Dinner with Dad

My Dad and Aunt Jeanne came up to SLC this week. Jared and I went out to dinner with them on Monday night to the Asian Star. We love Chinese food and that place is so good. The food is a little bit pricey but you always have leftovers to take home and eat the next day. It was good to see my Dad - the last time I saw him was in July when my cousin Jake got married. I don't see him enough- I don't think Mesquite is that far away but we just don't get down there very often. I think that after the first of the year we will go and visit him & Deb.

Field Trip

The second grade class I work with went on a Field Trip today. It started off with a charter bus picking us up at the school as soon as the bell rang. It wasn't any old school bus, it was a nice bus that had a DVD player (which was great for keeping the kids quiet). We went to "This is the Place Heritage Park". I have lived in Utah my whole life and I have never been there before. It was a fun day for us. We got to learn how the pioneers lived when they came into the Salt Lake Valley. We visited a little log cabin that had a family of 13 living in it. A one room cabin! I think my house is cramped sometimes and it is Jared and I. We got to visit the Barber Shop and some of the boys got "shaved" by the Barber. We ate our lunches and then we got to go on a train ride around the park. Overall I think the experience was great. The kids got to see what they are actually learning about in class and they were so tired when we got back to the school! They should sleep so good for their parents tonight.

New Grass

Our grass is growing..not very fast but it is growing. I am so glad that is actually took off and started to grow! We were afraid that the weather was too cold or that the wind blew it away- I can't believe how windy it is out here! We came home on Monday to find 5 golf balls in our backyard (there was a golf tournament) we still have 2 out there because we don't want to walk on the grass yet.

Only about 30 kids came trick or treating. I think it is because we live on a road that is so dark, no street lights! And no one knows who we are yet since I am in the Nursery and have been since we moved in. I think next year we are going to go to a movie and leave the candy on the porch!

Anniversary Weekend

Sunday Oct. 28th was our 3rd Anniversary. I can't believe it has been 3 years already! Time sure went by fast. We decided this year to go to the Anniversary Inn in Logan. We had a fun time staying in the "Hollywood Romance Theater". The tub was great with a little tv right there by it...a big jetted tub! It was wonderful to relax! The Ranches HOA had a great deal where you pay $133.00 and then you can choose any room at any location for that price! We decided on one of the most expensive rooms because of the great deal. In fact we might just go and buy another gift certificate and wait to use it- they are good for a year. We had a great time while we were there, we drove by the Logan Temple- I had never seen it before. We went shopping in Logan and ate at the "Griss Mill"- they had really good food. It was a nice little get-a-away for Jared and I.




After we came home last night we decided to carve our pumpkins. This is not Jared's favorite thing to do but he will do it because I like to carve pumpkins. I should say he doesn't like to take all of the slimy stuff out, but he likes to carve them. And he likes to eat the seeds after I have cooked them. We had a pretty good time, even though the one I did looks nothing like the picture of the ghost! I hope now that the kids around here come Trick-or-Treating!



Here is a picture of our house for those of you who haven't seen it yet.

Tagged again!

I got tagged again! I really am not that interesting--hopefully I can think of 6 things to say!

The rules: Player lists 6 facts/habits about themselves. At the end of the post, player then tags 6 people and posts their names, then goes to their blog and posts a comment letting them know they've been tagged and asking them to read our blog for the rules.

1- I love to read. I find it really relaxing, but it has to be a book that really can pull me in. Most of the books I read are LDS books I can find at Seagull book or something like that.

2- I knocked out my two front teeth when I was in 9th grade. I was at my brothers baseball game on the bleachers and I tripped on something (probably my own two feet) and fell from the top of the bleachers to the bottom. I knocked my teeth completely out..they were put back in and I had to have a splint across my teeth for a few months. As a result I have had root canals (twice) and crowns. Now my crowns are breaking apart (thanks to the second root canals) and they will have to be replaced. It is a pain because I can't bite into anything! I know I look very strange to people when I have to cut up everything!


3- I love being an Aunt. I don't have kids of my own yet so I love to spoil my nieces and nephews. They are awesome kids!


4-I love shoes! When I got married Jared told me I had to get rid of some shoes because I had too many! I gave away probably 10 pair...and I still have too many for our closet. We just found some in a box that I haven't worn in a year..they have been packed away!

5- I am not a huge chocolate fan..but I love sunflower seeds! Once again due to my teeth it is hard for me to eat them!

6- I love to decorate for holidays--doesn't matter which one it is. I don't have much for some holidays and probably way too much for others.

I tag- Kristin Muir, Annaliese Cox, Megan Dean, Jennie Hatch (make that blog already!), Holly Blackhurst, Rebecca Van Wagenen (time to start that blog!), and one more Suzie Scherer (if you can find the time to start your blog :)

Snow!

We woke up to snow this morning..now it wasn't a ton of snow but a few inches! It was kind of nice to see..and the best part is, it already melted! Our grass is slowly coming in out back..we see little green blades coming up. With the snow we have a big mud pit out back. And we finally got some neighbors, it was a few weeks ago that they moved in. They seem very nice.

This week not much happened. Yesterday we went from Target to Wal mart looking for "Cars" and "Transformers". We found the double pack of Bumblebee that Krista wanted and got one for us. We decided to go to Provo to dinner at the "Brick Oven". That place was awesome! I had never been there before and I just might have found a new favorite place to eat.