Vampire, Indian, Ninja, and Angry Bacon

October 30, 2011

Vampire, Indian, Ninja, and Angry Bacon

We had a ward party instead of a trunk-or-treat. I was still sick so Bob and the kids went without me. It was a chili cook off with some fun games for the kids. Alayna came home with lots of candy and by morning it was all gone. She’s a turkey.

Happy 13^th Birthday to Tyler

Tyler is now officially a teenager! We woke him up by singing him Happy Birthday and informing him that his face book was all set up and ready to go. He was so excited. He already has 216 friends! I only have 268. Anyway, we made a giant cookie to celebrate and got Captain America to watch hopefully sometime soon. He chose to have no gifts or a party because he is saving all his bday and Christmas money for an iPod touch. He is so excited he can hardly stand it.

(The girls got him this CD as a joke because he HATES kids that sing kids songs!)

 

(We suck- I only had one candle…and it was a 4)

Marisa Concert

Marisa had her final Fall orchestra concert. It was wonderful except I started crying at the beginning because I knew it was her last one and I feel like her year is already flying by.

ER visit

Right after Marisa’s concert I got super ill and had Bob race me to the ER. I am doing better now but as always, those experiences are super scary.

Date night

Bob and I finally got to go on a date night! We went to Pancheros for dinner, Coldstone for dessert, and then spent the evening watching some of our funs shows at home. I just LOVE being with him and I hope he knows that!

Red Ribbon Week

Alayna had a fun week at school. The 1^st day we sprayed her hair pink. She also got to wear pajamas and wear her clothes backwards.

Warm weather in October? What does that mean?

We had gorgeous weather this month- we even wore t-shirts. We spent time outside and Bob and the kids played football. I guess we figure we need to soak up as much sun as we possibly can!

Apples, All-State, and ALL the other stuff

Apples, All-State, and ALL the other stuff

Apples

We still have apples coming out of our ears. So, yesterday Bob borrowed a wine press from our HT and he and the kids made fresh squeezed apple juice which was to DIE for!

 

All-State

Marisa has been rehearsing like crazy to prepare for all state. She had auditions yesterday and made it!!! AND as a 1^st violinist! Congratulations!

ALL the other stuff

•I had to work on Monday but the kids had the day off, so they came up to Jefferson to see the school and the library and meet my boss. Do you wanna know how brave my kids are?? They ALL wore their Linn-Mar apparel! Brave souls indeed! They weren’t too impressed and did say that the school is much more “ghetto” than LM which is true. We do have a resident cop and it can be a little scary, but once you truly get to know the kids and develop a relationship with them, things can change.

•Alayna started Grace Notes this week and loves it. Especially when they got to sing, “Mommy made me mash my M&Ms” as the warm up.

(She wants to be “scary bacon” for Halloween.  Psycho!)

•Kayla LOVES her new culinary basics class and got to make peanut butter cookies in class this week. I am hoping this inspires her to become our resident chef.

•Spent TONS of time dress shopping but with no luck til the last day. Marisa is determined to redeem herself from the black velvet one we got for Missy wedding. Here is a preview of the one we got Alayna for the wedding.

Library Displays

Some of the displays I’ve done at work:

(Halloween Books)

(Bulletin Board I did for Banned Books Week)

(Just “some” of the 150 books I processed, catalogued, and covered this week!  I rock!)

Cowgirls and Lamanites

Cowgirls and Lamanites

Kayla and Marisa had their Stake Youth Costume dance yesterday. They went as a cowgirl and a Lamanite. They looked super cute and had a great time.

 

More Apples

So, we had another apple day yesterday. I got creative and made homemade applesauce muffins with our homemade applesauce and they turned out SO YUMMY and moist!

Then I made 8 mini apple pies. How cute are they?? I also made another big pie.

We also made 3 more jars of homemade stewed tomatoes with stuff from our garden.

Books Everywhere

I had another great week at work! I covered tons of new books this week and did about 20 new books at home. I also processed about 150 new books we received and I loved it. I am so weird! But I got 1^st dibs on the new books so I am reading Silence, Power of Six, and Shelter. I also got Son of Neptune for Tyler and he almost jumped through the roof with joy!

I’m debating taking 2 Masters classes in January, but considering I’m so exhausted I can’t stay up much past 8, how will I do that?

Odds and Ends

1. Tyler finished up tennis this week and won his last meet. He received two awards! One was for playing for two years but the other was for being undefeated this entire season! Go Tyler!!

He also was an angel and cleaned the house on Friday when I worked.  He even alphabetized my “beauty” products!  Does he know me well or what??

2. Alayna starts the school choir this week called Grace Notes and she is pretty excited.

3. BYU early admissions applications start tomorrow. Good Luck Marisa!

4. Kayla finally gets to start her Culinary Basics class this week at school and is very excited!

Up to our Eyeballs in Apples

Up to our Eyeballs in Apples

Our apple trees ROCKED this year! We got TONS of apples. Almost more than we know what to do with. So, we made homemade applesauce in the crock-pot (which makes our home smell like heaven) and 4 apple pies. We have plans to make more apple stuff next weekend.

We also chopped up all our jalapenos and onions to freeze them for future use. Sometimes we are so awesome!

(This is where I found Alayna when we finished!)

Student of the week

Thanks to a friend of ours, we found out the Marisa was featured as Student of the Week in the local paper called “Marion Times”. So exciting!

Funny Tyler quote to keep you guessing

“See, dad, I will be on BYUTV someday, just not where you thought I would be”. Bwaahaahaa!

Favorites for Fun

My new fav author: Harlan Coben

My new fav TV show: Terra Nova and Modern Family (I laugh until I cry!)

My new fav reason to be a librarian: 1^st dibs on new books and 1^st preview of bookfairs! (We have our bookfair this week)

My new fav flowers we grew:

*Almost all the kids have started updating their blogs so hop on over and read what they have been up to.  They LOVE comments!

Homecoming and Appreciating Good Health

October 2, 2011

Homecoming

Marisa and Kayla went to LM Homecoming yesterday. They went with a large group of girls. Bob and I bought them corsages to celebrate Marisa’s last HS Homecoming and Kayla’s 1^st HS dance. They went to HuHot Mongolian Grill for dinner and spent the night at a friend’s house. They looked stunningly beautiful as always!

Recognition Night

Alayna had Activity Days Recognition Night this week. It was an indoor family picnic. Their leader shared a neat analogy as she had the girls’ line up like geese in flight and shared these neat ideas.

http://www.hobnobia.net/content/content/leadership-lessons-geese

Tennis

Tyler had another meet this week and he and his partner won 4-2. Go Tyler!

Appreciating Good Health

Ok, so my antibiotics didn’t work, so they had to call me in a new one. For the record, if any of you are with me if I’m ever in the hospital, it is YOUR job to make sure they DO NOT give me Azithromyacin because it will KILL me! I was deathly ill and I don’t ever want to feel like that again. They put me on another one and I am FINALLY feeling better after a month of being very ill. Still not 100%, but I would KILL for perfect health until the day I die. Sickness and germs are for the birds!

Loving the Library

I truly enjoy my job! It is so weird actually being excited to go to work each day. I will start my Field Experiences class in January. I’ll drag through getting this Master’s but it should be worth it. I’ve been working hard on this HUGE series project and I just love it.

(Part of display I helped with for Banned Book Week)

Tell No One

Ok, my new favorite book is called Tell No One by Harlan Coben. I found out there is a movie as well and can’t wait to see it. If you like mystery and suspense, this is a good one. I’m reading another one of his called Gone for Good but I don’t like it as much because of the language and background story.