Matthew

Happy Birthday to my best friend and lover boy! I hope your day was great!

We love you!
Heather, Kenyon and Anthony!

Girls Camp

Well, I slacked on writing for a few days due to girls camp preparations. My sis and I were asked to put together a craft where the girls could make fabric flowers for their hair. I was really excited when asked initially. I got to looking at ideas on line and playing around. We went to the fabric store and got some sample fabrics (which were free, and caused the ladies there to give us some sass). Anyway I got to it right away the next day creating what I hoped would be a cute hair accessory for older teenage girls.Here it is: (Excuse my hair)

I even showed my initial flower to my summer school students and one girl asked if she could buy it from me. I was flattered, and I definitely  gave her an A+++! Just kidding of course. Anyway showed it to some others including my family and everyone seemed to go for it. But when we went back for the fabric, what do you know a week later it is gone?!  So we got other fabric after what seemed like an hours of searching and debating over what color to use. We chose black polka dot with a white polka dot and a pink print with tulle. They came out a bit different.

Pink, Tulle puff ball.

What do you think? I still need a picture of the black one straight on -- I will add it later...if I remember! We decided to let the yw do both of the flowers (pink and polka dot). Little did we know that some wouldn't even be able to string a piece of thread...eek. While we were giving directions on the black one, another lady who I was sitting next to and helping began asking me very specific questions about the material and size and directions, I thought, 'Wow people are really liking this!' Then I find out that this woman actually makes and sells the hair flowers and bows!!!! What the heck-- she was just getting all my info from me! I felt a little taken, if you know what I mean. And this after telling her that I am the one that created this from various other styles and a lot of researching and trial and error! Chalk it up to experience. Maybe I should get into the hair accessory business and beat her to the punch of selling these. Anyway, I guess I will survive.

So we never got to the pink one, however there was going to be some other craft time, and since we went through all the work of getting the materials I was happy that they would still get to put it together. Until I got a call from my mom this morning at 8:40 telling me that she had been asked to direct the yw at the camp in making it at 9 am -- she had only 20ish minutes to figure out how to make it with my directions over the phone. Oh man did I feel bad for her. I am sure that it all turned out ok. And I can't wait to see some of the results. 

So all in all the day was good, but boy was it long!! I was so happy to be home! And I am definitely going to make today relaxing. 

Alright so before I go here are some other fabric flowers that I made!

 A mini puff ball.

 

Puff with a pearl!

Temple Day!

Went to the temple today! We had a good time and were able to go to Panera Bread which is Matt's favorite restaurant!! LOL -- there is a joke to that which I will fill you in on now:        My mom was having a branch activity for husbands and wives and she invited Matt and I. One of the activities that night was a newly wed type of game. Well they asked the women certain questions and the men certain questions and then we all came together and they asked the questions again and had us answer on the spot. The only question (ha! yeah right) that I answered wrong was: 

"What is your husbands favorite restaurant?"   

This question really baffled me. We had eaten out in some previous weeks and we hadn't been really happy with service and food coming to us cold and so I really had no idea what to say. Then it came to me, "We always go to Panera Bread when we come home from the temple!" I think that is probably his (our) favorite restaurant. 

Well when the men came back and that question was asked Matt said Chili's ! 

(What?! We hadn't eaten there in such a long time!)     

Anyway he looks at me puzzled I am sure at the fact that no one put a point up by our name. I tell him what my answer was and he laughs, saying, "We go there because you like it! That is your favorite restaurant!" 

Boy was I embarrassed! But I felt really special too! 

[Thanks Matt for taking me to my (our) favorite restaurant! ]

So anyway every time we go to Springs or to the temple I ask him, "Yay, we get to go to your favorite restaurant!" :) He just smiles. 

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I just have to add also that in the game, that we got 2nd place in, Matt was asked,

"What is your wifes favorite place?" A very general question in my opinion. 

Anyway I couldn't even think of where that place would be (or much less what Matt would say that place is) because I am so full of variety, I am sure, so I went with, Hobby Lobby.

Matt's jaw dropped! I thought, "Gee, could he have said another craft store or my scrapbook room?" 

Matt very sweetly said, "I thought your favorite place was the Temple!?" 

I couldn't help but feel a little....well little. I also couldn't help but laugh to the point of tears. Of course I love the temple! He was so right. But to his (and my) defense the question was pretty broad.

Anyway I love the temple and all the blessings that can be found there! I am very lucky to be able to go regularly and have family that can watch Kenyon for the day! 

Thanks! And until next time, for all (2) of you who read this!

