Happy Thanksgiving!

I am thankful for:

A Thanksgiving dinner that was delicious, made all the more so by the fact that I did not have to cook it!

Because let's face it, even if I wanted to cook a Thanksgiving meal, there is no way a turkey would fit into my teeny tiny oven.

I am VERY thankful for my gas heater.

(This baby was rated to heat twice the size of our house. It works splendidly.)

We spent the whole day out of the house with family and so we left the heater off. Unfortunately, that meant when we got home at 10pm the house was about the same temperature as the outside (40s).

We have it cranked up right now. Seth and I are both hanging out in the living room until the bedroom warms up.

I love my space heater.

I'm thankful that this boy and I are married.

I'll spare you the sappy details, but he is a marvelous husband and I sometimes still wonder how I ever got to be so lucky as to marry someone like him. The nice thing is that I think he thinks the same about me.

Hope everyone had a lovely Thanksgiving!

I'm sensing a theme here...

My family is in town.

We're having fun.

This was yesterday, at Burlington Coat Factory.

We also went to (of course) Brick Oven last night.

It was a night of gluttony.

We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves.

Today we spent up in Smithfield, Utah.

The Toolson family helped found Smithfield and so my Dad took us on a mini tour of some sites (more on that later).

We also went to the Pepperidge Farm outlet.

More gluttony.

But for a great price.

We took up a drive up through Logan Canyon. We went all the way to the scenic overlook to Bear Lake, which is only a few miles from the border of Idaho.

We then stopped at Maddox in Brigham City for dinner.

More gluttony.

I don't think this trend is going to stop, as Thanksgiving is tomorrow.

Craftiness

In a never ending effort to cover up the beigeness of my walls, I decided on yet another craft project for Seth and I to do.

The inspiration was found here.

(You really have to look at the link to understand the rest of this post.)

And these are the results:

The pictures don't do it justice, it really looks cool.

I can't decide if I like the tapered off look or if I want to make more and cover the entire wall. . . .

Regardless, it's SO much better than all that beige.

Rotting Pumpkins

Seth and I always use our back door.

We put our Halloween pumpkins by the front door.

And so, we forgot about them for a long time.

Until they looked like this:

We decided we should probably get rid of them.

We decided this was probably a good idea and we decided we should take care of it immediately.

And so, about a week later, when they looked like this:

We finally got rid of them.

I think our neighbors were happy.

I PASSED

Dear Janette:

Congratulations!  You have been awarded the Novice Level Certificate! I commend you on your accomplishment. Your certificate, certification card, and other information will be sent separately.

The Novice Certification is an entry skill-level status.  We expect that you will follow the Code of Ethics and stay within the areas approved for your level of Certification and skill. You are not allowed to interpret in situations which are limited to Professional Level.

Again, congratulations on your achievement!  I wish you luck in the future.

                                                                                                                       

Sincerely,

Mitch                                                    

Mitch Jensen, Director                                                                                  

Utah Interpreter Program

I just got this 5 minutes ago. I started screaming. 

I AM A LICENSED INTERPRETER!

I am so awesome!