General Conference

Scott and I celebrated our Anniversary on Friday night. Our Anniversary is tomorrow and we were trying to decide when to go out and what to do and we decided that we should just go out that night. I got a babysitter and we were out. I'm glad that I feel pretty comfortable leaving my kids with a babysitter now. I just have a hard time leaving my small babies with a baby sitter so it's nice that Piper is a little older now. We went to Big Jud's and got some good burgers and fries. We then headed to the movie theater and luckily we were a few minutes early and there was a Goodwill next door. Score! I hadn't noticed it there before. I love thrift store shopping. Most of the time I don't find anything but sometimes I find some amazing things. It's like a treasure hunt and I love it. I found something great for Chase's reception so I was excited. We went to the new Batman since it was finally in the cheap theaters. After that Scott even bought me a Blizzard on the way home. It was our Anniversary celebration and we went all out! 7 years baby.

General Conference is such a great time. In the great parenting class I took years ago Sister Tanner said that General Conference should be like our super bowl and we should be EXCITED and we should make our kids excited too. I loved that. For Family Home Evening last week we talked to the kids about conference and tried to get them all geared up. I said we would get special conference treats and Corbin wanted to go to Winco everyday and get our general conference treats. I make cinnamon rolls every time which is fun and special since it's pretty much the only time I make those. We also had a yummy breakfast casserole. For the kids we bought special sugar cereal and fish crackers which are rare things at our house. It was a good time. We did have guests for the Sunday morning session and that was a challenge but that's okay. The girl I visit teach came over with her family. Her husband got a job in Idaho Falls and he is gone all week. He might start coming home for 1 day a month but he works 6 days a week so he will have to drive 10 hours in a 24 hour day off. Anyway so we had 6 kids under the age of 5 and well let's just say we didn't get too much out of that session but that's okay.

During the afternoon session Gabby was taking a nap and Corbin stood up and said "I can't believe Gabby's missing it." So cute and funny. Gabby was wearing shorts today and Scott starting singing the song "Who wears short shorts" and Gabby started singing back "I wear shorts" it was funny. I love my kids, they are so dang cute.

I made some good progress on the reception last week and still can't wait until they are official so I can really get my hands dirty. Once again I won't be posting pictures until the end. 

Painting. Corbin has actually gotten better about painting now that Gabby has joined in on the fun.

Apple munchers.

I could not get that girl to look up at me. Don't you love a red coat? I also bought Piper red Sunday shoes last week. Don't you love red shoes? What can I say I took after my Grandma Beal.

Nana sent Halloween costumes in the mail.

Piper's costume is a peacock. So funny. Anyway Corbin put on Piper's hat. It's pretty fitting for a pirate although a bird on the shoulder would be more appropriate.

Finally finished my pillow. That was a lot of cutting and gluing. I hand sewed the very upper left corner and after such a small section of that I bagged it and busted out the glue gun. I do think the hand sewn section looks better but SERIOUSLY! Just at least double the work and probably the fabric involved. I still used 5 yards. 5 yards of cut flowers people. What am I thinking when I choose to do these projects? As if that's not bad enough let's just say I bought 10 yards of white fabric to cut flowers out for Chase's reception. Apparently I didn't learn my lesson.