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Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday Janie!!

We love you!!

My International Travel

Well, I have been to 4 countries: Spain, France, England, & Turkey. My frist trip was to Spain. It was my senior year and we went during spring break. I worked a year and a half to go (also saving for college). I loved it! I am still friends with one of the girls I went with. (Hey Meg!) I love Spain so much I would love to do a long term mission there. The latter half of our trip we spent in Paris, not my favorite place in the world. The people working in the hotle we stayed at told my friend (who was living in Germany at the time and was going to come for a visit) that the Americans had already left. I addmit I did love the Louve, and the Chateu de grr I forget. Anywho, if it wasn't for scott wanting to go I would never go back there. Then about 9 months after we got married Scott and I went on a mission trip to Turkey. We had a 26 hour layover in London when we packed in a ton of sight seeing very quickly. And truth be told I did fall off a double decker bus. Turkey was so beautiful. We were expecting a desert but we saw some very lush, beautiful country side. I hope to do a lot more travel, but for now there is nothing coming up.

Well, that brings us to my next question: What 3 instruments do I play?

Pie Social

Well, the pie social is less than a week away and I am prepared! The band Thanksgiving dinner was Tuesday night and Scott came back telling me everyone was expecting me to make pies. My ledgend is getting a little out of hand. Someone said I make 20 pies every year! Now granted every year I seem to make more than the year before, but I have NEVER made 20! I love making the pies and seeing if your pie goes for the most money, that is always fun. For the first time last year one of my pies was the high price pie $140 I think and I think it was the Key Lime, but I am not sure. I love bidding on the pies too. Peter and I usually have a show down for the rhubarb. Anyway, this year I am making, Key Lime, Coconut, Pineapple, Butterscotch, Cranberry, and Sweet Potato. I try to stear clear of Pumpkin and apple, because EVERYONE brings pumpkin and apple. Although I did make a grated apple with a struddle topping last year that was very good. Anyway, I am very excited about the Pie social, it is my favorite thing about Thanksgiving. (That and mom's stuffing and broccoli salad)

Sicko kids and vaccation

Well, my vaccation began at 2:00 this afternoon. So far, I have gone to the store and made 2 pumpkin pies. Whoo Hoo! The kids are sick. TJ is taking it better than Katie. He just wants nothing to do with Kleenx. Katie on the other hand is getting up many times during the night and being a big fussy butt during the day. I hope they get over this quick as dad is leaving for CA next week and he always brings something home with him. Maybe their immune system will be all built up and they won't get sick. I am very excited about my time off. I will be doing a lot of baking and shopping and visiting friends and relaxing. To bad Scott will be gone for part of it. I hope I can get this house clean, but I am not going to put money on it.

Double full moon

Sour Cream Noodle Bake

This recepie came out of Packwood. We tried it for the first time last night. YUM!! Just thought I would share! If you have a Packwood refere to page 176, if you don't have a Packwood, GET ONE!

1 (8oz) pkg med egg noodles 1 c cottage cheese
1 lb groud beef 1 c sour cream
1 (8oz) tomato sauce 1/2 c chopped green onion
1 t salt 3/4 c coarsly grated cheddar cheese
1/4 Garlic Salt

Cook noodles and mix with onion, cottage cheese, and sour cream. Brown hamburger, add salt, garlic salt, and tomato sauce, simmer for 5 min. In a 2 qt casserole dish layer half noodle mixture, then half meat mixture (repeat). Bake at 350 for 25 min top with cheddar cheese and cook another 5 min. YUM!

Happy Holidays

After tomarrow I have one week and 3 days off for the holiday. I am so ready for a break. I think I will try to visit friends and maybe take the kids to the zoo. I can hardly wait. Call me if you want to get together!! Yeah, so much fun!

Nobody knows

Well, nobody knows how many brothers and sisters I have including step and in-law. Which is fine, because as you may recall . . . I didn't either. Obvioulsy, I have 2 full blood VERY young sisters. Then I have one cookey brother-in-law. Then comes the trickey part, I have 4 Stepbrothers/sister in-law. I remebered the 3 living at home, but forgot the older one in CA. So, anyway that is a grand total of 7 brothers and sisters including step and in law. The next question is rather simple, what county have I visited?

Fall

Oh, how we love our big Cottonwood. In the summer it gives us much needed shade in the evening in the spring and winter we get to watch the birds and squrils that call our tree home and even in the fall it gives us a HUGE pile of leaves to bury the kids in. Right now they are too little to jump in, but they loved being buried by all the leaves as we raked. Even Eme enjoyed bedding down in our big pile. As we head towards Thanksgiving I give thanks for the little moments like these.

October Poll Results

It seems we love all the Sesame Street charaters. Cookie Monster did come out slightly ahead of the others though. I will keep that one around for another time. This month there will be a new quiz every week. This series of questions is to see how well you know me. The full quiz is avalible on bebo and I can email it to you if you like. This week the question is how many brothers and sisters do I have? Sounds easy enough right? Well, when I made up the quiz on bebo I even got it wrong. Next week I will have a new question and give you the anwser to this one.

Technologically Savy

Ok, so after months of trying to figure out why I could no longer download my books from Audible I finally checked my firewall and therein lie the problem. My stupid firewall was blocking the download of my books. I have now successfully downloaded the second half of 1984 and Oliver Twist, now to finish downloading all the other books I bought in the last couple months.

A Zoo at my house

Here is my little giraffe and tiger. Yes, my tiger is eating his stripes and my giraffe is trying to rip off her head. Not only that I had to bribe my tiger not to crawl off by giving him a ball. Not the most coroperative zoo animals you ever did see. Below left we have what I call "The Lion, the Witch, and the Katie." And lower right we have TJ pulling on Katie's Tail. "What happens when you pull this thing?" TJ slept through most of Halloween night, but Katie did quite a bit of trick or treating. The first house she turned to me and said "Mommy, Candy!" She wanted it right then and there. She was starting to get the hang of it by the end of the evening. Hope you had a wonderful Halloween!

My Haunted "Mansion"

I love decorating for Halloween! Here is our final product last night before I took Katie trick-or-treating. You really need sound to get the full effect (I had my cd player going with chains, and cats ect.) Int the bushes to the right I had my huge spider web and my new blinking skull. There was more "Caution" tape on the garage door and, did you notice? I put a reb blub in the porch light. It is a little cutsie, but Kaite loves that pinwheel in the yard. That one is new this year too. I love decorating!

Our Awsome Pumpkins

Here are our cute pumpkins! They were so fun! Scott and TJ did the smiley face and Katie and I did the pirate skull. I think they turned out really good. Best of all no one smashed them last night so I am going to light them up again tonight. I am very proud of my skull. It took me longer than it took Scott to do his, but I love it. Unfortunatley though, when it in not lite, you can not tell what it is, oh well.