Edward or Jacob??

Um yeah I'm gonna have to go with Jacob. So when I asked my friend if she wanted to see Breaking Dawn I wasn't expecting her to insist on going to the midnight release. Sure enough she convinced me and another few brave souls to venture out in the middle of the night with 1,000 other crazy people! It was so much fun though. We got to the theatre at about 10pm and waited outside for an hour until they finally let us in. As soon as we entered the lobby one of the attendants told us the last theatre had just opened so we rushed in to find that only the front few rows were available. We sat in the third row and my eyes had a hard time keeping up with everything on the screen but it was fun no matter what! I especially had fun sitting by my friend who was cat calling at Edward and Jacob the entire movie! I suffered for it Friday morning but it was worth it! Definitely planning on going to see The Hunger Games midnight premier in March!!

ps. The movie was pretty good but really bloody! What can you expect when vampires are involved?!

Don't mind my possessed look....it was about 11:30pm at this point.

He's a Cat, He's a Kitty Cat Cat

We got Garfield when I was ten years old. I'll always remember going to our neighbors house in Glendora and picking him out of the litter. He was hiding in the garage and was tiny and cute. We named him Garfield because....well....he looked like the cartoon character Garfield and he had the attitude to match.

Gar provided many entertaining moments in our home. He loved to be around the family and always made sure to make it to scripture study. When my Mom taught seminary in our basement, he would love to come down and sit on our scriptures. One time one of the boys tried to move him so he could participate with his scriptures and Gar attacked him! He was an avid hunter and one time brought home a rabbit skinned to the bone! It was crazy....my Dad has a picture of it somewhere.

Gar had a short clipped meow and would meow even if you looked at him. He didn't like to be scratched for too long and when he was done you knew it!

I could go on and on with stories of Gar. He was basically my cat and spent every night sleeping on my bed. I'm pretty sure he had an identity crisis when I left for college.

Gar had the most nicknames in our family! Garsies, Papa Fur, Po, De Pope (which my Mom put the kibosh on quite quickly, not wanting to insult her Catholic friends), Mr. Gee, SuPurr (or Sir Purr), Garsagoonie, Garfunkel and Gar.

Gar was 17 years old when he passed away. Kyra found him curled up in a ball as if asleep only 2 weeks ago. I was really hoping to see him at Christmas. Matt told me that Joseph Smith said we will be with our animals in Heaven and I'm counting on it. I love you Gar :)

Morning I left for college

Hailey and Gar

Jenna and Gar

Crystal and Gar

Dad and Gar.....Dad was the only one Gar wouldn't attack

Sassy Seattle

My mom's entire side of the family lives in Seattle (except for my Aunt and Uncle who just moved to Phoenix!) Matt has never met them (except for my Aunt Steph who came to our wedding). So when my Mom said she was going to Seattle for a week, we decided to go for a few days.

We had a great time seeing my Grandma, having a huge family dinner, going to the top of the space needle, getting pedis, going to Pike Place Market, watching scary movies, eating yummy sea food, and spending time with family.

Visiting Grandma

After lunch at Anthony's in Edmonds

Mom, me, Aunt Stephanie, & Kyra

Edmonds ferry

Beach in Edmonds

Kyra spent a night at the hotel with us in her very own roll away bed!

Can you tell that we are sisters??

Sibling bonding!

Pike Place Market

Had to take a picture of Dad's work place! It is just a mortgage office....PNC hasn't made it to the West yet.

Top of the Space Needle. My cousin works there so he got us in for free. It was so windy and the space needle was swaying...so scary.

It cleared up in time for a picture of downtown!

Kyra, Matt, me, Mom, Aunt Stephanie, Aaron, Kelly, & Anna

It was a great trip and a much needed break!

Happy Haunting

Yay for Halloween! We were invited to an adult costume party last weekend and it was the first time I had dressed up since freshman year of college! I really wanted to be either a flapper or red riding hood and I found this pretty modest costume at K-mart so I was happy. The party had the theme 'Fear Factor' and we played some fear factor games. There were three challenges and if you completed your first challenge you could move on and so on. The first challenge was to have one person blind folded and throwing bologna at the other person and then they had to catch it in a bowl....won that so the next challenge was to eat something.....ehhh.....we won the right to have first pick so we chose the 'pigs blood' it was actually v8 with bacon floating it in. We both chugged our glasses and moved on to the next challenge. The final challenge was for one person to search through a bucket full of nasty nasty and find a spider with their color on it (we had the color white). I was lucky and found our spider first. As soon as I found the spider Matt was able to open a box full of gum and start chewing and make a creepy tree! Matt's part of the challenge proved to much harder than mine and his jaw was killing him by the end. We didn't win but came in second! We had so much fun!!

Matt's brother, Jeff, was in the air force for four years and sent Matt one of his uniforms. Matt was in heaven!

Bologna tossing game

Don't you love all of the costumes?!

Matt trying to make his gum tree

We also played this hilarious game where you are blindfolded in the middle of a circle and you have to sit on some random persons lap and have them make the sound of some halloween related thing (ghost, zombie, etc) Then you have to guess who it is.....really awkward but hilarious at the same time!

Happy Halloween!!