On October 2nd I went to a Secretaries Conference in Park City along with 4 other ladies from work. The highlight of the day was the scenery on the way there!
The Conference itself was okay, but it was a long time to sit and the room was freeeezing! (And you know if I was cold everyone else was downright frigid.) I kept looking around at all these women who are used to being so busy and thought it was a colossal waste of time. It's nice to recognize secretaries, but I don't think having them sit in a room for 5 hours is the way to do it!
I saw this Personality Test on Facebook and was immediately drawn to tree #2...which one calls to you?
Apparently this means--
2.
You are a fun, honest person. You are very responsible and like taking
care of others. You believe in putting in an honest day's work and
accept many work-related responsibilities. You have a very good
personality and people come to trust you easily. You are bright, witty
and fast-thinking. You always have an interesting story to tell.
Landon's football game on October 3rd was a freeze-your-nards-off event that meant I needed hot popcorn and hot chocolate...the only problem is that I either scald my tongue on hot chocolate or have to wait until it's just warm chocolate so mainly holding the hot cup was soothing.
I love the view at his home games, especially with the leaves changing on the mountains and the temple in the background.
I'm happy to report that my Secret Pal has been pretty good to me and that I'm enjoying being in charge of the whole thing. I've cracked myself up by sending a couple "inspirational" emails with quotes in them to help nudge the slacker pals (why do they even sign up?).
I used these 2 quotes:
"Generous people are rarely mentally ill." --Karl Menninger
“I got him a cool gift. I got him a pack
of razors, and a really furry dead cat.
”--
Jarod Kintz
Since Adam and Amy have been in Europe (I'm so happy for them...) we had the girls here two weekends in a row. I picked them up Friday after school and enjoyed this lovely view from their front porch.
It's amazing how much talking one little girl (Megan) can do!
Lori and I went out for awhile Saturday evening.
Fall is officially upon us and is so beautiful! I was driving home from work and had to pull over to take this picture.
I found this note on my computer at work, so sweet.
Whitney and I met with her school counselor this week for a routine check in (they do that with all the 7th graders!).
I proposed that we take a self-portrait after our meeting and this is what we got...remember how Landon used to hug me in the middle of the hallways at school when he was in 7th grade?!
I spent most of the next day (which was my day off) listening to this!
And planting these.
I don't enjoy having this on our counter but our dishwasher is so lame that we haven't used it in over a year!
This week's installment from my Secret Pal.
Lori and I went out yesterday as part of Fall Break.
I texted this picture to Landon to see if he would wear this shirt ahhh technology.
Lori and I saw "Gravity" which proved to be a stressful movie. At one point I leaned over and said, "next time maybe we can see a movie about being stranded in deep water with sharks".
Later we picked up Whitney (who had stayed at Lori's place to play with the cats) and went to Michael's, Gordman's and Hobby Lobby. Even though my last sewing project was an exercise in swearing I am going to try again but this time with Michelle's help. There are so many cute fabrics how can I resist?
We spent a long time looking at all the cute miniature stuff because Whitney is always thinking of stuff for her Barbie creations. Of course I was drawn to the tiny good mail packages available and told Whitney she should make me some!
Whitney and I stopped at IFA for little pumpkins and these orange wheel barrows caught my eye.
I was scrolling through all my Instagram posts and am smitten with these little grids. I took screen shots of them just because they delight me so.
