Tagged by Julia AGAIN!

8 TV Shows I Watch

1. Jon & Kate Plus 8
2. Home Improvement
3. Cosby Show
4. Trading Spaces
5. Food Network Challenge
6. Ace of Cakes
7. What Not to Wear
8. Leave it to Beaver

8 Restaurants I like

1. Red Robin
2. Cafe Rio
3. Costa Vida
4. Royal Jade (My top 4 fav are in Utah...and where do I live???)
5. Applebees
6. Chili's
7. Moes
8. Carabbas

8 Things that happened yesterday
1. Went to the Gym
2. Worked
3. Set up the Christmas Tree at work
4. Packed for our Thanksgiving Trip
5. Cleaned up some of the clutter in our house
6. Help Dan fill out some paperwork for work
7. Picked up my prescription
8. Fell asleep trying to watch Home Improvement

8 Things I'm looking forward to

1. Christmas
2. Thanksgiving
3. Dan's race this weekend
4. Seeing family and friends in Utah next month
5. Christmas Shopping
6. Finishing setting up my Christmas decorations (I think I have Christmas on my mind...what do you think??)
7. The next Twilight Movie...I am really impatient for that one!
8. Having a house (I am tired of having NO STORAGE SPACE!)

8 Things on my wish list

1. For Dan to find a major and finish school
2. Ditto, but for me
3. To have a house, sooner than later
4. To go somewhere fun on vacation I have never been
5. To have a craft room
6. Visit Dan's mission
7. Be two places at once
8. Sometimes to be 3 places at once

I tag...Jenni, Ellee, Amber, Whit, Megan, Mary, Lora, basically everyone who hasn't done it...

Turkey Trot

Dan ran another race on base yesterday. After the half marathon next week he will have ran 3 races this month. Crazy! I was running late the morning of the race and missed out on seeing him start. I waited in my car where it was nice and warm until I knew it was about time for the first runnesr to be getting in. I almost missed him coming in. My clock must have been off in my car becuase as soon as I walked up to the finish line I could see him running in.

He got second place, about 10 seconds behind the Chief he seems to always be competing against. Dan said it was a hard race because he has been training for this half marathon and had just run 8 miles the night before. He is now up to running 10 miles a day and will probably be running the full 13.1 miles this weekend.

As tradition at a turkey trot, they had a drawing to give away free turkeys. They had 36 turkeys in all and we actually won one! We had just commented a few minutes before that we never win anything and we actually quit even listening to the raffle. They had to call our number 3 times before I realized it was our number.

We were excited to finally win something but have no clue when we will actually cook it! It is definitely a big turkey for just two people. Maybe we will have an early Christmas with a few friends or something before we go to Utah. Who knows. It would have just been easier if we had won the $150 dinner gift certificate they gave out...but oh well! A turkey will come to use sometime. Until then our freezer will just be very, very, full....

Dan after the race.

It was really neat looking outside becuase of the fog that morning. This picture made for a neat background...we just both look a little funny in it!

Dan starting to eat our turkey.

Angel's Wedding

This past weekend we went down to Lafayette for a wedding for Dan’s sister, Angel. Dan’s brother, Spencer, and his family were able to come down from Arizona for the wedding as well. It was nice to visit with family we don’t get to see all the time. We got into Lafayette Friday night and stayed the weekend in a hotel with Spencer and Kristen and their two kids, Abby and Aidan. The second they got there Dan was off playing with Abby and Aidan and never stopped. I don’t think any of the adults even really got a chance to visit with him this weekend because he was busy enjoying playing with the two of them. Aidan has gotten really, really talkative since the last time we saw him and always had something to say. He called Dan, “Uncle”, the entire weekend. He was constantly saying, “Hey Uncle, look at this!” or “Hey Uncle, are these your shoes??” It was really cute, I think we all heard the word uncle at least a thousand times. We are all wondering what he will do when we are in Utah for Christmas in a month and he all of a sudden has 5 uncles. He has never called any of them anything before so it will be interesting to see if “Uncle” sticks for Dan.

The wedding was not until 6 pm Saturday night so we had a full day to just relax and hang out in the meantime. We went shopping, out to eat, and saw Madagascar 2. Dan and I have seen the movie twice now and we both thought it was really cute. Dan absolutely loved it, he was laughing harder than anyone else in the theater.

Angel & Shawn


Aidan sleeping through a portion of the wedding. We all laid down to take a "nap" after lunch before the wedding in hopes he would take one so he wouldn't be grumpy all night. We all ended up falling asleep while Aidan played by himself for the afternoon.

Abby dancing with her dad in her pretty princess dress.

Dan dancing the girl's hearts away. Somehow he ended up spending a portion of the night twirling with all the little girls on the dance floor.

The remainder of the night he was busy eating and eating and eating with his Dad.

Aidan after he woke up from a much needed nap.

Dan dancing with his step mom, Donna.

I stole him away from all the little girls and food for a minute to dance with him as well.

