Tour De Pools

This Thanksgiving took me to Vegas where I stayed with my friends and their family in a resort there. The highlight, besides the wonderful Thanksgiving Feast, was the Tour De Pools. This is how it works: You don the swimsuit (thus the lack of pictures) and spend a little bit of time in each pool and hot tub at the resort. I believe the grand total of pools visited that day was 9 or 10-this included the kiddy pool and the lazy river. Fun times were had by all.

One other thing. It was rainy off and on while we were driving down on Wednesday and we got to see a few good rainbows, the pictures don't do them justice.

Oh yes, I forgot, I was tagged

So I was tagged awhile back but never answered the request to answer questions about myself on my blog. My apologies for being a party pooper.

I apologize for the delay

I know there are some of you out there that expect Sunday updates on blogs. My apologies for missing last week. Life has seemed to get a little crazy of late, and not much to note. You know the usual day to day stuff, and that is about it. I do have two pictures to share. 1st-we bought pumpkin bread mix at Costco. Not really that news worthy, I know. However, it contains pecans. Most of you know how I feel about the majority of nuts. So Cambree convinced me that we should by a sifter and just sift the nuts out. It worked pretty well.

However, it did not work as well when we attempted to sift poppy seeds out of a muffin mix.

Some of you may remember a post I made on July 13th about my car reaching the milestone of 100,000 miles. As an indication of how much time I spend in my car, I reached another notable mileage...111,111! Unfortunately I wasn't able to catch the exact number on film, but one close to it. That odometer won't have one digit in all the number spots again until 222,222.

One more cool thing. I think I took this picture last week.

It is hard to tell in the picture, but the majority of the ice is floating above the pavement. I thought it was cool.

"I'll Have the Brain and Eyeball with a Side of Mummy."

Our Halloween party was a success with total attendance reaching 31! (That's a lot for a tiny house, but fun none the less.)

A few of the guests.

Artistic Skills Put on Trial

We revisited the taco stand. I think we might be addicted. However, there seems to be a language barrier so we have enlisted the help of one of our bilingual friends for our next visit.

We hit the haunted village on Friday night for some Halloween fun. Unfortunately no pictures were taken but it was mildly entertaining. I have to be honest and say that they did get me to jump a couple of times. And this one guy followed us for a while and Cambree gave him my name so he kind of creeped me out.

So, I carved my pumpkin tonight. I tried to be all "artsy" and do a spider in a web, but it is really indistinguishable and it may contain at least 4 toothpicks. Luckily we bought 3 pumpkins because things are supposed to be more artistic in groups of 3's or 5's so I was able to redeem my pumpkin carving skills with a more traditional carving approach.

Thanks Jennifer for all the votive candles that are helping the pumpkins look all festive!

I almost forgot! Yet another thing on our list of fun things to do: Whittle something out of wood. That was part of our entertainment on Friday night. I didn't get very far, but it was fun. I can't wait to get back to work on it!

A 10 Out of 10 Sort of Day

You might be wondering if it is even possible to have a 10 out of 10 sort of day, but I promise you that Saturday was just such a day.

It started out with me waking up with a desire to exercise. If I do exercise, it is out of obligation, but this day, my eyes opened, and my first conscious thought was, "I have time for a good long walk".

The weather and temperature was PERFECT!

I got to spend the majority of the day with one of my favorite people, April Bitton.

We went out for a delicious and very belated birthday breakfast for her (June). For those who live near a Kneaders, you have to go try their french toast! Amazing!

April got to substitute coach her sisters adorable soccer team. They range from age 3 to 5. I am pretty sure if the day had ended there, it would have been perfect, but it just kept getting better from there.

I was able to go to the Jordan River Temple and do a session there. Yeah!

Then it was off to the pumpkin patch. There is this great farm (Day Farm) in West Layton. For $5 you get a hay ride to the pumpkin patch and you get to select your pumpkin and pick it from the vine. My friends Cindy and Bryan introduced me to it.

Here is our tractor driver.

The crew anxiously awaiting the ride.

Everyone with their pumpkins.

Then on the way home we went to this great pizza place in Centerville. It is Camille's (a great friend) favorite place.

Of course a 10 out 0f 10 day couldn't be so without sharing company we so many wonderful people.

Two other note worthy ventures from the week.

1. Our midweek banana run. Apparently we were not the only customers at Smith's in need of bananas that day.

2. In our neck of the woods road side taco stands are like hot dog stands in NYC (or so I've heard), they are everywhere. We have always talked to going, but have always been kind of intimidated, b/c we don't speak Spanish. Well, we tackled our fears on Friday night, and are now left wondering why it took us so long. The tacos were fabulous and super cheep. It is one of my best $3 meals. Unfortunately we did not photograph the experience because we were all ready feeling about as "gringa" as they come.

Halloween Fun

One of the things on our list of fun things to do was "create a scarecrow for fall decor". We decided to do it on a budget. We used old clothes we all ready had, a green pillowcase, and stuffed it with some phonebooks (which I swear they drop a new one on our doorstep once a month). It didn't turn out very "scarecrow-like" but entertaining non the less. While I was studying yesterday I heard one of the neighborhood kids saying she wanted to steal it. I was sure to keep an eye on them. Luckily the friend with the girl saw me watching and said, "she's watching". They were gone within seconds.