"Making Halloween, Making Halloween . . . "

As I'm sure many of your houses are in a spin of Halloween preparation, we are also getting ready. I tried and tried to convince Annabelle to let me make her up in this chicken costume from the Martha Stewart website: 

But after about a month I still couldn't convince her, and Annabelle never wavered with her desire to be a cat. So I gave in. Cute, determined kid! So we've got the cat costume put together now.

 

The funny thing is that she loves dogs and is usually really scared of cats!

Last night we carved our pumpkin. Looks A LOT like last year's design, I guess Annabelle's picks for what shape the nose and eyes should be took root at an early age.

 

With the weather being so warm here we've decided to keep it on our kitchen table until later in the week. I wouldn't want to bake it!

My favorite part of it all is baking the pumpkin seeds, soo yummy. Last year I discovered a Worcestershire sauce recipe and stuck with that again this year. Perhaps it these will be our new traditions: Star eyes on our Jack o lantern and baking our seeds with Worcestershire sauce. Some traditions are designed on purpose. Others are born because the holiday is just better that way.

Have a safe and fun Halloween!

I Get the Hint

So I need to update my blog apparently, since I've been tagged TWICE today :) No worries, this is a good push to get me back on here. So here goes the latest chain mail . . .

8 Favorite TV Shows:

Sesame Street (1986)

AFN {Armed Forces Network - the only channel we had for 3 years} (1991) 

Captain Planet (1994)

Touched by an Angel (1996)

Whatever taped shows my Grandpa sent us in Germany, mostly Star Trek {we had no TV} (1998)

The Rosie O'Donnell Show (2000)

ER (2002)

The Office (this week at least)

8 Things I Did Yesterday:

Checked Email, Facebook, Blogs

Went to Park to meet my Visiting Teach-ee

Drove a friend to an appointment

Hit up a case lot sale at a grocery store

Checked the Mail

Laid on the couch

Ate the yummy stir fry that Mike made

Helped Mike clean the kitchen

8 Things I Look Forward to:

Putting up Christmas lights at the Temple

Paul, Shauna, Jake, Sam, Kristin and Isaac coming for Thanksgiving

Warm weather this winter

Getting my cavities filled

Snowboarding in Colorado

Mike's commute going from 1 hour to 5 minutes

Nona (my Italian Grandma) coming to visit

Adam & Trudy having their little boy

8 Favorite Restaurants:

Chen's Noodle House (Orem)

Panera Bread (Colordo)

Cafe Rio 

Wendy's

Ottavio's

Shangri La

Samurai Sam's

Pita Pit

8 Things on My Wish List:

To be caught up on my scrapbooking

To be fluent in Spanish

To go to Argentina

To learn/remember how to make my Nona' Gnocchi

To work in the Therapeutic Rec field later in life

To go on a mission

To have a dark room to develop photos

To have 12 more kids (Ha ha, maybe 5)

8 People to Tag:

If you know my real name

If you have had pizza in the last 5 days

If you can finish this lyric "It seems to me that 'maybe' it pretty much always means __"

If you have a G in your name

If you have lived in another country

If your favorite number is 17

If you are in Med School

If have ever taught/substituted Public school

The 4th picture from the 4th picture folder (or event as Mac users would say)

No, I was NOT thrilled when this was the photo in the 4th of 4th place. But never the less I posted it - SO no matter what photo is yours, you should know that you can post it too. So clearly, this is toward the end of my pregnancy with Annabelle. My mom reminded me to take some pictures. I'm so glad I did . . . sick!

Political Shenanigans