Movies and such...

So I suck and completely missed the entire month of October...deal with it! Anyway, Halloween was good and I enjoyed my witch costume and spooky dinner at the cousins house. Now, I am anxiously waiting for Thanksgiving and a four day weekend in St. George. Mostly I am excited because during Thanksgiving weekend it finally becomes acceptable to play Christmas music and have your Christmas decorations up. I am sick, I know!

Anyway, in other news I am getting excited for Thurs....Harry Potter baby!!! I love my job because a company we work with gave us pre-screening tix and so I am going at 6:30pm on Thurs to see this masterpiece. To prepare I spent this past weekend watching all but the last 2 movies!! Tomorrow and Wednesday I will finish and then be all set for Thurs. I really hope this movie does not disappoint.

As Promised

Here are the crafts we have been working on...minus one more wall hanging and, the blocks which we are doing tomorrow!

Favorite Time

I am getting so excited for this time of the year and being in Utah this year Fall and Winter is going to be awesome!! It is still way too hot, but the nights are getting really cool and soon it will be super cold! In Halloween and fall spirit, we have begun to do crafts. Such crafts include: Halloween wall hangings (yes, I sewed a quilt-like wall hanging...and it came out super cute!), see through glass Halloween picture frames, fall table clothe with hand made leaf place mats, and spider egg sacks. I shall post pictures when I have them all complete. Also, I have spent an insane amount of money buying yarn for an afghan that I am crocheting. We shall see how this turns out as in the beginning I would do half a row and have my cousin fix my mistake. So far, I have been able to do about 3 or 4 rows on my own! I shall also post a pic of this when I am done....don't count on that any time soon.

One other thing, besides the crafting, that I love about the Halloween season is the scary movies. I guess you could consider me a bit of a scary movie junkie. This past weekend was spent watching scary movies with some other awesome movie junkies. I love a good suspenseful movie that leaves you hanging on to the edge of your seat!I have to say though, that I think I am a bit desensitized since most of the movies were far from terrifying. It was still a fun weekend and we did get through quite a few movies. Fun times!!

A Few Tid Bits

So since I haven't blogged in a while, this is really a mash of everything:

• This past weekend our friends from CA came up for a visit and over the weekend we headed up to Park City and walked around Olympic Park. Very neat place. It was so fun to see athletes practicing on the ski jumps and landing right into a pool of water. They even had bobsled rides, alpine slide rides, and zip lining. And, I even got up the courage to zip line.....the little one....but after it was over I wished I had paid a little more to do the long one. It was so much fun!!!!

• On wednesday, I went to my first Bees game with my mom. From Sandy we took TRAX which is a train lie the metro link in CA. It was fun going, but coming back it was late and a little scary. One thing I have notice about public transportation is, the later it is...the weirder those that ride are. Gotta love mass transit!!!!

• I am finally in love with the weather. It is still kind of hot in the day time, but it is a different kind of hot....and at night it actually gets kind of cool. It blows my mind that I could actually wear a jacket in August. I am getting so excited about fall and winter!!

• On a more frustrating note, I am in the process of getting my insurance license to Utah and in doing so I had to be re-fingerprinted. I did this about a month ago and am now having to do it again because the stupids that did it before messed up the way they should have been done. Come on people...how hard is it??? It is a freaking computer based program the walks you though it. A trained monkey could do a better job. So, now I get to go early tomorrow to get it re-done. Great!

Since moving to Utah I've....

• spent many a night up until past 1am. Two reasons for this are 1.) the family. I love them all dearly and we have such a great time when we're together, and so we stay up playing games and eating until 1am and 2.) daylight lasting until 9:30pm. Seriously?!?! It is now starting to get dark at just before 9 now, but for awhile, the late daylight really threw me off!

• lost three pounds. I have started weight watchers....again. I have been on it for 2 weeks and let me just tell you this has been no easy task. My family members love to cook yummy food and it is not weight watcher friendly!!

• found an awesome job. I am working for Farmers again, but this agent is awesome. It is a big office and the people are amazing. Plus, I have gotten so many gifts and such from the owners, co-workers, and vendors....I give you permission to be jealous

• cut my hair. I was getting tired of it long and so I chopped about 5 inches off!! I love it!!

• went to my first real rodeo. We got free tickets....10th row!! Can I just say I would not have minded if one of those cowboys got bucked off and landed my lap!!

• enjoyed fireworks for the 4th in front of our house. In California with the awful dryness, fireworks done at home are not allowed, so here it was fun shooting off fireworks right in our front yard

As Promised

So here are the pics I promised I'd post. I'm only 6 weeks late...not bad right???

This little room is my favorite. Bathroom, wash room, water heater room, cat room. It is super great!!!

I love my room, but it is a bit smaller than my old one

The awesome windows we get to watch our lightning storms from!!!

I must say that I love the kitchen!!!

And my huge backyard!!

Oh and I also should mention that I decided to chop about 5 inches of my hair off. Those pics to come soon...I promise!

New Life

So, sorry for the lack of posts since I've moved. I have been gone for a month now and it has seriously flown by. First, on the way to our new home we stopped in St George to stay with my Grandma for a week. My cousin was down to help us with the last minute packing and so she was there to ride with my mom and the dog, while I traveled with the cats. That was interesting. Pretty sure they hated us for a long time since we moved them twice, took them on the road twice, and then brought them to am empty house.

Anyway, we finally arrived to our new home on June 2nd while our PODS arrived a few days later. The first few days were a little crazy, and I'm pretty sure the people at Walmart know us by name. For the first two weeks I think we were there every day.....good times!!

So now we've been here for just over three weeks and I have completed my first week at my new job. I was kind of stressin' about not having a job but looking back, I am so glad I had a couple of weeks to adjust. Anyway, I am starting to really like my job. It is another Farmers agency and he is a top producer so it is pretty big which is kind of cool. I even have my own cubicle!!

So, for now things are great since our house is almost completely unpacked and I am working. I am also loving being close to family. Game nights, food galore, and tons of fun!!! I promise to post pics as soon as we get done with everything.