sleepy

For some reason, I haven't hardly slept these last two nights. No idea why. It's involved tossing and turning, ripping off all the covers, sleep-kicking, cold sweats, getting up and walking around, sighing because I want to sleep, humming, sleep-punching, flipping over, and basically any kind of sleep-violence you can think of. For some reason, Thayne hasn't been able to sleep either.

update

Update on raw-chicken-gate. I sat next to the lovely Georgians in Relief Society and mentioned the dinner fiasco with a smile. They looked confused (I'm bettin' on purpose) and were super nice. Luckily, no one had ecoli and could enjoy their Thanksgiving. I think they like us because we are having a genuine (say it like a southerner) bbq tomorrow with them! I hope it's not raw*.

*disclaimer: I know for a fact that their food will not be raw because they cook it for 20 hours.

the tree

Lovely week. Great food. Family time. Bike ride and Settlers with the Bourne family. Bowling and Mario Kart with the Davis family. We have so much to be thankful for. I'm going to go out on a limb (pun!) and say that my favorite thing was our new tradition of hiking out into the forest and cutting down our very own Christmas tree. The Davis family has been doing this since the dawn of time and I had a lot to learn before selecting our coniferous beauty.

Here's Thayner wielding his saw.

Since I'm a rookie, I thought all the trees looked really cute. Here we are going for a "Charlie Brown Christmas" feel.

Our fearless sidekick and little brother to Thayne, Jacob, helped us in the search of our perfect tree. (And looked pretty stylin' doing it) For more of this look, see John Denver's music video of "Dancing With The Mountains" here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB2E1D5hrdI

After about an hour of saying "too shabby, too thin, too dead, too small, too tall, too eaten by forest creatures, too bald, too creepy" we found our eternal companion tree...the tree that will be with us forever this Christmas. Thayne chopped 'er down and now we have our lovely Christmas off to a wonderful start!

not my day

Anyone ever heard of Murphy's Law? Let me tell you about my awesome day. Late to school because I got caught behind the Midway bus, my phone went off in class and I was extremely embarrassed, in one ear and out the other in my financial class, booked it over to the Social Security Office where I patiently sat for an hour only to be rejected by a man behind that glass counter "unfortunately, there is nothing we can do for you....next!"

Social Security Office Guy=

Then onto the grocery store to pick up a bucketload of ingredients for the dinner we were hosting tonight with our awesome neighbors from Georgia....definitely didn't print off my shopping list...ahhhhh. Five minutes into shopping in P-town my loving husband calls to tell me that there is a repairman waiting outside our house in Midway that very second. I stop shopping and book it up Provo canyon to let Legrand into our house while I go to the supermarket in Heber. For two hours I scrupulously chop, sautee, organize and bake what I KNOW is a dinner sure to impress. Clean the house...my loving husband comes home and helps me clean and set up. Awesome neighbors come over. I have them sit down and start to serve my luscious meal that I have worked very hard on and that I'm already nervous about. As I'm about to serve the third plateful, Thayne makes a very helpful observation that the chicken in the dish is completely RAW.

I try to tactfully take away everyone's plate, removing the chicken and rearranging the pasta and sauce, desperately trying to make it look like I meant to serve them only pasta with creepy red sauce for dinner. Luckily, they tactfully didn't notice what was going on. We had a wonderful time and I didn't cry until they left. Really not my day.

But!!! I'm optimistic. Tomorrow is a new day...the sun will shine, the birds will chirp, and Thayne and I have four pounds of chicken to eat for the week.

secret identity

Just when I thought I'd married the best person on earth and life couldn't get any better, dun dun DUN....I found out about Thayne's secret identity. When he isn't being a business tycoon or a professional fisherman or an awesome husband-dishwasher, he's leading the Nephites against Amalickiah yielding the title of liberty. What a man!

happy birthday katie!

Just want to wish my sister Katie a big, happy twenty-two years on earth two days ago. We sure have come a long way since you were born and I tried to smother you. I hope the next twenty-two years (hopefully longer :) ) are just as awesome as these first two have been. You are the best! (And remember, I'll always be 14 months older than you!) LOVE YOU KATIE