Girls Weekend

This past weekend I went to Salt Lake with some of my girl friends. We stayed the night at the Red Lion hotel downtown. It was so nice to get away, and just enjoy some time with my friends. Friday night we made reservations at P.F. Changs. We got there at 8pm that night, and they were packed. We finally got seated at 8:45. Nothing like making reservations, and still having to wait. That night we got to our room and just stayed up and talked till 1:30am. It was so great!
We slept in till 10am. No kids there to wake us up. We got up and headed to the Gateway. We had tickets to Twilight at 1:30pm. So we had lunch and then headed up to the Theater. It's so nice to go to a movie where they have assigned seating. We walked right in and had great seats. We all really like the movie Twilight. Granted, it wasn't as good as the book, but it was still good. I want to see it again!
After the movie we went shopping. I love shopping with "the girls"! We finished our weekend off with dinner at the Market Street Grill. I love seafood, so it was nice to go have some yummy seafood. I hated to see the weekend come to an end, but I had a great time, and can't wait till we do it again! Here are some pictures from our weekend.

At dinner: Brea, Michelle, Jackie, and Katy
Brea, Katy, Michelle, and Jackie (my sister)

Right before the movie, in the shirts we made.

Brea, Michelle, Katy, and Jackie

Super Thursday

My ward had all kinds of cool crafts this year for our "Super Thursday". I had so much fun making the things that I signed up for. Here are a few pictures of the things I made.

We made "Bubble" Watches
As you can see I really enjoyed making these. Afterall, I
did make 3 of them!

These were so much fun to make. I made a charm to go
with each watch I made. Flower bows for Madison. My friend Abbie made these

for me. I later learned how easy there are to make. So

I made about 10 more!!

Another Year Older

So, I just had my 28th birthday on November 7th. It's funny, I don't know what I expect as I get older. I guess I think I'll wake up on that day, and finally feel like an adult. Whatever that feels like. I don't know how your suppose to feel as you get older, but I still feel young. Well, I am young, but I'm not looking forward to the day when I do wake up and feel old. This is a big year for me and Jim, not only did I turn 28, but we will celebrate our 10 year anniversary in December. I can't believe we've been married 10 years. They have been both wonderful, and some of the hardest years of my life.

This year finds us at a good time in our marriage. I feel like we finally communicate well with each other. He did bring me a dozen roses for my birthday, so that's huge progress for him. He struggles with the whole flower thing, so I thought that was awesome.

We went to dinner with a few of our friends for my birthday. It was wonderful. I love going out and spending time with friends that really get you, and you can feel completely comfortable around. It's great to have friends. Dinner was really good. We were suppose to go to Tacanos, but when we got there at 5:30, they said they had a 2 hour wait. I was so bummed. I'd looked forward to that all day. We ended up going to P.F. Changs. Another of my favorites. After dinner we went and saw Eagle Eye. That was a really good movie. The guys didn't really like it. I decided that guys think way to much about movies. So much that they ruin it for them. Oh well, I thought it was great.

All in all, it's been a wonderful year. I've learned alot about myself, my family, and my husband. I had a wonderful birthday, and look forward to many, many more!! Thanks to all of you that celebrated with me!

Twilight Premier

OK, So I know I'm totally obsessed with Twilight. I already have tickets to the Premier up at the Gate Way. I can hardly wait. I made a shirt for the premier. I love it, so I decided to post the shirt I made!! Only 13 more days!! Yeah!


Back: And so the Lion fell in love with the Lamb

San Fransisco

I had a work convention in San Fransisco over Halloween. Jim and I left Thursday evening to go stay at his sisters house in Salt Lake. On the way to her house I got call from my mom telling me that my brother was in the hospital with a really bad blood clot. She said it was very serious, and he would have to have emergency surgery. So as you can imagine, I was second guessing my trip. She told me to continue with my plans, that there was nothing I could do, but pray for him. So we continued to Salt Lake. We got to his sisters house that evening. We went outside and loaded our car the next morning to head to the airport, and as I was getting in on the passenger side I saw that the back window has been busted out. Again, I was thinking "are we not suppose to go on this trip"? It was so aggravating. We called the police and filed a report, switched our luggage over to his sisters car, and headed to the airport. We got to the airport 30 min. before our flight left. We ran through the airport, to find out our flight had been delayed 2 hours. To say the least, it was a long morning.

We finally arrived in S.F. around 1pm Friday. Jim had a terrible sinus infection, so as soon as we got to the hotel and he went to bed. My conference was really good. It rained all day Saturday, so we didn't do any sight seeing. So Sunday we got up and headed to pier 39. It was really cool. From the pier you could see Alcatraz, the Golden Gate Bridge, and the Bay. It was so pretty. While we were at the pier we walked by the marina, and there were hundreds of Sea Lions. I'd never seen anything like it. They were so loud and they stunk really bad. I got to eat Sea food while we were at the pier. I love sea food, so that's all I wanted to do while I was there. It was really good!!

It was then time to head home. We have a very smooth trip home. No problems. We had a wonderful trip, but it's always nice to come home. Here are a few pictures of our trip.

Alcatraz Island. It was right off Pier 39.

This is a pictures from the street entering Pier 39. There were so many Restaurants, gift shops, candy stores, etc. there. It was by far the coolest pier!
Yes, those are Sea Lions. They would fight each other to be up on the planks. It was so funny to watch. One would finally me it up on the wood, and then they would bully him and push him back in the water.

HaPpY HaLLoWeEn 2008

This year for HaLloWeEn, Jim and I were in San Fransisco. They girls got to spend the weekend with there Aunt Marlies. They had a great time. Marlies came down and stayed Thursday night with them, so Taylor could go to school and be in her Halloween Parade. After school they packed up and headed to Salt Lake. They went to the Gateway for Halloween, and then over to the Discovery Museum. They had a great time. This year Taylor decided she wanted to be a Vampire, and Madison wanted to be a Princess, Again... I think the costumes turned out cute.Since we were in California all weekend Marlies took the girls to the Zoo on Saturday, and Cabala's on Sunday. They had so much fun that weekend! Thanks Aunt Marlies!!:)

Here are a few pictures of the girls at the Zoo, and at Cabella's.