1st Girls Night Out!!!!

Thursday night we had our first Girls Night Out. (Amy came up with the idea that since we have so much family around we should get together and teach each other things or just hang out with any kids around.) Our first "class" was on bread making. Janna, Debra and Amy just hanging out while the bread kneads.

Mom and Jodi cleaning up while the bread was kneading.

Alisa and I chillin'. Alisa was good and took notes on the finer points of bread making.

Janna, Sandie, Alisa and I just hanging out.

Mom was doing some research for us on gluten and stuff like that to help us understand why we put it in wheat bread.

Our two chefs...Jodi showed us how to make wheat bread and Aunt Diane showed us how to make her oatmeal bread! Both of them were SO good and YUMMY!!!

Jodi during her demonstration.

Jodi, Amy and Debra making cinnamon pull aparts. (Funny story, I was trying to get a picture of the 3 of them but Debra kept talking. Do you know how hard it was for Debra to be quiet so I could take a picture? And then in the end that picture wasn't the best one. Sorry Deb!)

The cinnamon pull aparts getting put together. I didn't get one of the finished product but trust me it was pretty and they were WAY YUMMY!!!

It was a great night! We learned a lot about bread making and had some great conversation! I can't wait for the next one. Thanks to our wonderful teachers and everyone for coming! (Michelle we missed you, we hope that you can come next time!)

Halloween Day!!!!!!

Happy Halloween! (Yes, it's late but better late then never, right?) I thought I would post a few pictures from the fun and exciting day. I was a little bored in the radio in the afternoon and I took out my camera to pass the time. I am only posting one right now but I will be adding the rest to my self portraits post below.

Mom, Amy and Seth came by to see my so I could see the little monkey. He was an adorable little monkey!

So Seth is looking away in this picture and I posted it because he was looking at me in the radio booth!

Isn't this a cute picture of us?

I was a little nervous that when Seth came to see me he wouldn't recognize me or want to come to me all dressed up, but I was wrong. He still loved me and let me play with him! Yes, we have odd expressions on our face but at least he was looking at the camera, kind of.

This one is just too cute of Seth!

Jodi's family came Novell for a little trick-or-treating. It was fun to show the boys around the radio booth and stuff. They were all SO cute dressed up!

Alisa stopped by after work, isn't she a cute cat?

David's family came by for a little trick-or-treating before they went to their ward's Halloween Party. They had really cute costumes as well.

Jodi's family stopped by in the evening for a little trick-or-treating and got a picture taken with Grandma and Grandpa Harrison.

Carving Pumpkins

Tuesday night Dad didn't have meetings so we decided to carve pumpkins (an activity that we have not done in years.) To start off the night we went out to the front porch to pick our pumpkins. Dad went out there first and said, "You have to come and pick your own out because I'm not doing it for you." So, I made the long journey to the front porch and picked my pumpkin. And here they are before we attack them! :)

Mom and Dad getting their pumpkins ready to cut!!!!!

Here we are cleaning out the good old pumpkins!

This one is Dad's, it's really cute with ears and all.

Here are the final products. We decided that each one of our pumpkins had their own personality. (Mine, Mom, Dad) We each took a different approach to carving. Mom got out paper and did a rough draft of what she wanted before she even started drawing on the pumpkin. Dad took the pencil to the pumpkin and made his pattern. Now me on the other hand, I tried to make a pattern and then decided I was just going to free hand it. So there you go! We had a great time, it brought back memories of carving pumpkins as kids.

Halloween Party

Last night Jennifer had her Halloween Party, and it is a costume party so you have to dress up. Here we are getting ready to go over to the party. Debra and Janna are "Black-eyed Peas", Aunt Diane is a Split Pea, Sandie is 2-Peas in an i-Pod, then we have Cowgirl Abby and Brenna and Wendy as Pirates.

I haven't really dressed up for Halloween for years and this year I decided to really give it a good try. So with the help of Amy, I decided to be a Pirate. I have to say that my favorite item of my costume is my fishnet tights! I think they rock! It was fun to dress up and put everything together.

Here is the "party planner" Jennifer. Doesn't she look great?! She made her costume, and I am way impressed with it!

Stephanie decided to be an Amish woman. Notice how she is looking away from the camera because the Amish don't like to have their pictures taken.

Here is Catherine as Raggedy Andy. Too cute!

Jane was a really good witch!

I thought I needed a picture showing off the jewelry that I got for my costume. Pirates have to have some bling, right?

Debra and I just having fun with the camera!

Cowgirl Abby and I documenting the night!

As the party was winding down Jenn said she was going to Wal-Mart as is. We couldn't let her go by herself and have all the fun, so we went too. Of course we had to take pictures to document the trip. (There were other people in costume at Wal-Mart as well.) Catherine, Stephanie and Jenn at the check-out.

