Thanksgiving, and Vegas

We had Thanksgiving a few days early, and celebrated my fathers birthday, and here are some pictures of our Thanksgiving dinner, and of Vegas!

Thanksgiving, with a plant in the way, I wonder who the photographer was!


Off to Vegas, for my little sister Beka's soccer tournament, and some fun!
We played catch at half time of Beka's games, and they threw me the ball, and let me join in... If you know me at all, I am NOT I repeat NOT athletic in any way, shape, or form. Uhhh, check out my throwing stance. Do you think they would draft me for the NFL??


One of the nights, we went out on the town...

Thanksgiving!

I love Thanksgiving. It is a wonderful time of the year, that you can just sit back and think about all the things you are thankful for. Just to name a few, I am so thankful for my wonderful husband. He does so much for our family, and he is just awesome. I am thankful for my mom and dad and siblings. We get together every other sunday, and we have made some special friendships that go beyond being siblings. I thankful that Sam and I both have job's right now. A lot of people are getting layed off but we both have our jobs. I'm thankful for my sister Rachel who is my employer. That she has a job, and she can pay me! Also because I have the best job. I absolutely love my niece and nephew, and the one she has comin on the way!!! I am thankful for our pet Toa. He has brought so much love and happiness into our little family. I am thankful for Sam's son Omini in our lives again. Its great to see how much he has grown and how fun he is. 

We had our Thanksgiving last sunday, along with my dad's birthday, (even tho my dad's birthday was yesterday) and it was fun to be around the family, and hear what they are all thankful for. So today, we are actually headed down to Las Vegas for an adult trip. No kids allowed. So we'll be sleepin in and stayin up late! And going to my little sisters soccer games in between! But we are excited to get out of town. 

I hope everyone has a safe and happy Thanksgiving. And tell your spouse or family how thankful you are for them! I am also thankful for all of you reading my blog, that means that we are friends and family. And I love and appreciate all that you guys do for me and my family. Love you all!!

CRAZY WEEKEND!!

My weekend started on Thursday...

We started by celebrating my cousin, Emily's, wedding by having a dinner at my mom's. Most of my aunts and uncles were there and we hosted Emily's new in-laws. *Fun fact* The maternal grandfather of Emily's husband, Michael, served his mission (in Africa) with my paternal grandfather. My grandfather passed away while my dad was young. I never met him. It was fun to hear stories and see old pictures.* Anyway, it was a delicious meal and good company. I went down at 9:30 and stood in line with my hubby, no he didn't see it, he was just so kind to keep me company till my sisters could arrive. The rest of my sisters finally made it (Steph included) trickled down to the theater later that night. It was a mad dash into the theater, way to go Steph for knocking people over and elbowing a 13 year old out of the way. We got really good seats!!


The movie was fabulous! I am not going to give an entire synopsis here, but I can't wait to see it again. I got home at 2am and had to be to work early. I was groggy, but it was worth every second.


Friday...

Now here is the really sucky part of my weekend. I had 10 tickets to the Celine Dion World Tour. We have had these tickets for A YEAR!! The concert was SUPPOSED to be on Friday night at 8. She cancelled the concert because of a throat infection. Here is the really terrible news. They rescheduled her concert for a Sunday in February. I am so upset that I can't even think straight. I am still searching for a place on her website to complain. Who schedules anything for a Sunday in Salt Lake City??? Ugh.  

So I had to finish making those pages for Emily's reception, see side where I make the advice books. I have now made 6 of them!!! And I had to run them down to her house in Alpine, mind you I live in SLC which is like 30 min away. I am hauling butt, because at this time, it is 415 and at 440 she needs to leave for the church to get her dress on, and get pictures taken before the reception. So I finally get there, I also went to do her nails too. When we were done, my aunt wasn't quiet ready, so she's like Sara, please take her to the reception place and do up her dress. Which was a corsett back! What THE! I don't know how to tie those!!! Anyway, I took her and did my best to make it tight and the bow sure did look great. Mind you I am not ready for the reception, because I wasn't expecting to take her to the reception place, any my family was meeting back in SLC for dinner before we all headed to her reception together. So I book it home. I make it in the door at 605 dinner was supposed to be at 6. but my mom and sister in law angie waited, then we drove together. I seriously changed into my dress in 5 min. Then we ate and went back down to the reception! 

