Roastin' Smores

Once again we spent time at Manito park, only roasting marshmallows this time with Heather and Daren.

Weekend with the Rents

Last weekend my parents came in to town and we had a great time showing them Spokane. They enjoyed spending their 32nd wedding anniversary in Coeur 'd Alene at the resort and playing golf like they were rich and famous. On Wed night they arrived and we went downtown to P.F. Chang's. Thursday we went up to CD'A and ate at the restaurant at the resort and Friday they were back in Spokane and we played games all night. Saturday we went golfing at the nearby 3-par and went shopping for new shoes!! Sunday we spent the day at Manito park among the awesome fall colors and gardens. We had a great time and can't wait to see them next month in Denver for Thanksgiving!! Woohoo :) (mom has most of the pics of our adventures, so here are just a few from Manito park)

HALLOWEEN PARTY!!!

Party at our house! We are having a Halloween party this year at our house, and I am looking for any cool ideas. Tell me about cool parties you have been to before or have heard about. Everyone is invited! (If you travel from another state to come you will get an extra cool prize!!)

Fall Festive Weekend

This weekend we had a great time enjoying the fall season. On Saturday we went to Green Bluff which is just north of our house and went to pick apples at one of the many farms there. We went with a girl I work with, Rachel, and her husband Kyle. I was really excited because this was the first time I have ever picked fruit right from a tree! You would think coming from a place called "highlands ranch" we would have more farms and fruit trees, but its the opposite! Anyway, so after apple picking we came back and made caramel apples and then went to Jenn and Andy's house and ate pizza and carved pumpkins.

Picking apples

A donkey at the farm that the boys fed some apples

Carvin pumpkins

Ours is the top left. Love the Shrute pumpkin though.

Miss you

Sadie, I heard your sweet voice today and I can't believe how much older you sound already. I miss your huge smile and your zurbets on my cheek. I am counting down the days until Thanksgiving. I just hope that 3.5 months doesn't let you forget your favorite aunt that loves you more than anything!!

Happy Birthday Joshie!

Whew, so another birthday down. Josh turned 27 yesterday. I took him out to dinner to a steakhouse here called Prospector's. We shared a salmon dinner and when we got home all of our friends were waiting for him. Josh walked right in the house and put our dinner in the fridge without even seeing anyone. Then he looked up and everyone started yelling and he jumped. It was a great reaction and I'm sad I didn't get it on video, oh well. Happy Birthday sweetheart.

Josh in front of the restaurant. We had a crazy waitress who actually sang happy birthday in an obnoxious voice, all by herself.

27 candles and a homemade german chocolate cake, his fav

Presents: GU hat from Andy and Jenn, MarioKart from my parents, and laser tag from me. Yes, laser tag, don't judge it just because I bought it in the toy section of Target for a 27 year old. It is going to be a blast and you will be jealous when we are playing it wishing you had it too.

Thank you everyone for making his birthday work out and coming to the surprise party, and for the gifts. Thanks for the ice cream Brittney and Rhett :)

Results are in

So I stole the picture from Heather's blog, but here are the results. #1 is Heather and Daren, #2 is us, #3 is Jenn and Andy. So thank you to everyone who helped us win, woohoo! :)

Wild Walla Walla

So at first glance you may not think Walla Walla is that crazy or eventful, but all you have to do is step into the Anderson home and you will have the time of your life. We went there this conference weekend and spent Friday-Sunday amongst the chaos. Here are some funny events that took place:

-Getting our stuff settled in Garrett's room we find a sacrament tray stashed in the corner next to his guitars (just in case you might need an extra some day)

-Random toy gets bumped in Eli's bedroom, who is sleeping since it's 12:30am, and it will not stop making random shooting noises so Cookie fumbles around with it until she gets too frustrated and yells for Dallin to come shut it off asap

-Our sleeping arrangements: 3 beds: 2 twin sized beds, (one being a real bed, one a blow up) and 1 queen blow-up bed that deflates after a half an hour just by itself with no one on it, and 1 pillow.

-Cookie states: "don't look in there, (meaning Garrett's bedroom closet) we had to bulldoze all the crap left in his room into that closet." I look over and the closet door is bulging out diagonally because there's so much stuff in it. I laughed hysterically about it that night just looking at the door sticking out before i went to sleep.

-Saturday morning Eli runs downstairs with his hands out and yells "Dad! something happened in Garrett's room!" (meaning we had all of our stuff in there and he forgot we came the night before)

-Cookie to Todd: Do you have a pen?
Todd looking in his pocket: No, but I do have mints, couple of chapsticks and some darts

-Doing my make-up Sat morning and Lydia comes strolling in and lifts up the seat and starts going to the bathroom. Mid eye shadow I realize she just sat down on the toilet without saying a word to me, door open, and is taking a dump.

-Eli keeps punching Cookie's butt over and over and so she tells him to stop. His response: "but your buns are squishy"

-Rachel: we will get to see you a lot more often now Eli
Eli: Why?
Rachel: well, we just moved here to go to school
Eli: What? This isn't school, this is my house

-Cookie: Alright, count the kids, something is dead in the garage and it REEKS out there!!


To say the least we had a GREAT conference weekend at the Anderson's and can't wait to go back! :)

Here is Eli with his light-saber. He has this next to him about 95% of the time. He is doing his super-hero pose for me.

It happened to be homecoming weekend, so here is Bridget with her date.

This is Cookie laying down in the closet trying to find Lydia's coat somewhere in "the black hole".

Eli and I playing Superman with our matching capes.

The infamous "SHOP" that we visited before our WW driving tour. I was very impressed with the Shop, especially the electricity.

Disclaimer: Despite all of the craziness at the Anderson's, I just want to say that they are an amazing family and totally inspire me to have a big family some day. Cookie went from early morning prep of kids, to a soccer game, grocery store, sewing a homecoming dress, making dinner, cleaning up, making dessert for after homecoming, entertaining teenagers, and staying up with me until 3:30am...all in ONE day. Whew! Just to get up 5.5 hours later to make everyone breakfast.
And I was so happy to stay up until 3am, partly because I love staying up late and haven't been up that late since before I was married, but most of all because it was so nice to just sit down and talk to my aunt who is so amazing and funny all at the same time. :)