12 on the 12th--November Edition

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01. Now that I'm a working girl, my day always starts around 6:30am (give or take a few minutes depending on my snooze status).
02. Family scripture reading, we're in Jacob 5.
03. The ground was blanketed in gorgeous, frost-covered leaves.
04. Landon and I took a self-portrait before heading to school.
05. I feel like a ginormous 7th grader in a sea of pubescence while shuffling through the crowds between classes at school.
06. Landon's wonderful report card (and general greatness) had me in tears, especially since I was coming from a class where the kid sitting in front of me had 5 D's!
07. We just had to get a chocolate peanut butter shake from JCW's to celebrate his great achievement.
08. I was barely in the door before I had a load in the washer.
09. I wandered around scoping out good backgrounds before my photo-shoot family arrived.
10. As I was leaving the photo shoot, this gorgeous sunset caught my attention. I have been really smitten with sunsets lately and feel like they're a gift every time I see one.
11. Crystal, Amie and I got together (Michelle couldn't make it) to cut and file coupons. Crystal and I are total newbies and greatly appreciated (and used) Amie's expertise.
12. I finally headed off to bed at 12:51am!

**Did you do 12 on the 12th?
Can you believe it's already November?
Do you notice sunsets?**

Good Mail for Me and You Winners
17--Rebekah
5--April
16--Kelsie
11--Judy
1--Natasha

Comment Window Tidbit: Daylight Savings Time is messing with my head. I keep thinking it's so late and time to wind things down, but then I look at the clock and it's only 5:00pm!

Blue Balls & Lunch With Amie

I couldn't resist using that title, I just couldn't. Amie got me hooked on these blue dryer balls, and now I have to have them. They make the clothes dry faster and in less time than a regular load of clothes would take to dry. They're noisy when the dryer first starts, but get quieter as they warm up in the dryer. My first set recently broke (after 4.5 months of use) so today when Amie called me from Wal-Mart I asked her to get me some. I'm so giddy to have them again I may wrangle up some laundry to do.


Amie was out and about today so she called to see about bringing me lunch (um, yes please!) and ended up getting us super tasty steak-n-cheese sandwiches from The Italian Place. I was happy to provide the chips, ranch dip and ice water...nothing but the best.


Of course, I made us take a self-portrait (or 5) before she left, that process is always funny.

**Do you use dryer balls?
What did you have for lunch today?**