Saturday...

GAME DAY!  First Sammy played an awesome joke on my mom, who is a BYU fan, but only because she did her nursing school there, and then she thinks its funny when her and Sammy battle it out. Actually on thursday, the day of my cousin emily's family shower, my mom and little sister stuck BYU stickers all over our cars, those of us who love the UTES! anyway, sam didnt' get to go to the reception last night because he was working security, and when he got home, he stole my mom's phone, and we have this pen that sings the Utah fight song, so he recorded that onto my mom 's phone and then at 2:30 AM he was sneeking into my parents bedroom and it scared my mom. she woke straight up. And sam was in the middle of his army crawl thru my parents room. And my mom was like Hello? Who's there! My mom was scared to death that someone had broken into our house and was in her room. It wasn't funny then, but I just sit and laugh now! anyway, he slid the phone under her  bed and ran downstairs into our part of the house, and he hurry's and jumps into bed. It woke me up, so I got up to go to the bathroom, and i hear people walking around upstairs. I was like do you hear that. someone is walking around up there. I had no idea what he had done. So I brush it off, and go back to sleep. Well he set his alarm to wake up every 30 min, and he would call my mom's phone and it would go off full blast under her bed. It was funny, so none of us had very much sleep that night. Then we got up all early to go to my cousin's sealing in the SLC temple, and my mom's phone was still going off. It was on vibrate lucky enough. Then after that, we came home and got ready for the game, because  Sammy, Jeff (my bro in law), and me and my cousin Zac, all got tickets to the Utah game. So we had to leave part way thru my cousin's luncheon to make it to the game. We were in Alpine and had to drive all the way to the Utah stadium. We made it just in time! It was so much fun to be there. After the game I sure did go down and jump on the field. It was awesome. And Sammy is "in" with the Whitingham family and so we got to go into the press conference right after. It was such a great game. 

Sunday

This was my dad's birthday and Thanksgiving. Both were early, my dad's birthday was yesterday. So after church we came home and were making the Thanksgiving dinner. I was in charge of Jello and stuffing. The whole dinner turned out really well. And my dad loved having everyone there for his birthday! Then right after that Sam and I had to go on a transport together. We went to San fran that night and slept over.  

Monday

So after we got done with the work, we ended up in St George. So we went to visit Sammy's cousin Ryanne! And she was such a great host, and thank you Kristin for dinner! It really was delicous. Anyway we also went to Twilight again. I love that movie. And we just hung out with her and her family all day.

Tuesday

We went to lunch at a great poly place there in St George. And then we finished working and went home! We got home so late! It was such a crazy weekend!!!! I felt like that weekend went on for about a month! 

Now we are just relaxin and can't wait to go to Vegas on thursday!!!

Twilight!!!

I had the utmost pleasure to see twilight last night! It was so awesome. It was a lot better then I thought it was going to be. Sometimes the movie after a book, is not so good, but this movie was so good. I personally thought that Emmitt was  by far more hot then Edward, and Edward is supposed to be the most beautiful thing! Anyway, I got to the theater at 945, and I was the 3rd person there. I was holding the line for my family. Then they trickled in and we had to wait on the floor until 10:30 till they let us line up on the stairs. So pretty soon, a lot of high school kids came and totally waited like a foot in front of the stairs, and when we were standing there I got yelled at! But so they cut us in line! no fair! anyway, we still got the seats we wanted, and we needed 6 in a row. But we had to wait on the stairs from 1030 until 1130. And it was just me and Beka on the stairs, and we were wondering how we were going to save 4 seats! Then my older sister Rachel, told the natzi lady at the bottom of the stairs she had to go to the bathroom, and then on the way back, she got in line with us. Then the same happened with Steph. She "went to the bathroom" and got in line with us!!! So now there was 4 to save 2 seats. It was so exciting! Anyway, the movie was great, I wont say anything here till more people have seen it. But it was great, and I totally want to see it again. 

