Saturday, November 8, 2008

Things I Like Saturday.

I have decided to to a weekly post called "things I Like Saturday" . I will be posting pictures and descriptions of random things I like. Today I am posting about a pretty cool thing I like. It is the Salt Lake Temple.




I got to go there today. I consider myself to lucky to be minutes away from such a wonderful sacred place. Going to the Temple today was something I really needed and I'm so grateful I can do so whenever I want to. Such a beautiful, reverent, special feeling I have when I am there. I'm especially thankful that Tristan got to be there with me. I am loving my new calling.

Monday, November 3, 2008

Exercise your right


Something new in the works......

I will now officially be crazy busy! I just got a new church calling. I am the second counselor in the Young Women program! I haven't been in YW since I was one (and a beehive? wow that was 22 years ago almost (wow, I'm old)). I'm really excited about it, still don't know exactly what I'll be doing, but from what I hear, I will be busy! I hope that I will be able to do a good job. I went on Sunday and I think there were more leaders there than girls. Hopefully we can get more girls to come to church. But even if they are all there, there are only 15 Young Women total in our ward. We need some families with teenagers to move into our ward!

Sunday, November 2, 2008

give me something good to eat!

Halloween this year was really fun! We had the warmest weather I can remember. We didn't even have to wear our coats trick or treating so we could really show off our costumes.


We went trick or treating with our friends, the Flittons. We had a great mix of costumes. It was fun going with them, they live in a great neighborhood. Thanks for inviting us!



Tristan was a "recycled costume" he took bits and pieces from old costumes and put them all together into this beauty.
He won a prize at a costume party with the young men and young women.
Connor was a Ninja. Notice how stealthy he is.
Anna was a princess.
We got tons and tons of candy! I think that we trick or treated more than we ever have before.
We got home and got visited by ONE trick or treater! I guess we missed out on that part this year. So now we have all the candy the kids got and the 4 bags I bought to pass out.
can you say sugar high?

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Kids say the funniest things.....

I am a paraprofessional in a first grade class. Today a student asked the teacher if she could wear her Halloween costume to school on Friday. The teacher told her she could, as long as she didn't have a mask or weaponry. I asked the student what she was going to be for Halloween and she told me "super girl". I asked if she had a mask with her costume and she said, "no, I'll just wear my regular face."

too funny. The teacher and I couldn't stop laughing.

Monday, October 20, 2008

What year do you belong in?




You Belong in 1988



Wild, over the top, and just a little bit cheesy. You're colorful at night - and successful during the day.


I'm not even a little surprized. How about you? Which year do you belong in?

Monday, October 13, 2008

My trip to NYC

Last week I had the opportunity to visit New York City. Chris went there for a job. He is a free-lance audio visual tech, and was doing a convention for the International AIDS society. I just didn't want to pass up a chance to see more of the world!

The kids went to Richfield and stayed with my parents and had a great time.

Our flight left right around midnight, and sleeping on an airplane is not my idea of fun! Luckly the flight was good, and I didn't have to sit by anybody too strange.

This picture is of my very first subway ride. It was about 7:30 in the morning, we hit the morning rush! There were so many people on the subway, we had to stand and hold on to the bars.
This is the famous times square sign, it's the the one that the New Year's ball drops every year. The signs that on the building earn the building more than $1,000,000,000 a year.
This is at the 3 story M&M building. Everything sold there is M&M themed. This is just one wall of candy you could buy (if you wanted to pay $11.99 a pound). They had every color imaginable!
This is our second subway ride. It was right after we bought my bag and pashmina at canal street. I didn't buy a knock-off designer bag, but I did get a pretty great one. We rode in a taxi down to canal street and I was scared for my life. Our driver almost hit a pedestrian! New York drivers a so much crazier than Salt Lake drivers, and that's saying a lot.
This is the view from our hotel room. We stayed at the Marriot Marquee, right on Times Square. Our room was on the 41st floor. It was a really nice room, the most comfortable bed I've ever slept in.
We went out on the town for a few hours before we went to bed (Chris had to be to the convention at 2am to get things set up so he needed sleep, especially since the night before was spent on the plane). We went to dinner at an Italian restaurant that had great ambiance, great service, but really crappy food. Then we just wandered around. This is me and my new bag.
I went to the Toys "R" Us at Times Square, it was so big it had a ferris wheel in it! This Lego sculpture wasn't life size, but it was really big. They also had an Empire State Building with King Kong on it.
On Friday, I went on a bus tour. I wish I would have bought my ticket the day before because I just ran out of time and didn't see everything I wanted to see. This picture is of the Empire State building. I went on the down town tour and saw so many cool things. I wanted to go to Ellis Island and see the Statue of Liberty, but again, I ran out of time. I did see the fashion district, Rockefeller Center, Chinatown, Soho, Little Italy, Wall Street, Ground Zero, Central Park, The United nations, and where lots of famous people lived or had lived, where movies were made and more than I can even remember. I would really like to go back someday and actually
go into some of these places I saw. It was a great vacation.
Juniors has the BEST cheesecake I have ever eaten.