Weekend Recap

This weekend was great! 

Friday:

We spent some quality time together, just the hubs and me!  We cooked dinner, listened to music and then watched The Wizard of Oz together! :-) It's a tradition in my family for my Mom and I to watch the Wizard of Oz every year around Thanksgiving time.  I will be sure to start that same transition with my children!

Saturday:

We got to sleep in!  It was wonderful.  We then got ready for the day, cleaned a bit, I cut hubbys hair, and we packed for the rest of the weekend.  My friend Tiffany got married in my hometown.  She couldn't have been more blessed to have such a beautiful day to go along with her beautiful wedding!  It was perfect!  It was sunny and 70 degrees in November for her wedding!!!  I could hardly believe it.  (for those of you who don't get to experience the dreadfully amazing Iowa winters, it's usually very cold with a possibility of snow around this time of the year).  Saturday night my whole family was able to get together at Tiffany & Jake's wedding reception for drinks & dancing.  Pictures to come tonight!

After that, we were able to meet up with my old good friends, Natalie & Bri & their men.  It was so great to see them!  I hardly ever get to spend time with them anymore, so it was nice to catch up.  Natalie's getting married next year and Bri's having another baby!!!  I'm so excited!  Such big changes in all of our lives and I am so glad that we are able to remain friends!

Sunday:

We woke up early and headed to breakfast with my mom.  Aftewards, we got packed up and headed back home where I was FINALLY able to get most of the leaves taken care of in our yard and cut the backyard once more before winter.  our yard looks so much better!  On a side note, it was such a great day to be raking leaves, because with each stroke I took to rake, 1/2 of them would fly off and out of our yard! haha, yes it's probably considered cheating, but do you think I was going to chase after them? haha no way!

How was your weekend?  We have two weekends in a row coming up that are stay at home weekends!  This hardly ever happens and I am so excited! 

My to do list before Thanksgiving includes:

Buying place-mats & napkins (anyone know a good place to find cute, cheap, brown ones??)

A table runner (I'm also having trouble finding this!)

Buy a gravy boat

Buy my turkey! ( A whopping 25 pounder!)

Change sheets in guest bedroom

Clean house from Top to Bottom!!

It's going to be a busy two weeks!!

Happy Anniversary to my wonderful in-laws!!!

Guys!  I'm a horrible daughter-in-law, I had this post sitting in my "edit posts" section wanting to post it on their actual anniversary on 11/2/09, but I didn't!!!  I'm very sorry!!! So, without further adue:

Happy 30th Anniversary to the best in-laws a girl could ask for!!! :-) 

Here they are at our wedding, dancing the night away!

A picture of the whole family

At a wedding in Wisconsin

These people welcomed me into their lives with open arms.  I couldn't have asked for better in-laws.  They are amazing people and I hope to someday live closer to them so we can see them more often.  I hope you both enjoyed your 30th anniversary and I can't wait until we're celebrating our 31st and you're celebrating your 60th! :-)

Calling all you professional photographers!

Alright all you photographers out there!  We're wanting to get a really good camera for Christmas and I was looking into this one.... Does anyone have it?  What do you suggest?  What do you think about this one?  Any help you can give would be greatly appreciated! (if you do like it, what would you suggest buying with it so that we are ready to go?)

It's a Canon - EOS Digital Rebel T1i 15.1-Megapixel Digital SLR Camera

 Help!! :-) 

Things

I stole this from Danielle at Life, Love and the Pursuit of Me

FIVE things you wish you could say to FIVE different people right now

• Get over it.
  
• Think of someone else for a change.
  
• I deserve a raise.
  
• You're lucky and you don't even know it.
  
• You'll be just fine.
  

TEN things about yourself:

• I chocolate.
  
• I love gossip magazines, I can't help it!
  
• I love running, but I hate it at the same time.
  
• I want to look good, but it's so hard to motivate myself!
  
• I love traditions.
  
• I love nights in with my husband.
• Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday.
  
• I love clothes, but hate spending money on them.
  
• I love spending time with my family.
• I am a tv junkie and love to watch OTH, Desperate Housewives, Greys, Private Practice, Brothers & Sisters, House, Medium, Saving Grace, Big Bang Theory, and a couple more.... (It's a sickness)
  

SEVEN ways to win your heart:

• Surprises.
• Massages.
  
• Telling me you love me (if you mean it!)
  
• Take me somewhere nice.
• Delicious homemade food.
  
• Go out of your way for me.
  

SEVEN things that cross your mind a lot:

• My husband.
• My family.
  
• School.
• Getting a counseling job next fall.
  
• Vacationing.
• Upcoming Holidays.

FOUR things you do before you fall asleep:

• Brush my teeth
• Wash my face.
  
• Kiss the husband.
• Cuddle.

FOUR things you see right now:

• My office-mate
  
• Candy Corn & Peanuts
• AMy huge 55 oz water jug.
  
• Tons of work to be done!
  

THREE songs that you listen to often:

• I'm yours.
  
• Lucky.
• Chicken Fried.
  

TWO things you want to do before you die:

• Have two beautiful, healthy children.
  
• Move back to my hometown.

ONE confession:

• I just started a new "diet" yesterday and I'm already starving. :-(
  

A lovely surprise!

Last week I came home to a package on my doorstep!  Taryn from The Colorado Desert sent me a homemade grocery bag!  I just love it.  It's big and sturdy and will be so much  nicer than getting all of those darn plastic bags!  I told her to open an ETSY shop because I, for one, cannot sew for the life of me!  I would love to have a place to go and buy these bags!

 

So, I'm terrible at taking pictures of things.... You don't have to tell me twice! :-)  Anyway, I hope I gave you a great idea of just how cool this bag is!  I've already put it to use and I love it!

Happy (late) Halloween

I hope everyone had a wonderful Halloween weekend!!!  I especially enjoyed sleeping an extra hour on Sunday morning! :-)

I've seen so many cute costumes already on the blogosphere, but I can't help but let you all in on a little secret of mine.

I mildly dislike with a passion dressing up.  I'm not sure if I was scared as a child or what the deal is, but I cannot stand dressing up.  Whether it be a wig, funny glasses, mismatching outfits or a full blown costume, I just cannot get myself into it.  I don't like it at all.  Not sure why, I love seeing the kids in their costumes and I have a hysterically great time seeing adults in their wacky costumes, but it's not for me. 

Anyone else hate dressing up or am I alone in this department?  I'm not a fun hater, I promise! :-)

November Goals

It's about time I set some goals for this month!  I promise I'll be back in December to let you all know how far I've come!

November Goals:

Take our Christmas Card Picture
Workout at least 3 times a week!
Finish at least 75% of my Christmas Shopping
Make a weekly meal plan 2 times a month  (this is a hard one for me, as we're so busy!)
Decide on a new camera for Christmas.  Any suggestions on SLR cameras???

I think it's a pretty easy list, but we shall see! 

Have a great week everyone!!! :-)