Thanksgiving 2008

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving and I hope you did as well. We had family start showing up on Tuesday evening and the last of them left Sunday after sacrament meeting at church. Each time I make a list of things to remember for the next year...like this year we made the green beans on Wednesday, but forgot to take them out of the PACKED fridge on Thursday. That won't happen again. Next time I will have a second fridge as well...and a second oven would be nice, but I don't have room for that one :)


Here is what our Thanksgiving looked like:






















I think next time I will try and get some centerpieces done...the tables look pretty bare, but I don't think it bothered anyone. The food was delicious...I ate myself sick...I don't think I have ever done that before...I am still eating deserts...not all of them are pictured, just most of them.

We also took some family pictures...I will add them soon.

Disney Picture

This Disney Picture post finally expands to where you can see the pictures :)

New Bed

Well we have finally taken the hit to the pocket book and bought ourselves a new bed. We picked up the bed frame on Thursday. Thanks for the help Casey and Eric! We love the frame. It is the first time we have ever had anything other than a cheap metal frame. It really makes a difference in our room; it actually is beginning to look like a complete bedroom. We are really excited.

We bought the mattress and frame from 2 different places so we had the frame 4 days earlier than the mattress so this is what it looked like the first few days.

Yesterday our bed was delivered. We both prefer a soft bed...our last bed was a pillow top and we loved it. We tried a few out at many stores over the past year or so and we decided to go with a 3" memory foam top since the full on memory foam beds are too expensive...especially since we went from Queen to King. It is crazy how much more the extra foot and a half costs. So last night was our first night on the new bed...we were not impressed. I am so disappointed. At the store laying down on it I think it was the most comfortable bed in the showroom (at least at a price I was willing to pay…but there were many more that were more expensive that were not as comfortable) I think the problem is I don’t sleep on my back like I laid down at the store, I sleep on my side. We will give it at least a week (or two if our backs can handle it) to see if we adjust to it, but I am not hopeful. They will accept returns or exchanges for a 10% restocking fee and delivery charges. So if we decide that this bed is not for us we are out about $200 and don't have a thing to show for it...except for 2 achy backs :(

We will be spending a third of the remainder of our lives on this bed (or at least until we need to get another one)...I need to be comfortable in it...How much is that worth and can I afford it?

UPDATE - Well today is 12/1 and we seem to be sleeping on the bed just fine. I didn't think we would get used to it, but aparently we did., but I think I will hold on to the receipt for the next 25 days just in case :)

Here is our new bed...someday we will get the nightstands.

Crazy Dream

We had our Primary Program yesterday and I think it went wonderfully, we had at least 90% attendance (of those that attend regularly.) We began working on it back in August and had it planned for Nov 9th, some things came up so it was rescheduled to yesterday. So I have had lots of time to think about it. I don't think I ever stressed about it, I am just a planner so I must admit I would think about it often and think of things I could do to try and make it a little better and easier on the leaders and children.

So since I don't think I ever stressed about it I thought it was strange that I had a weird primary dream last night. (And I only remember my dreams once in a while, but they are always the weird ones). It was not about a primary program so maybe there is no connection there.

I dreamed that I had been called to another primary as 2nd counselor and it was not a pretty sight. It was in my old church building in Katy (This is a recurring setting for many of my dreams...weird!). I had never been in this primary organization so I was not familiar with how they ran everything. I showed up and the only member of the presidency (other than myself I guess) was the 1st counselor. She was up front and we had about 40 kids and maybe 2 teachers. They were not listening at all, some of them had brought food in…it was just all around horrible. I went up to one of them that had something small they were eating (I'm talking bowl and spoon small...others had a lot of food) and I motioned my question of is this ok and I got a yes as long as it is not a lot of food. Next thing I remember we had about 20 minutes left in Primary. This primary room is the kid where it is the big primary room in the middle down at the end of a hall and has the curtains on either side for classes. We always had 2 classes on the left and on the right they primary leaders would keep their stuff and they had the closets and whatever else...so back to the dream...we had AT LEAST 20 minutes left in Primary and I look over and the curtain on the right was open and all of the parents were already to the side waiting for Primary to be over so they could take their kids home. All I could think was shouldn't you all still be in YOUR classes. I was new to the ward so I didn't say anything, just couldn't believe how chaotic and poorly run the organization was in the ward I can been called to.

Good thing it was only a dream.

I think our ward has a great organization and am even happier to serve in it today after that strange dream. I love my calling and all of the wonderful children I get to serve and all of the dedicated leaders and teachers I get to serve with.

Hair Talk

I have always had long hair...or at least as for as long as I have had any say in the matter (thanks Mom for all of the hair cuts as a child that Billy would tease me about...and for the pictures that will last a lifetime).

Over the past couple of years when it has been long for a while I chop it and then donate it to locks of love. I really do prefer it long, but whether it is long or not as long (I don't think I could ever do short, but time will tell) I really don't "DO" anything with it. I wash and dry it every morning and not too far into the day I usually pull it back or up. I may pull the rubber band out once or twice, but generally my hair is back. If I am eating my hair is definitely pulled back.

So to the reason I am posting this is yesterday I finally decided that my hair is finally growing from when I cut it back in June? and I am excited. Like I said before I prefer it long, but since I have it pulled back all of the time whether it is long or not as long I can still pull it back, so that is why it really isn't an issue for me to chop 10" off and give it away...not to mention there are salons that will do the cut for FREE if you donate the hair.

I think in my entire life I have paid to have my hair cut maybe 5 times. I know it is recommended to cut it like every 3 months, but I have mine cut every year to year and a half. As a child (the lovely hair cuts I mentioned before) my grandmother would cut my hair. Then in Jr high I would have my neighbor cut it. In High School and college I think I may have paid a time or 2 and cut it myself the other times. After I graduated college I did go to the salon once and get a cut and have my hair highlighted. I dropped about $140 on it. Never again. Alex didn't even like it with highlights...and I really don't worry about my hair too much since I never have to look at it and I always have it pulled back :)

The only complaint I have is that I really enjoy it when someone is playing with my hair. At the salon they wash it, and brush it and play with it while they are cutting it. So I don't get to enjoy that very often. I have tried to get Alex to play with it, but he is not interested. I need to have a little girl that likes to play with Mommy's hair. I enjoyed doing that as a little girl, but my Mom didn't so that hasn't worked very well for me during my life.

My memory is not very great from when I was a kid, but I learned at an early age that I like it when someone plays with my hair. I remember one day on the bus ride home after school when I was in 4th or 5th grade one of the little girls on the bus came and played with my hair and I loved it. What a great feeling! I could fall asleep to someone playing with my hair.

One more story for the record. When Alex and I got engaged my hair was really long so in the engagement picture and my bridal portrait it is long, but about a month before the wedding I wanted it cut so I had my sister (18 at the time) cut it for me. I thought the cut was fine...I don't worry if it isn't perfectly straight because I pull it back, but Alex was not excited about it. Not because it was a bad hair cut, because it was fine, but he prefers it long as well and I did it right before the wedding (and let my sister do it :)

Comment - Disney

Disney Picts

Here are some picts from Disney World.

Everyone had a great time.

This is one of my favorite pictures. This was taken Saturday at about 3 PM...We were tired.