Awake

It is 1:43 in the morning and here we are, Matthew and I, awake....Playing with my mom's I Pod. Matt downloaded some music and some interesting apps and we can't settle for not winning something. So we keep trying! And we have mentioned already to each other the lateness of the hour but we keep it up. The Police Scanner app sure can be interesting too. And I have never before seen or known anything about crazy birds, or oh...I mean angry birds and I am afraid that I will like it as much as the marble game so I don't think I will. Yikes, someone just got pulled over and there was a mention of shots heard!? Its getting interesting!!! And there are 64 other people listening to police scanner.....OMG, they just mentioned the street that is one away from where we live. Holy Moly! Do we need a life? I mean it is now 1:52 and really what else is there to be doing other than sleeping?? (Rhetorical question). Well I think that is enough blogging for tonight. Maybe we will go to bed... I will let you know what we end up doing. Thanks for reading!

Dinner

Last night we had an interesting time for dinner. Firstly, some of you know that Matthew gets out of work pretty late. Well yesterday he decided to mow the lawn, but of course nothing can go smoothly so the lawn mower kept dying on him, and what should take around 1 hour max to do (including watering and some weeding) took almost 2 hours! Yikes!

Anyway while he was out there I was watching from our kitchen window thinking of dinner and when I should start cooking so that it wouldn't get cold by the time he could finally come inside. And it came to me! "Hamburger Helper! Duh-Doi! Why not? It is after all a good last minute go to meal!" (These were my exact thoughts by the way:) )

So I start making it and it is done right on time and Matt comes in. I get the plates and so on and start smelling something fishy. I try to brush this aside thinking it is just my pregnant smell-ability getting in the way and it is all in my head. But the smell only gets stronger. My stomach starts churning. I smell the area that the smell came from...only to find that the smell is coming from my plates, the ones that I took out of the dishwasher?? Anyway I ask Matt to take a whiff and he puts the plates into the sink and suggests bowls to eat. I get the bowls. We sit at the table. Matt dishes out the food and as soon as he uncovers the Hamburger Helper I start to smell dog food. I try to talk myself out of the smell saying it is only my head, but before I know it I have made myself sick to my stomach. I can't eat it! I look at Matt picking at it he looks at me and very sweetly says, "You don't have to eat it...did you want to go get something?" I look at the food and feel bad about it going to waste so I say no. I try to get Kenyon to eat dinner, but don't even feel like forcing him because I am not going to eat it myself.

So I tell Matt after debating it in my head a bit longer that I can't eat this and that I would like to go get something. Matt then says he isn't really into the meal either and I start to take the plates. Kenyon gets sad so I put his back. And this is where we all started to laugh: Matt asks Kenyon if we can go to McDonald's. Kenyon then looks at his bowl and then at Matt, pushes his bowl away and says, "Let's go. I'm out of here!" That was the perfect response. We all cracked up laughing and picked up the table and went out.

So all in all it wasn't the perfect night and certainly not the perfect dinner, but we made the best of it. And Kenyon as usual provided some much needed comic relief!

Oh and Hamburger Helper will not be making an appearance on our table until this pregnancy is over. I also switched the dishwasher detergent just in case it can help my nose at all.

Glad to be back on here everyone. Hope you enjoy our awkward, but funny moments.

Wowsa!!!

So it has clearly been a while since either me or Matt have written on here, sorry. In an attempts to revive my blogging skills as well as my journal keeping I will be trying this out again. Wish us luck!

Happy Halloween!!

Halloween came and went with a bang! Heather decided to use her craft room and make Kenyon a costume! She did such a good job. Michelle and her family came down the week of Halloween and Kenyon got to spend some time with the cousins! On Friday 10/30/09, the Mesa Ward (our ward) had their annual Halloween party. Kenyon got into his costume and went to get some candy! He had a good time with all the kids! Heather and I had the joy of doing games as the Young Women were in charge of activities for the party. Heather did a pumpkin decorating contest and I did a ping pong ball toss. We then went home and fell asleep!

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Saturday, Heather and I went to the Denver Temple. Lori was kind enough to spend the day with Kenyon while we went. The temple was so great. Heather and I have made the goal of attending every month. What blessing we have seen as we fulfill that goal. On our way back, we stopped in Castle Rock to find Kenyon some shoes (Heather too!). We picked Kenyon up from Lori’s and headed over to their ward and mom and dad’s ward for their annual Halloween party. It was packed! So many people were dressed up and we decided to dress Kenyon up too, only to find out that we left half of his costume! It was fun and we headed back home to do some of our family trick or treating. Kenyon absolutely loved it! Every time he would get candy, he would say “thank you!” We stopped by the Sister Missionary’s house and talked with them and saw their funny decorations. He then spent some time with Heather’s family and came home to watch a scary movie. Movie was lame and Heather and Megan both fell asleep before the credits because!! What an exhausting weekend!

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