Flashback Friday - Three Little Pumpkins

This picture is from Halloween 2005. We painted faces on our pumpkins that year. I believe Aubrey's pumpkin won a prize at the Halloween party at church. It is funny because it doesn't seem like this was that long ago to me. But Aubrey is the same age (almost) in this picture as Addy is now.

Pure Gold

When I was growing up I was in Brownies and my mom was my brownie leader. Every time we met we would stand in a circle and hold hands and sing this song: "Make new friends, but keep the old. One is silver and the other gold." That song has new meaning to me now that we have moved out of the neighborhood we lived in for 12 years. We had the opportunity to get together with our friends from our old neighborhood last week. The plan was to drive up the canyon and have a picnic lunch. We drove up the canyon and found out that all the picnic areas were closed for the winter. So at Julie's insistence (because it IS her favorite place) we went to a local farm and had lunch. The kids loved seeing their friends again. Me too....

Nature Walk

Last Wednesday after the kids got out of school, we decided to take a little drive through our new town and have a look around. We found a fun little walking trail. The reason Emily looks so thrilled in the above picture? She really had to go to the bathroom and I kept stopping to take pictures.

Oops I Did It Again

I guess this is becoming a habit. I ran out of time everyday this week to post so I decided to do a weeks worth of posts today. Read on.....

Flashback Friday - A Little House On Quadrangle Dr.

These are pictures my sister Farrah took of the house we grew up in. My parents moved into this house when I was 2 years old. They lived there and raised their family there until 3 years ago when they decided to take a leap of faith and move out of state. A few years ago Farrah made a BEAUTIFUL album for me with pictures of the house. I found these pictures she scanned on my moms computer. I thought I would share them here. I know there are many of you reading this who have very fond memories of that little house on Quadrangle Drive.

If you are one of those lucky people, I would love for you to share a memory you have in this house in the comment section of this post.

Thinkin' Thursday - A Much Needed Laugh

The other night night I watched the The Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner on TV. It was the best thing I have watched on TV in a long time. I thought it was great to hear McCain and Obama making jokes and laughing at one another. It was a much needed break from all the craziness that surrounds this election year. I think it probably did the two of them a great deal of good to pause for a minute and take time to laugh. I think it was good for the rest of us to see also. Did you miss it? Click here to watch videos of the event.

WebCam Wednesday - The Scary Family

We found out that we literally have a pumpkin patch/corn maze right in our back yard. Earlier this month we took the kids and my sister Lauren there. It was so much fun (except for the mosquitoes) (thanks people for putting the can of bug spray at the ticket counter AFTER we went through). They had a little hay maze for the kids to go through, then at the end you get to pose with the scarecrow family. Then we went through the corn maze. Thankfully Steve was with us because with my sense of direction, we would probably still be wandering around in there today. After finishing the maze we got to take cute little handcarts out into the pumpkin patch to make our selections. I was sad because my camera battery was dead, as I found out after we got there. So I took videos instead. I decided not to bore you with the long videos of us tromping through the corn maze and pumpkin patch.

Elder Snow Returns From Mexico!

My brother Sam just returned last Wednesday from serving a 2 year mission for our church in Mexico City Mexico. We are very proud of him for completing his mission and staying out in spite of personal tragedy and loss. We are very excited to have him home with us now.

He was so excited when he came home that night to share with us some of his favorite candy he brought all the way from Mexico. I think he was probably a little disappointed at our reactions. I wasn't even nice about it. I just started gagging and ran to the trash to spit it out.

He still has some funny missionary habits. He has to ask us regularly how to say something in English. This morning when I woke up I walked past his room and he was still half asleep in bed. He said something and I asked what he had said. He kept repeating it and I kept asking 'what?'. We both finally realized he was speaking to me in Spanish.

I don't want to embarrass him, but he is going on his first date tonight! And she's cute! Way to go Sam!

From Sam Returns

From Sam Returns

Monday Morning Musings - Snow Much Fun

Snow. Snow, snow, snow, snow, snow. It isn't even the middle of October and we have snow! A lot of snow. I am not ready for it. I don't like winter clothes. I don't like wearing close toed shoes.

When we were packing to move out of our house, Steve informed me that I was going to have to be in charge of packing because he was not going to be around much because he was so busy. You know- running a business, building a house kind of busy. So I said, fine. I will be in charge of that. And I was doing a darn fine job of it. Well, it came down to the weekend before we had to be out of the house. The weekend we had to be out was Labor Day Weekend. So I, being in charge of packing, decided that we needed to move as much out as possible the weekend before we had to be out or else everyone would be out of town and we wouldn't have any help. I figured we could move out all the furniture and what boxes we had packed and then that next week I would finish packing and it wouldn't be too bad for me to move those boxes to storage by myself. That's a good plan, right? Except some people (person) decided to mess with my plan.

The day we were moving, we had a bunch of people over to help. While they were moving stuff out I went up to my room to get the clothes out of the dresser so they could move it out. Guess what I found up there. Mister "you are gonna have to be in charge of packing" ,packing. Great, right? WRONG! This is what he was doing. He was yanking all his clothes off the hangers and sticking them in boxes. The problem with this? I had a ton of wardrobe boxes that you can just take your clothes out of the closet and hang them in the box. HELLO! Other problem? He was going to give that box to the people moving our stuff out and have the stick it who knows where in storage. HELLO! When confronted about his actions he said he was just packing his warm clothes, you know, the one's he wouldn't need until we were already settled into our house and all unpacked. "It will be fine honey, I'm just trying to help you by getting as much out as possible." Mmmmmm Hmmmmm. Guess who wishes he would have left the packing up to me right about now, being that we have snow and all.

Another moving/wrong person packing, induced problem? In the process of packing I went to the clothes closet, with a WARDROBE box to put the coats in. My plan, put in in storage LAST so if need be, we could get to it. What did I find when I opened said coat closet? Nothing. Not one thing. I freaked out and asked Steve where all our coats were. He said he packed them. I asked it he put them in a wardrobe box, being that just 10 minutes before I got mad at him for not putting his clothes in a wardrobe box. Ummm, mmmm. Nope. He just pulled those off the hangers and shoved them into a box. I asked the whereabouts of the box. Yeah, he didn't know. But I was again assured that we would be all moved in and unpacked before we would need the coats. Yep. So I had to go out Saturday and buy all the kids new coats. I just love spending unnecessary money on things like that when our economy is about to crash. Sigh, yeah.

I don't really mean to complain so much about my dear husband. I do love him very much. He was very well intentioned. And he is working so very hard for us right now. Trying to finish the house, all while trying to provide the money with which to buy the house. I love you honey.

Since moving, I haven't taken the time to locate a new salon. So in addition to over grown roots and haircut, I also have very very overgrown eyebrows. I had a dream last night that I found a place and I went to get waxed. I was so excited in my dream. Then I woke up and looked in the mirror and was very disappointed. A nice feeling to have when looking in the mirror. This is pretty much what I look like right now:

A Postin' Fool

It has been a very busy week. My brother Sam came home from his mission on Wednesday. We were busy getting ready for his return and have enjoyed spending time with him since he has been back. Being as busy as I have been, I neglected my blog. I have made up for it today. I went ahead and posted a WebCam Wednesday, a Thinkin' Thursday, and a Flashback Friday. So don't stop here. Read on!