Dr. Seuss Baby Shower

Four women that I work with are pregnat and due around the same time so we had a combined baby shower for all of them. Kelse a former employee at CHA and I threw them a Dr. Seuss themed shower. It was a lot of fun to make the decorations for it and it all came together an hour into the baby shower ha. Some people from work were helping with food and it wasn't brought for a while but it all turned out ok. I was just freaking out a little bit... and the first people to show up came fifteen minutes late so I was worried no one was coming but it had a pretty good turn out. We just played a couple relaxed games and ate food, and talked, and opened presents. It was fun to do! And a mom from the school we work at made a way cute Dr. Seuss cake for us. I can tell it was a lot of work for her and she did a great job.



This was the matching red and blue items and the other egg and ham sandwhiches were on the non matching table



Close up of the cake




Cutest detail of the cake!




Party favors (bags of swedish fish since you can't tell)







Garland with Dr. Seuss quotes hanging from it for a game



I just made these for the baby gifts. I wish I would have taken pictures of the jungle ones but I had already wrapped them when I remembered I needed a picture still.

 Sorry all the pictures are a little dark because it was in a basement and it was dark outside!

Ropes Course

Last weekend Casey and I went to see Sky Fall on friday night. We just went to the Payson theater so we were sure to get tickets. It was nice to be inside while it was snowing outside! Then we had to walk to the car in tons of slush. The movie was pretty good, I fell asleep during the first 007 movie and never saw the second one so I don't have much to compare it to but it was entertaining.

Saturday Casey and my brothers all got together to play the new Halo video game while the girls worked on crafts. Chels and I watched a chick flick that I hadn't seen in a while and Courtney came and ruined it by making fun of it:) It was kind of cheesy but hey a lot of chick flicks are. I was working on decorations for a babyshower I was throwing and I'll post anothe post with all the pictures of how it turned out! After the boys were done playing (actually we had to leave otherwise I think they would have played all night) we headed to the Provo Beach Resort with Casey's family. We all played a game of bowling then Casey, Shelby, Andy and I went on the ropes course. I don't like the bowling ally, the pins are attached to chords and they fell down when you didn't hit them and sometimes if you hit them they didn't fall down. I don't think we will ever play bowling there again. The ropes course was pretty fun, it wasn't as scary as I was hoping it would be but it was fun to try it out.

iPad Peacock and More

I figured out how to add my paintings from my ipad so you can actually see the picture! I'm so excited about it. Here are some I've been working on, and I reposted a couple of them now that the picture quality looks a lot better!

Peacock

This one I was actually in St. George and had a dream about this painting and woke up while my husband was still sleeping and painted it. It didn't turn out like my dream and it's not the best painting but it was fun to play around with the different mediums that the Art Rage 3 program can do!

Oats

White House

Reflection

I'm excited get some more done! This program is amazing and I can't believe all the stuff you can do on it. It helps me get my jitters about painting out because I'm not using up my expensive paints to just play around. It will help me plan out a painting first and then recreate it with actual paints.

New Calling

Today was a great Sunday. Last night I got a call asking to meet with Brother Harris who is actually my brother in law that we live with. I had to go all the way to the church to meet with him which is kind of funny. I thought I was going to be called into nursery because they have asked me to sub a couple times in there while they waited for someone to be called to the position. I also didn't think I was going to be released form scouts because nursery wouldn't interfere with that calling. To my surprise that wasn't the call I got at all. I have been called to be the Personal Progress specialist in the young womens and I am so excited for it. I am being released as the bear den leader which has been a good experience but I don't mind being released ha. Scouts is great but I've been in it a year and still don't feel like I know what's going on and what awards and such the boys can receive.

This is personal to share but I want to express my feelings of the day and my blog is my journal so read if you want but this is mostly for me to remember:).

