Fall is Here

Friday was the ward Trunk or Treat. It was cute to see our nursery kids all dressed up. Even though they couldn't recognize me under a cowboy hat (okay they are only 3). It was at a tree farm and they had hay rides and food and a fire. And then everyone trick or treated to all the cars. It was pretty fun and there were some good costumes.
On Saturday we went to the movie The Prestige. I love going to movies on opening weekend because there is always a chance that you will get to be in the test audience. I have gotten it three times. Lucky us! We were a test audience. I love that! The movie was AWESOME. No seriously, I can't explain how awesome because if I talk about the plot, at all, it will give it away. I will confess that I am a HUGE Christian Bale fan but I don't think I am bias because Matt thought it was really good too. Go see it. It was SO good. The director cuts alot (same guy who did Batman Begins) so there are a lot of flash backs but it was still easy to follow and there was such a huge twist at the end! Seriously go see it today.

Fall is here. We switched our blankets (I know you were all dying to know). And today I saw all the landscapers in all the neighborhoods switching to the winter flowers. It is getting cold, but I am getting excited for the holidays. Mostly Black Friday!! Nothing else too exciting is going on.

Brian

Fall is here in Georgia. We can tell because it is finally beginning to cool off. Unfortunately it is that odd time where it is hot in the day and cold at night. This is a problem for us because we can decide if we need to switch to our winter bedding. So far, we haven't but I think we might by next weekend. The thing is we go to bed warm but when we wake up we are not so warm....this may sound like a trivial issue but sleep is a hugely important part of my life and optimum comfort is a massive priority.

The story that we have to tell is from Saturday. We went to On The Border (I know that there are some OTB fans out there). We had been craving it. Seriously. So we get to OTB and we get this waiter. Brian. Ahhh....Brian. BEST WAITER EVER. Dude was like a mind reader. Maybe he is one of the folk from the show heroes and he can hear peoples thoughts. I'm not kidding. It was really like he was reading our minds. I eat salsa like crazy, it is really more like I am drinking it (please have you had the salsa there? it's awesome). Brian NEVER once let me run out of salsa. I always had an extra bowl waiting in the wings. And everyone knows Matt is OBESSED with white cheese dip. Well Brian brough him a little container to take his extra cheese dip home, and a bag WITH EXTRA CHIPS. Ohhhh Brian. We tipped Brian 50%. It was worth it. There is no picture to go with this post, but since Brian was such a life changing experience we had to share. We have been talking about him since Saturday. :)

Home At Last!

I had to go out of town on Thursday for work. So Matt and I didn't really do anything fun seeing as I just got back tonight. I had to go to a conference in Las Vegas. Ofcourse it takes the ENTIRE day to get home. I got up at 8 am and got home and 9 pm, the time change is killer. It was interesting because I haven't been to Vegas in a long time. I went with 2 co-workers and we arrived on Thursday night at 10 which was 1 in the morning our time, so we were basically zombies. The trip was for work so it wasn't like it was a barrel of laughs but there were some funny things.

Highlights
1. Celine - since I have the coolest boss, she bought tickets for us to go to Celine Dion on Saturday night before we flew home on Sunday. She thinks that people shouldn't go to Vegas and not see Celine. I think she is right. It was awesome!! The show was AMAZING. It totally gave me chills. If you haven't been you need to go. The coolest thing about the coliseum is that you feel really close (okay we had really good tickets) but she seems like she is just right there. And she talks to the audience in the middle of the show and stuff, it was way more of a show than a concert.
2. The Buffet - anyone who knows me knows that I love buffets. This one was awesome OFCOURSE. The dessert portion had mini everything, mini pies, mini creme brulee. Basically I gained like 5 pounds courtesy the buffet, but it was TOTALLY worth it.
3. The shopping - we were staying at Treasure Island which is across from Fashion Show Mall, the Wynn and the Venetian we also went down to the Forum shops. They all have awesome shopping. The layout of all the stores is so different and so cool. Not like anything else.

Lowlights
1. Cleavage - okay do people in Vegas not like to wear clothes. I have never seen so much clevage in my life. Everywhere that you look. Really people, put on some clothes.
2. Vegas Uniform - okay more funny than a lowlight, but the next time anyone goes there, please notice what the men are wearing. WAIT, you don't need to go there, I can tell you what they will be wearing, THEIR VEGAS UNIFORM. Dark straight leg jeans and a long sleeved button down shirt (probably from J. Crew), and the shirt will not be tucked in. I swear we would see groups of guys and they were all wearing the SAME THING. In fact the shirts were usually blue and striped. Do they all know something I don't know?!
3. THE SMOKE - SO BAD SO SO BAD. I guess we are spoiled because you can't smoke inside ANY buildings in our entire state, but I had a perma headache from the smoke. When we would step out of the meeting rooms there would be so much smoke INSIDE the hotel. Everywhere SO much smoke. Do they not have those Truth tobacco commercials in Nevada?

So basically I am glad to be back to reality. I guess that's an okay place to visit but I could NEVER live there. It is some alternate universe, at least the strip is. I know that you all hate this post because there are no pictures but I didn't take any. Sorry!

Apple Jubilation

On Saturday we went apple picking in Ellijay, Ga. It was a part of the Apple Jubilee! There is a farm where you go in, and they have all of these avtivities and then they have all of these rows and rows of apple trees, at the beginning of each row, they have a sign telling you what kind of apple is growing in the row. They have about 13 different kinds of apples. As you can see the rows were really long, this picture is from about halfway down looking back at the main store. That little white speck is the store where you can also buy apples, so that you don't have to pick them. You can also buy apple jam, jelly, pie, butter whatever else can be made from apples. The other activities that they had were fun but they would have been really fun for someone who was about 3 years old. They had these "John Deere" tricycles that the little kids raced around the track. They had a petting farm, which we could have gone in but we probably would have looked stupid being that only kids were inside the farm. They had wagon rides through the farm, which we tried out. They take you through the orchard, but only a tiny part, and they have all of these weird displays like fairytale paintings to make it seem like it is a fairytale forest...I think that one is for the kids too. The little black things in this picture are pigs. They had pigs races, which we enjoyed, but they were nothing compared to the pig races at the Stampede.

We decided to pick only Granny Smith apples because I am going to make some desserts and those are the best ones for pie and stuff. All of the trees were some kind of drawf tree so there were apple branches low enough to the ground so that little kids would be able to pick them. However, since Matt is tall he could reach the ones at the top of the trees that hadn't been picked over. We collected PLENTY but as we were leaving the guy was trying to tell us to take more. I guess he is the guy that works for the farm and has to pick the rest of the apples after the Apple Jubilee is over and there isn't pick-your-own anymore.
After we got back Matt went to conference with Dad, Nathan and John. Lindy, Mom and I watched a movie at Mom and Dad's. Priesthood doesn't start until 8 o'clock so when it was over they went to Sonic and then we all just went home.

Today we went to conference at noon. Then we ate "lunch" in between. It was really dinner but since it was at lunchtime I guess it qualifies as lunch. We had to make it and eat it with enough time to drive back to the church. Let's just say we were eating really fast. After the second session we all went back and had some pie and played some games. We were going to play apples to apples but Dad doesn't like that game. So then we played Take Two which is a variation of Speed Scrabble. I love speed scrabble, we used to play it with the Egberts. In Take Two you take two tiles instead of one each time someone completes their puzzle. I almost won but John took it in the last round but about 20 points....sad.