Too much!

On Thursday, I asked Lia (the little girl I nanny--she'll be 2 in June) to bring me some tissue so I could wipe her nose. Kallie, Josh and I were playing Skip-Bo so Lia went into the bathroom by herself to get some toilet paper. I heard the roll spinning and spinning in the bathroom and I thought "oh no, I wonder how much she's going to bring me." Although I thought it would be too much, I didn't think it would be THIS much. This is what Lia brought me:

Kallie's Visit

My friend, Kallie, is visiting from Sacramento! We've been having so much fun! Kallie and I have been best friends since second grade! She flew in on Wednesday night and will be here until Sunday morning. On Wednesday, Kallie helped me make some punch for a bridal shower I am putting on for one of my friends (it's tomorrow!) and it was quite the adventure. I'm not sure exactly how much punch the recipe yields but let me tell you--it's a LOT. We started to make it and I didn't even have a bowl big enough to mix everything. We had to split it into two bowls and then it has to be frozen solid. Problem: this is what my refrigerator looked like BEFORE putting all the punch in...

Definitely no room! With those huge bowls of punch, we weren't sure how everything was going to fit. We decided to seperate the punch into a bunch of little tupperware containers. This is what we had to squeeze in:

PLUS

Yikes! We ended up fitting everything (somehow). We threw away anything near expiration and threw out two tubs of ice cream with freezer burn. We also took out the ice trays and anything else "extra" and stuffed all the pizza pockets into the door of the freezer. I still can't believe everything fit! Even though it took us a long time to make the punch and rearrange the freezer, we had a fun time. Here's us:

Quorum of the Twelve what???

Printed in the Daily Universe (the BYU newspaper) today:

(click on it if you need to see it larger)

I can't stop laughing. What a mistake to make!! As soon as the newspaper staff found out about it, all the newspapers were pulled from all over campus and new ones were printed for the afternoon. Luckily, Tom had already snatched a copy. :]

I love family!

[I wrote this post last night but lost internet connection and could not post. I don't want to go through and edit to make it say "yesterday" everywhere so I've left it as is.] Tonight, my Aunt, Uncle, and cousins came to visit. Megan also came to visit (I've tried to figure out the best way to explain who Megan is within that same sentence but it is too complicated. My cousin Jordan, a son of the aunt and uncle who came to visit, is serving a mission in Japan. Megan is Jordan's girlfriend). My uncle, aunt, and cousins are going to Idaho to check out BYU-I for Jenna (she is 18 and going there for college) and they stopped in Utah for a day to see the Sunday morning conference session at the conference center and to spend some time with us. We had a really fun time. They came to our house at about four and we finished watching the last hour of conference. Then we played a game of Zilch (can I just say I kicked butt?--I was way behind in points and then in one turn I got over 3,000 points and definitely stole the game!) After zilch, we had a good time chatting then we had some dinner and then we had some dessert and chatted some more until 11pm. We had a very fun time! Thomas and Jake (10) played football on xbox later in the night and they were so cute! I couldn't help but snap a few pictures! :]

This next one is kind of blurry but I still like it (L-R: Jenna, Jessica [12] and Marci)

Thanks Uncle Ed, Aunt Michelle, Jenna, Jessica, Jake, and Megan for enjoying a fun evening with us!

Hair clips!

Okay so during conference yesterday and this morning, I made lots of clips! The first picture is of all the clips I've made so far (but you can't see them very well) and the rest of the pictures are some of my favorites. My sister and I are going to go to craft fairs and see if they'll sell! :]

Friends and Food :]

Last night, Thomas and I went to Laurin and Mark's house to play games and so Laurin and I could make some hair clips. We had a really good time! We played Cranium and Skip-Bo. Laurin and Mark killed Tom and me at Cranium (I'm not very good) and Laurin won skip-bo (with Mark winning a close second and Thomas and I far behind...yet again). I guess we aren't very good at games. After games, the guys watched TV and Laurin and I made lots of hair clips. I made a bunch more today while watching conference and I think I will also make some tomorrow so I will post pictures of the cutest ones sometime tomorrow. Mark made us some yummy air-popped popcorn (I think I ate 2/3 of a bowl just by myself). :]

Losing at Cranium:

Emma was too excited to sleep so she just chilled with Uncle Tommy for a little bit then helped him out during Skip-Bo:

