Church Hallween Party 2007

Yesterday was busy with trying to get all things ready for the hallween party. There was a chili and cornbread cook off which we entered (Placing 1st in Chili and 2nd in Cornbread). I also made some hallween brownies and took those (which went really fast). They also had a costume contest and below you can see how our stake president and his wife dressed up. Enjoy the pictures and have a wonderful weekend!

The Stake President in the chef outfit which says "The Bun Maker"

The Stake Pres. and his wife and yes she is an oven with a bun in it...get it?

First Place trophy for Chili

Second place trophy for Cornbread

Both trophies

My little brownies...frankinstein

Little Spider brownies

Little Ghost brownies

Cute little brownies

More little brownie...

The New apartment

Here are some pictures of our new apartment the week we were moving in. I hope you enjoy them. Once everything is put away I'll take some pictures of how it turned out! Have a great week.

The Move...

I still don't have pictures of the new apartment to post and for that I'm sorry. Today is Thursday and this move is kicking my butt! Everyday I have been packing (or unpacking) boxes (and sometimes both), running up and down stairs to get things ready for the evening shift, and then in the evening we work for 2 hours running up and downstairs. Let me tell you how out of shape I am ( I know that round IS a shape).

My body is bruised and broken and I still have today and tomorrow before the big stuff even gets moved. Hopefull today we will get all the boxes done and then tomorrow it will be just the closets and small electronic to be moved. I think I'm going to unhook the computers today. We have called in help...since we all are just about at our breaking point and I'm afriad to that I'll get strep throat if I don't slow down soon. Don talked to one of our new neighbors and he will be helping us pack up the 3 cars (we are paying him by giving him our grill-which has only been used twice- and the bag and a half of charcoal). (Oh I forgot to tell you that we are borrowing a flower van from the funeral home to get more stuff moved in the evenings.) We also were able to talk the 2 sets of sister missionaries to help at some point this evening. I think they are coming in shifts...one set to pack up and the other to unpack. I think if I can get everyone organized it shouldn't take us too long. Most of the boxes for todays move are light (compared to the first night when we moved all the food storage which were boxes of can goods).

Saturday we have lined up some male missionaries and some men from the ward to help move the big things. We are paying them off with frozen pizzas and root beer floats. I was really lucky when planning what to fix for the moving party...frozen pizzas went on sale 3 for $10 and the buckets of ice cream went on a great sale too. So that sealed the deal for me. I'm using the plasic cups, silverwear, and plates from foodstorage (since the hurricane season is almost over I feel it's okay to use some of those and restock after the first of the year).

Well--Tigger is telling me it's time to start our day. I hope you all have a great weekend...have some fun for us because we aren't going to have any! Good luck to those losing weight...I'm hoping to kick some major butt this week!

Here is a game for you

Don found this game of hangman to play and I would like to share it with you!

Happy Hallween

The Calm Before the Storm...

Whatever calm it is...which isn't much calm is for the large storm just 2 weeks ahead. Yesterday I went to the beauty supply that I love to shop at (one that only sells to licensed people)...they are opening shops down here like gang fire. So last week I applied and when I was in the shop yesterday I talked with the manager about my application. I now have an interview next week (this is the job that I really, really want) for a managers position. I'm totally excited.

So I'm adding to my plate which is rather full. With another interview, packing, I'm doing a facial class with the young women of our ward, and plotting our move...I'm so dang stressed. The move is going to kill me until we really get started. I can't pack many more boxes because there is NO place for them to go. We are already making paths around the house so we still can move. When we take the keys on the 15th we are going to start moving stuff everyday. I have it figured out if we do that everyday Monday thru Friday and then Saturday all that will have to be moved is all the heavy things (couch, beds, dressers...stuff like that). I think we have set up enough help so that I don't have to figure out how I'm going to carry the couch down the stairs here and up the stairs at the new apartment with out making a trip to the ER. Now the movers just have to be called by my husband who has put it off all this week....even with me reminding him that it needs to be done.

So with my life on a time table for the next month or so I'm stressing out because I'm not seeing how it will be done before my trip to Indiana. I know the only thing I don't have to stress out about is the dogs. Evie isn't coming on the trip to Indiana so she will take care of the dogs...and for that I'm truly grateful. They have had their shots but I wasn't looking forward to looking for a boarding place for a week. Tigger is always hateful after being boarded.

I am sad that I have so much to get done in the next little while that I will miss Jeff and Ronna getting married. I talked to Ronna the other day...and she told me that they had just planned this and will be getting married November 3rd. I'm very excited for them, but I'm very selfishly sad for myself (not being able to be there).
But I loved hearing all her plans for her day. It sounds like it is coming together for them and I'm so happy for that!

Well that is all my news right now! Enjoy General Conference this weekend if you can! But if not have a great weekend anyways!