I heart Edward, and now everyone knows it!

So the time has finally come, the release of the Twilight movie! I know that there are some people who think that this is annoying, a big waste of time, all Twilight fans are fat,ugly ladies who neglect their kids (not my opinion), blah, blah blah... I have heard it all, but who cares! I HAVE SEEN TWILIGHT!!!This was actually one of my favorite scenes!

This has been a big day for me and my 'I heart Edward' t-shirt. It started this morning with being quoted in an article that happened to be on the front page of the Deseret News. If you care to check out the article,(thanks for caring Mom!) here is the link: www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,705264485,00.html
I must say that while I am very grateful that I am still represented well, I am completely misquoted. That said, I have never been in the paper before, much less the front page!
This afternoon I 'neglected' my family yet again and headed out for a night on the town. First stop- The Cheesecake Factory. Yum.
Here are the twins, Karen & Kay, and Char.
After dinner we headed to the theater where our wonderful friend Melanie had reserved 2 entire theaters for a 7pm premiere!!!On the way into the theater they actually checked our purses and wanded us! Since my purse is so big the usher wanded the inside of my purse too! I wish I could have taken a photo, but they were checking for cameras and recording devices. My friend Abby was asked if her baby had any hidden recording devices on her...nice.
Here is a large chunk of our group...


and of course, no event would be complete (see jason mraz post...) without a 'long arm' self portrait with Candice. What a great night!!!!

I'm Getting Excited...

Things are kicking into high gear around here! The Christmas tree (in all it's sparkling grandeur) along with all the other decorations (indoor, anyway) have found themselves in their rightful places all around the house, the majority of our Christmas shopping is done, and the Christmas music is finally organized into various helpful play lists on the ipod....so now what? Now we can focus on:



Tomorrow my brother Jesse gets home from his mission to Santa Cruz, Bolivia. He was part of the evacuation that took place several weeks ago and finished these past few weeks in the Lima, Peru mission. We were certainly grateful for his safe arrival in Peru, and we will be relieved tomorrow when he arrives at our Mom's in Washington. ***Can I just take a moment to brag about my brother? of course I can, he's wonderful. By the time he graduated from high school he had his associates degree and a full time job at a bank! He will be joining us here in Utah in January as he attends BYU, so if anyone has any cute, single sisters.....

Anyhoooo....Friday night we kick off our Thanksgiving holiday with an early Thanksgiving dinner with Matt's family, and one of our famous game nights! They are so fun! Scott will be in town for the BYU/Utah game so we will have a fun filled night of food, family, & fun...all while playing Scott's "fat dog" game I am sure. I was going to take the opportunity to learn to bake pies, but will be going to Costco Friday morning instead! Then Saturday morning we are driving to Washington for a family Thanksgiving/reunion with Jesse. We have been busy scurrying around making the necessary arrangements for the trip and things are finally starting to fall into place. Today I was able to find us a hotel that is right across the street from a sports "restaurant" so that we can stop in Boise to watch the BYU/Utah football game.(GO COUGARS!) I felt kinda silly calling hotel after hotel asking them if they got 'the mountain' channel, but all worked out!


In other great news, in exactly 48 hours I will be sitting in my seat with warm, buttery popcorn watching a premiere of TWILIGHT!


What a great week.....

Halloween

Halloween was so much fun this year. I have to say that it is one of my favorite holidays, second to Christmas, of course! Trick or treating with the kids is such a blast! I am not sure what I love most- the boys racing from door to door, Ellie announcing every piece of candy she got at the top of her lungs, or just walking around with my hubby enjoying the evening and our kids. We spent the evening with some family and some friends, and made out with loads of candy! The kids still fit into last year's costumes, so that was nice. The boys were power rangers and Ellie was Jo-Jo of 'Jo-Jo's circus'. We hardly took any pictures, but here are a couple from our pit stop at Grandma & Grandpa's.



The weirdest thing was going to bed that night, full of candy and thinking about ghouls and goblins, and waking up Saturday morning to the radio in the boys' room blasting Christmas music! I thought that I was freakish about Christmas, but this year I look perfectly normal. I usually have our decorations/tree up around our anniversary which is Nov 12th. It drives my hubby crazy, but I love it. This year, though, I have been shocked at how many fanatics out there have beat me to the punch. The radio is playing 24-7 holiday tunes and last night I actually saw a tree up and lights on! I guess I'm not the only one feeling festive this year!