Today, between conference sessions, Thomas and I went to a restaurant called Tucanos with two of Tom's past roommates and one of the roommate's girlfriend and father. Tucanos is sort of a buffet--but 10x better!! They have a buffet table with salad, pastas, sushi, FRIED BANANAS (yum!), rolls, etc. Also, as you are sitting at your table, waiters walk around with all kinds of different meat. You can choose what meat you want and they'll serve it to you and they just keep coming around until you change your centerpiece (a green, yellow, and red peice of wood shaped like a cylinder) to red--that means stop. Let me see if I can remember all the kinds of meat we were offered: Turkey wrapped in bacon, garlic sirloin, chicken heart (ew), barbeque wings, fried chicken, steak...and that's all I can remember but there is more! And they also bring around fried pineapple and fried veggies (mmm)! Dan's dad paid for everyone's meal...so kind! So we got a yummy lunch for free. :] Oh, and Thomas and I had a coupon to get six free brazilian lemonades for free when you buy the lunch (there were six of us so it was perfect!) but the lemonades were sour sour sour! I think Tom drank all of his but I could only handle a few sips. This is us at Tucanos:

Thomas is about to leave for the Priesthood session of conference and I am going to do some shopping! :]

Happenings

I feel like whenever I miss a few days updating it's hard to come up with a title for the post because I'll be writing about so many things!

Yesterday, Thomas and I shadowed a couple at the Family Care and Treatment Center (our new job). We were there for about two and a half hours. I think this job might end up being a little more involved than I thought it would be. Like I said in a previous post, we have to be First Aid and CPR Certified which requires all those hours of classes. Plus, we have to be certified in some kind of food service thing (like a nutrition class or something). Also, we signed a contract to commit to at least four months (hopefully we like it)! Shadowing was fun but busy, busy. There were nine kids there and even though there were six or seven adults the whole time it was crazy! These kids that come to this place are a handful! One of the houseparents was showing us what you had to do for feeding them and each child is required to have a certain amount of each type of food (1 c milk or milk substitue, wheat, 1/4 c fruit or vegetable, 1 c fruit or vegetable, etc.) Sounds too complicated for me! And then you have to chart it so they know each child got the right amount of each food product. Yikes! At the end of your shift, you have to write an observation report on each child that came and went while you were there. Again, this job is very involved. We'll see how we like it.

Earlier on Wednesday, I took Lia to my sister, Laurin's, house to play with Emma. Emma and Lia love each other! They have so much fun together and Laurin and I have fun together so the set up is wonderful! Laurin and I have suddenly become obsessed with making little baby bows! We made some on Wednesday and we are planning to make a bunch more on Friday so I will post pictures of the best ones. I have to say we are pretty good at it!--the bows are adorable!
My friend, Sabrina (who I went with when she took her bridals) just got her pictures back from her photographer and I went to her apartment today to look at them. She sent me some so I could post them because they are so cute! (Hair, makeup, and flower arrangement compliments of myself!)

I love the background on this one! We trespassed on someone's property. Whose driveway is this gorgeous, anyway??

Flowers!

Today, Thomas took an exam for HEPE (an online health class he is taking). He got a 92--hoorah!--but he still has to get a 94 on the final exam in order to get an A in the class because the exams are worth 80% of the grade! (No wonder I got a C in the class last year!) The class is really simple because there are only four assignments the whole year--two exams and two online quizzes (which you can retake as many times as you want...who wouldn't keep doing it until they got 100%??) but I guess having only four assignments also makes the class difficult--you mess up on one assignment and there goes your A--heck, even your B. Thomas has had lots of homework and lots of tests lately so he's been studying a LOT. Last night I woke up at 2am to find out I was sleeping alone! I ventured out to the living room and found Thomas asleep on the couch, textbook still open. And I just now snapped this picture:

Poor husband. Only one and a half weeks left of classes, thank goodness!

Okay and last, I bought this super cute vintage suitcase from DI last week (and I was so excited because I went there specifically to find one and went in thinking I was willing to spend 10 dollars max for one--really that means I probably would have spent 15 max--and I found one for 2 dollars!!!) I think it's really cute. Anyway, I put my niece, Emma into the suitcase and took some pictures and they are just so adorable! (Sorry, I don't have my own kids so I have to post pictures of other people's.) :]

I promise I will try to update on a more regular basis so that I have short, sweet updates instead of these books!