Craft help~ PLEASE!

I really need your help. I started making these wall hangings and then I didn't like the brown so I tried the white. And now I don't know which one to use. Which one should I do? Brown or White? And then what color of ribbon should I use to hang them?

gettin my craft on- and too much modge

On Saturday I went shopping with my friend Brittany for craft supplies. For her birthday she had gotten a framed mirror that had been modge podged to match her living room. We got the materials from IKEA and Pebbles. Brittany worked fast and got hers finished, which got me motivated.

It's a good thing I got the giant size of Modge Podge, I used a ton. The whole time remembering the days at Old Mill with Danielle who used it weekly. Here they are drying. The mirrors will go back in when they are dry. I will be getting some ribbon and hanging them in our bedroom. (Hopefully before Christmas!)

While at Pebbles we saw some flowers made of scrapbook paper and I got the pattern to decorate my mirrors. You can also use them for your hair and suddenly had a genius idea. (Or not so genius!) I traced a million of them on the back of some scrapbook paper I had gotten from my mom. And then had my students put them together for Christmas gifts for female family members. Surprisingly the boys even enjoyed making them, at least the 1st one. Not too bad....

The kids had 4 styles to choose from:


This one in my hair, isn't that yellow, more pink- but bad lighting.

November Recap

November 22nd was our 6 month wedding anniversary, but also the one year anniversary of our first date. We celebrated by going up to Salt Lake for the night. In tradition of our first date a year ago, we went to PF Changs. We had reservations but still ended up waiting 45 minutes or so. There were a ton of people there!
Bob paying for our parking.

This was one of the only good pictures of the two of us.

We can't forget Thanksgiving! We spent the week enjoying time together. On Wednesday we spent hours outside raking up all of the leaves in our yard and picking up a garbage can full of apples that had fallen off the two trees. We ended up with 9 HUGE bags of leaves and a garbage can plus more apples. It was nice to have that done before the snow came.
We went to my parents house that night and hung out with my family, helping them get the house ready for Thanksgiving. That night I made my pie for the 3rd time. My family has a pie making contest every year (for the past 3 years) and no one in my immediate family has ever won. This year I researched pies, and got a no fail crust from one of my coworkers. I also made a spur of the moment second pie, so Bob and I would have two entries.Here is Bob helping put my Mom's pie crust together. My mom planned a pie, but ran out of time so Andrea, Bob, and I made it for her.

On Thanksgiving we had my Mom's side of the family come over and there were a total of 14 pies. My sister's friends came for dinner and they were the judges. Needless to say neither one of my pies made the top 3.

This is the pie I spent so much time perfecting! (Please ignore the ugly whipped cream, that was last minute and not thought out.) This is the French Silk pie, and it a winner from like the 1950 Pillsbury baking contest.

This is my spur of the moment pumpkin cream cheese pie, which was really good, considering I had never made it before.
These are some of the other entries. My cousin Laken made the key lime above and it was one of the winners along with two coconut type pies. There is always next year!

We enjoyed the rest of our break watching New Moon, BYU Basketball, Blindside and BYU vs. Utah football game. Is it time for Christmas break yet?

Aren't they funny?

Funny quote from the 3rd graders:

A girl in my class came into class looking a little down. "My dog had surgery this weekend on it's part where it has babies, so now my dog can't have babies."

I had my students at the back table reading a book about Endangered Sea Turtles. Boy in my class starts reading and then turns to me, "I wonder if God made the animal, the sea turtle." he pauses, "Yes, I think he did." Later on he said, "It says here that humans don't care about turtles. I'm sure that makes God sad."

Same kid as he is leaving to go back to his seat turns to me and says, (as he is patting his belly) "Did you know that sometimes you get stretch marks on your tummy? When you have a baby- Weird huh?"

Murder Mystery Party

Our friends Alisha and Patrick invited us to a Murder Mystery party. Bob had never attended one before and it had been maybe 10 years since I last attended one. It was fun to dress up and go out for the night.

I was a woman who had 4 previous husbands, I loved to go to Paris and Milan to go shopping every few weeks, and owned an art gallery.* I had to bring a prop from school. Thinking I had a pack with 1's, 10's, and 100's- but I ended up with just a pack of 1's. It still worked though.

Bob was a young bachelor who was could never settle down with one woman. He was in line to inherit his father's business.

