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This past Saturday was eBay's Turkey Bowl (AKA Football Tournament) so Ryan took the day off and spent it playing football. eBay was giving away some prizes and Ryan won a free 12 pound turkey! Yay for free meat! 

After the Turkey Bowl Ryan and I babysat Brig's kids while Brig and Michelle celebrated their anniversary. We had some fun playing games, feeding them dinner, and then watching Thumbalina while eating popcorn and hot chocolate. It's definitely different going from no kids to 4 ranging in ages from I think 9 to almost 2 years old. It was a lot of fun!

On Sunday I made our own little version of a Thanksgiving meal. We had Turkey, stuffing, gravy, green bean casserole, mashed potatoes for me (which I found a brand of potatoes that are small and don't have to be peeled, so Ryan didn't have an allergic reaction because I didn't have to peel them! Yay!) and Ryan had some rice pilaf since he couldn't have the potatoes. It was a great meal!

I took this Turkey...

And turned it into this! It was nice and juicy and not too bad for doing it all on my own. I feel so old. 

Tonight was my oldest nephews Eagle Scout Project. Yes, I said nephew, it's crazy how they grow up so fast! But Chandler did part of his project tonight where he is helping a local school with their reading program. Tonight there were about 45 people that showed up to help him put together desks and cubicles for Lakeview Academy's STAR program which is a program that helps kids with their reading skills if they're behind. My sister Jennie actually works there now and helps with the program so she definitely knew that there was a need for help. There was a great turn out and everything was done within an hour an a half! I didn't take a lot of pictures with my camera because I was taking pictures for Jen, but here's two that I have of people helping put together desks!

They put together 19 desks and 3 cubicle parts

There were so many people helping that people had to move into the hallway for space!

It really was a lot of fun and I'm way proud of Chandler almost completing his Eagle Scout and he's only 13, way to go Chandler!

If you take the day off...

Yesterday I took the day off so Ryan and I could go to the Temple for my friend Ashley receiving her endowments for the first time! It was a great excuse to request the day off and Ryan always has Mondays off so it was perfect! We met at the Provo Temple for the 10:20am session and had a great time. I had never been to the Provo Temple before and it was quite pretty, and it has a great view!

I've known Ashley for almost as long as I've lived in Utah and shortly after becoming friends, we became roommates and by roommates, I mean we shared a room together. It was awesome! I couldn't have asked for a better "Roomie". I wish we would get together more, but with our different schedules, it doesn't happen as much as I would like, but I l still consider her one of my best friends and she's like a sister to me. It was great to be a part of Ashley going through the Temple and I'm so proud of all that she's accomplished! You're amazing Ash!

Me and Ash at Lagoon I think in 2008?

Ash and I on a road trip up to Idaho, the date in the bottom right is not correct, cuz I didn't move up to Utah til 2007, but I think this was 2008

Us at the Stadium of Fire for 2008? Man, we were so tan, I miss those days haha

Jake and Ashley

Me, Ash and Ryan at the Temple

Provo Temple

It was a gorgeous view!

After the temple Ryan and I ran a few errands and then decided to stop at a dealership to START looking into buying a car by the end of the year. Well, we found the car we wanted and the price we were looking for, so we ended up driving home with a new car! It was the biggest most spur of the moment purchase I've ever done, but it felt right and it still does the day after haha thank goodness!

Here's our (MY) new car!

2012 Nissan Versa

The price was right and what really sold me was the MPG, which is anywhere from 30-45 MPG which is great for a non-hybrid car. It's got blank interior and if you were wondering how many children could fit in the trunk, my nephews Chandler, Tate and Lincoln all fit comfortably in it. I don't know why they decided to get in the trunk last night, but they did, it was pretty awesome and made me think of High School when I would fit 10+ people in my car...I mean...I never did that ;) I wonder if my Mom ever reads this...anyways. I'm so excited for it and it still doesn't feel like my car yet, it's too nice and new to actually be mine, but I think I'll get used to it :) So that was our very exciting and eventful Monday. I don't think another Monday can top it, if so I'd like to see how.

Sleepover!

 Friday night was a girls night out in Provo! It was a lot of fun, going out for dinner, watching chick flicks, doing facial peels and mud masks, staying up late (til 11pm which was the earliest that I've ever gone to bed during a sleepover) and waking up early (6:30am) We had girl talk and just relaxed and were bums all day, it was great!

Zink, Nancy, Jacie, Ria and Bethany (I'm taking the picture) at Pizza Pie Cafe

Doing Facial Peels, it made your face feel so smooth

Jacie starting her mud mask, she could pull of facial hair if she wanted haha just kidding jacie

Nancy with her Mud Mask

B

The 4 of us that did the masks, Ria's skin is too sensitive for this stuff so she was able to watch us as our faces started to tighten up as they dried

B looks like a creeper

All of them trying to be a creeper but Jacie laughed at the last second

All creepers :)

It really was a blast just hanging out and doing nothing. We watched Adventures In Babysitting, Sydney White, 17 Again and Crazy Stupid Love which were perfect for a girls sleepover. It was a ton of fun and we really need to do it more often!

Foggin Up the Windows

Last night Ryan and I went to a Utah Basketball game in Salt Lake. 

It was snowing on our way home and this normally wouldn't be a problem, but our heater/air/blower went out in our car so when it gets cold it's bad. The windows fog up really bad and normally you would have to turn on your defroster to make it so you can see outside...well we didn't have anything that would be able to "de-fog" our windows, so from Salt Lake to Eagle Mountain, we had to drive in the 30 degree weather with our back windows down and our front windows down a little as well as it's snowing pretty hard just to be able to kind of see outside. It was not enjoyable. It made me think back on the cars that I grew up on. The cars I grew up on had more things wrong with them than they had right with them, so last night definitely brought back memories. We were able to make it home safe by using a roll of toilet paper from our glove compartment and every few minutes, Ryan would have to wipe the inside of his side of the windshield so he could kind of see outside, it was pretty scary. I wanted to take pictures of what it looked like with the fogged up windows and the snow and everything, but Ryan had the camera in his pocket and was too focused on trying to see out the window and not kill us :)

Today we had my siblings that live in Utah over for dinner and to hang out. Every month we get together with Ryan's side of the family and it's nice to see everyone. It's kind of sad that me, my sister Jennie and her family and my brother Brig and his family live so close to us, yet we rarely get together. So we are planning on getting together at least once a month to do dinner together and tonight was our first night! It was a lot of fun! We had everyone over to our place which made it a total of 13 people and we had Paninis on my new Panini maker! (Ryan got me a Panini maker for my b-day :) ) The kids were having some fun hanging out with eachother and it was nice getting together to hang out and play games. We even went outside and the guys and the kids tossed the football around, it was freezing outside, but they had fun! For dessert we had "Hot as Summer, Cold as Winter" which is basically stove cooked chocolate pudding served over vanilla ice cream it's amazing and I haven't had it since I was a kid. It was really good and brought back good memories. I'm excited that we're going to be getting together more often. I love family, I just wished all my siblings lived this close!

Making the panini's

Making the "Hot as Summer, Cold as Winter"