and would get excited a month or two in advance. I don't know why I was so excited to become an adult...what was I thinking?! That being said, I actually had a pretty good birthday this year. I took the day off work, which was VERY nice. Scott worked a half day so we could spend some more time together. When he came home from work he surprised me with an ice cream cake from Baskin Robbins. I opened some gifts from Scott and Milo (I don't know how they let him in the store or where he got money from) and was very happy with what I got. Later Scott and I watched Bad Teacher, which was actually better than I expected and was pretty funny. Scott's parents came over after dinner for cake and some more presents. That was it for the actual birthday day fun. On Saturday I headed over to Brandi's house (my sister-in-law) to do some crafts and spend time with Jaycee. Since I hadn't seen Jaycee in a few weeks I spent most of the time holding, feeding, and playing with her. She's just so cute and precious, so obviously my crafts took a back seat. I got one craft done; it was a super cute reindeer (will post a pic soon). After craft time, it was time for dinner. We celebrated my birthday with Scott's family Saturday night and went to dinner at Red Lobster. It was a lot of fun, good food, more awesome gifts, and lastly, embarrassing birthday singing. Overall, I had a really good birthday. Just two more years until the big 3-0; YIKES!!!!

Been a while...sorry!

It's been a while since I last blogged...sorry to those of you who read!  While it's been about a month since I was last on, I'm sad to say that there's not much to report :(  Life has pretty much been the same.  I've come to realize that the older you get, the more routine and less exciting life can be.  You wake up every morning, eat breakfast, go to work, come home, eat dinner, relax, go to bed, and then do the same thing the next day.  That's just life I guess!!  I did have the misfortune of contracting a lovely bacterial infection the other week.  What started out as a sinus infection (which I didn't know I had) eventually spread to my throat and ear.  I ended up going to the doctor and was put on amoxicillin.  After a few days on the meds I started feeling a lot better.  I did miss out on attending my niece Jaycee's blessing though.  Since she was a preemie, her immune system isn't the best.  I didn't want to risk getting her sick (since she was just sick the week before), so I stayed home.  Scott was able to go and took a bunch of pictures for me.  Luckily Scott didn't catch what I had! 

To help save on monthly bills, Scott and I opted out of getting cable.  Back tracking a few months, we found out during our home inspection that there's a big antenna in our attic.  Being the electronic genius that Scott is, he figured out a way to tap into the antenna and get us 50 free channels.  Quite a few of them are in Spanish but we get most of the local channels so I can still watch all of my shows.  Lately the Ute football games have been on channels we don't get so we ended up going over to my in-laws last weekend to watch the football game and the Tigers baseball game.  Scott's mom is from Michigan so we've become Tigers fans :)  Sadly, both teams lost.  Two good things came out of the weekend though, I got a new pair of running shoes (early b-day present from Scott) and Scott's mom treated us to Chinese food for dinner.  

One thing I failed to mention is that it snowed here last week.  The temperature have since warmed up, but seeing the snow in the mountains is kind of depressing.  I'm not ready for winter yet!!!  That's all for now.  Hopefully it won't be another month before I get a chance to write.