Happy Halloween!

Ginger SNAP

Sunday my little girl and I made gingersnap cookies and Pumpkin Cream Cheese dip. Yummy Yummy! Except when she licked the beater coated with only shortening. Eeeww! But the end result was delicious.

Waking Up

Most mornings things go like this at our house...I get up early and go to the gym to exercise. Around 6:30 am our oldest wakes up, makes his bed, gets dressed and goes downstairs to make his breakfast. Usually he's already practicing the piano by the time I come home from working out around 7am. He's a very responsible kid. He's not particularly happy in the morning, but knows what's expected of him and does it. I'm very grateful he's so good.

Then around 7:15 or 7:30, down rolls our 2nd child. Still in his jammies, usually groggy, not happy. He runs to the couch, jumps on and buries his head under the back cushion. I coax him out and remind him that he has school and needs to get moving. He'll slowly get his breakfast (or proudly make himself oatmeal) and then slowly eats it. Then comes the hard part...getting dressed. It takes him a while to get up the stamina to go back upstairs, get dressed and make his bed. I've told him many times, just get dressed and make your bed before you come down and then you don't have to go up again. I nearly always have to send him up another time after that to put on socks and brush his teeth. He's not a morning person. He gets that from his daddy. It almost makes you feel sorry for him because he looks so sad to be awake.

Then, around 8, our little girl wakes up. She's usually quite happy and snuggly and cheerful in the morning. Most of the time, she'll just knock on the wall by her bed above her head (which connects to our bathroom wall), to let us know she's waking up. Often, I'll knock the same rhythm back to her from my side where I'm getting ready for the day. Then finally she'll come in our room laughing...hair all a mess. I love her cheerful morning face.

So, the other day, she did something out of the routine. We were actually all upstairs...she in bed, us in our room getting dressed, the boys in their room picking up dirty clothes. All of the sudden we hear...

"COCK-A-DOODLE-DOO! COCK-A-DOODLE-DOO!"

The rest of us converge on her room and peek in, slowly opening the door. There we found her, covered in her blankets, hiding, waiting for us to discover her. We could all hear her giggling under the covers. Even our little groggy guy couldn't help but laugh along. As we quietly walked in, she threw back the covers and said "BOO!" All of us had a great laugh together. She made our day.


So after having family prayer right there in her room that morning, we were off to school, work, etc. and were all happy. Thank you, little Rooster!

Changes Changes

So, this week we've had a few changes around here...

1. My hubby sold his motorcycle (I'm not too sad about that b/c it means he's more safe and we have more money in the bank). He did it to finance a new camera for his photography passion...the EOS 5D Mark II

2. My son moved up to yellow belt. After only 4 months in martial arts, he's moved up 2 belts.


3. My office is finally refurbished, refinished, USABLE!!!

Kyukido movin' up

Our oldest just graduated up to yellow belt in Kyukido martial arts. He's only been taking since June of this year and he's already moved up twice. Good job kiddo! He actually gets the belt at his next class...not at the test. He did well though. They have to remember everything from their previous belts (Forms, Defense moves, definitions) and then they add on to that to move up each time. This time he had to remember a 24 step form along with his 12 step form. good thing he has a good memory.

NEW FAUCET

Well, I finally got my "new" soap dispenser installed that I received for Mother's Day. I ended up having a plumber install it along with a new faucet he was installing (it came with no instructions so my hubby agreed to my hiring a plumber friend to do it). i got the faucet on ebay for pretty cheap and it's not a name brand or anything. But it looks good and I like it a lot better than my old one (which was falling apart). YEA!

Happy Birthday to Me!

I turned 32 on September 26th. It was a event filled week. On the 23rd I went out to dinner with some friends to celebrate my birthday and one of theirs. It was my first time to the Cheesecake factory. It was delicious. I highly recommend the banana cream cheesecake. YUM!


Then, on Friday (my bday) my friends brought me lunch from Bajio, I received flowers from a neighbor and movie tickets, a yummy cookie bouquet from my favorite Aunt, spice bread from another neighbor, balloons and a wii fit cover from a friend, and a cool potted flower from a friend, and an awesome long sleeved running shirt from the in-laws.


Friday night we loaded up the trailer and went camping as a family. I made a peach pie the day before to enjoy for dessert on my birthday since I'd rather have pie than cake. We lit a match as a candle and the kids and hubby all sang to me. We had a good time hiking and enjoying the beautiful fall leaves. My hubby got me a great heart monitor watch to help me make my exercise more effective and the kids made me cards.

Saturday the celebration extended by going to lunch with one of my best friends and going out with my hubby that night to enjoy some bands at a local park. Thanks so much EVERYONE! I feel LOVED!

BYU FOOTBALL IS AWSOME!

My hubby's brother works for the BYU Football "Corporation" now and gets 2 free tickets to every game. He has to be on the field filming, so he gives them out. Sadly my hubby missed out on the UCLA blowout the week before this game against Wyoming. He was lovingly supporting me at my art opening at the Springville Museum. But this one was just as big of a blowout and fun b/c we were able to go together.

Crazy Hair Day and Not so Crazy Hair Day

So the boys recently had crazy hair day at school and this is how it turned out. My oldest...wearing a girls wig...my other son not adventurous enough to allow anything but spikes.

Then my little girl told me on Sunday that she didn't have crazy hair but beautiful hair and a new dress and that she needed a picture. What a girl.