Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! It is such a great time of year! I love the fall leaves and the chilly air. It is so fun to think of all the wonderful blessings to be thankful for! I got to have a wonderful weekend with my family. It was so fun to have everyone in town. Mom set up our beautiful table! She even did cute name tag place settings for everyone. On thanksgiving day we played a fun kickball game and some of Kaulin's family and Lexie's family joined too. Mom and all the girls pitched in to make an awesome meal! I tried a new fruit salad recipe from my friend, and it was awesome! :) We had so much food (I think we over planned on the food part--- but isn't that partly the point of Thanksgiving). Late that night, yes that night at 10pm the girls decided to do a little shopping at the outlet malls. We hit up a few stores, but the lines were crazy. I didn't get up early the next morning, but some of the sisters did. Then we went to Santas Workshop and did some shopping there. It was fun to have some Mom and Sister time! Also this weekend I got to see some of my good friends who live in SLC now. Deon came and visited and I got to see Julie on Saturday-- you girls are the best! I'm thankful for such amazing friends in my life! The random picture of me by a store window, was from an adventure with my friend Ashley. We were wandering down main street and I was entertained by this window of an antique store. We had a random fun adventure on friday night. I also found a bookcase on saturday randomly at a garage sale when I was on my way to meet Julie. It is a sweet bookcase and I only paid $13! Sweet!

Paige and I had some good times with the silly faces! I just love that girl!

The girls

Random store

My cool bookshelf, which needs to be moved from the garage to my room :)

November...

Well, I haven't really taken many pictures this month, and I can't believe Thanksgiving is next week! Time flies! It has been great month full of fun and business! The first weekend of the month I went with Shanna and Shelly to "Time out for Women" put on by Deseret Book. It was an awesome weekend full of friends and spiritually motivating experiences. I had never attended anything like it before, and it was fun. We really liked Hillary Weeks performances. I got her new Christmas CD to enjoy. The next weekend I had to take a 2 hour test (again-against my will) to prove that I am "highly qualified". It is to put my Administration Certificate on my Teaching license. So I will find out in a few weeks if I passed or not. I took the test last year, but there was no cut off score. I didn't really study when I took it last time and I was 10 points below the cut off (620) and I got a 610-- so I had to pay $130 dollars to take it again and I hopefully passed this time (I did study). But after the test was over I got to spend the rest of that Saturday at my Sister Alisha's awesome digital scrapbooking class. I am learning more about photoshop! I just need to play with it more often! I'm so excited for the upcoming holidays! I have been working on a few Christmas Projects and I love it! I haven't done big projects for a couple years! I even busted out some homemade cards the other day! If anyone is interested in homemade christmas cards or other cards let me know!

Halloween...Family Style

Halloween night the whole family went to the Annual 9th ward Halloween Party! The activities committee did a great job! ;) Me and cute Paige as a princess! I just love spending time with her!

Baby E was our cute giraffe!

The Shaw family! 2 Princesses, our Harley Driver and Nascar Driver

Jeff & Lexi

Reese & the Tooth Fairy (chris)

The chef, the lobster eater, and the lobster= Mr. Bentley

Halloween 2009

So at School, my principal, decided to be Cruella Devile and the rest of the staff were the dalmations! It was fun to have a theme! We took a big group picture, so when I get that I'll add it on here!

Mrs. Fife & Me (above)- Mrs. Vance & Me

Mrs. Waldvogel, Mrs. Hunt, Mrs Wright, & Mrs. Hooper (arent' we cute)

We had a fun regional singles dance on Monday-- so all of us dressed up and partied! :)

Me, Nicole, Anilee, Amy, Kristin

Up North...

We had fun carving pumpkins and making cookies! *Casey, Deon, & Me

Deon & Cami! My crazy silly girls= whom I just Love!

Coley & Liz- we went dinner! It was fun to catch up and remember the good old raintree days!

We went to the Draper Temple! My First time= it was beautiful!

I went up for my cousin, Colton's, Mission Homecoming. He did great! It was awesome to see the Meyer clan on Sunday and spend time with the grandparents as well! My family is amazing! :)

Halloween Treats

When we were in California, my sis Julie, had a fun magazine that had recipes in it! There were these cute mummy cupcakes that I wanted to try for a dinner night we had with our friends. It wasn't quite working out, so I made spider webs instead! :) Then when I was up north with my friends we made halloween homemade oreos! Yummy!

Family Vacation

Our family takes an annual family vacation to Cali every October with our cousins and other family friends! I haven't been able to go with them the past 4 years because of work and school, so this year I decided to take a few days off work and go relax and play with the fam on the beach. We usually stay in Del Mar, but this year our family stayed in Oceanside with Andee and Steve. One of the days I went and played with our friends in Del Mar. We played Flag football, frisbee, swam in the ocean and dug a huge hole! I love fun days at the beach! And I for sure got more sun than I thought I would :)

Josh, Korby, & Parker- digging the huge hole!

Flag Football-
And I loved playing with Rush & Peach & Baby E on the beach!

The girls & Mr. B and Baby E

Baby E loves the sand and ocean.. he has no fear! :) He even posed for us!

All the girls went and got pedicures :) So fun and relaxing

This is a view from the beach of where we stayed. It is right on the beach! Andee and Steve are remodeling them for her Dad so they are living there for a while.

Jules... you are awesome!

Me and Alisha chillin'... i got too much sun the first day... hence the T-shirt.

Building a Sand B-day cake! The kids are so cute! I loved taking walks with them on the boardwalk too :)

Shopping and Cheesecake Factory

Silly Nights & Silly Faces (with their new PJ's)

Mr. Bentley all worn out :) He was so fun to have with us

We had an early celebration for Baby Ethan's first birthday! Andee and Julie were the masterminds behind the cake, but we all helped to make it! :) We made a cute sand castle! Tons of fun!

My family is the best! :)