Party!

Last night we got together with some of our friends and went to Cornbelly's to go through the corn maze and to enjoy the other attractions that they have. My friend Max even surprised me and was able to be in town this weekend! He's of course here to see his girlfriend, but they all kept it a secret to surprise me, it was very fun and nice to see him :) The Corn Maze was a little disappointing, but it was still fun hanging with friends. Ryan and I bought the passes to go into the "Insanity Point" scary attractions, but i chickened out and didn't want to go in them, so we cut my wristband off and put it on Max with gum so he could enjoy the scary stuff with Ryan, George and Heather. Ryan said that he screamed like a little girl at points, and if he was scared, I would have died so I'm glad I didn't go in the scary stuff. As they were enjoying the scary attractions, the rest of us were enjoying ourselves around a fire watching some of Ghostbusters and the Thriller music video.

After Cornbelly's we headed back to our place for hot chocolate, cider, treats, games and a cupcake cake to celebrate mine and Nancy's Birthdays. It was a lot of fun!

Ricky, Lish and Josh

Rachelle and Abbie

The corn maze we went through

Me and Nancy!

Ryan and I

George, Max and B

Ryan and I before the pig races!

Heather and George

Max and B

Jacie and Shane

Lish, Ria and B

Ria and Josh

Me and Max!

Max and B, I love this picture!

Max and B!

Nancy and Ria

Zombie/Mummy cupcake cake!

Pumpkin Carving

Ryan and I went over to his parents to carve pumpkins on Monday night. 

Ryan carving out his Transformer

Here's Judy's Pumpkin

Chubbs' Pumpkin, he did Iron Man and it turned out really cool!

Chubbs' in the light

Mine, Friends, of course

Ryan's Transformer finished, he still needs to hollow out the middle more so it can be seen as a Jack-O-Lantern

All of them! Mine, Ryan's, Chubbs' and Judy's

An early birthday present Ryan gave me this morning! I heart zombies shirt :)

Footloose and FOOD!

 Yesterday Bethany, Jacie and I got together to eat lunch and go see Footloose. It was a lot of fun just hanging out and catching up with just the three of us. Footloose was pretty good for a remake movie and it was a lot of fun!

We got to theatre just in time for the previews, but we wanted to take a quick picture before. This was the result of no flash and me spilling a full cup of ice water on Bethany as I moved in to take the picture. I can't help but laugh everytime I see this picture!

Me and B

Sheepies!

The weather was perfect outside! So pretty!

Ok, why do I have such gorgeous friends? Their hair is blowing in the wind and they look like models, and I'm just in the middle haha I love them!

 After hanging out with them Ryan came and picked me up to head to Tucanos for my Free Birthday Meal! It's one of my favorite times of the year where we get to go to Tucanos and pig out on delicious meat! This time we went with Jeremy and Kara and the kids because Jeremy's Birthday is also in October so we were able to go together! It was a lot of fun and the kids are growing up so fast. With my old job I would usually see Kara once a week and go to her place for one of my lunch breaks, but now that I have a normal job with normal hours, that doesn't happen :( But it was great spending time with them and they got to see how much meat I really do eat when I go to Tucanos (a little embarrassing, but whatevs)

Kara, Addi and Curtis (I think Jeremy was at the Salad bar when I took this pic)

Kara and Addi, she's getting so big!

This picture makes her look like she's got huge cheeks, but she doesn't, but her blue eyes are so gorgeous!

Me and Ryan

 It was a great Saturday! Fun with friends, family and good food, can't ask for more!

Peruvian Lilies

Since my birthday is just around the corner, Ryan decided to surprise me early and send 100 Peruvian Lilies to me at work!

They're so pretty!

Thanks for the early Birthday Present and surprise Ryan! I love you!

Shake your groove thang!

On Monday night Ryan and I had dinner with Jen and the boys and then headed to Chandlers High School (That's right! High School! My oldest nephew is a freshman is high school, they grow up so fast!!) and went to Chandlers Choir Show. It was a 70's theme and it was way cute! I think there were over 200 students in it! In Chandlers Choir class alone, there were 75 of them and that was only 1 of the 4 or 5 classes/groups! It was way cute and they sounded really good! 

Plus, I was totally envious of his high school and his theatre. The High School I went to was like 100+years old or something and Chandlers High School was built last year or the year before, it is amazing! Plus their theatre actually has seats that don't move and probably seats a few thousand people. So jealous!

Lincoln and Tate eating the homemade Oreo Truffles that Ryan had made for dessert!

