babysitting

This past week I have been babysitting John and Emily Morrison's kids while they were in Hawaii. I had absolutely no idea how crazy the week would be and how much fun we would all have.

Every day we would wake up, groggily eat our cereal, dress ourselves, brush teeth, comb hair,

retie shoes, race to the car, head to Jen's (the kids stayed there during the day while I went to school and worked), pick the kids back up at night, eat dinner, practice the piano,
(The boys are very good piano players, but I had to remind them a few times that practicing means playing through the songs more than just once and finishing in less than five minutes.)
finished homework,
(one night, McKena had to price different things in the house and then purchase them. She was so smart! She lined each item up from most expensive to the least expensive. Umm...Kade didn't want to miss out on the homework. He wanted to be priced too, so he was the most expensive at ten cents.)
act silly,

play games,

brush teeth, put on pajamas,

read, and go to bed to begin again the next morning. It doesn't sound too difficult, but by the end of the day we were all tired.

We had an interesting experience the first night. I pulled into the garage and realized that we were locked out. Knowing my Aunt Karalee, I thought that they must have a spare key somewhere outside, but we had no luck. Zack and Colin were really excited. They started running around the house yelling at the top of their lungs, "We get to BREAK in to our house!!" However with my mad skills, we didn't need to break in. We were able to safely get in and get to bed.

This past week has definately been a little different from my regular routine, and I am not read to become a mother of four any time soon, but I had a blast this week with those kids.

Just a little story....

Lisa and I definitely have some interesting experiences living together, which makes for some great stories.Did you know that Lisa cannot sleep with ANY bit of light what so ever?? Well, we happen to have a five foot lamp post outside lighting the side walk. Our room is on the second floor, but somehow, according to Lisa, the light passes through the tightly closed blinds and illuminates our room, causing her to awake. After about our first night, she decided to take matters into her own hands. Every night, Lisa climbs up on top of my bed and our dresser to close out the excess light with her blanket. She squishes her fingers into the crevice where the blinds meet the top of the window sill. In the beginning, she put our two bathroom towels up to block out the light. Now, we get to see her lovely bobcat blanket every night. Isn't it lovely??


We also went to the pumpkin walk the other night and got some lovely pictures from that. So, I just wanted to show you who the real princesses really are.

I keep having people ask me who my roommates are. Well, here they are. They are great!

Thanks to my sister Jenn, you get to hear a little bit more about me. Thanks for the tag Jenn.

8 Favorite TV Shows:
1. The Office
2. Friends
3. Seinfield
4. Eyewitness News (wow...I have an exciting life)
5. The Today Show...it makes breakfast more enjoyable
6. The Cosby Show reruns
7. What not to Wear
8. Trading Spaces

8 Favorite Restaurants:
1. My Mama's House (she is the best cook in the world!)
2. Cafe Rio
3. Firehouse
4. Big J's the Richmond location
5. L.D.'s yum!
6. Olive Garden
7. Chili's
8. Wendy's (that one's a classic!)

8 Things that happened Yesterday:
1. Woke up way too early
2. Ate a wonderful breakfast of oatmeal
3. Caught the 8th East Express up to USU were I went to class
4. Studied at the Library and ate a PB&J for lunch
5. Sat through Family Finance and listened to Lisa snore the whole time
6. Drove clear out to Lewiston for work
7. Quickly drove back for FHE at the Pumpkin Walk...that was a fun one
8. Climbed into my bed and fell fast asleep

8 Things I love about Fall:
1. My Birthday and feeling so grown up
2. Conference Weekend
3. The Leaves are beautiful!
4. Thanksgiving
5. Spudnuts!! (that's this Saturday!)
6. Watching the Office
7. Seeing cute pumpkins on porches
8. Anticipating the first snow

8 Things on my wish list:
1. Find a money tree on my bed tonight
2. Eat a really good spudnut right now
3. Someone else would write my paper for me (Please!)
4. A laptop
5. Cut my hair even shorter
6. Finish the semester
7. Whiter teeth
8. Go to Hawaii again

Night Out With the Girls

Holly decided to get some tickets to Little Women at the Ellen Eccles Theater for Friday night, and I was lucky enough to tag along with her and Rachel. The play was simply fabulous, even if it couldn't cover the whole story (it is way too long). Best of all, I was able to cry and not feel stupid about it. Rachel made sure to tell Holly and I that she didn't cry at all. As for me, my mascara was completely gone by the time the play was over, so I'm sure I looked lovely. The performance was really good, which has motivated me to read the book now. Thanks to Holly and Rachel for letting me come along to the play with them.

a new do

Well, I did it. On Monday, I went to my cousin, Traci, and had her chop my hair all off. I was a bit worried about getting my hair so short and even more concerned about having bangs (considering the last time I had bangs, they were like flowers protruding from my forehead). When Courtney first saw it, he said I looked like someone who could vote for Obama. I'm not too sure about that, but it's a bit fun for a change.