Wanted

Lately I have been down on myself. Why? Well, with the premier of "New Moon" this week, and the hype that has been surrounding it the last few weeks, there has been a lot of talk of people getting tickets to go see it this weekend with girlfriends. And they are so excited! Now, I admit, I haven't been super excited to see it because I don't like some of the main actors, but I still want to see it. Especially if it means hanging out with girlfriends and enjoying the excitement of it all. Here's the problem though: I realized I don't have any close girlfriends I can call. Sure, I could beg my sister's to come with me like I did last year. I could drag Jared along with me. But that wouldn't be as fun as going with "the girls" (my sister's have their own friends to see it with anyway and Jared could really care less).

Sometime after getting married, I stopped having close friends. I didn't stay in touch with my best friends in high school-we had a falling out and I didn't keep in touch. I had girlfriends in college but most of them got married and then moved away, and we lost touch. A lot of friends in college were guys and those relationships naturally faded after I got married. I do have a lot of friends and acquaintances, but no one close that I talk to frequently, hang out with, etc. It really is my own fault because I could reach out, make more of an effort. But I guess I'm afraid I'll come off looking desperate and needy, and who wants that? Who wants to act like they are wearing a sign around their neck that says "Wanted: Friends for a Lonely, Work-From-Home Mom"? Sometimes, that's how I feel.

Anyway, I'm not sharing this to make people feel sorry for me. But when you're hanging out with your girlfriends this weekend, lost in the "New Moon" madness, be grateful that you have those friendships. It's so easy to lose touch with people, to get lost in your own little world, until you're home all day with a little baby wishing you could call someone or someone would call you to go shop at the mall or just hang out.

Honestly. I feel like such a loser, and it's my own stinkin' fault! Sometimes, we really are our own worst enemy.

Playing In the Leaves & Halloween Photos

We had a little impromptu photoshoot with Littlefoot last week before we raked up the million leaves in our backyard. It was his first experience with the leaves and he loved the crunching sound they made!

We also got our Halloween pictures back from Emilie at Photo By Emilie. She does great work and we had a lot of fun! She did mini shoots on Halloween that were 15 minute sessions and had great deals on the prints/cd's. We were really happy with how they turned out!

Swine Flu Takes A Good Man

Video Courtesy of KSL.com

Jared and I got our swine flu shots this morning. We were lucky and I was able to get us an appointment before they were gone. We weren't sure we wanted to get one, but decided we needed to after hearing how sick a family friend became last week. And on Wednesday, he passed away. It hit close to home because I've known their family for 20+ years (they live in the stake I grew up in) . I grew up with their oldest daughter elementary school through high school. Our families have similar dynamics-we have three girls and one boy, I'm the oldest and the same age as their oldest. I worked closely with their mom who was the Stake Young Women's President when I was the secretary on Stake Youth Council (my dad got to know her well too because he was the Young Men's president). Anyway, we were shocked to hear how sick he was and even more shocked when we heard that he had died.

Their family is so strong! They have been a great example of faith. It's times like these that you evaluate things and realize how quickly life can happen. I am so grateful for the Gospel and to know that I will be with my family forever. How blessed I am to know this! We love the Cox family and our prayers are with them.

The Pioneer Woman Visits!

The Pioneer Woman visited us here in Utah today on her book signing tour. It was so fun to see the woman behind the blog!

Halloween

We took it easy for Halloween. On Friday night, we had our ward/neighborhood Halloween party. Our ward decorates the building as a "Haunted Wardhouse", with each auxiliary decorating a room for the kids to trick or treat through. Jared is over the Deacons and they decorated their room as the "Superhero Hall of Fame". I am over the Laurels and we were nerds (don't you love my eyebrows? I totally scared Jared with them and had people staring at me all night!). Littlefoot was a penguin (he really hated being in that costume too! It was a fun night. My parents and sister even made the trip out our way to hang for awhile.

Halloween night was pretty quiet. We visited Jared's brother and his wife, who had a little Halloween party at their new house. Littlefoot slept most of the time! He was very tired. We had taken his pictures earlier that morning (I'll post them as soon as I get them-they are so cute!), visited Jared at work, and visited my parents before going home. We watched "Batman Forever"-talk about old school! It's amazing how different the new Batman films are compared to the old. We could have watched something scary, but I don't do scary!

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Congrats Sis!

Congrats to my sister! She was in her high school's production of "The Music Man", and did a fantastic job. She always stayed in character and looked so cute in her 1920's get up! What happened to my little baby sister? She's all growed up!

Isn't this funny? I found these at the grocery store the other day. They are made by Utah Truffles. I personally enjoyed the "Edward" best! Nothing like cool mint and chocolate!