Yesterday was so nice. I came home from work and the house was clean, dishes were mostly done :) and dinner was cooking!!! THANK YOU !!!!!! I know everyone pitched in and helped. It really made my day. I am so glad it is Wednesday. I have so many things to do this weekend I want it to get here fast so I can get everything done. Christmas is creeping closer and closer. The kids of course are very excited. I am not sure when we will get to go up north because I have to work until 4:00 on Friday the 18th but we will get there eventually......I am hoping I will get off early but I won't know until that day what the schedule will look like. Dr. Allen is a great guy to work for. He is super nice and very easy going. So work is going good. I am getting better every day. Hopefully I will get a raise in February :)

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Troy's Grandpa Merrill gave us tickets to see the Handel's Messiah music performance last night. It was really good. They had some very good singers. Sarah's favorite was a girl who sung soprano. She was very good and very high pitched! It was nice to see a live performance that was wholesome and centered around the life and teachings of Christ. It's not every day you get to enjoy something like that. Although maybe it should be.........just a thought. :)

Things have been so crazy since I started working. I have no time for anything! I am enjoying my job though don't get me wrong. We have been cooking alot lately and that has been fun. I have found some really yummy recipes online that we have been trying. Some good some not so good. I found one that is a pizza casserole that the kids went nuts over. And who would have guessed my kids like cabbage.?. Well they do. I made a soup from a dry soup mix starter and it had cabbage, celery and carrots that I added. They all loved it. Of course I think the alphabet noodles helped a little.
Sarah made a slide show of all the pictures she has taken of her rat, Abagale, and put music to it. It is so cute! She is a very good photographer!!! I am sure she will bring it to the Christmas party for everyone's viewing pleasure. She is so funny!!!
I have two quilts done, one pined and one still in the bag. Next weekend!!!!! Big plans!!!!

We had a great Halloween. The kids got a ton of candy!!!! I can hardly believe it is almost gone!!! O'well the faster it goes away the less tempting it will be, right. :) I remember as a kid bringing handfuls of candy to school and the kids haven't done that (that I know of). Kinda funny. We have our Halloween decor down and our Thanksgiving decor up. I want to put our Christmas tree up but Troy voted not to. :( I guess I can wait a few more weeks.

Today has been pretty fun. Dustin and I went to the elementary school and helped in Jimmy and Cameron's classes. They had their Halloween parties. Lots of junk food and crafty things. I was pretty tired after. Dustin was on a sugar high though. Then at 2:00 we picked up Sarah and went over to the high school and trick or treated through the halls. It was pretty cool. For some reason Jimmy is being a butt this year and wont dress up. I did get him into a costume before we left to go to the high school but be wouldn't get out of the car when we got there. So there he stayed :( I guess he is just to cool for Halloween. Of course he is not to cool to mooch candy off his younger brothers when we all got home. I told them not to share but they are nicer than me because they did anyway.
I am trying to talk Troy into taking us to the dog park so the dogs can burn off some of their energy. But he just got home from work and is pretty tired. Maybe later........

Okay so our new dogie, Sadie, needed a hair cut. So being the cheapo I am I decided to "groom" her myself. She did great, me not so much. I got her half way done and decided I needed a break. It took me 1 hour to get this much done. You can't see from the picture but the other side of her back is still fluffy. I got her back legs, belly and one side of her back done. YEAH ME. Poor her.

Today is my birthday!!!! I am 32 years old! I am having a pretty good day so far. Troy sang happy birthday to me this morning and Sarah crawled in bed with me after Troy went to work and said happy birthday with her fabulous morning breath. :)

Sarah told me yesterday I needed to update my blog because it had a fourth of July background. So this is for her. I feel like I haven't posted in forever. I have been taking classes online and that has consumed alot of my time. The rest of my time goes to cooking and cleaning and being a wife and mom. PHEW......no wonder I am tired all the time!!! O'well it is worth it!!!

We have a new dog to. This one is actually staying. haha. Troy found her while we were in Salt Lake a few weekends ago. She is pretty cute but alot of work. She can't stand to be alone so night time is extremely hard for her. We are also having to housebreak her. Not fun, but she is doing pretty good thanks to Daisy. She has showed her the ropes and what to do when outside and all that good stuff. She must still be in mother dog mode because she disciplines the puppy when she gets to rowdy. Kinda funny. The new puppy is a Lahsa apso. We named her Sadie. I gave her half a hair cut yesterday so she is looking super funny. Poor dog. Hopefully I can finish it today.