Time change + me = not good!

"The closer you get to the fronter of the building... wait, fronter isn't a word."

Yes, that was my brilliance today! Our office has windows all along the front of the building and they let in the cold. It's a good thing I don't work by them, I'm cold enough as it is.

I went to bed an hour earlier last night trying to counteract some of the time change problems I've been having. I'm thinking it didn't help, as evidenced by my speech!

Crafting can hurt

My mom, sister and I are making a fun Halloween craft. It's a wall hanging called Frank N. Stein. He's cute, but I don't think we are going to get him finished before Halloween. Today we were working on it and in the space of 5 minutes I had cut my finger on the rotary cutter and burned my thumb on the iron. I was then politely asked to leave the craft room.

The only bandaid mom had in the craft room was a My Little Pony one. So I was sporting that on my finger when my youngest neice came. She saw my bandaid and kept asking what happened. I think she was jealous of my cute bandaid!

It's been awhile

At several points during the last month and a half, I've thought 'I should blog about this.' And as you can tell I never got around to it. Most of the time, by the time I get home from work, the last thing I want to do is get back on the computer, but mostly - I'm just lazy about it. So I'll just do a condensed version...

I took my oldest nephew to a BYU football game (my roommate has season tickets and couldn't go that weekend. Since it was a night game and I didn't want to fight traffic all the way back to his house, he got to sleep over and go to church with me. Since our ward has one senior primary class with 5 children in it, I think it was strange to him.

My poor car is still sick. It gets to go to the mechanic tomorrow. I really hope that it gets fixed and stays that way! I love my car, but it's starting to have mucho problems.

And the last thing, a kind of funny story. My mom almost never calls me. So one day, I got a call from mom at lunch time. I thought it was kind of strange, but nice. So I was talking to her, and asked what was up, she replies with, 'I was kind of wondering how I got you. I was calling work.' Thanks mom! I really can feel the love. :)

Car battery

My poor car battery 'gave up the ghost' last night! Oh, what a night. I had run to drop off the books for bookclub since I couldn't attend club and my car died in their driveway. Aaahhh! We got the battery out and had it tested. It was dead, dead, dead. Dad and Mom came over to rescue me (and my poor neighbors). Goodbye old battery. It was fun while it lasted! :)

Camping in the rain...

We had a ward campout this weekend. I don't think I've ever been on one (if you don't count girls camp, which I didn't). It poured and I mean POURED! But the tent kept us dry at night and the tarps rigged up over the tables kept us dry other times. It did stop long enough to roast some marshmallows for smores. It was a small group, but we had much fun. (even me, who wasn't real excited to be going anyway.)

Family time

We were going to have a family campout this last weekend, but other plans were to be had. My uncle passed away from cancer and his funeral was planned for Saturday which kind messed up the campout plan. We did get to have some fun anyway.

We went Thursday night and roasted marshmallows for smores in my sister's backyard. They have a little fire pit and we got to use it for the first time.

Then my sister and family ended up having to sleep in the tent because 3 the year old was so sad about not going camping that they tried to make it better by sleeping in the backyard. She thought it was so much fun!

Since we had all taken Friday off for the campout, we ended up taking all the neices and nephews to the pool Friday afternoon. We had a lot of fun and wore the children out! I got to take the 6 month old around the lazy river. He loved the water, until he got hungry/tired, then he didn't like it so much!

Summer fun

Last week my roommate and I went to the Shakespearean Festival. We had so much fun!

We left on Monday morning and drove to Cedar City and picked up our tickets for the plays. Then we went to my dear friend's house and spent the afternoon with her lovely kids. After a yummy dinner we went to a short expliantaion of the shows that night (that really helped me understand the play) and to the Green show. After a very yummy lemon tart the three of us (me, roommate and my friend) went to "Much Ado About Nothing". I thought it was a marvelous play!

Tuesday after another yummy meal (Thanks Linds!) we went to a presentation about the costumes. It was amazing to see what they went through to put them together. Then, since it was Jane Austen week, we went to a Lunch and Q&A with 3 castmembers from "Pride and Prejudice". We had Mr. Darcy, Jane and a butler. It was a lot of fun and I would reccommend it to everyone. After lunch we went to "Pride and Prejudice". It was wonderful and I really enjoyed it. Then it was time to drive home. Short but fun trip. :)

We stopped at Cove Fort on the way home and got to drive through a pretty good rain storm.