MTC Part 4

After Thanksgiving we headed up to Provo to take the final brother to the MTC. Mitchel has been itching to get here! He's serving in the Morristown, New Jersey mission speaking Spanish and will be in the MTC for 12 weeks. We got to Utah a day early and did a session at the Salt Lake temple with the whole family, including Grandpa Heggie. It was amazing! I love being able to be in the Celestial room surrounded by my family. It's such an awesome thing. I've never been in that temple before either and it was beautiful. I definitely need to go back again soon.

We walked around the temple grounds and looked at all of the Christmas lights. It was so pretty, albeit a little chilly.

After a tasty breakfast, we dropped Jonas off with my friend Carrian (thanks sooooo much!), and headed to the MTC for the last time. Don't worry, the jokes were the same as when we've taken all 3 of the other boys! Grandpa has never taken anyone to the MTC, so it was a really neat experience to have him there with us.

There's our little Missionary!! See you in 2 years little brother!

Sidenote: I just finished another wedding this weekend, so make sure you check it out!

Hello? Anyone there?

I bet you've been wondering where I've been. Right Here. I'm just a horrible blogger nowadays. Seriously, I'm never home anymore and therefore I never blog. Sorry! So, better late than never. Here's what's been going on for the past little bit.

I went to SEMA with my dad and Mitch and saw some pretty hot cars! I don't know if I'm like most girls, but I was in heaven!

I may or may not have gone to see NKOTB with Melinda and Tifani again.

Matt, Renee, Jonas, and the boys came home. It was awesome having the whole family home for the first time in a few years.

Thanksgiving day we headed up to Mt Charleston with the fam and stayed in a cabin for the night. There was a little bit of snow, so we went for a walk and Jonas loved it. I think the boys were pretty entertained too. We played games and watched movies all night and just had lots of fun.

And we had family pictures taken by our friend Camille.

Still to come...our last trip to the MTC to take Mitchel.

Romantic or Creepy?

Ok, I have to put up a new post because I'm getting really tired of looking at the same stuff all the time, so I'm sure you are too. My sis-in-law is in town for Thanksgiving and Mitchel's farewell, so we decided to go see Twilight together the other night with our friend Camille. We've all read the books, and we liked them, but I wouldn't say that any of us were obsessed with them by any means. Well...I'm sure you ladies have all seen it and I just have to say that we laughed through the whole thing, probably ruining it for those around us. Oops, sorry! We couldn't help it though!
Edward was more on the creepy side than the hot side, and the whole time I couldn't even focus on if he actually looked attractive or not bc I was trying to figure out what color of lipstick he was wearing. What a fabulous shade! Bella looked like she had tourettes syndrome bc she was so jittery and shifty the whole time. Poor thing - they didn't even mention her condition in the books. Jasper had approximately one facial expression, which was slightly reminiscent to a particular SNL skit that Renee and I find amusing. Carlisle - again creepy, not hot. Anyway, so it was a valiant effort, totally entertaining, and I will probably sit out any makings of more books.

My Sister-in-Law Rocks! Oh, and a giveaway

Why does my sister-in-law rock? Welp, I'll tell you. She is so cute and innocent, that I have to laugh at her whenever she comes to visit. She loves to read, she loves Harry Potter, she makes the cutest stinkin' babies in the world, and is cooking up a new little nephew for me right now! She has the cutest giggle, she's an amazing mom, she's artistic and imaginative, she has the kindest heart, she loves her family and mine, and she's so supportive of my brother.

AND...to top it all off, she makes the most amazing quilts from our friend Camille's pattern line, and they always end up so beautiful! I'm always so envious of them because I don't think I have the time or the talent to make one. So, lucky for me, Renee posted about a quilt giveaway that Camille is doing and I'm so on board! I want to win!! So, you should check it out and enter here to win too! Camille is so talented and she works so hard on her pattern/fabric line. I swear I'm not just saying that because she's psuedo-family either. She's got a lot of talent!

