My Inner 14 year-old Michelle

So a group of my friends & I took a trip to the "Big City" to go see Twilight on Friday! It was so much fun! Talking, shopping, talking, eating, talking & then....Edward. The gals that came with us had T-shirts just for the occasion. Rivka's (blue shirt) said: What do you mean that Edward isn't real?, Shyanne's(middle): I (heart) Edward and Shelby (far right): Edward is mine (and on the back) Just call me Bella. While I think the book is a billion times better than the movie (what book isn't?); I am glad that I went- it fulfilled the little 14 year-old Michelle in me! The week before I got to see High School Musical 3....what can I say? I want it all!!!!! I thought the soundtrack rocked (to both movies) so you are listening to "Bella's Lullaby" from Twilight & "I Want It All" from HSM3

I did it....I really did

That's right I did! ....I listened to Christmas music BEFORE THANKSGIVING!!!! Many of you that know me are probably picking yourselves up off the floor - Michelle listening to Christmas music!?!? And BEFORE Thanksgiving!?! I know - totally not me, but I did .....and I enjoyed it! I don't know if it's because I'm putting together our Christmas cards, busy planning the Relief society Christmas party, or the fact that I really wasn't up to celebrating it too much last year, but I am totally excited for Christmas this year - I'm totally in the mood! And today I couldn't help myself from listening to some Bing Crosby - it was fun.
So if I have created some ripple in the cosmos or jinxed some kind of holiday law (which I know that there is one & before now I really upheld it)...it's my fault. I did it.
(BTW: Yahoo Music has a host of holiday music stations. I personally enjoy "Holiday Lounge")

Happy Halloween!

We hope that everyone had a wonderful, spooky & candy filled Halloween! We had a bit of fun too! After seeing the Halloween episode from The Office Season 2 (that's right! We are totally employee's of Dundermifflin) where Micheal has a second head; we were instantly inspired to do the same thing for our costumes this year. It took about a week to complete the full thing, but we had a lot of fun doing it!! Pumpkin carving was second on the Halloween-To-List. We grow our own pumpkins (alot cheaper than buying, but you need ALOT of room for the plant) and this fall we had an early frost so, we only had one orange pumpkin and the other three where green!! Lots of good ideas though. The Frankenpumpkin is mine, the Calvinpumpkin is Ryan's and I designed the Headless Horsman Pumpkin head and Ryan executed it. Next year? I'm thinking of David & Posh Spice Beckham.....better start working out.....

Happy Anniversary Baby!

I can't believe it has already been 4 years since we have been sealed for time & all eternity! What a blessed marriage we have been able to have. I love you so much & I am grateful for every day that we have together. Thank you for being my husband. best friend, kissing companion, support & backup singer/dancer. I hope that I can be the kind of wife that is worthy of you. You are the BEST & I love you soooo much. Here is to many more years together!!

VOTE!

So yesterday I just recieved my ballott in the mail along with a book of information on all canidates that are running for public offices. I remember when I turned 18 that my Dad made it his responsibility to teach me the importance of voting. He said the most important thing you can do as a United States citizen is to vote & not just fill in a bubble, but fill it in with education behind you - KNOW WHO YOU ARE VOTING FOR!
Now, I do not support a specific side, I think there is good everywhere, but I encourage all of you to vote & vote with a full knowledge of who you are actually voting for. This year seems really hard to pick who should move into the white house, but it is SOOOOOOO important that we make our voices heard.
Something that I always do is ignore the campaign promises and look at their past track record. Where both Presidential canidates have served on the United States senate I would look at their work there. What bills did they support, write, how did they vote, what did they push through, what did they deny? It will open your eyes to see what they say & how they really feel about it.
I have added the links of both Barack Obama's & John McCain's senate pages so you can see what they supported and what they didn't. Again, I am not endorsing ANYONE - I am just endorsing how IMPORTANT it is to VOTE!!!
http://obama.senate.gov/votes/
http://mccain.senate.gov/public/

Up To No Good

These are my friends Candace (hear no evil) & Heidi (speak no evil). Just playing around and having a little bit of girly fun. We got together one night to make some cream puffs and all I can say is that you can make cream puffs into any shape that you can imagine!

Goooooooooal!

If Ryan doesn't broadcast the sport - he refs it! Ryan has been reffing soccer for 4 seasons & is quite good at it (at least I think so). And as you can see he looks really good in the shorts! Ryan has really enjoyed reffing, for the most part, there have been a few red cards (for those of you who don't know the sport of soccer a red card is given to a player if they have done something wrong and are thrown out of the game). And since he speaks spanish - he suprises the spanish speaking soccer players as the gringo who can understand them when they swear (which is a yellow card (warning) for fowl language.