The Pilot

Ever since I bought my house, my dream car has been a Honda Pilot. I've kind of talked myself out of it because they don't have the best gas mileage. In the future, I may go for a CRV. ANYWAY, Susannah and I took our cars in to the Honda dealership for their regular check-ups on Saturday. They accidentally hit Susannah's car with a golf cart and scratched the back bumper up pretty good.

They had her bring her car back in on Monday and she got this PILOT for a loaner car while hers was being painted. NICE! It was pretty amazing, and yes, I still want one.

We actually got to keep it overnight. It hardly fit in the garage!

Randomness

I don't really have anything to post about in my life at the moment. Things are great - but nothing exciting right now. I was browsing around Facebook and on people's blogs and I found some pictures that I loved and thought I'd share.

These first two I "borrowed" from Dionna's Facebook profile. I loved this one of Adam. He's so handsome!

These are the last cousins of the Bushman clan. Dionna, in the blue shirt, is the youngest. Adam's next and Shanna's the 3rd youngest. Lance isn't next in sequence, but we like him anyway! I'm glad they all got together for some cousin fun at BYU.

I got this last one from Kristal's blog. She scanned it in so now I don't have to. It was another fun trip down memory lane. This was Homecoming my senior year of HS. My best friend, Jinny and I went with boys from our rival HS. Those were the days!

Fun Visit

It was a lot of fun to have Adam here for a visit. It felt like he never left. Our Friday night was filled with the Halloween stuff. Saturday we went on a bike ride, made food, and stole each others phones, wallets, keys, etc. for old times' sake.

We also dragged Adam to a little birthday party for Zain and Nadia. Their mom threads our eyebrows. She really wanted us to come to the party. The kids were really excited! Zain is 8 and Nadia is 5.

We then met up with Nate at the driving range to hit some golf balls. The guys were pretty good - Susannah and I had a bit of a rocky start, but we each got some good hits. This picture is not particularly flattering of any of us. That's what we get for trying to look "cool."

This little struggle happened during some key stealing moments at the range. Adam pulled a "too heavy" face right when I snapped the picture. Stinker.

We had to take a picture of "the gang" since we were all together again. Fun night. We ended up playing Scum and then watching "The Singles Ward" which is no longer on a list of movies that I particularly enjoy. For those of you who have missed seeing pictures of Adam - stay tuned. He's coming for Thanksgiving!

Tagged!

Jessica tagged me! I'm skipping the first one - it's 4 things you love about your husband/wife, but since I'm single, I'll just go to the next one:

4 jobs I've had...
1. Fast Food/Food Service (Taco Bell & the Cougar Eat)
2. Early Morning Custodian at BYU
3. APS - I helped out at the shop and in the Environment depts. one summer.
4. First grade teacher - on my 8th year!

4 movies I've seen more then once...
1. Pride and Prejudice
2. The 3 Amigos
3. The Princess Bride
4. Lord of the Rings - that's right - ALL OF THEM!

4 TV Shows I watch...
1. Survivor
2. The Amazing Race
3. The Office
4. LOST

4 places I've been...
1. Belize
2. England
3. Israel
4. Egypt - 4 continents down, 3 to go!

4 places I've lived...
1. Joseph City, AZ
2. Provo, UT
3. Makawao, Maui, Hawaii
4. Humble, TX

4 favorite foods...
1. Homemade stuff
2. Mexican
3. Italian
4. Chocolate

4 places I'd like to visit...
1. New Zealand
2. China
3. Australia
4. Italy . . . the list goes on and on.

4 people I tag...
1. Valerie
2. Heather
3. Julie

4. Kirsten

Garden Update

It's been a long time since I posted about the garden and I just wanted to do a quick update.

I'm happy to say that we had our blackberry bush, green pepper plant, cantaloupe and pumpkin plants survived Ike. Our cantaloupe are really growing. You can see the biggest one in this picture.

I put my hand up for scale.

Here's an ultimate close up of one of the tiny little guys! Love the garden!

Happy Halloween!

Halloween started out as an "as normal as can be expected" school day.

One of our teammates - Janelle, bought our whole first grade team these cool witch hats. We were going to get a team picture, but could never get together at the same time. Amanda and I will have to do!

The biggest surprise of all was Adam coming in to town to surprise Susannah for the weekend. She wasn't as surprised as she could have been because he dropped too many hints! She was really excited, though. He showed up at our ward party and even joined in our group as one of the . . .

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES!
Kirsten was Donatello, Susannah was Michaelangelo, I was Leonardo, and Adam was Rafael. Kim was Splinter and Jennifer was Shredder. We were just missing April, but nobody wanted to dress up as her. It would have been a lame costume compared to the others.

I LOVED Kim's Splinter stuff. She actually glued batting on her chin for that beard. Yeah for Elmer's!

The Chappells were Sonny and Cher. It was hilarious! This was also the fry party like last year. There were way more people, though.

I loved Carrie and Michael's costumes. She was Velma and he was Voldemort. He made that mask with plaster and then she put the make-up on it. He looked fantastic!

We had to do an action shot. Nate the cowboy played the victim that Shredder was attacking. We were saving him. Adam was too tired of pictures AND his costume by this point. We were tired of our masks for sure. Those pants we wore were hideous as well. We did have real weapons and read belts. Jennifer brought them. It was fantastic! We left after awhile and watched "Wait Until Dark" at our house.

Carvin' Pumpkins

For FHE earlier this week, we decided to carve some pumpkins for our activity.

It all began innocently enough, but things started to get a little weird when . . .

Brock stuck a big chunk of pumpkin guts in his mouth - seeds and all. He actually did eat some of it.

The rest of us were a little less daring to begin with. Abraham had his butternut squash eat some, but he ended up trying some guts himself.

Nate told Carlisa that if she ate a small bite, he'd eat a huge handful. He didn't think she'd do it, but she did so he had to eat a bunch!

He was NOT enjoying it. Mercifully, she told him he didn't have to finish eating it. The pulp was out of his mouth in a flash. I tried some raw butternut squash and it was pretty good.

Here are our finished products. We used stencils on two - I bet you can't tell which ones! :) Kirsten did the fantastic spider web. Brock and Tatum did the ghost. Abraham did the one between them, Nate did the bright little guy on the right and Carlisa did the one on the far right!

Here's the crew minus Susannah who took the picture.