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!