PumPKins FinaLLy!

It's FINALLY time to carve pumpkins tonight.  So excited I love it!!  We wised up a few years ago and we carve the fake carvable pumpkins now so we get pretty creative and then just pack them up in the garage for the summer and bring them out the next year :)  We are going over to my parents tonight they are having a little pumpkin carving party with their bishops family, the Pectols and us.  Should be fun I'll have pictures tomorrow!   Oh and I spent the $10 in my Bountiful Basket and got the sugar cookies and icing so I'm sure all the boys will have fun decorating and eating those tonight.

Speaking of Bountiful Baskets,  so glad I split with my mom its alot of fruits and veggies what I got will last me 2 weeks,  not bad for $9.00.  I already used my broccoli last night.  Now if I can just figure out what to do with the parsnips we got in the basket ????

Oh and remember those boots I said were a steal at $68 at Urban.  I'm sticking by that I have worn them like 4-5 times now since I got them and I'm in love.

3/1 more days until we are off to Cali...Can't WAIT!

The CoRn MaiZe

I like to feed people,  I have come to accept this :) 

It seems like once a week at least we have friends or family over to eat and I realize I love it, I really love cooking for a big group of people and hoping they enjoy my food.   Monday night we had my brother and our friend Mike over for dinner, Thursday night we had some friends over for dinner and then they treated us to USwirl for dessert (Thanks Barney's!) ,  Friday night we went and met our friends Nycole and Christie for a movie we went out to dinner before the movie to celebrate 2 months of marriage Saturday we headed up to St George for the corn maze and dinner with my friend Fred and then yesterday we had my parents,  my brother and Ryan's parents over for Sunday dinner.  I enjoy when we have both my family and Ryan's family for dinner and it helps that our parents knew each other before we did so we always have good conversation.  Not that I dont love just having Ryan and I at dinner but I love a loud roudy table of conversation with friends and family.  I am sure once we have kids I will be wishing for the quiet of a dinner with just us two :)

I am on this kick about meal planning.  I got so tired of going to the grocery store every week  for little things here and there that I decided I was going 2 times a month and that was it! So we went on the 1st with our 2 week meal planner in tow and then Saturday morning I went through the freezer and pantry and made our next 2 week meal planner and I am happy to say I only have a list of about 9 things I need from the grocery store to last us the rest of the month.   Milk, eggs and rice are the 3 things we go through fast in our house.  We got a rice cooker for our wedding and I think we use it 2-3 times a week.

Saturday we headed down to St George to go to the corn maze and to stop by TaiPan for me for co-worker/neighbor christmas gifts.  We had a good time.  We got a late start because Ryan volunteered to clean the church and only him and one other guy showed up so I was grumpy on the ride up, but once we got there and got everything done we set out to do I cheered right up.  We went through 2 of the mazes and just walked around,  stopped at Tai Pan and then window shopped for cars before our dinner with Fred.  We would like to get a new car beginning of next year so we have 2 fairly new cars paid off by the time Ryan is out of school and we have to start paying student loans.  We haven't made a decision yet but we have narrowed it down. 

All in all it was a great weekend,   getting excited only two more weeks until we are in California for Halloween weekend! 

Hope all is well.  Until next time...

PiCTuReS GaLoRe!

I am determined today to finish going through our 1000+ pictures our amazing friend and photographer Rachel took for our wedding and send off my order to her.   We have officially been married 2 months today and I need to get them picked out and ordered if I want to have them ready for Christmas presents.  I was so good about sending out thank you notes right after I received a gift because I didn't want to be one of those brides that 6 months later I realized I still haven't done it yet, but I have been such a slacker on these pictures.   Not that I haven't opened them and looked at them a few times,  I have, there are just so many I like and I obviously shouldn't have more than a few up in the house or it will look like a shrine to our wedding day so I really need to study them and get crack a lackin!

Wednesday night is Ryan's late night for school classes and he normally isn't home until 7:00-7:30pm so I spend Wednesday nights with my brother and parents because we are a family of freaks and can't go a few days with out seeing one another!  So,  last night I met up with my parents, and Matt at Matt's new house to hang some pictures and shelves.  My dad was feeling great,  he had worked a full day at work,  went to a surveryor's meeting and then came over to Matt's and I put him right to work.   Hopefully he didn't overdo it and doesn't pay the price today.  We had some nice family time,  shared a pizza and just chatted.

Matt's house is coming along I really like the color and decoration choices he is making, he really is growing up!  Next week when I go over I'll take some pictures and post them :)

We are off to the pumpkin patch in St G. this weekend so I'll be posting my amazing carving skillz soon :)

Until next time...