After Todd told me what I was being called to he told me that the Bishop had said this was his strongest impression that he had received to put someone in a calling. He said that he received the revelation that I was going to change girl's lives and needed to be in there. Lately I have been feeling...unwelcomed I guess in my ward which I know is partly my own fault for not including myself more. My ward really is wonderful I think I was just having a pitty party because we don't have people we have become close friends with. After he told me this I just felt like I had a bigger purpose in this ward. I'm so grateful to my Heavenly Father who knows me and is aware of how I am feeling. He is guiding my life everyday even when I don't ask him for something specifically.

I'm excited about the new calling but at the same time I'm nervous. I'm supposed to receive my own revelation to know which classes I attend because with my calling I'm able to float between classes and be where I'm impressed to be. I hope I can do a good job and actually can touch the lives of the girls in my ward. I know that this calling will probably benefit me more than them and I'm grateful for the blessing it will be in my life.

The Church is true:)

Zombies Attack!

For Halloween this year we went to the D.I. clear back in September. We went looking for a creepy doll outfit for me and a chuckie outfit for Casey. We couldn't find what we wanted for Casey and then I found a white dress in the wedding section that I loved! We decided to be dead people with rotting skin. Kind of like an old fashioned photograph that the people were dead in. At least that's what we were going for...everyone called us zombies though.

On Oct. 27th my brother and sister in law had a Halloween party that was lots of fun. We had delicous french dip sandwhiches and of course tons of treats. Rhonda made lots of minute to win it games and we were split up into three teams. We were with my brother's friends Katie and Spencer and we kicked butt! Ok we actually tied with another team and then won the tie breaker so it wasn't a butt kicking but we still won:) The funniest minute to win it game of the night was a headband with a step counter on it and the person wearing it had to nod their head and get 125 clicks in a minute. The first two girls that went were both under 100 and then my brother in law Marc went and was crazy! He looked like he was having a seizure the entire time and nodded his head so fast he got 142 ha. I bet he didn't feel good at all after that! Casey and I also won scariest costume at the party. We were kind of the only scary costume there but it still is cool to win!

Our makeup was made with toilet paper and elmers glue. Yep that's it! Then I put makeup over the top of it and painted Casey's teeth. This took 2 hours to do and then as soon as we started eating dinner and moving our faces the scabs around our mouths started to peel off. Fun for a bit though!

On Halloween we didn't even dress up in our zombie costumes. That day at school the teacher and paras in the class I work in all dressed up as crayons. It was a cute idea! I was a blue crayon and I wore my bright blue pants, a black shirt with a felt square that I painted crayola on and then a blue cone hat. It was a simple cute costume. That night Casey had school until pretty late so I headed to my parents house where my mom made my cousins, siblings, and I declicious soup. Then I went trick or treating with my siblings and my adorable niece and nephew who were both bunnies. Well one was a rabbit in a black hat and the other was a cute bunny with a pink tutu. Lots of fun to go trick or treating with them for their first time even though they are still to young to really know what's going on. We visited with some neighbors and Casey caught up with us after school. We stayed at my parents to watch the 1984 Children of the Corn movie. If you haven't seen it, don't waste your time! It was ridiculous. Horrible graphics, bad acting, and all about children killing people. At least it wasn't scary so I ddin't have to go home scared that night. I'm kind of paranoid and don't do well with scary movies.

November 3rd we actually had another halloween party. It was just the best date I guess that worked out with all of Casey's friends from Lehi. We again took the 2 hours to get ready in our costumes then headed to visit with Casey's parents before heading to Nate's house for the party. We just talked for most of the time and then played a game near the end that was extreme pictionary. There was a list of 10 halloween items and once you guessed a picture you had to run to the judge and get the next word from them. Our team won it and out of our winning team everyone voted for the best costume and Casey and I won that one.

We decided to try and look a little bit more like zombies this time with more blood and I wanted to do the teeth thing like Casey this time. It was a fun costume but it took too much time for the little amount of time that it stayed on.