It's great to have time to write again. The past month has been just too busy. I realized that pretty quickly when I decided to give Mary Kay a try. It added just one more thing to my already hectic-but-doable life, knocking everything out of balance and making me a little crazy. I guess I'll talk about that first then. I have enjoyed learning about Mary Kay, having my own business, and conducting parties. And, its true, there is money to be made. It's a great product that pretty much sells itself if you get it in front of the right people. Its flexible while I am in school and I think it will be a fun way to make some extra income and help pay the bills. But, I don't know that I am going to be turning it into my full time job anytime soon. 

Phil is busy applying to Grad School and more than anything I just want to know where we are going to be next fall. There is a good chance we will be staying right here in Salt Lake as he has applied to both the U and Westminster. I would be fine with that. I like the area and LOVE our Ward and would be happy to stay a few years longer. He also applied to Thunderbird (a university focused on International Business) in Arizona and to the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. I of course would not mind returning to my home soil :). 

I have two more semesters until I graduate! I officially finished my classes for Fall semester yesterday and am so looking forward to some time off before Spring semester starts. Though, I am looking forward to the classes I will be taking next semester. I will be taking Intro to Finance/Investments, International Communications, Spanish Literature, and Age of Total War (all about communism, fascism, and WWII-a time and topics that have always been interesting to me, especially since my time living in Russia). I already ordered a bunch of my textbooks, none of which were too expensive this time, except for my Finance book. The cheapest I can find it is $130 USED on Amazon! I still have plenty of time to get it so I am going to wait and see if I can find a better deal. 

Phil and I will be flying down to New Mexico next week. I am going a few days before him (he didn't want to take too much time off work) and then we will both be there until New Year's Eve. I can't wait to see my family and spend time with them. My mom and I are already planning the fun crafts and activities we are going to do while we are down there, and it will just be nice to be home for Christmas.

Well, I sure unloaded a lot of information for one post, but I felt like I needed to do a little catching up, so it felt good to get it all out. I'm looking forward to more time and more posting soon.

Paperback Pumpkins

I am so excited about my newest project.  I got the idea from a blog for the Book Garden, a cute little bookstore in Bountiful that I stop by every now and then. 

The example in the tutorial used Shakespeare's "Macbeth", which seemed very appropriate for Halloween, so I headed off to the D.I. hoping to find a copy of it as well, or at least, I thought, The Witches by Roald Dahl.  I just didn't think my pumpkin would be the same if I used Confessions of a Shopaholic. 

I looked through all the books and even though I couldn't find "Macbeth" or The Witches, I came home with "The Tempest" and Goosebumps.  Halloweeny enough right?

I just love them! They are so cute, and even though I felt a little bad at first about cutting into a book (don't worry Dad, they weren't valuable copies!) I couldn't be happier with how they turned out.

Find the tutorial here.

Costume Craze

We went to out Ward Halloween party on Friday and had a great time.  The Primary did a great job with games and treats.  And, best of all, we won first place for best couple costume!

In case you haven't seen the movie, we are:

 

Gnomeo and Juliet

(not Keebler Elves or Smurfs)

The costumes were a combination of things bought at the D.I., things borrowed, things we already had, and things I made.  I think that is the best way to go with costumes!

 

And we laughed at the ribbon, obviously the Ward had a tight budget for the prizes. 

Then, Saturday we went to a party at a friend's house.  Everyone really got into it and dressed up in great costumes.  We had a lot of fun.   Isn't it great that it's only October 16th and we've already gotten to wear our costumes twice?!