Dolores asked me to get a pictures of my shoes...this isn't the best picture but you can at least tell I am wearing red high heels.



This is what I made Angel for her wedding gift. She had asked me to make it to go above her bed.

Sunday we hung out with all the family at Paul and Donna's house eating wedding leftovers. Dan and Paul spent the afternoon playing with all the kids outside while the rest of us visited inside. It was a lot of fun. Dan was so exhausted after that though that he ended up taking a 3.5 hour nap. We were supposed to leave in the late afternoon to head home but ended up staying longer so he would have enough energy to drive home! Plus, I didn't mind visiting for a little longer. We left around 8:30 and got home close to midnight while I slept most of the way home so I wouldn't be a walking zombie at work the next day.

Our hobbies.....

The day after Halloween we had a very full and busy day. We started off the morning by trying to clean and organize our apartment...a project that seems to always be on going. We are popping at the seams in our apartment so every time we get something new we seem to have to re-organize in order to make it fit. This time, we had to make food storage, Halloween decorations, and some of my crafts fit into places that we didn't even know existed. After working on the project for several hours we took a break so Dan could get some of his homework done.

While he was busy doing homework I went to my friend, Jenni's, house. I got a vinyl cutting machine for my birthday and have been working on several crafts this past month with it. I have even been able to sell a few things I have made on the side. I will post more about those things another day. But for now I wanted to post the pictures of what we made last Saturday together. Jenni just bought a house so we were trying to get it ready for her housewarming party.

We made this welcome sign for her front door.

We also made blocks for both her boy's rooms.

As well as we made decorations for Halloween and Thanksgiving.

After I finished at Jenni's house I met Dan downtown for a race. A friend at church had told him the night before about a 5k that was taking place the next day. At the last minute Dan decided he wanted to participate. It was really fun to watch. The race was along the Red River and was at 7pm at night, so they ran in the dark. My favorite part about the race was being able to hang out and visit with some church friends while he ran the race. I am used to hanging out by myself so it was a nice change to pass the time while he ran.

When the first person started to come towards the finish line, neither my friend nor I could quite tell who it was in the dark. At the very last second my friend realized it was Dan even before I did! I tried to take a quick candid shot but wasn't able to in time. I usually can pick Dan out of a crowd by what he is wearing, but this time I didn't see him before the race started. Anyways, we were really excited to see him come in first place! Especially since he hadn't prepared for the race at all...just decided to run it at the last minute!

After the race they had free food and an awards ceremony. Dan got a really cool metal that he is quite proud of. While we were at the race we also learned about a half marathon that is Thanksgiving weekend in Gulf Shores, AL. We randomly decided that night that we really wanted to go to it. We had no plans as of yet for Thanksgiving and neither of us really wanted to just stay home by ourselves. I figured I can cook a nice meal any time I want, so we are basically skipping Thanksgiving per say, and going to the beach instead! Dan is really excited about running the race as well. We figure we may as well spend the holiday enjoying ourselves versus spending the entire day cooking just for the two of us and missing family during the process!

Halloween....

Dan and I decided to dress up this year for Halloween. We were both really excited about the holiday and were definitely looking forward to dressing up and passing out Halloween candy. I love holidays, especially Halloween, so we both decided to get really into it this year. Our first year being married I was in charge of a ward party that night so I didn't really get around to planning anything fun for the two of us. Dan was actually quit embarrassed when he had to stand by our trunk with no costume, no decorated trunk, just a bag of candy I bought at the last minute at Walmart! Then this past year Dan was deployed. So this year we decided to go all out.

We decided to go as "Trick or Treat". Dan was a magician (who does tricks) and I was a candy corn witch (which is a treat)....get it?:) Kinda dorky and silly I know but we both loved our costumes so it was a lot of fun.

I got to dress up for work that day as well, so I got to celebrate Halloween all day long. I asked Dan why he didn't dress up for work, he said he did, that he was dressed up as a Military Personnel....how lame! (The picture is of my friend, Jenni, and I. She dressed up as a punk rocker. You can't really tell, but my hat has the candy corn colors on it as well, and is trimmed with a feather boa.)

After work Dan and I went to our church's trunk or treat. We don't get trick or treaters in our apartment complex so we had to go find them ourselves. We had fun handing out candy to all the kids as well as visiting with our friends. I got to see all the 3 year olds I used to teach at church. They looked so cute! My favorite was one of my friend's little 8 week old boy, she had him dressed up as her little baby bumblebee! It was really cute.

This is a picture of a lady at church (Cathy Noel) and I at the trunk or treat. Everyone kept on saying we looked alike so we decided to get a picture together.

I also made a 2 mummy cakes for my work and the trunk or treat.

After the trunk or treat we went to the boardwalk (a local outside mall that sits right along the river) where they had several activities going on for Halloween. We hung out there for awhile and ended the night with going out to IHOP. I think we must have all been trying to make the holiday last as long as possible...and boy was I exhausted the next day!