California here we come....

alright we're heading out to LA today we won't get there till tomorrow but we'll see how it goes. Its gonna be the whole family. There are two cars and 9 of us going. We are going to spend thanksgiving at Disneyland and then we have soccer games to watch on friday and saturday and will be spending a long day in the car on sunday. hope we get a lot of good pictures for you on our trip. Love you all and hope you have a Happy Thanksgiving.

Turkey day treats and kyler

Yesterday Kurtis had a class till 9 for work so kyler and i were on are own all day. man did i get bored so i decided to make some treats that i saw on Studio 5(this is also the show that i won the new moon tickets on) any way here they are not great pics. But the acorns are made with PB and Chocolate with almonds and pretzels. The leaves are sugar cookies. These are some more acorns and my turkey farm. I adapted these a bit the faces are supposed to be made out of candy corn but i couldn't find any for sale in the 3 places i went so i gave up and used cashews instead i think they still look great. The wattels are made from red hots and the body is a chocolate creme from wal mart $1 for all these plus there were a few left over. The feathers are sugar cookes from the batch i made with the leaves and the feet are pretzles.
The last creation didn't turn out as well as i would have liked but probably becuse i improvised a bit i made some round sugar cookies and covered them with chocolate the tops are chocolate covered marshmallows and the black band is sum ribbon and the gold buckle is a laughy taffy i rolled out and cut into 8 pieces. either way i figure they will work for my visiting teaching if i can keep them around long enough.
This is kylers had. His cousin Sarah made it for him during conference, but he has just recently started to like it. He looks like he is about 3 to me in all these pictures

I think this one looks like he's trying to be cool but really he's just pulling off the hat.

My Little boy is getting to Big to fast.

This is his new hair cut i haven't been able to spike it like the lady that cut it did. Probably becuas i didn't acutally see it when it was done. I was at the movie when Kurtis took him for the hair cut so he was in bed when i got home. He looks a lot older to me now. Thank goodness for cookie cutters hair salon for kids kurtis said the had an apointment for and were home by 6:10. She was that fast and he didn't even scream at her. As far as i'm concerned we can go there every time so i don't have to fight him to get his hair cut.

NEW MOON!!! LOVED IT

Ok I just got home from the movie and am so glad i have tickets for Friday. It was amazing. First let me start with what we had to do to get in. I was given a special ticket which i had to exchange for the real ticket at the theater. It was on a first come first serve basis and they said that they gave out more tickets than there were seats available to insure that it was a sell out. Well after we got our tickets and picked our seats we started the process of getting into the movie. We were searched and gone over with a wand and had our bags checked to make sure that there were no cameras or any other form of electrical device that could take video or picture. Luckily we were some of the first into the theater so we didn't have to wait long. after that we just had to wait for an hour for the movie to start and once you were in you couldn't go out. any now the movie.

With out giving you any spoilers it was amazing. The acting the cinematography, the visuals the screen play it was all great. there were a few parts where the digital cinematograpy was kinda hoaky but over all it was just flat amazing. Everyone should see it the action in this one is AMAZING. and taylor lautner is jacob black. he does a great job. Oh and by the way kudos on the native's casting. my one critique of the first movie was the way they talked about the rez this one since the native's are actually natives was spot on. it actually kinda made me miss the rez.

Once again much better than what i expected and so excited to see it again.

New Moon Special Preview... Guess What I'm GOING!!!!

There is a local tv show thats on during the week that does little give aways. Last week or maybe the week before they announced a contest for NEW MOON Advanced preview tickets, a game and some New Moon Sweetharts. To enter you just had to say what character you were most like. i don't even really remember all that i wrote but anyway I won. I'm so excited. I'm Taking Kurtis' little sister Kacie. I can't wait!!!! so exciting. I'm not exactly sure if i'm supposed to write this yet since i don't think it airs till tomorrow so hopefully i don't get into any trouble. Anyway i just had to blog it because i'm so stinking excited. Laura i have to gloat a little cuz i know that Erin is a twihard and that she is part of the events by alice don't know if she is going to this or not, i know she gets to do a ton of other cool stuff with the event. Anyway Wahooo!!!

The Suprise Getaway

Last week Kurtis suprised me with an overnight get away to Park City. Tuesday morning he left for work and gave me a envolope to open after he left. It had a set of instructions for me to follow.

1. To pack kyler a bag for over night.
2. To pack me a bag for over night.
3. To go to red box and pick up two movies of my choice
4. That he would be home from work around 12:30 and i need to have all this done by then.
5. to relax as much as possible and that i wasn't allowed to do any cleaning.

Anyway i was so excited i had no idea where we were going if we were all going or not. So when he got home he got a bag ready and we left. Went and dropped of Kyler and headed out. he told me where we were going after we got into salt lake. We stayed at this nice little bed and breakfast in park city downtown. It was really homey and the owner Deb was so nice. her policy is that she wants to give you as much time to yourselves as possible so she leaves the doors open for ya and lets you know when breakfast is ready the next day. She's an outdoor enthusiast so she'll take you on excersions if you want to. We were just there to relax though. Park city is a crazy place to be in the winter becuse of the skiing. But we happened to be there right before the season so it was perfect we were the only ones staying at the B&B that night so it was nice a quiet.
We decided to go downtown for dinner to place called Mustang's. we probably wouldn't have except Deb brough us one of the little town magazines that had a bunch of coupons for dining in it. This is a Fine dining resturant. Kurtis doesn't much like these because he likes to order what he wants with a salad and all the sides. But it was really good food. here are a few pics of us a dinner.

and this is what we ordered for dinner its Shrimp scampi with freash basil and pinenuts. The shrimp is acutally tiger prawns so they were huge and yummy.

this is kurtis trying to figure out why a tree was sticking out of his dinner. Lol. It was soooo good thought i loved it the flavor was amazing. I do wish there was a little bit more lemony flavor but other than that heavenly. we were a bit suprised too because the protions sizes were huge. I didn't even eat all of mine and we were stuffed. It ended up costing us like 42. including the tip because we had the buy one entree get the 2nd one free for there so it wasn't to bad.

All in all a wonderful getaway i love kurtis so much and am so glad that he is sweet enough to think of these little suprises. I'm so lucky to have him as a husband.

This is from my cousins blog it is all comprised of her family. Her sister put it together. I loved it so i thought i would share. Though no one in my immediate family has served yet in the armed services i have a lot of friends and relatives that have. I tend to get choked up when there are special services for and of the branches and i am absolutly appreciateive for the men and woman in the services. I do have a uncle that is serving right now and two cousins from the same family. Thanks to all our veterans and for all those that are currently serving. Including all of my friends husbands, brothers,sisters and other family.

And the winner is!!!

This is my hands down favorite halloween group i've seen in a long time. And they just so happen to be my cousins. kuddos to the Osthimers. If any of you know them this totally fits the family. Love love love love it. I love it so much i had to share it with all of you. I may have to try to do this next year at our house. Freaking halarious!!! I told kelly she i was a picture for christmas of this. Oh and just so you know Colby the one in the dark suit is Mr. Smithers who they alway catch.