TICKETS

I just got my tickets for Twilight. There was 10 tickets left, and I got 6 of them!!! I am so excited to go. The movie better live up to my expectations! I know it wont have everything, but it better have all the good parts. I am excited to hear Bella's song!

Twilight!!

Does anyone know if you should buy tickets ahead of time or just show up the movie theater earlier in the day to buy tickets?? Anyway, I am so excited for it! I can't wait to go to the movie. All of you Twilight fans, I have the song from the book, the song Edward made up for her on the piano. Scroll to the bottom of my blog and look up my songs, it is the last one. I just downloaded it. I personally love it, and I think that it fits exactly right. Tell me what you think!?! 

SAVINGS

So like I have said before our friends from down south the Tonga's have got us started on this coupon kick. It is a website, called pinchingyourpennies.com. you can find the link there, you go there, and sign up. Its for free, and then you can get started. You can find the store near you, and print out coupons, but you do have to do your work too, For the last month, Sam goes on Sunday's to a gas station and he buy's 3 newspapers. And we sit together and cut out coupons, and I put them in a divider. So this past Saturday, we decided to make our first trip. We went to the website, then went to screaming deals by state, found utah. then you look at the "threads" and you can click on the different stores, we usually shop at Albertson's.  So we look for a thread about albertsons, This past week, there was a HUGE sale there. So we went and printed the coupons on the products that were ALREADY on sale! So we took our coupon's and headed to the store. We did all our shopping on the 10 for $10, or 5 for $10, or whatever, then you have coupon's and get it for even more off!!! It was awesome, needless to say, we went and had 2 shopping carts and before they rang up our coupons, it was 350.00! WHOA, then we gave our coupons, and out the door..... Are you ready??... its huge.... We paid out of pocket, 150.oo, with our coupons we saved 200 dollars! holy cow!! We do have cereal and cake mix coming out our ears, but we got soup, febreeze, gogurt, pizza rolls, and lots of stuff. It was awesome. I am sorta starting my food storage with this. Its awesome. If you want to learn to do this, leave me a message. And we can talk! For those of you out of state, it works for states other then utah, you just have to find your state when you go to screaming deals by state. It seriously saves you so much money. You will be standing there giving coupon's for what feels like an hour, but it is all worth it!! 

Utah VS TCU

This was one of the most AMAZING games!!! The score was 10 to 6 for TCU. And in the last 2 1/2 min. of the game, the Utes finally got it together, and made a touchdown. If you didn't see the game, it was a "Blackout" game. We all wore black to the game... all the Utes fans. And it looked really cool! I am so glad we won! Here are some pic's the game!

Sarah, Toby, Sam, and ME


Sara in the midst of it all!


Sam and S.Smith

Spider Man Fights Cancer 2

My neighbor boy who has leukemia was on the news last night. Here is the clip....spiderman. It is so sweet. We are having a 5K run tomorrow, if anyone can come and help support. Or just look at his website here. It is gut wrenching and so sweet at the same time. Please help this family out!!

whats this about

I found this on the KSL website. And it actually scared me, and now I'm thinking I'll go private. I dont want anyone to find out about me or my family. I dont feel threatened now, but what will happen in the future?? Read this little part I found on the website of how people are just pretty  much throwing out information. I post a lot of pictures of my niece and nephew, and of things that are going on in my family, countdowns, and pictures of me and my hubby, things about his work, and stuff like that. ummm yea I pretty much will go private now....  But I am really torn. I love just looking around at people i went to high school with and look at there blogs, or friends of my friends, and see how people scrapbook stuff, and other things people are doing, but this seriously makes me RE-think this whole thing...READ THIS

I would like other people to read this and tell me what they think about this. Does this make you want to go private, or just not post things that are private?? I dunno... But I want this to be like a journal and I dont really want to hold back, so I guess I might have to go private. 

Moving Home!!

So this past weekend, acutally we were told on Halloween, that

KEVIN AND KAYLENE AND BOYS ARE MOVING BACK!!!

We are so excited. They are moving back somtime in november. I can't wait to live closer to my sister in law. We are really close friends and sisters and now this will make it even better. I am so glad the boys will live near and that they can see their cousin's more often. I am so excited for you guys!!!