Patrick's character always said MEGA in front of everything he said, and it was so funny! It was a great night.

It was so much fun to see Patrick and Alisha, meet some new friends and eat some good food. I wish we had taken a group picture. One of the couples had switched the parts and the girl dressed as the guy and the guy as the girl. It was pretty funny!

Little Shop of Horrors

On Halloween we went to the Hale Center Theater and watched Little Shop of Horrors. It was a great play. We really enjoyed the acting and singing. Bob had never been there before and was a little shocked at how small the theater really is. We didn't know that the dress code was Halloween best, so we saw Shrek and his wife, purple people eaters, 80's girls, witches, and a lot of other fun costumes. We were definitely under dressed for the evening.

Where will we be?

This coming year there will be some changes in our lives. Bob has been applying to pharmacy schools and slowly one by one we are hearing back. Bob had his first interview in Manchester, New Hampshire and we found out last night that he has been accepted. When I looked at the map, I said no. Way too far away. But the more I have thought about it, the more I like it. We are excited knowing we have a place to go. But, we still have 8 schools to hear back from. Most are on the west coast. One in Utah, and one in Washington- both places we would like to live in. A lot of schools don't send out interviews until January-March, so it is a bit of a waiting game. I am so proud of Bob- and can't wait to start the journey of pharmacy school!

Snuggie

For those of you who needed proof.... I wear this almost everyday. Especially since it has gotten cold this week. (We went to Walgreens the other day and they have leopard print, pink, and BYU styles. So Jealous!)

Halloween Fun

We celebrated Halloween last night with Matthew and Emily. Tonight we are going to the Hale Theater to see Little Shop of Horrors. Hopefully we will be able to avoid some of the trick or treating children.

Bob dressed up as Napoleon Dynamite, sweatsuit style. And I was, well, the package said Desirable Devil, but I told the kids I was a bat devil.

The evening started out with awesome table decorations and soup in a pumpkin bread bowl. We also had some hot wassail, and fruit salad.

We all participated in a trivia game about Halloween words. I thought I missed them all for sure, they were tricky. But Matthew and I pulled out a win getting 7/12 right. Bob and Emily both came in 2nd place with 6.

We then carved green peppers. I told Bob to go for it, and ours ended up being the green pepper covered in wax- it looked pretty good! Emily and Matt carved theirs to look like both Bob and I. Each on one side.

Using biscuit dough we made some donuts- which turned out really good. We finished off the night by watching The Corpse Bride and eating pudding. Thanks Matt and Emily!

{Temple-Pizza Tradition}

Since school started we have made a goal to go to the temple once a week. We go every Wednesday after I finish school. It is so nice to be in a habit, and not ever wonder when we are going next.(Temple painting done by Jeff Brimely, I just found it on google and thought it was pretty.)

We finish around 6:00 and are always starving. (We usually eat dinner around 5.) After a long day of teaching (no prep on Wednesday's) and then attending the temple, I don't feel like cooking dinner. There is a pizza place just around the corner from our apartment called Wise Guys. We went their once during the summer, but it was a little expensive so we hadn't gone back. We did sign up for their coupons via email though.

Every Wednesday they have individual pizzas for $1. These are just cheese pizzas but they are 8 inches and one is enough for dinner. (almost enough for Bob.) If you want toppings, each one is 50 cents extra. So every Wednesday as we leave the Temple we order 4 pizzas. We each eat one that night and then eat the leftovers for lunch the next day. It is around $6 for 4 pizzas and a topping on each one. We love it!
(Not actual pizza)

Fall Break Day 2

Day 2 was not waht I imagined, and quite different from yesterday. Needless to say, my house is still a mess.

Woke up with a headache and my stomach hurt.
Threw up, went back to bed.
Watched a movie
Head hurt even more so I took some ibuprofen
Threw that up minutes later.
Laid on the couch all day long.

Husband bought me a snuggie and the Proposal. (I know everyone will laugh, but I am ALWAYS cold and he is always hot, so Snuggie works out. We can still hold hands and cuddle and the blanket is only on me.) Mine is actually the blue one, that is all they had at Smiths. The Proposal was just as good as it was in Theaters. (Somehow I always watch that movie when I am sick.) Still feeling icky today. Hopefully I am better by Monday. School's calling my name, even if I am trying to ignore it.

Ooops I forgot these!

