It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

Here are some pictures from this morning and it is still snowing!! I wonder how much we will get? It has to be close to 5-6 inches right now. Absolutely ENCHANTING!! There is nothing as peaceful as watching snow fall.

Corrine Simonsen

Corrine Simonsen is today. Unlike me, Corrine is a excellent blogger. She also has so many other talents like sewing, cooking and decorating. Corrine is always doing some kind of project and it was often for someone else. One of my favorite things about her was that she could motivate you to do anything and then she would help you with it. She got me to paint my rooms, make curtains and helped me set up my piano! Also, she was always up for doing something whether it was going to Walmart or out to dinner. Corrine made friends so easily and could talk to anyone. She always threw parties and had the best food and Eric was equally as fun!! We lived in the same neighborhood and I miss the carpools, school activities, playgroups, swimming pool and after school fun and just having someone to talk to if you needed it!!

Tonia Davis

I have been trying to get Christmas cards done (it is going slow). This has reminded me of all the wonderful people we have known throughout the years so I thought I would do "grateful" post of them to motivate me to blog. Since almost everyone who reads this blog knows each other you can have fun remembering all the wonderful things about them too! I am just going to go in order (backwards) of the most recent comments on the blog so I don't have to worry about picking or organizing!
Tonia Davis is the first. Tonia is amazing! She does amazing things like home schools her kids and she goes days without TV and she has natural child births but instead of realizing how great she is, she thinks everyone else is wonderful. She is such a marvelous mom, fabulous friend and has excellent taste in literature. Tonia and I are kindred spirits and we think we should have been roommates! She has 4 girls basically the same ages as our 4 boys so we are planning on meeting up during Armageddon. Also, Tonia comes with Ben, who John really liked and was (this is a secret) always disappointed when he wasn't at ward or YM's activities. I only wish we had more time together ;) Everyone loved Tonia!

Elder Wirthlin

Just last week John and I were talking about how wonderful Elder Wirthlin's talks had been the last few conferences. He visited my mission and I even had to sing for him (the first and only time I have sung in public). He had a kind and calm presence about him. He will be missed...

Crazy 8's Tag...

I am a little late but finally getting around to a tag. I delayed a little because I knew that it would be hard to come up with 8 TV shows or restaurants...

8 TV shows I Like
1. The Office
2. Everybody Loves Raymond
3. King of the Hill
4. Ace of Cakes
5. Iron Chef
6. Cosby Show
7. Cheers
8. MacGyver

8 Favorite Restaurants
1. Taco Cabana
2. Thundercloud Subs
3. Village Inn
4. Olive Garden
5. Southside BBQ
6. Chili's (is the new Radisson)
7. IHOP
8. Panda Express

8 Things I Did Today
1. Changed diapers
2. Went to the grocery store
3. Saw an old Timpview friend
4. Watched the very sad BYU vs. Utah game
5. Got up way too early
6. Cleaned up
7. Saw family
8. Ate pizza

8 Things I Am Looking Forward Too
1. Moving out of the tiny, tiny apartment
2. Having a dishwasher
3. Having a dryer
4. Having 2 bathrooms
5. John having a job
6. John getting tenure
7. Never moving again
8. Having a yard

8 Things I Love About This Fall
1. Yellow leaves
2. Red leaves
3. Orange leaves
4. Snow
5. Cool, crisp mornings
6. Beautiful weather
7. Actually having a autumn
8. All walking field trips the boys have been able to take

8 Things On My Wish List
1. The cars to make it at least 3-4 more years before dying
2. Nothing else to break that I can't afford to replace
3. Gas prices to stay low
4. A house
5. Lose weight
6. Seth to be potty trained
7. A TV that works when you need it to
8. And also did I mention a HOUSE ;)

I tag Tyson, Sara, Eldon, Patti, Jackie, Erin, Ruth, Heather

Ode to Brian and Janine...

Well, today I had a lot of opportunities to remember our friends Brian and Janine including how to squeeze all the juice out using a fork and a very tasty dessert ;) But the main reason is our Christmas tree. Our apartment is so small that I seriously considered not putting up the Christmas tree because there was so place for it to go or we thought about getting a tiny table tree. Our Christmas tree is not big. It was the cheapest Walmart tree a few years ago and it is shorter than me. Still there was no space for it but then I remembered Brian and Janine. They had a gigantic tree so they could only put up half of it in student house. Well, we only got to put up about 1/3 of our tree because it had to go into a corner next to the bookcase. If I had a camera that worked I would put up a picture, next week maybe.

All in a day's work...

It has been a crazy day. It's "Boys gone wild" at our house. John didn't want to do the dishes so I told John that I would do the dishes if he would do the boys tonight. This meant that I would get to sit in the quiet kitchen doing dishes while John helped Hyrum finish his homework and put Math and Seth to bed. John's exact words were "DEAL!!!" So as I started, John went upstairs to handle the boys. I hear John tell Seth and Math to ask me for help so they are downstairs now wanting snacks. Then John sends down Hyrum to get help with his homework. Now I am helping Hyrum do his homework and getting Math and Seth ready for bed. What is John doing you ask? Well he is upstairs building lego guys for Hyrum...that was his version of "helping with boys" because apparently Hyrum needed "help" with legos. No wonder he said DEAL. After a few minutes I go to the stairs and tell John that he is doing dishes tonight...

DISCLAIMER: In general John is helpful when asked!!

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Seth likes to wash dishes...

This is true. Seth does like to "try" and wash dishes. One day he INSISTED on washing dishes so I put him up on the sink and let him try it all by himself.

Halloween and Football Madness...

It was a fun weekend. It started with Halloween on Friday. After a Halloween party in the afternoon, Grandpa Snow arrived and we had pizza for dinner. Then we went on a very fast trick-or-treating trip because we already had plenty of candy and weren't really interested in getting more.



Then we were off to Fort Collins for the BYU vs. CSU game. It was really fun and the weather was amazing. Everyone slept on the way there so it was peaceful. We got there and the boys were pretty amazed. The first half went really well. They really liked the band too. In the second half, Seth got pretty jumpy so John and him walked around while we watched most of the third quarter. We had to leave a little early so we didn't get stuck in traffic. We stopped at Sonic! We haven't eaten at Sonic since we left Texas.
We listened to the game on the radio and were very happy BYU was able to win because it didn't look good while we were at the game. However, it was so sad to watch Texas lose...

Halloween Fun...

Here are a few pictures from our pre-Halloween fun. Our Church trunk-o-treat and a night of dry ice courtesy of John's lab. We were getting dizzy from all the carbon dioxide so we opened the doors ;) It also took a little while to convince Seth not to drink the dry ice.