My new hobby

I have a discovered a new hobby to keep me busy... I have started making blankets. So, far I have made 2 baby blankets-I have tried to make sure that both blankets can be used for either a boy or girl. I am not really that good at it yet but I am getting better with each row I sew. I dont have a baby yet-but when I do they will have lots of blankets to keep them warm.

Just another reason...

Yet just another reason that proves that I have some of the best friends and family there are. I got a knock on the door and standing there was a flower delivery lady with some bright and beautiful flowers just for me.
Thank you Bethany....they smell great!

Anniversary Inn

Shawn has been so busy with school, research, TAing and writing his science paper that I decided to surprise him with a fun weekend away. My friend Melissa has a hook up at the Anniversary Inn and so I called her up to see if we could get one of rooms for Friday night. Now the Anniversary Inn is a small hotel in Salt Lake that does all themed rooms. I told her to pick us out any room that was still available.
So, I packed our bags while Shawn was in studying and then told him I had a date planned and to get into the car.
We grabbed Hires for dinner and then checked into the hotel. We walked into, "Sultans Palace" it was great. Our bed was 6 feet high on the backs of 2 elephants, the room was all decked out and the bathroom was a dungeon with the shower and jetted tub having a huge dragon around it. It was a crazy room-but so fun. One of the best parts was that they had blinds on the windows that did not let any light into the room so we could sleep in all morning in total darkness. Our shower

Shawn on the bed

And Shawn with our breakfast in the morning.

Thanks Melissa for helping me put together this fun and relaxing night away.

Christmas Card Pictures

I somehow was able to talk both Shawn and Brock to come outside with me to take some pictures for our Christmas card this year. It was a feat to get Shawn in a sweater and to get Brock to come out and actually take the pictures for us. I threatened them both-I had dinner almost finished in the kitchen and told them that they would not be eating until we got this done.

I even got a picture of Shawn and Brock together

And a group shot of all 3 of us.

Now I need to pick the picture that I want and design how I want to make my Christmas cards this year and start putting them together.

What we have been up to latley

-I walked outside and I could smell that autumn was in the air-and I love it!

-We have another new nephew-born on Halloween. That brings the total to 11 nephews and 2 nieces. We wish they lived closer so we could see this new little baby. Cant wait for pictures.

-Spent Halloween evening at the Woodleys. We are so grateful for such great cousins that live so close and who are so nice to always open their home up for our cousin parties.

-Shawn just registered for Winter classes last week-cant believe it is time to do that already.

-Cant believe that Thanksgiving is almost here with Christmas close behind. I do love the Holidays.

-It is great having a great little brother live so close. He is coming over to take our Christmas pictures for our Christmas cards.

-My parents just celebrated their 29 Anniversary yesterday. What an accomplishment-they are great examples to my siblings and I.

-With all the leaves falling off the trees-Shawn and I need to start raking them up-I have always hated doing this.

Children's Book Obsession

I have an obsession with children's books. I love them and I love to buy them. Anytime I go to Costoco or to the Deseret Bookstore or any store for that matter I try to find the chidlrens books section. If there is a sale then I will buy a book or 2. Most childrens books are pretty expensive ($10-20) a book. So, thats why I love sales and thought I might as well start to buy for my kids now.
Well, I was visiting my grandma Ellingson who came out to visit recently and we were at my cousins house and her daughter had a book order she had gotten from school-I remember loving bookorders when I was a kid. I was looking through the bookorder and saw so many books that I have been wanting to get-and they were so cheap.
I just got my books that I ordered from my cousin and I was so excited to look through them all and to add them to my bookshelf of kids books that I have started collecting!

Work Halloween Party

At work this year we had a Halloween Party on Friday. It was a lot of Fun. My team at work decided to dress up this year as the Adam's Family. Since I don't know much about the Adams Family and saw it once many many years ago-I decided to dress up as "the hand" So I was covered in all black except for my hand (pretty creative huh?) Then I was told that I had to put my hand on the dads head-so I obeyed-here is the end result of our teams version of the APX Adams Family!