Here is the Give Thanks Sign I made. I had never done a stencil before, and it got messed up a little. Hopefully my next one turns out better.
Here are the large letters with modge podged scrapbook paper. I just need to find a place to hang my B. I hope my dad doesn't think that I made these for him, since they are his initials. haha.

Fall Break Day 1

What do you get when you have a day off from school?

1. Woke up at 10:00, and loved it more than anything!
2. Watched a little Good Morning Utah.
3. Drove to Hobby Lobby in South Jordan and bought some craft supplies.
4. Came home and ate left over pizza for lunch.
5. Crafted all afternoon long.

I modge podged a B and an H. B for barber and an H for my cousin who recently got married.
I started modge podging BOO for both of us last week, but still haven't finished. (Maybe they will be done after Halloween.)
I made a fall leaf wreath, and wanted to put the gold B inside of it, but it ended up being too small.
I used a stencil to make a sign that said Give Thanks- but the stencil moved a little bit. (I also used my cricut markers to color in the pumpkin. I didn't have those colors of paint.)
And last but not least I glued candy corns onto a wreath frame. (I found this idea on a craft blog, and loved how it turned out. I am going to get a brown ribbon tomorrrow to hang it from.

{Halloween Treats}

Last night I attempted making these Halloween Treats. Today in school for our art project we will be making them. (Am I crazy to do this with 23, 3rd graders?) They were really simple, and fun. Just make sure you don't eat the eyes. --You could use brown frosting, but I already had the googly eyes.

Ghost family of 3- That I gave to our friends that we had dinner with last night.

Ghost of 1- Trial of what the class would be making today. (The white frosting wasn't quite dry... sorry for the dripping.)

Bob eating the final product- "Wait, don't eat the eyes!"
Ingredients:
Nutter Butter-Ghost Body
Melted White Chocolate- Ghost covering
Googly Eyes/Frosting- Eyes
Graham Crackers- Base
Chocolate Frosting- Cover base and hold down decorations/ghost
Candy Corn and Pumpkins for Decorations

how can you not love this face?

I have the cutest class in the world! They each have so much character and personality. This boy is hilarious, he is always telling me about his dirt bike and how awesome his summer was. I have a class blog and take pictures weekly. Whenever I go to take a picture of him, he always gives me some crazy smile. We got our school pictures back today, and I had to snap a picture of his. I wish this picture did it justice, he is so funny!

The only thing I beat him at

Last night we went to Bob's mission reunion and met up with Bob's companion Casey and his wife Katelynn. After stuffing ourselves with delicious food and talking with old friends (Bob, not me) we went bowling. This is only the second time we have gone bowling. We went over Christmas break last year where I won 6/7 games in a two day period. I was a little nervous, but in the end I pulled through with 2 BIG wins. -- I am allowed to brag about this because Bob beats me in everything else we do. So at least I have Bowling!

Bob showing off his skills. He did a good job and had me quite nervous!
Us together at the bowling alley.

My score of the 2nd game- 167! This is my best score ever! It made me so happy! (Sorry about the horrible picture. I need a new camera and I am hoping for a new one for Christmas or my birthday. hint hint.)

mt. pleasant, utah

This weekend we decided to take a trip down to Mt. Pleasant. My parents own a motel (Horseshoe Mountain Lodge) there and they had rooms available. On the ride down I enjoyed looking at the changing leaves. I was driving, so I had to take pictures on our way home.

There is a restaurant with the hotel so as soon as we checked in, we went to eat. It's a little hometown restaurant, maybe the only sit down restaurant in Mt. Pleasant. We had ribs and prime rib and were stuffed when we left.
We watched a movie on TV and then left for Ephraim. On the way there the sun was in it's last minutes of setting and it looked really pretty. This picture doesn't do it justice.
We went to the movie theater which had 2 movies playing one was R, so our only option was Julie and Julia. (Which I loved!!!) We were the first ones there for the 8:45 showing, and after we paid, (only $12 for two tickets) they handed us two blue tickets.
We went inside and got some treats and tried to go into the theater, but the previous showing was still playing. The ticket taker was an older man who sat on a stool and put the tickets in a container.
We woke up at 8, (well I woke up at 7, and tried to be quiet, but got bored) and went to breakfast. Cheerios, pastries, bagels and juice.

We were sad that they pool had already been closed, but had an enjoyable time. Thanks Mom and Dad for having a motel, and letting us have a night away.