Reasons for Leaving the Wretch

We have had A LOT going on lately: home for Christmas, we moved, Disneyland, and I was just in Miami for the first 5K Foam Fest event!

Why did we move?  Here is why:

• Witch downstairs
• Drunk man down the hall
• Stolen packages
• Putrid smelling hallway
• Pantlesss man that one evening
• Gun shot/police encounter
• Short term memory neighbor
• Free loaders (government pays for them to be here)
• No pets (already broke that one long ago)
• No washer/dryer
• Manager is impossible to get a hold of
• Smoking lady in parking lot
• Studio apartment (it would be nice to have a couch and our bed not in the living room)
• Cinder block walls - limited to decorating

Our new place:

No stolen packages

Not smelly

Washer/dryer

Reputable family above

Hardwood floors

Decent space

Only pay electricity and gas

Stay in ward

Moving is easy

Staying close to freeway

We can have Quilly

Needless to say...we are as happy as can be with our new place!!

December Festivities

Our new additions

Taking the new frontrunner to Salt Lake

December = imperial no bake season

Work Christmas party!

The Hobbit!  

A Days of Thanks and Bloated Stomachs

November flew by!  There was the primary program on the 11th, first snowfall, work trips to New Jersey/NYC and Denver, Thanksgiving, and we decorated our place for Christmas!  Among other things, we have been working on some stained glass projects (with help of Stacy) almost every Sunday evening.  

Our humble little feast for two :)

Oh how I love the snow!

Our little place is Christmas ready!

For my kitchen!

Thomas finishing up his piece with solder

Today was the children's primary program.  They did fantastic!  I was so proud of them!! I am so pleased it went well, and not to brag - but a few people said it was the most organized and best one they have every seen!  

I did a little something to help motivate them with learning their program songs.  I made a board with each song to learn, and an ice cream topping to go along.  They had to work their way up to earn that topping, and then we would have an ice cream party (we we had yesterday) with those toppings.  They worked so hard and I'm just so proud of those kids!

Real vs. Sounders

Recently we went to the MLS playoffs with Moroni and Stacy.  It was Real Salt Lake vs. Seattle Sounders. This is tricky, because where do I stand when I originate from Seattle, but have lived in Utah the past 3 years and gone to numerous Real games?  To be honest, I love both teams, so it's a win-win for me :) 

What do we do when we need to sneak in a bag of chips? Well, make Stacy prego of course!

The little Sounders fan section

It was a close game, but Sounders did win!

Halloween Happenings

An early celebration of Halloween last week for work.

An evening at Cornbelly's.  It was definitely more of a kid's thing, but there were still some fun things to do!

Hair change! (just temporary dye though!) I would have made a good peach, but Thomas just had to be Luigi!

At our ward's Trunk or Treat.  We kept candy in our handy question mark box!

<3

Even Quilly had a costume!

He's so flippin cute!

Toad has a friend!

We wanted to make a public appearance, so Red Robin ended up being a good (and delicious) choice.

After too many refills and a couple Mad Libs later, we headed home to end the night with a few rounds of Mario Kart, and watch Hocus Pocus.  It was a good Halloween.