Crazy 8 Tag

Okay, here is another tag.  But I am too lazy to do anything original.  Though I did throw in a cute picture. 

8 Favorite TV shows in no particular order:
1-Burn Notice
2-House
3-America's Next Top Model
4-Starter Wife
5-In Plain Site
6-My Name is Earl
7-Reba
8-South Park

8 Things I did yesterday:
1-Vacuum Trix
2-Make Phone Calls (Work)
3-Taught Leland to say Ammon.
4-Bought Soda for Thanksgiving Dinner.
5-Call The DMV about registration getting hacked by my kids.
6-Listen to Wicked 
7-Read Wicked
8-Refill my med's.

Favorite restaurants:
1-Cafe Rio
2-Los Hermanos
3-IHOP
4-Spaghetti Factory
5-Mimi's
6-Blue Bird (Logan)
7-Sukuru
8-Asian Buffet

8 Things on my Wish List
1-FirePlace Mantle
2-Carpets Cleaned (Professionally)
3-Tummy Tuck/Booby Lift
4-A full day IN my home with NO kids.
5-See "Wicked"
6-A weekend away with Mike
7-King Size (Nice) Mattress
8-Happiness Without Chemicals

8 Things that I love about the Fall
1-The colors of the leaves
2-The chill in the air
3-Halloween
4-Thanksgiving
5-Drinking hot chocolate
6-Wearing sweaters
7-Thinking about Christmas
8-Watching the rain

8 People I Tag
1-Megan DeLange
2-Rachel Whiting
3-Priscilla Morgan
4-JoyLynn Gonzallas
5-Nina Renner
6-Shyanne Hathaway
7-Jenn Harbison
8-Celeste Bailey (Get a Blog Chica!)

HIgh-School Tag

SENIOR YEAR

1. Did you date someone from your school?
One guy from end of Sophomore to beginning of Senior year, then a bunch of casual dates.

2. What kind of car did you drive?
A blue 1979 Chevy Chevette AKA The Shove It AKA Smurfette.

3. Did you pass your driver's license test on the first try?
Yep

4. Were you a party animal?
I hung out a lot but never "partied"

5. Were you considered a flirt?
Yes!  Especially senior year.

6. Were you in band, orchestra, or choir?
Not just Choir, All-State Choir!

7. Were you a nerd?
I was on the Math Team, you tell me?

8. Were you on any varsity teams?
Drill Team, Drama, Debate,

9. Did you ever get suspended/expelled?
No, but I went to the principals office for "pantsing" a girl.

10. Can you still sing the fight song?
Sadly, Yes.

11. Who were your favorite teachers?
Scott O Bagley  (He taught Drama, Debate, and English.  He also gave Seniors a lot of extra privileges.)

12. Where did you sit for lunch?
With the cool kids, duh!  Okay, I don't really remember WHERE I sat at lunch time, it kind of varied. But after eating until class started again most of the seniors would hang out on the steps outside "Senior Hall"

13. What is your school's full name?
PIUTE HIGH SCHOOL

14. What is your school's mascot and colors?
Thunderbird Columbia Blue (not to be confused with any other blue), Red, and White

15. Did you go to Homecoming and if so, with whom?
Homecoming was not really a big thing. There was a dance, and I always went, but it was not a date type thing.

16. If you could go back and do it again, would you?
Yes, but only if it were with the same people.

17. What do you remember most about graduation?
Changing into a comfy brown army shirt after I got out of the gown.

18. Where did you go Senior Skip Day?
We had a full Sluff Week, and we went to California and hit all of the sites. I actually almost got sent home, it is quite a story, if you haven't heard it you are missing out.

19. Have you gained some weight since then?
Lots, but I have also gained curves.

20. Who was your prom date?
The big prom was Junior year, I went with Eric Allen Sophomore and Junior Year. Then Senior year I went stag with a big group of friends.

21. Are you planning on going to your 10-year reunion?
If they actually have one.  It should be this next summer.

22. Did you have a job in high school?
I worked for my Daddy at Grass Valley Merc.

Halloween!

For Halloween this year we kept with the tradition of trick-or-treating in Grandma and Grandpa's neighborhood. Grandma Whiting made Manessa the most adorable witch costume and Ammon and Leland were a hit with their DI specials. Mommy even got into the spirit and dressed up a bit. Not sure if you would say that I am in costume, or just let my real self out this time.
Here is Manessa with Grandpa Whiting. She has him wrapped around her little magic wand.
This is Uncle Tyler with Leland the cutest little chili pepper north of the border. I was too lazy to figure out how to rotate the picture, so you will have to rotate your eyes to get the full effect.
The kids got way more candy then they should ever eat and have been on a crazy sugar high since the Wart Trunk-or-Treat last Wednesday. Hopefully it will all be gone and then out of their little systems within a week or two.

Take the Quiz and Share Your Results! 

You are straightforward, tenacious, and beautiful, but unfortunately aware of it.  You are

 attention loving, and people easily flock to you, but deep down you are mistrustful of

 people in general.  You can be judgmental and thoughtless, but you love deeply and are

 extremely protective of those that you hold dear.

I really hoped to be Alice, but I guess you just never know who you really are.

Fun Project

I just had to brag a little. I am so excited to print these up. I have cute little 4x4 frames to put them in and I am going to hang them from the iron rod that Cindy gave me for my birthday a few years ago.  I have been waiting for something worthy to hang from it and now I have it. YAY!

Recipies

Edible Peanut Butter Play Dough

1 cup peanut butter (creamy)
1 cup light corn syrup
1 1/4 cup powdered milk
1 1/4 cup powdered sugar

Mix it up and play! (If you want to store it in the fridge it will turn hard, but if you microwave it on low for a bit it will soften right up and work fine.) It is yummy enough that if you chocolate cover it then it makes an awesome candy. Just do that part before you let the kids play with it.

Ging-O-Lanterns?

Okay, so we were watching Super Why this morning, and it had the story of the Gingerread Man. I was feeling like doing a fun thing with the kids so I decided what the heck! I whipped out the Mrs. Fields Cookie book and found a recipe for Gingerbread Men. Then I started thinking...Isn't gingerbread men a Christmas thing? So I decided to make gingerbread pumpkins to go along with the men. I had a couple of friend come hang out while I made them and they brought there kids too. I didn't wan a bunch of kids getting into the dough so I made some edible peanut butter pay dough for them. They had a blast using the cookie cutters and eating the dough and it made my job much easier as well. Well the baking took longer then I expected so by the time they were ready to be decorated my friends had gone home so it was just me and the kids. They helped me do the first two while I was still trying to get the frosting to the right consistency, then they were distracted by eating. A lot of them got eaten before I even started to make the frosting. I got a picture of the ones that the kids helped with, but they had already started to eat them before I could get the camera. It was a lot of fun and I just had to show everyone that we still had family home evening. Even if it was during the day and Daddy was at school.