Halloween

We had a great time in Utah for Halloween. We started Friday by visiting Wheeler Farm in Salt Lake. It was fun getting to see and pet all the animals. Asher is not afraid of any of them and had a good time.

Along the way I saw so many trees that had beautifully colored leaves.We then picked up Jaman from his bus stop and headed to Kelly's office party. Below is Kelly in her snowman costume and Jaman decorating his cookie. Asher slept through most of the party (we wore her out at the farm). The office had a nice party for kids of the employees. They had games planned, soup and scones, and trick or treating at every one's desks. It was really nice. It was also Mike's and my first time to see where, and who Kelly works with.

That night we rode along with Melissa's family as they made stops at friends and family's houses. The kids were so excited to get dressed up and to collect their loot. One fun note about their costumes, Melissa had taken Jaman in another room and put make up on his lips to make them white and then put the fake blood coming from is mouth. When he walked in the room with Asher she looked up at him and asked,"what's wrong with Jaman!" She was worried about him!

Saturday we spent visiting Tai Pan since it is just around the corner from where Kelly lives. We found some great bargains on Halloween decorations since it was the day after at 75% off! From there we went to Gardner Village. We had fun looking in all the little stores and having lunch at Archibald's.

We made a stop to visit My sister in law's parents, the Laffoon's. Bro. Laffoon is in a care center right across the street from where they live so we walked over and visited there. They were both looking good that day and we had a nice visit remembering good old Lompoc!

Sunday came all too soon and we were on the way home again! Can't wait to do it again. Thanks to Melissa for the meals and fun and to Kelly for her hospitality. We really had a great time.

What could be better?

Yesterday was great! I was going to buy gas on my way home from the gym, but I was in a hurry to meet a client so I decided to wait, but I was excited to see gas under $3.00 for the first time (2.95). So yesterday afternoon I decide I better go fill my car with gas. I get to the same gas station and they had lowered the price again! It was down to $2.89! That means that gas has fallen almost $1.50 a gallon. I hope it stays like this.

The next part of my great day was that Mike and I got FREE tickets to go see The Barry Manilow show at the Las Vegas Hilton. We had great orchestra seats. I loved his music in the 70's and he sang most of his hits plus other's songs. He makes it look so easy to belt out a song and play the piano or dance across the stage at the same time. This was something that has been on my "list" that I can now cross off.

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!