What have I done?

Up until this point in my life I have been a firm believer that Christmas music and decorations, etc. should not be put up until Dec. 1st. I was never even an after Thanksgiving Christmas enthusiast. This year my decorations went up last night. November 23rd, a new record. JR was wanting to put the tree up and I gave in. I really enjoyed it too. I made cookies, we had eggnog, and we even got a fire going in our fireplace (thanks Duralog!). It was a very pleasant evening to say the least. So what if our tree is missing a leg on it's stand and we had to rig it up with books and it'll probably fall over? So what if my decorations are out of date? So what if you can see the metal pole that is it's trunk? I still love our little tree!


Thanks to our friend Kellyn for making our stockings. I love them!

Christmas in November, huh, who would've guessed?

Slacking

I have been so bad about posting lately. I just haven't had time at work to do it because I've been doing school work on my lunch and what not. That is over on Monday though so blogging should come back full force! However, we are going to Colorado for Thanksgiving to see my brothers who live there. I'll be gone so maybe forget what I just said about blogging coming back. I'm really excited to get away. We are driving up with my parents, my brother Chris, and his little boy Rylee. Should be a pretty awesome road trip. Road trips with my dad are pretty hilarious strictly for that fact that my dad is so quirky that you just never can tell what he's going to do. One of our favorites is when he starts biting off his arm hair. Yep, sure is weird. I'm kind of exited for JR to experience that one. Or perhaps Chris and I will revert back to pulling feathers out of our pillows and placing them standing straight up in our parents hair and then making Indian calls. I still don't think they knew what we were doing when we started making random Indian noises. Sometimes those feathers would stay in through a couple of gas stops. Good times.

The GEN/300 blues

A little over 4 weeks ago I started my very first class at the University of Phoenix, GEN/300. After 4 years of working here and 6 years of being out of school I finally gave in and decided I'd give it a try. The result? I want my old life back! I feel like all I ever do is go to work, do homework on my lunch break, come home, do homework at home and then start it all over again. I want to be able to play again!
On another note, the online class setting here is actually pretty cool and I've learned more than I thought I would. I just don't want to do homework. It's only a five week course so It'll be over soon enough. I think I'm going to make it!

Time Out

This last weekend JR and I met up with my family at the Phoenix Civic center to take part in Time Out for Couples. My mom and sisters and I usually do Time Out for Women but it didn't come this year so we decided to switch it up and drag our significant others along with us. It was really good. I still don't know how the guys felt about it but I think they were at least Semi-entertained. For those of you not familiar with the "Time Out" system it's basically church conferences (and JR would have me say that it is not put on by the church) for different audiences. They have Time Out for Women, Girls, Singles, Couples, you name it. This year they had President Hinckley's daughter and her husband hosting. Music from Peter Brienholt (sp?, the guy who put together the Reflections of Christ pictures (so good, if you haven't seen the slide show you can see it here.), then there was a marriage counselor who came and spoke. Good times were had.

Halloween

This year for Halloween we had a big party at work. My team went all out trying to decorate for the party. We taped up black garbage bags between our cubicles so we ended up with a "haunted hall". The haunted hall was equip with 2 strobe lights, hanging spider and skeleton head rings, napkin ghosts, bucket of dry ice, scary music, and crinkled paper. Ok so we had a bit of a ghetto haunted hall. How else you do decorate cubicles though? Just like this:
There was a good turn out for the party but without kids it was kind of boring. Cute to see all the costumes though! My friend Heather showed up with her little chicken! That was fun!
What am I you ask? Well the idea was to be a space girl but apparently I looked more like a tella tubby. You decide.
Halloween night we met up with my sister Amy and went trick or treating with her kids. I actually really enjoyed it. It was fun to see little kids trick or treating. It'd been awhile since I'd done any traditional Halloween stuff. Years past were spent at singles parties. I think I liked this better!

JR was a "Newsie" And might I add a hot one at that?