The fun is all over!

This week has been a busy one! We had Thanksgiving at our house this year and it was a total blast! Kirks sisters Kathy & Lisa drove down from Utah on Saturday, his parents came on Monday and his older sister Kristie and husband Monti came on Tuesday. Let me just say that I won the in-law lottery! I have the best in-laws! I love them so much! I was so glad that they could all come! (minus Katie...we missed you!)

Let's see, we played alot of games, ate tons of food and watched a couple movies. Oh, and we can't forget the black Friday shopping! I am so sad that they're all gone!

One of Kirk's best friends was in town also. They had fun playing wii together and shopping for Kirk's new "toy" on Friday. Sure, I knew it was coming some time in the future. I just didn't realize that the future was so close! He got a great deal on a 52" flat screen tv. Seriously, why do men need these things?? I'll never understand that.

Anyways, here are some pics to sum up our fun week!

Thanksgiving

Twilight!!!!

I figured I'd wait a couple days to post about Twilight, just in case anyone was waiting to see it and they read my blog. We had so much fun! Melissa, Charlie and Tara and I went to the midnight showing at the theater on Superstition Springs. I couldnt believe how many people were there! They had like 6 theaters playing the movie.

We got one with a TON of teenie-boppers and their psycotic moms. That was a little distracting but oh well. The movie was AWESOME! There were some parts where I dont think anyone in the theater breathed!

We were all really, really tired on the way home but it was SO worth it! I hope everyone else enjoyed it as much as I did. And if you haven't heard the soundtrack, get it. It's GREAT!!

Random Information

I have been storing some information that I've been meaning to share on my blog so here goes. Bring on the randomness! :)

I bought Trixie a new Halloween costume, but it was too small so I had to give it to Melissa. Look how cute she looks though!


I think I have a slight obsession with twilight. I'm willing to admit that. Isn't that the first step to recovery? I'm going to the midnight showing of Twilight in t-minus 15 minutes and counting.


Last weekend I cleaned out my WHOLE house! Kirks family is coming out for Thanksgiving so I thought that now would be a good time for a 'spring' cleaning. I didn't take a picture but oh well. And the best part of clean-out weekend was that my dear, dear friend Lea painted my kitchen! Yea! Thanks Lea!!!

Yesterday Kirk and I had a fun time cooking in the kitchen. We made cinnamon rolls from SCRATCH! I mean everything, down to the icing from scratch. They are so yummy! I used Ashley's roll recipe (Thanks Ash) and added chocolate chips too!


Well, thats about it for the update. I'll write about my twilight experience after I recover from my lack of sleep! :)

Twilight

Ok so I am sitting here listening to the Twilight soundtrack and I LOVE it! I do have to admit that the songs sung by Robert Pattison are at the bottom of my list, sorry gals.

I really wanted to put a background of Twilight on my blog but I couldn't find one so I settled for this little widget thingy on the side and a couple of poster pics (I couldn't decide which one I liked best). I am super excited about the movie, even if it isn't anything like the book. A couple of us are going to the midnight showing at the Harkins on Superstition Springs if anyone wants to join. Get your tickets now before they sell out! :)

Birthday Pictures

BIRTHDAY!!!

Birthdays are starting to get not so exciting for me, I've decided. If you ask Kirk, he'd say different because he thinks I make way too many references to my birthday during the year. I can't help it if I'm just trying to make sure he remembers! Well, I do like that people remember my birthday but lately I have been hoping that it will be less and less of a big deal. Maybe because I think I'm getting old (no comments please). I still remember clearly what I was like in high school and sometimes I still think I am living that life. Then I get smacked back to reality (usually by my husband) and realize that I'm a 27 year old, married homeowner. Quite different from high school.

This birthday (which was yesterday for anyone who didn't know), might have brought me out of that low key birthday slump. I am quite positive that I have the BEST husband of all time and some pretty freakin' awesome friends as well! So on Saturday, I was feeling a little bummed because Kirk ditched me to go shopping with the Udy's for my birthday. I know, I should have just let him go with no sadness but I couldn't help feeling a little ticked cause I had the whole day off, which I never do, and I had a wedding to go to which I was now to attend alone. Kinda sucky but oh well!

The next morning, Kirk wakes me up with breakfast in bed, this is just the beginning. Then, at choir practice, my dear sweet husband bullied Melissa into surprising me with the whole choir singing happy birthday. Mmmm, not so low-key. After choir, the Udy's made us stay over to have cake and ice cream, which was so yummy, by the way and open presents. By this point I decided to just throw all my feelings out of the window because I could see how happy and excited they were for me. So, I began opening presents. Ok, I need to pause here. All my life, I never really got any 'good' presents. My family was not well off and we have 6 kids so you can imagine what our birthdays and christmas' were like. Ok, back to the story. I got the best presents EVER!!!! Here's what I got: a friendship-charm bracelet (that was very thought out!), a hot roller set, two gorgeous pictures for my wall, a beautiful purse (cause I couldn't find one in NYC) and a wii remote. Now, I was pretty happy with my wii-mote cause I really wanted a wii, and I knew I was never gonna get one so when Kirk gave it to me he said, 'now you know we cant afford one of these but I got you this to start your collection.' I was like 'cool!' Then about 10 minutes later, he brings out one more present. Give you one guess as to what it was...yep, A WII!!!! Like I said....BEST HUSBAND EVER!!!!

So that pretty much wraps up my birthday! It was great, thanks to awesome family and friends! I'll get some pictures up soon.