Make a Smilebox slideshow

We had a great trip despite forgetting to bring all our tickets. We went to Utah for Thanksgiving and then went straight to Anaheim. We didn't realize the mistake until Sunday, the day before we went. We caused a domino effect by our mistake and had a problem every day except Friday at Universal Studios, but everyone was so good to us. Very customer oriented. We are SO glad we stayed at a Disney hotel.
Tuesday we had breakfast at the hotel with the characters. It was really fun.
We rode Pirates a number of times, as well as my favorite, the Tower of Terror, which is different every time you ride it. The lines were pretty short, about 15 min or less for most of the rides. We did a LOT of walking and were grateful on Friday that Universal was fairly small in area. We actually had really good food in the park. It was a bit cool but we braved the Splash Mountain ride because the Brer Rabbit story part of the ride is SO cute but because they had had some technical difficulties when they restarted the ride they speeded it up. It was way to fast, really bumpy, and we got really wet without enjoying the story. But we had planned to go back and change clothes before we went to CA Adventure that day.
The fireworks were wonderful and the castle was so breathtaking. Even Scott thought so. He doesn't like the parades, or waiting for them so I only got to see glimpses of them.
The Aladdin stage show was a favorite of ours last time we went and it is still great. 45 minutes long.
The Haunted Mansion was transformed into the Nightmare Before Christmas. It was really cool. We even went on It's a Small World because they changed most of it to Christmas music, so you don't get so sick of the repetative music.
I was able to use the free internet in our room and got a 4 star hotel on Priceline.com. That was the first time I ever let it choose for me. We got a room at the Hilton for $79. It was a nice room, BUT they charge for everything. Parking $18, Internet cost but I didn't use it.
We stopped to visit Scott's aunt and uncle in Alhambra on Sat am before driving home. It's nice to be back in my own bed, but yulk, gotta go back to work tomorrow.
BTW- I didn't diet at Disneyland, and actually ate lots of yummies. I only gained 1 lb back so I thought I did ok. Back on the diet tomorrow and back to the gym.

Disneyland trip

I will add some later. We have been to Disneyland, CA Adventure, and San Diego Zoo. Having a great time, despite a few goofups on our part.

New Moon Opening

Last night off we went, several friends, to see New Moon, exactly 1 year after waiting in line for 6 hours for Twilight.
Last night was better because the theater did something really nice. They reserved 2 of the 4 sold out theaters for the midnight showing of New Moon. For an extra $5.00 we got to go inside at 7pm, then at 9 they showed Twilight. And then at midnight to cheers from all they showed New Moon which was longer at 2 1/2 hours. I really enjoyed it. I love the books and the movies do a pretty good job. Nina and I both agreed the 2nd one was better. It was fun and I'm already looking forward to the third movie's release on June 30, 2010!
I love how clean the books are and I was disappointed to see the review in the paper today that criticised the chastity in them. How ridiculous! Don't people want their teens to have something clean to see and read???
Well, I love the books and enjoyed the movies.

Cadence's 5th Birthday

We attended Cadence's birthday party today. Polly always makes really cute birthday cakes. Cadence loves Webkins animals. We got her a Cocker Spaniel dog. She also got 2 cats and a racoon. I got to try out my new camera.

Scott got to pick a gift for his 5 year anniversary at Tesoro. So he got a pewter luggage tag and he picked out a new camera for me. Yeah!

Maj-Lis and Donovyn had a good time playing with all the balloons at the party too. Kim and Todd were there too. Kim is doing better but not well yet. She's such a trooper.

Happy Birthday Donovyn

I made a cupCake for Donovyn's birthday when they came over for our monthly Sunday dinner. It is SO nice to see more of them! Happy Birthday Donovyn!

Just an update on the shed. Scott has been strengthening the floor and working on the corner trim. I actually don't think it's ugly or an eyesore anymore.

Scott's parents came to visit in Sept. It was wonderful to have them here. I just felt bad that I had to work. Scott took the time off work to spend with them. They got to see Kim in the hospital. Ronna, Gina, and Kalven came on Sunday (apparently I didn't get any pics). Scott, Polly and the girls came on Sat.

I WON!

I entered a contest last weekend at the opening of a new Osh Hardware store in town. Danielle Hirsch, who is the co-host of the HGTV show Color Splash, was a guest there at their grand opening. I missed meeting her but entered the drawing for a room make-over worth approx $10,000. I got a call at work on Friday from her and I immediately recognized her voice. I couldn't believe it!! I won!!!!

This is sponsored by the store, Sherwin Williams paint, and Danielle. It is not associated with the TV show. They don't do remodeling, so they wont do the bathroom. I still don't have a lot of info yet but the rules state that most of the money is for consult, design, and labor. Only $3,ooo is for products, but WOW, I'm so excited. It must be completed by the end of Feb so it will be soon.
Just don't know which room we're going to do yet.

I couldn't figure out how to copy a picture to show you of Danielle but she does have a website
www.daniellehirsch.com/

Saturday, Yippee!

I went thru my closet all morning eliminating all the clothes that don't fit anymore. It was hard some of the time. I have some pretty clothes, but they've gotta go. It is SO nice to wear fitted clothes! Then I did the usual, laundry, cleaning, etc. Scott worked on the shed. It was warm and really muggy for here. I love the sun though. We had some really heavy rain on Monday, almost 5 inches! The street outside our office flooded over completely, up to the bottom of car doors. Somewhere in town a lady drove into a creek thinking it was a flooded road. She got towed out and was ok.
Tonight we went to the ward Harvest Party which was a chili cook-off and square dancing. We had a great turnout with 20 chilies. I made low-fat chicken chili. I have never cooked with poblano, and jalapeno chilies. It actually came out more mild than I expected. Of course Scott said it wasn't really chili, but that's ok. I liked it and so did some other people. They had someone making balloon animals for the kids, a doughnut bobbing contest for the kids and they had a square dancing group come teach us to dance. That was really fun. Scott said it was ok. He did it and seemed to like it, but I loved it. It was just plain fun. One of the best ward parties I've ever been to.
I have joined the ward choir, even though I hate standing up front. Linda Pederson is our new director and she is great. She really teaches it to us. I actually look forward to going to practice. Scott has been going for some time now already.
We got our reservations for Disneyland. We are going the week after Thanksgiving, driving straight there from St. George, Utah. We have a city pass that includes a 3-day park hopper pass for Disneyland and California Adventure parks, 1 day at Universal Studios, and 1 day at Seaworld and either the San Diego Zoo or the Wild Animal Park (we haven't decided what we're doing in SD yet. I really wanted to go to Universal. I'm really excited. Can't wait!