Happy Pioneer Day

Today is Pioneer Day, which in Utah is a holiday. I'm not even sure how to celebrate it really, so we just treat it as a second Independence Day. We started the day with the Temple to Temple Run, an easy downhill 5K. 

 After the race, we spent the day just enjoying each other's company and enjoying the nice warm weather.

For dinner, we had chicken pot pie, pizza (pie), and for dessert, cherry pie bars, apple pie and peach pie. We know how to celebrate PIEoneer Day. 

Hope everyone had a great day! 

Holiday Card Swap

Today was our last card swap of the year, and on the last one, we do neighbor gifts as one of the cards. So we gathered this morning, and passed around our crafts. They were all stinking cute, and I love seeing what everyone comes up with. If we all remember, I did the hot chocolate cones. So here's a pic of what everyone brought:

I just love all of these! And that's a wrap on cards for the year, stay tuned for next year to see all the great stuff people come up with!

Holidays Begin

Last night I was at Target, buying a replacement bathroom rug, and I walked past all of the Halloween stuff. I saw a really cute doormat that celebrated Halloween perfectly.

Cute, eh? So now with this purchase, I’ve officially started decorating for Halloween. Maybe I’ll start putting up other stuff, maybe I won’t. But this one thing says I’m ready for the holiday to start.

How I Spent My Labor Day

Happy Labor Day, everyone! I hope everyone had a great holiday. Mine was pretty good, I won’t lie. I’ll do a small recap here, because of the awesome events. I started the day with a pretty good run up and then back down Provo canyon. After the run (in which PJ joined me) we made some good food, waffles with strawberries and whipped cream, and some delicious bacon, that I made in the oven. I’d never done that before and while it was good, if I do it again, I’ll keep it in the oven for a shorter amount of time. When I pulled the bacon out, it seemed all sorts of burned, but after I let it sit on some paper towels for a while, it calmed down enough to see it wasn’t burned, and actually pretty delicious. I’d make it that way again and again! (Because I hate making bacon, I hate the popping burns I get)

Then later in the afternoon, PJ and I went and got some haircuts. I’ve been putting off getting a trim for a really long time, because I just want to have my hair long. But I’ve finally decided, it was time to go. I took off a good 4 inches – 3 ½ to cut my hair up to my layers, and then an extra inch so that the layer I was meeting up to had the dead hair cut off as well. It’s not a huge difference, you can’t really tell the hair being cut, but I can tell, the hair is just different. It’s very healthy now, and that’s freaking awesome. So I took a pic of it yesterday, to compare with a pic that I had taken of the back of my head a few weeks ago, so that you can see what the difference is.

See, looks pretty good! I was glad I got rid of that dead weight at the bottom, and hopefully it’ll grow back fast.

After a movie (Bourne Legacy, in case you’re wondering) I had to make a treat for scouts. It’s our pack meeting tomorrow and we’re doing the Blue and Gold banquet, and the Webelos are in charge of the dessert. I’m not entirely sure how many people will be coming, but we seemed to have a lot of people at the last one of these, so I knew to make a bunch of something. I chose to make the Chocolate Treasures that I made last year, since they make a bunch, they’re small for kids, and it’s easy. So, PJ helped me make a double recipe, which ended up making 96 mini brownies.

See how many that is? Sheesh. Once I got them all baked and out of the oven, we needed to kill a little time while they cooled so that we could frost them. So, PJ and I spent some time trying to get our phones to play the same song at the same time. We tried many many songs, and I think we only got them to play at the same for one song. There were many times where one of the phones was just like, a second off of each other, and we couldn’t get them to sync up. But finally, after all the phone shenanigans, frosting was made and applied to all the brownies.

Ta-daaaaa! And then I shoved them all into 2 containers, and they’re ready for many hungry scouts and their families. I think everything worked out pretty well, and I got everything done on my list that I needed to get done!

It's so not time yet!

I'm not a fan of holidays, in general. Its fun to get ready for them, and anticipate them, but that's about it. Christmas is my favorite time-I love the shopping and decorating and baking and everything, but then when the day actually arrives, I'm not really into it. They're never that fun, and you don't get to do what you want to do. Halloween is the same-I like to think of costumes, and how other people will be dressed, but then the day gets here, and its never anything big. It's just me, wrapped in a blanket, sitting outside eating popcorn.
Which is what happened last night. PJ's fam has a popcorn machine, so they handed out popcorn to people. We were all outside, chatting and whatnot, when everyone left Peej and me out there. We took on the duties of handing out stuff. I was cold, so I was wrapped up in the aforementioned blanket, eating a nutritious dinner of popcorn. We did get some carrots later, because we felt like we needed to eat something healthy. At the end of the night, we watched the top 100 scary movie moments! They were pretty scary....not really.
When I was on my way home, maybe 10 minutes after midnight, I was flipping through the radio stations, trying to find a good song, when I happened upon Kozy (106.5). They were playing Christmas music already! I couldn't believe it-it's too early! I'm not ready for there to be Christmas stuff yet. I know there's no such thing as Thanksgiving music, but I don't think we should have the holiday music until it's almost Thanksgiving. I'm just saying-there should be no festivities until it's time for the actual holiday. Lets hold off on the Christmas music-at least for 3 weeks or so.