Happy Anniversary to Us!!

AJ and I celebrated our 8th Wedding Anniversary on Nov. 16th! It's been a wonderful, adventure filled 8 years and I can't wait to see what's in store for the future! We celebrated by going to the USU/Boise State Football game, had a sleep over at Sherwood Hills Resort and went shopping. Thank goodness for Grandma's and sleepovers!!

Why the random photo of a USU Yell leader?
I swear he was a Yell leader at Snow College 10 years ago!!!!
If he's not, it's bugging me where I know him from, maybe someone can help me out.
It's driving me crazy!
Update: It is him!! it's been confirmed. He was my roommates cheer partner 10 years ago at Snow College and he is still a Cheerleader!!!! I think that's a little weird.

Touched by the Spirit.

I have a lot of catching up to do on this blog. Including Thanksgiving spent with wonderful family, the boys helping get ready for Christmas, Cam's new haircut (yes, we cut off the curls), and now, soon to be Christmas. I hope to get all caught up in the near future but wanted to post this special video in the mean time. A friend of mine asked if I would play the piano for her Relief Society lesson on Joseph Smith. I had the perfect song, "The Restoration Medley" by Paul Cardall. I was going to play it live with a slide show but then I got the opportunity to record it on a beautiful Baby Grand Piano. It was a miracle the way it all fit together and I truly believe that all involved where touched by the spirit. I hope you enjoy it. I have a testimony of Joseph Smith and know that he was a profit of God, chosen to restore His church on the earth for our day. It is remarkable to me the things he endured and that he never wavered in his faith, the Book of Mormon, or the first vision of Heavenly Father and Jesus in the sacred grove. I feel blessed to have been a part of this video and portraying this remarkable man.



I do have copies of this on DVD if anyone wants one.

We Elfed Ourselves!

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

Little Bear Bottoms

This happened before Halloween and I didn't want to leave it out. So sorry if it's out of order.
My mom and dad had a halloween party and after eating a themed dinner we headed out to Little Bear Bottoms Corn Maze. For fun I drew facial hair on the boys and they had fun looking like dad for a day. At Little Bear Bottoms, the kids played on the giant hay pyramid, walked the kiddy corn maze, watch Icabob Crane on an outdoor screen, sat around a fire and ate cupcakes, and went on a Spooky Scarecrow hay ride. It was very cold, but everyone had a lot of fun! Thanks Nana and Papa!

Here's each of the boys with their facial hair.

The cousins at Little Bear Bottoms

Hay Pyramid

Cam in the Corn Maze

The ride home was very quiet.

Halloween 2009!

Halloween was so much fun this year! The boys are at that perfect age when they really figure it out that they just have to knock on a door and strangers give them candy. Really? How cool is that! Arlo went as a Ghost, Cache a Robot, and Cam wore the famous Chicken Costume. I made Arlo's costume this year and AJ made Cache's robot. Cache's costume was a big hit! There is something about homemade costumes that everyone loves! It was a box spray painted silver with dryer duct arms. We attached a tinfoil pie tin (with duct tape) and LED lights. He walked around the School Halloween carnival saying "I'm a Robot" in his best robot voice and robotic arms. All the boys were very cute and polite while trick or treating, but Cam is the one that got the looks, ohhhs and ahhhs. We bought the chicken costume 4 years ago on Ebay and it was one of the best purchases we ever made. It is the funniest and cutest costume I have ever seen! At the Halloween Carnival every one was talking about the little boy in the chicken costume. And it was the same while at the trunk-or-treat and going door to door. The boys got a lot of candy and hopefully a lot of memories.

Arlo the Ghost

Cache the Robot

Cam the crazy kid riding a Chicken

Knocking on Aunt Tresa's door with Mario and Luigi

Knocking on Nana's Door

Arlo & Cache with their Nana & Papa Great and cousins Parker & Norman

At the School Carnival!

Arlo, Cache, and I had fun carving pumpkins.

Here's a little video of Cam walking in the famous Chicken Costume.

Here's Cache in his Robot costume. He had limited movement and it was
pretty funny to watch him do simple tasks in his box costume.

I love this Kid!

I'm featured in the Salt Lake Tribune!

I'm such a coupon geek, I love it! Last week at one of my Coupon Classes, Lesley Mitchell, a reporter for the Salt Lake Tribune and writer of the One Cheap Chick blog, came and sat it. She was super friendly and is a big bargain shopper like myself. It was great to meet her because I'm a big fan of her Blog. Anywho, she wrote an article about the classes I teach and it was in today's paper. I just wanted to share it with all of you. It's titled Gaga For Coupons, and you can be, too. Hope you read it!