Punkin Chunkin

Ok, so I know you're all sitting on pins and needles to see what happened next on my little trip. Well, we woke up bright and early and headed off to Delaware! Yup. Delaware. What's in Delaware, you ask? Why the annual Punkin Chunkin, of course! People build these gigantic contraptions to launch punkins into a giant empty corn field, and there are different divisions and everything. There are also carnival rides, carnival FOOD, amazing mullets, missing teeth, and tattoos. It was fantastic! Here are a few of my favorite gems from our little outing. By the way, it may have been me and 4 couples - married, engaged, dating, whatevs. The only song that came into my mind whilst everyone in my group was happily sauntering around holding hands was "One of these things is not like the other. One of these things just doesn't belong" haha! It was a lot of fun though. Joni and Derek have ridiculously fun friends, and I really didn't feel like the 9th wheel at all.

I don't know if you can actually see this, but on the way there we found a guy selling "New Deer Scent." I'm not even sure what that is.

A shot of the cannons and also a group of fine looking specimens. Good thing I had my new deer scent on.

Derek, just getting into character with his trash can/table for his crab sandwich, and his bottomless sodie pop. He's so happy.

It was a tough choice between funnel cake and carmel apples, but thanks to Whitney's halloween post, I had nothing but carmel apples on my mind. I'm positive these weren't as good as hers.

Also, we thought it was going to be cold like last year. Nay, alas. It was hot! We were wearing sweaters and realized it was a horrible error! I think I mentioned that they hold this event in a giant corn field and they launch the punkins like 4,000 ft. Incredible. The only thing that wasn't incredible was coming back to a car covered in an icky web full of rather aggressive spiders. Derek was a troooper though and swept them all off with his snow scraper thing. Oh, and he's a little afraid of spiders, so he was our hero for sure. So brave!

Oh, and we got stuck in traffic for a while, so I took the opportunity to take some shots of the beautiful scenery. Sigh. I LOVE fall.

Long Overdue!

Holy crap! Remember the time when I used to be able to blog at work and I was sooo good at keeping you all updated on my pathetic life? Yeah, no longer. I actually have to work at my job. Work! AND I usually end up working late just to keep my neck above the ridiculous swamp of paperwork I usually find myself in. Bleh! Where's my rich millionaire husband??

So...let's see...we last left off when I went to the greatest concert ever. Don't worry that I may or may not be going to see them again in Salt Lake this weekend. Wha?? No I'm not! (I am)

Anyway, so enough of that. I honestly can't remember what I've done lately, so here it goes. In my attempt to skip dressing up for Halloween this year, and to experience the greatest white trash event ever (Punkin Chunkin!), I scooted off to DC.

The weather was amazing!! The fall colors were so beautiful from the plane, and I kept thinking that the trees looked like colored brocolli. OR *Nerdalert* the evergreens looked like rods, and the deciduous trees looked like cones...as in the eye. Yeah. Nerd.

Anyway, so I spent 5 days over there spending some quality time with my bestest friend and her boyfriend, and their hilarious friends. We had sooo much fun!

We went to Arlington Cemetery on Halloween day - yes it's a cemetery, but no it's not scary. It's actually quite the opposite. It was pretty cool, and neither of us had been. We had amazing views of the city, and we watched the changing of the guards.

After the cemetery we did a little shopping, and bought some fantastic eyelashes for our party later that night. In the midst of our getting ready for the "all black" party, we realized that Joni was looking very Amy Winehouse-esque, so we went with it.

To Be Continued...in the next post. :)

Oh, and p.s. Did you notice that I'm a brunette now? Yup. Apparently I've denied my roots for the next 4-6 weeks.

What are Friends for? ...right?

I have to admit that I'm too lazy to post the actual pictures from New Kids on the Block, and I'm getting a little tired of looking at that group photo, as I'm sure you are too. SO.....I stole this idea from Lindsay's blog, but apparently you find the 4th picture in the 4th album in your picture file and post it. I laughed soooo hard that this is that photo! Sorry Jones! This was from New Year's Eve last year. The fateful night that my camera leaped out of my pocket (whilst I was doing windmills) and shattered it's poor little screen on a dagger of a rock. Sigh. I still have yet to get it fixed.

This is somewhat suiting though, since Joni is my bestie and I'm going to visit her in DC in 2 more sleeps. OoooOOOh! I soooo can't wait to play and to have more wonderful picture moments like these. Ok fine, I'll post a good one too!

Sorry - this is as good as it got that night without a screen to instantly reminisce by.