Christmas boutique

I will be taking part in a Christmas boutique next month.
Here is the blog address if you want to look it for sneek peeks at what will be there for sale.

http://behindthepicketfencecraftboutique.blogspot.com/

angels among us

I was having such a good day yesterday. By that I mean I was flying through the work that I had to do. I had a huge wedding gown to get hemmed and bustled that I thought was going to be a big project, and it went together fast. I also sailed through some other sewing projects quickly, so I decided that I had some time to run some errands.

I decided to go to the credit union first. While I was driving there I noticed that the car was driving really rough. I thought that I would go to the tire store and have them check the air pressure after I left the credit union. So I pulled into the parking lot at the credit union and saw the reflection of my car in the store windows and noticed that I had a flat tire! By the time I came back out of the CU it was so flat that it was sitting on the rim.

I have changed tires in the past, so I was thinking this is no problem. I opened the trunk and was delighted to find a full size tire, not the silly little spare tires some cars have. The problem was that it had never been taken out and was so wedged into the space that I could not get it out. I was yanking on it when a man parked next to me asked if I needed help. By that time I was ready for help. I did feel better about my efforts when he had to really pull and put his foot on the bumper for leverage to get the spare tire out! He had the flat off and the spare on in about 5 minutes! He asked if I needed anymore help and the was on his way. He was my angel for the day.

I did get to the tire store. The tire was only 2 months old and had a warranty. I had it repaired and back on in no time. But, by that time I had to get back home to be there for appointments I had coming. So maybe today I will get the errands done that I needed to do.

sewing

I was lucky enough to get to alter many homecoming dresses this year, but only made two! Here are the pictures of them.

(I did not do anything to the pink one, she's just in the picture)

fall pictures

I "lifted" these pictures from Melissa's and her friend Brad's blog. I think they are adorable!

Jones family
Asher
Jaman

Columbus Day

Today was Columbus Day. But unless you work for the government you probably did not have the day off. Some people even asked what holiday it was when I told them my husband was off for the holiday.

We made it a fun day. Leslie has Monday's off so she was home with us today. So we decided to go to Red Rock Canyon. The ride was beautiful. (I will add some pictures that I took at the end) It was really windy as you will be able to tell in the pictures we took. It has been years since we have made the scenic loop. We stopped a couple of times, but did not stay out long since it was such a cold wind blowing.

Then we started home, but, since we were on the west side of town.... and there is a great Cafe Rio over there, we had to stop for lunch. The food was great and the company even better.

We arrived home mid afternoon. Since it was so late in the day I did not feel like starting the work I had been putting off all day, we decided to watch a movie. Leslie had recently purchased the movie "21". So we watched that, I liked it and so did Mike.

So tomorrow it will back to work for the three of us, and I have plenty of it to do!

Crazy Eights

Time to play a good old game of tag. I have been tagged by my daughter Kelly, so here we go.

8 Favorite TV shows...

1. Chuck
2. CSI
3. Gilmore Girls
(even though it is not on anymore)
4.Any home decorating show
5.
6.
7.
8.

8 Favorite Restaurants...
1. Texas Roadhouse (Thanks to Curry)
2. Ruby River
3. Panda Express
4. Macaroni Grill
5. China a Go Go
6. Stewart Anderson's
7. Cafe Rio
8. A&W Hamburgers

8 things that happened yesterday...
1. Went grocery shopping
2. Watched 1st session of General Conference
3. Met with a sewing customer
4. Went to Joann's to buy sewing supplies
5. Watched the second session of General Conference
6. Went to Ladies night at Deseret Book with Lauren (and won a book as one of the door prizes!)
7. Went to dinner with Mike, Lauren & Garn
8. Came home late and cut out a dress (went to bed late! Especially for me)

8 things to look forward to...
1. Cooler weather
2. Watching the rest of Conference today
3. Finishing the Homecoming dresses that have flooded me this week.
4. Trips to Utah to visit the other half of our family!
5. Seeing the family at the Holidays
6. Time to read my new book
7. Watching our family grow and learn in the gospel
8. Shopping trips

8 things I love about Fall...
1. Having the windows open 24/7 the month of October
2. Sweater weather
3. cooler weather
4. Fall decorations
5. Lower power bills!!!
6. Rainy days
7. Holiday baking
8. Hot Chocolate Season!

8 things on my wish list...
1. Getting out of debt
2. New carpet and flooring
3. Church history trip
4. For McCain to win the elections!
5. To have all my girls in the temple together
6. Time to play
7. To gain a greater testimony of our Savior
8. For the economy to get better

Time out for Women

This past weekend was the TOFW seminar. We originally purchased tickets for this seminar in November of last year. It was to be held in January of this year, but that turned out to be the weekend that President Hinkley's funeral, so it was postponed until September (we went from first to almost last on the schedule). Let me just say it was worth the wait.

Friday night Leslie, Melissa, Kelly and I attended. We heard from Hillary Weeks, Elia Gourgouris, and the Jason Deere and the Nashville Tribute to Joseph Band. They were all great. We enjoyed the music and heard about how to develop relationships.

Saturday, started early. Leslie had to work this day so Lauren joined us for the day. We again heard from Hillary Weeks, then Virginia Hinkley Pierce speaking on prayer, Pam Hansen on how to like yourself, Amanda Dickson on how to hand a messy life, Michael Wilcox on "Accents of Wonder" how to learn to love Heavenly Father through recognizing what he has given us. Then Chris Stewart on redefining joy.

We had a picnic lunch out side under some trees on a perfect LV afternoon. Lauren had tickets to a home show going on at the same time in the Convention Hall, so after eating she and Melissa walked through the displays and then joined Kelly and I for the second half.

Mike had a band job that morning playing for the Diabetes Foundation. He arrived a short time before we did and started barbecuing chicken for us for dinner. What a great weekend! It was also topped off by being able to do temple sealings for family names Friday afternoon.

The only sad part was that we didn't have Lauren and Leslie together with us the whole weekend to get a picture! I am so happy that Kelly and Melissa were able to make the trip.