We love Pumpkins!!!!

We love pumpkins, and we have had our fair share of them this year. I have made batches of Pumpkin chocolate cookies, Pumpkin chocolate chip bread, and Pumpkin Waffles. All were delicious, and so not good for the waistline. We even love to carve pumpkins at our house too. Amazing I know!!!! I love Halloween, and so we just had to be different this year with all the pumpkin decorating. I got a creative bone this year, and decided that we needed to be different.
This is what we came up with this year.



Flying Bat by Nan



Spooky Cat by Shane



Evil Pumpkin by Shane



The Best Pumpkin EVER!!!!! Go Yankees!!!!

This Yankees pumpkin was my idea, and started/ruined mine the night before Halloween. I of course was mad at myself, and basically told Shane in my tiff, that I better have a Yankees pumpkin when I got home from work on Saturday. So this Yankees pumpkin was a combined effort. WE LOVED IT!!!! It looked so great from a distance, that I think that I am hooked. We had to support our team, especially since they made it to the World Series.

Hope you all had a great Halloween. We had a great one, and topped it off by watching a Halloweenie movie later that night. I do think that this however is a new tradition. We did this last year, as trick or treaters were out and about. Every time the door bell rang, I jumped.

Callings

After having served for a little over three years in the Young Women's Presidency. I was released today. I had bitter sweet feelings about this, but I knew that it was the right decision. I truly love these girls, and have grown very fond of them all. They all have beautiful testimonies and they are all so strong, in so many ways. I wish that I may have been that strong when I was their age. They all have wonderful parents, who have raised them righteously, and that have taught them the correct principles and how to live them in their lives. I will miss these girls and the relationships that I have made with these girls. I do know that the relationships I have made with them all will continue into the next life, and I am so grateful for them blessing me in my life. I needed their strength at times when I felt my world was crashing in on me.

I have truly loved this calling, and I will miss it. My hope is that the girls will continue to be successful in this life and achieve all of their goals. It was such a wonderful opportunity to serve these girls and to teach them by example. Thank you to Sandy, Rebecca and Sarah for your many hours of service, and your dedication. These girls were so blessed to have you in their lives, and I too was very blessed to have gotten to know each of you personally. Friendship like this will continue in this life and in the next life.

I am ready for whatever the Lord has in store for me. I look forward to this next year, and I look forward to teaching the CTR 5 class in primary. I love little kids, and look forward to hearing their testimonies, and how much they love the Lord. I am sure this will strengthen my testimony in ways that are not yet known to me. I love this gospel, it is true, and I strive to live it everyday.

Conference

I really enjoyed conference. It was just what I needed. I love the talk that Sister Dibb gave on Sunday morning. There were so many things that I needed to hear, and that I need to remember, from all of the conference Sessions. I have found deep within myself a new found commitment to do the things that I need to do. I know that I need to have more faith in my Heavenly Father, and that I need to trust him with all that happens, in this life, and the life to come.
I have a very hard time reading from my scriptures everyday, but have committed to myself that I CAN and WILL do it, and that I am going to try and finish them by the end of the year. I know that if I do, that the Lord will bless me and my family in the blessings that we need at that certain time.
I am so grateful for all that my Heavenly Father has given me in my life. I truly have been so blessed.
I am really looking forward to sitting down and reading the messages from Conference, and to feel the spirit testify of it's truthfulness.

Monday Night Football & Baseball Playoffs

Well today is Monday, and Shane just had to get home right after work. He had things to do before Monday Night Football came on. For all of you who don't know that Shane LOVES the Minnesota Vikings. He has loved them since he was a little kid, but I think his love has grown even stronger this year with the addition of Brett Farve to HIS team.

Monday Night Football happens to be an exciting one tonight. It is a game of Rivals the Green Bay Packers vs. Minnesota Vikings. Good Luck to the best team.

I am just way excited that it's MLB playoffs!!!! Yippee!!!!!! Go Yankees!!!!! I just love October!!!!

Just Stuff

We have gotten our first taste of fall, and its September 30th. Wow what is up with that????? The leaves are all changing in the mountains, but down in the city its been 90 degrees. Way to hot for someone who loves fall as much as I do.

I am looking forward to Conference this weekend. I am really excited to hear the messages, and to just be spiritually uplifted.

Hope you all enjoy the fall weather, and conference too.

I love Fall!!!!

I think that I am more than officially ready for fall. I love fall, and it happens to be my favorite season. I love the crisp fall air, and the fabulous colors that autumn brings to the mountains. I love getting out my fall decor, and testing Shane to see if it's too early to put it out yet. I love everything that fall brings (except for dry hands/feet and WINTER). I love the smell of the house when you have spent hours baking yummy fall treats. I love getting out my fall/winter clothes, and bundling up on the couch with a blanket to stay warm. I always get a bad case of "nesting" in the fall, where all I want to do is cook, bake, craft etc. etc. etc.

I don't know why I love fall like I do? I JUST DO!!!! I look forward to it every year!!!!

So to all of you out there.

HAPPY FALL TO YA'LL!!!!!!

The last few weeks

It really seems like the last few weeks have flown by. We traveled down to Vegas for a quick trip for a funeral, went to Swiss Days, watched Aynsley perform at halftime for mini cheer camp Shane finally got his Antelope, and has been busy finishing up with hunting.

Gotta love the Strip!!!!


Love my mom



Mom, Dad and me


Actually a nice picture of Shane (he usually doesn't smile).
My dad's long lost son. This is my cousin Aaron, and we all think that he looks a lot like my dad.