Thanksgiving week

I had so much fun this week! Loved the time off of work and didn't get on the computer for most of it and was still quite busy!

• Watched youngest niece for a couple hours on Monday.
• Took Dad to a doctor's appointment on Tuesday. He had surgery and has a cast on his foot.
• Took oldest nephew to buy a book for his birthday gift (a month late!), and 2nd niece came to my house for a sleep-over Wednesday night. We had pizza, watched a movie, played a game... she wouldn't go to sleep... but we had fun!
• Had a lovely Thanksgiving dinner with all the family. Played Rock Band with Brother and Sister-in-Law. It was fun, but I'm not any better at Rock Band than I am at any other video game.
• Watched my first James Bond movie. I've avoided them so far, but this time I couldn't really get out of it. That's the show that Mom and Dad wanted to watch.
• Got to do our Thanksgiving tradition of shooting targets in the desert. But we didn't get to shoot the rifles just the shotguns so I have a rather nice, big bruise from the shotgun.

All in all, a wonderful week, and I really wish it wasn't coming to an end. I haven't missed working yet, and I'm not ready to go back!

Tag from Julia

1. YOUR ROCK STAR NAME (first pet, current car-or dream car): Cricket Camry

2. YOUR GANSTA STAR NAME (favorite ice cream flavor, fav. type of shoe): Sherbet Flats

3. YOUR NATIVE AMERICAN NAME (your fav. color, fav. animal): Blue Dog

4. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME (your middle name, where you were born): (kind of sad when you don't have a middle name!)

5. YOUR STAR WARS NAME (First 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first name): PowAm

6. SUPERHERO NAME (2nd fav. color, fav. drink): Red Milk

7. NASCAR NAME (grandfather's names): Kayle Keith

8. TV WEATHER ANCHOR NAME (5th grade teacher's last name, a major city that starts with the same letter): Larsen Los Angeles

9. SPY NAME (fav. season/holiday, fav. flower): Spring Daisy

10. CARTOON NAME (fav. fruit, article of clothing you are wearing right now): Blueberry Hoodie

11. HIPPIE NAME (what you ate for breakfast, your fav. tree): Muffin Oak

Now I tag Sam, Larissa and Lindsay.

Twilight the movie

My sister really wanted to go see the first showing of Twilight this weekend. We convinced her to wait until Friday night and we would go with her. So 7 of us went to the 10pm show Friday night. We had so much fun and I really enjoyed the movie. With all the bad reviews and people saying it wasn't like the book, I went with pretty low expectations. But I really liked it. No, it's not exactly like the book, but what movie made from a book is?

Busy, busy, busy...

Boy have things been busy lately. For a week, I wasn't home before 9 pm and it's taken it's toll. All I want to do this week is sleep!

Here are some of the highlights:

• Spent a couple of nights with the family. Youngest nephew left me a voicemail, it was so cute. Was told by my 2nd niece that I am her favorite aunt! (since she has 7 aunts I felt this was a great thing, even if she was just trying to avoid going to bed! And yes, it worked...I let her sit and rock with me a bit longer.)
• Spent some great time at Friday's Kids and played a great game of 'Duck, Duck, Goose'.
• Went to a fun basketball game with roommate.
• And in the midst of everything, I even got my laundry done!

Now, if I can just get through this week at work everything will be great. I've got a couple of days of vacation next week, added to the holiday, I don't have go all week! I can't wait for my vacation to start Friday at 5.

Halloween

I borrowed my brother's 4 kids tonight and took them to a spook alley. They were raising money for Friday's Kids and I thought it would be fun to go. The youngest 2 got a little scared and only went through with me once, but the older 2 had a blast and went 4 times. The youngest nephew kept saying "guy scare me". All in all it was a fun night.

Happy Halloween!

This weekend...

my sister and brother-in-law moved into their new house. Yay! It's beautiful and going to be so fun for them.

I got the best job during moving day - I got to play with my 18 month old niece and my 20 month old nephew. When I went to get my niece, I helped my sister with a little packing while we waited for my brother to get there with his son. It's a good thing we got my neice out of her house before too many people got there to move everything. I was folding up her blankets that were in her crib and she threw a fit when I put them in a bag for moving. I'm not sure what she thought I was up to, but those were *her* blankets! (My sister said that she won't sleep unless all 5 of her blankets are in the crib with her. Crazy kid!)

The kids were good and we even went to the grocery store before going to Grandma and Grandpa's house. We made "tooties" (cookies), played with lots of toys, read stories and ate noodles. It was a fun day!

Last organ class

I just finished my last organ class. It did get better and although I'm not sure I'll ever be a fantastic organist, I might (with some practicing) be a passable organist. We'll have to see if I can work in the practice time. Let's hope someone who knows how to play moves into the ward in the next 3 months because I noticed on Sunday that the organ playing is messing with my piano playing in Relief Society. Seems I can play one or the other.