Friday Night Craft Night

Since our (julie, diana, and I) husbands always work on Friday nights we have decided to make the best of it. We normally hang out, eat, shop, watch trashy TV, play with darling Vivian, or on occasion CRAFT. Now I know to those of you 'single' galls that sounds lame but i really love it. I found some new projects I am excited to try...

Murder Mystery Dinner

Yes, I am well aware of my smokin hot husband in this picture.

The Boys

The Girls

Us

I have had a to do list a mile long to get ready for this week at school. Today I was able to cross off most of my list and I finally feel like I can enjoy this crazy Halloween week.

Wednesday- Dress up and celebrate Halloween at school. Then go to Michael Jackson THIS IS IT with my G-ma Money and sisters.

Thursday- Parent Teacher Conference all night.. dun dun dun...

Friday- Shop and prepare for our Halloween party.

Saturday(halloween)- MURDER MYSTERY DINNER! I can't wait!

Oh how I love the library...

About every three weeks I make my way two blocks south to the Provo City Library to check out new books for my classroom. Tonight I checked out books about the Solar System and my favorite of the whole year, fall and Halloween books! There is something about this time of year I absolutely love! Being a teacher lets me be even more in love with the season. This week we have been decorating our classroom, painting pumpkins, cutting out leaves for the bulletin board boarders, and painting haunted houses. When I was at the library getting the seasonal books a lady insisted that it is a library rule to check out no more than 5 seasonal books at a time. Well me being a crazy rebel snuck 10 books past her ha ha ha.

Things I loved about summer

1. Jeff not having school the second half of summer
2. My black sandals I found on sale and wore pretty much everyday this summer

3. Glitter Toes (thank you Diana)

4. Having BBQs and being outside
5. Redecorating our bedroom.
6. Sleeping in.

Things I am looking forward to

1. Fall

2. Wearing sweaters and boots

3. Getting to know all of my new cute students

3. Jeff's birthday

4. All of my tv shows to start again (i know sad ha)

5. baby Vivianne

6. being a 'real' teacher and getting a 'real' salary.

This summer we were able to go on an amazing trip to New York with my family. It started off pretty exciting... ha we took the red eye flight there and since we were planning on getting there at 10 am and starting our busy day my dad thought it would be a good idea for the whole family to take some "strong" sleeping pills for the flight. It was a great idea but we encountered a few side effects. (warning this is kind of gross...sorry) Jeff started seeing things and acting weird then he snookered out. The rest of us also slept like babies then it was time to get off the airplane....Lisa was in front of me and i saw her start throwing up everywhere then i turned to the empty seat near me and i started spewing all over the poor seat. Then we stumbled off the plane to catch our connecting flight in Atlanta. Well let me tell you, we were all half asleep and I do not remember a single thing about that airport except as Lisa and I entered the plane with a sick bag in our hands the flight attendant asked really loud "Did those girls drink a little too much last night?"

So our trip was off with a bang. We got into New York City and checked into our hotel, the Marriot Marque, in the heart of Time Square. The hotel alone was amazing but Time Square was also pretty sweet. While we were in the city we went to a Yankee game at the new stadium, Cannal Street, The Little Mermaid on broadway, Central Park, and ate a whole lot of pizza.

Then we rented a car and drove upstate New York to Cooperstown where Jason had a baseball tournament. It was the cutest little town. All of the houses in town where close together with white pickets fences. We stayed in a house a little outside of town. It was a big white farm house. We stayed there with our family friends the Bennetts. We spent our time there watching a lot of baseball. While we were there we also went to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. It didn't mean much to me, but jeff Loved it!!

After the tournament ended we drove to Niagra Falls which was one of my favorite parts of the trip. Words can't describe how amazing it was! We went of the Maid of the Mist which took us into the center of the falls. We stood on that dinky little boat in awe of the HUGE waterfalls!

Last thing we did was went to Palmyra to visit the church sites. While we were there we were able to go the the Hill Commorah Pagent which was a huge production. The play was a run through of the BOM stories, they had sweet special effects including fire and water. Then we went to Joseph Smiths house and the Sacred Grove.

New Camera!

Jeff and I really needed a new camera, so after shopping around we got a really sweet one! I am super excited to start taking pictures again! Last Sunday we went on a bike ride and ended up having a little photo shoot, ha we are good at entertaining ourselves. Here are a few of the pictures.

My studdly husband.

Me being a rock star.

Jeff is such a hot model.

P.S. tomorrow we are going to New York!!! (and i can't figure out why everything is underlined or how to un underline it. oops.)