Stephanie and I just hanging out in Wal-Mart!

Mikey, Stephanie and I just having some fun while we waited for Jenn to check out.

I thought this was just too cute not to put on the blog. At the end of the night she still looked beautiful! Thanks for a FANTASTIC party, Jennifer!!!

PS- Can't wait for next year!!! :)

Witches Night Out

Friday night I went with Jennifer and her sisters to Witches Nigh Out at Gardner Village. They do this every year, so I thought I needed to go and check it out. We saw some pretty amazing costumes and decorations. I gave Catherine my camera to document the event and ended up with a lot good pictures. So I decided to put them in a slide show again to make it easier and a shorter post! :)

McKay's Baptism...

Yesterday was my nephew McKay's baptism. He turned 8, September 3rd and was so excited to be 8 so he could go to Cub Scouts and be baptized a member of the Church. I am SO proud of him and his decision to be baptized. This is McKay in his handsome suit, with his new scriptures and Grandma. It was a great day and wonderful time for the family to be together. Congratulations McKay!

Funny Seth....

This picture isn't really funny but it is a cute one of Seth, Ryan and Alisa. Seth is finally warming up to Uncle Ryan so we still need to document the times that he will let Uncle Ryan hold him.

Yesterday I went to Amy's house to play with Seth for a little while. This is just a cute picture of that adorable little face. We had lots of fun playing together...the things you will do to make a baby laugh.

To help pass the time and keep him happy until bedtime, Seth found my cell phone and had a lot of fun playing with it. Mostly it would stay on the camera function so he wouldn't call China, because I don't know how to lock the keys on my phone. (It's a flip phone...so why would you need to lock it?)

I just can't ever make up my mind on what picture to post so I post all most all of them.

This one is from my phone (hence the quality.) But his face is just so funny. He was really cute, I would take a picture with my phone and then show him the picture and he would get all excited, smile and say some form of "baby" (at least we think that's what he was saying.) It was very entertaining for the two of us.

Self Portraits

As many of you know I like to take self portraits when I am bored. So I went through the pictures on the computer and found all of the self portraits and put them in a slide show. Just for something fun. So you don't have to look at all of them I just thought they would make a fun post! (I even put all the reject ones.) Enjoy....

October Birthday Party

Before I start in on the birthday party, I just wanted to share this picture of Alisa, Amy and Mom. I think it's really cute! (It was taken in October, just not at the birthday party so it counts.)

Talmage is letting Seth "borrow" some of his toys. Here is McKay pushing him around in the shopping cart. Aren't they just SO cute?

McKay and Talmage thought it would be fun to make another pyramid with Grandma this week. A little out of order on the size but kind of fun!

Just Seth as he was walking around. I thought it was too cute not to post!

We have 4 October birthdays in the family, so it was a BIG PARTY! Here are all of the birthdays Amy (10th), Michelle (13th), Jason (12th) and Diane (23rd)! Happy Birthday Everyone!!! (It's pie month at Maire Callender's, so they each got to pick their favorite pie.)

Here are all the older kids, we are missing the babies. Janna was SO nice and brought a pinata for the kids to wack. My pictures didn't really turn out so we just have this one. It was a really cute ghost and the kids had a ton of fun hitting it.

Yesterday was Amy's birthday so we meet for lunch. I took the day off of work to celebrate her big day with her. I couldn't resist posting this picture of Seth.

Or this one....he is just TOO cute!!!

The birthday girl with her Ice Cream sundae.

Michelle with her birthday sundae! (Sydney, Carter and Peyton were there as well.) It was fun to get together and celebrate! Happy early Birthday Michelle! It's fun to have you close!

Happy Birthday Amy!!!!

October 10th is my sister, Amy's birthday! I am a little early in posting the birthday wish but I wanted to be the first one. Amy and I are only 18 months apart and have been best friends forever! We have had SO much fun together growing up, making little mischievous plans and entertaining one another. Now one of my favorites things to say to my mom is, "Amy and I were thinking..." because that means that we have come up with some sort of plan and my mom knows that usually requires something to do with her too. And it is really funny because my mom will roll her eyes and say, "Oh dear, now what?!" But now that we are older we can carry out the crazy plans we come up with all by ourselves. She has been my voice of reason for a long time and I am SO grateful for that. I have enjoyed having Amy live close for the past 2 years (almost) and I have really enjoyed watching her become a mom. She is a wonderful mom to the most adorable little boy you will ever meet! I could go on and on about Amy but I will just leave you with these two cute pictures of her and Seth. And my birthday wish...HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!