Happy Thanksgiving

Desperate times call for desperate measures. It looks like even Sesame Street is having an economic crisis! Happy turkey eating.

Going to the big "D" and other random ramblings

Last week Anthony had a training in Dallas and I figured it was a good opportunity to get some much needed alone time (for myself and for us as a couple), so I went with him. My parents took both kids and my brother and sisters and G&G White pitched in and helped when possible. Well, Anthony was gone from 7 am to 6 pm, so we didn't get to go see a lot of the sites Dallas has to offer. We went to the Dallas Temple one night, and I also dragged him to HSM3. We did a little shopping, and to my request, ordered Mamma Mia in room (Anthony almost gouged his eyes out with a fork). It was a little corny--the play is much better. By myself, I went to the 6th Floor Museum which is about JFK and is where he supposedly was shot from. It was interesting but I got really lost in downtown Dallas, so I didn't venture out much on my own. For the most part, I got to lounge around, watch TV, surf the Internet, and read a mushy love novel, from which Anthony benefited most! It was a pretty fun week, but I was excited to get back home.Dallas Temple

Some things that I have observed lately:

• It is very difficult to type on a keyboard that is missing the enter key, both shift keys, the "e" key, and the apostrophe key. Our computer has really been through the ringer lately, and thanks to Tanner and him breaking the keys, my wpm has significantly dropped.




• Texas is huge, but the lanes on the road seemed to be so narrow. It made me nervous driving.


• For so long now I have been worried that we haven't started a retirement plan--401K or IRA, but now with the stock market crash, I'm glad we don't have to worry about losing anything right now. I consider it a blessing in disguise. Also, Obama is going to spread the wealth around, so we won't be any better or worse off than the next guy;)
  
• I love that in Utah, all public places are smoke-free. I take clean air for granted sometimes.

• This was a store by our hotel. We didn't actually go in, but I couldn't resist the name. It is pretty catchy.
• There is no greater joy than seeing my two little ones playing well together. Two weeks ago I got the wagon out and when I came back out a few minutes later, I found Tanner laying in the wagon and Tyson was pulling him around. It was so adorable. Tyson was being such a good big brother, and Tanner was loving every minute of his ride. I didn't get a good shot of it, but here are a few pics.

Halloween

This year was a lot of fun with two trick-or-treaters. Tanner understood a lot better of what he was supposed to do than Tyson did at his age. As you can tell, the kids were crayons--Thanks to my sister, Andrea, for letting us borrow these costumes. The weather was beautiful and it was a perfect evening to be out and about. I didn't get many good pictures because my camera ran out of battery, so by the time we came home and it had charged, the kids were getting tired and ready to get out of their costumes. Tyson was so cute running up to the door and knocking so softly, then saying, "twick-o-tweet." Tanner just followed him and held out his bucket for them to put candy in. Then Tanner would walk back to sit in the stroller, and want to pull out whatever was just put in his bucket. He is a sucker for suckers. Tyson was so excited about his costume. Sorry, I forgot to flip this one.

The kids with our pumpkin. A neighborhood squirrel ate part of our other pumpkin and took the lid, so we couldn't use it.

Carving pumpkins with our friends.

Playing in the leaves at G&G White's house.