Home-made

I made this way back in August, my first quilt!

I made this either in September or October... My second quilt!

And I made these in October and November.

November 19-21... Don't you want to know what I did?!

We got to fly down to Utah to see my sister Kate as the lead role in her high school play South Pacific. We arrived in Salt Lake on Friday the 19th, Jason's parents drove down from Montana and picked us up from the airport at around 4ish. We drove down to J-Dawgs and had dinner, then hurried to the play. She was soooo good! I was very impressed. It was really weird seeing Kate looking like an adult, and especially weird seeing her kiss a boy!!! It was really weird, I had to cover my eyes!

The fam right after the play.

The sibs right after the play.

The next day was going to be BUSY, so we went to bed around 10 or 11 in order to get up in the morning. We woke up and got ready for the day. Jason and I ran down to Provo bakery and got smiley face sugar cookies and some doughnuts, then headed over to my parents house for breakfast. After breakfast Jason and his parents went out to lunch with Denny's cousin. I spent that time helping prepare for the baby shower. I made cream cheese frosting for the red velvet cupcakes, YUM!

Frosting the cupcakes.

Jason relaxing before the football game.

At around 3 people started showing up. I had such a great time! I really loved getting to see and spend time with friends and family. I had so much fun! I completely forgot to take pictures, luckily Janna took a couple before the shower while we were getting ready. Everyone was so generous and the baby got so many things we weren't able to fit everything our giant suitcase! There was nothing in the suitcase but baby things (mostly clothes)! Luckily we are going to be able to drive down to Utah for Christmas so we will be able to pick the rest up.

After the shower I got to open my birthday present (my mom didn't want to mail it so I had to wait until we went to Utah to open it)

My diploma! All framed and pretty!

Even though the shower was over, the party kept going until later in the evening. My cousin even showed up with pregnancy massage cushions from her massage school and I got a massage! It was so nice! Those cushions are so comfortable!!!!

Getting a massage in the middle of the living room.

After all the partying was done, it was time to go to sleep and from the time we woke up the next morning until we had to leave for the airport, I spent my time trying to fit all of the gifts into our giant suitcase.

We

get to see family and friends this weekend! Oh, and my sister Kate is the LEAD in her school play, which we get to see while in Utah!

A bit of rambling on Project Runway...

If you haven't seen the finale to Project Runway, you might not want to read this... I do mention who won.

After I took Jason to school and dropped a check off at the bank, I was listening to the radio. It was a different station than I normally listen to. There are some very stupid songs on the radio these days so last night as one of those stupid songs began to play, I got a little frustrated and changed to a random preset. LUCKY ME I didn't change it back to one of the two stations I normally listen to. On my way home from the bank the radio people announced they had a special guest with them, MONDO, from Project Runway! I am trying to find the audio clip but I don't think they have it online yet. It was very fun to listen to. I personally thought he should have won. Anyways... My favorite thing he said on the radio was in response to one of the hosts asking what she should wear to a holiday party, the other host said he suggested she wear a potato sack... Mondo said something along the line of, "If you want to go with a potato sack, look into Gretchen's line." Hehehehe! Oh so true! I just thought I would put this up here before I forget. Oh and Mondo was selling his line on mylifetime.com or something and it sold out the next day. He also gave kudos to Gretchen because she sold one... One of the hosts asked how many he sold, all 10! Take that Michael Kors and Nina Garcia, looks like you made the wrong choice!

Home-made... well, sort of...

My birthday was a couple of weeks ago... Oops. Jason had class from 8 in the morning until 5pm on my birthday. The Saturday before my birthday we went to the Old Spaghetti Factory. YUM! I LOVE their bread and spimoni! I was so close to buying some for my home freezer and decided I would be better off without having easy access to it. Anyways... On my actual birthday we went and ate Thai food. It was so good. We also got to pick up our car from the shop on my birthday. It looks so nice. I'm glad they did such a good job, and the paint looks great.

A little more than a week after my birthday, this showed up on my doorstep. I got to assemble it (one of my favorite things about getting desks and whatnot). There were a couple of pieces that were broken so I had to call and get unbroken pieces sent to me. Luckily the pieces were for the drawer and the back (those showed up a couple of days later) and they weren't necessary to assemble it right then.

The bottom piece unfolds into a desktop and the extra space behind it is storage. I wanted to put both my serger and sewing machine down there but they were just a little bit too big sitting side by side. We went to Home Depot and got some supplies and ended up making a little shelf to sit my sewing machine on so both machines will fit in the bottom part.

Now Jason can use the computer desk and I have my own desk to sew and make things.

kitchen and living room

I took some pictures of our apartment a couple of weeks ago. It's not that I have been too busy to post the pictures, I've just been too lazy to. It's kind of sad, now that I have all the time in the world I haven't done much blogging. There hasn't been much going on either, so I haven't really had anything to post about.

Here is our kitchen, behind that door is our washer and dryer.
This is our new couch and rocking chair. We were in need of a new couch and the chair was a wonderful added bonus! We also bought the exercise bike (and like to watch tv while using it).

It's been a while...

We had family come to town for Jason's white coat ceremony clear back in August! The ceremony was pretty neat. The school gave each of the new medical students a white coat, which they were presented with. The students also received new stethoscopes from alumni at the ceremony. It was pretty cool that they got stethoscopes as their gift. We had a lot of fun and were glad we got to have family here for the occasion.



Kate and Penny were also here, thanks for taking the pictures.