Ryan and I at the performance

Chandler is the one sitting in the middle with the purple vest! His outfit was awesome! A glittery purple vest, a peace sign scarf with rainbow flared bell-bottoms. The awesomeness of thrift stores!

Chandler is really good at getting into the songs and having fun with it!

My nephew's a pretty cool kid :)

It was a lot of fun seeing him perform and to see that my nephews have an interest in the things that I did in high school.

I don't want to grow up

Some things never change.

I think I'm all grown up with being married, having a mortgage and paying bills, but then it comes to going to the dentist. I hate it! 

Normal 6 month check-ups are ok cuz they don't have to drill and they make your teeth so clean, but the follow-up appointments to fill cavities suck! Another reason why I hate going to the dentist is because I take care of my teeth, yet almost every time I have a check-up, I have cavities (dang you genetics!) Every time Ryan goes to the dentist, 0 cavities! What the heck? Ryan literally eats pure sugar and has never had a cavity! That's just wrong!

I had my 6 month check up in July and found out that I had 4 cavities :(

So I scheduled an appointment for sometime in August but I happened to get a new job, so I couldn't make my appointment :)

I re-scheduled my appointment for September and it happened to be when I got a promotion, so I couldn't make it :)

I rescheduled for today, and no miracles happened, so I had to go. Right before having to go to the dentist, I complained and whined to Ryan asking him if I really had to go, he said I did :( 

So I went and now my mouth is all numb and puffy :(

To add to the suckiness, Ryan is at a Foo Fighters Concert tonight :( I'm jealous.

The only awesome part about it is that I was able to walk home from the dentist because Ryan had the car. We live a block away from our Dentist, actually I wouldn't even call it a block away, it's across the street from us, which made tonight's arrangements quite convenient.

I love Eagle Mountain!

Conference Weekend

Conference weekend was last week, but I never blogged about it and it was a pretty awesome weekend! It started with my friend Max (who recently got home from his mission) his brother Kyle and his mom Shawna coming up on Friday night to stay for the weekend! It was great seeing them all. They arrived around 11pm on Friday, and they spent the night at our place, as well as Bethany. It was our first time having a lot of people sleepover and use the guest room as well as both of our couches. It probably wasn't the most comfortable, but it worked out well! 

Friday night!

Max and B :)

Saturday morning, Ryan went off to work and Bethany had some stuff to get done, so Max, Kyle, Shawna and I stayed home and watched the Saturday morning session of conference. It was pretty cool. First of all, Max, Kyle and Shawna are all converts. 

We first met Max Sophomore year of high school and his conversion was a very different process than others. Surprisingly, Max started going to early morning Seminary before ever going to church! He would wake up and go with us at 6:30 in the morning to Seminary, who does that?! The incentive was that our Seminary class was going to be doing "Comedy Sportz Improv" stuff and that there would be doughnuts, so he came. The first day he came, we happened to not get to the Comedy Sportz stuff, so he kept coming that week and eventually he just kept coming. He did that for a year with us before we finally asked/encouraged him to come to church (I mean, at least church doesn't start at 6:30 in the morning!) After a little while he finally took the discussions and was baptized our Senior year of high school. It was a really great experience during the whole process. Anyways, Max decided to go on a mission and while he was on his mission, his Mom and his brother Kyle were both baptized and became members of the church! Max is such a great example! 

So, for watching a Saturday morning session with Max, Kyle and his Mom was an extremely awesome experience! We watched the second session as well and then Max and Kyle headed to Salt Lake to go to the Priesthood session while all of us girls went to our 8th Semi-Annual Fondue Night! I didn't get a lot of pictures from Fondue Night but we had a lot of fun and ate a lot of good food!

Nancy with our version of a Fondue Cheeseburger! So good!

Me, Jacie and Bethany

On Sunday morning, Max, Kyle, Shawna and Bethany went to Salt Lake to see the Sunday morning session and headed back to California right after that session. It was a quick trip for them, but it was great seeing them all! 

Another one of our Conference Weekend Traditions is to get together and have a big pot-luck breakfast and watch conference. This year was a much smaller group, but that helped us to be able to focus more on the conference talks, so it worked out great! We always have Lish's homemade Cinnamon Rolls and have other great breakfast treats! This year, Ryan made amazing omlettes for everyone with mushrooms, tomatoes and onions and we had a ton of bacon! It was a great weekend!

Ricky and Lish doing the bacon and cinnamon rolls!

Josh is getting so big and keeps getting cuter and cuter everyday!

Mmm cinnamon rolls!

Ryan playing with the ball pump with Josh and Annabelle

The weekend was jam-packed but a ton of fun!