Turkey Shoot 2010

One of the things that I love about being married is the fact that I get another family! Two great families... how lucky? And that with the new family comes new traditions. The Waters family has the Turkey Shoot, every year the Saturday before Thanksgiving. Cory says that its his favorite day of the whole entire year. He really couldn't sleep that well the entire week before. We started out on Friday with Cory and Stockton picking me up from work. Cory decided to tie Stockton in the back of his truck to see how he'd like riding in the back. He said that he had a lady and a cop pull up along side of him laughing and waving... you just cant help it with our "build a pup". I LOVE this picture. Cory said that Stockton just kept running from side to side propping himself up on the side, like a bigger dog does. Look at his little head barely peeking up over the side!

Well, it started out waking up at the crack of dawn. We had to be up by 6 because Cory wanted to get a good start to get back down to Ogden Saturday morning. Then we found out it didn't even start til 10! Cory didn't care...

This is Jared's last year before the mission!

And my first year. And dont you even worry, I was signed up in the shoot with the best of em.

Brad had a convention in Salt Lake and wasn't able to make it. But he couldn't resist and made a quick trip to at least watch everyones first shot! Can you tell how much this day means???

This is Sheila filling up the gun powder

This year was a bust because none of us got a turkey! Cory said this is the first year he can ever remember not getting one! I must be bad luck! But dont worry... next year we'll represent!

We got home right as the storm was coming in. But not before getting some good shopping in.

Playing Scrabble in the warm house!


Stockton got to enjoy his very first snow storm. He loved it! He was marching around the backyard and eating snow. It was so funny because snow balls would get stuck in his fur!

Its always hard to leave Preston! Its one of our many homes away from home! Cory's parents are so great and amazing to let us come and stay and play whenever we want.

P.S. I STACKED UP ON NEW PROJECTS THIS WEEKEND! CANT WAIT TO SHARE!

Yes! Its already on my door!

Oh... and if any of you would like one but dont have the time/ energy/ desire to make it. I'm making a bunch at $25!!! Just let me know.

Dinner and a Craft with MEGS

My bestest friend Meg came down this past Tuesday night to hang out with me. We never seem to have enough time to chat when we only have a few hours. It was so fun to go out to Noodles and Co. and then work on a craft.

We got these wreaths at WalMart for $4. This is the before picture...
This is Megs posing for the "during" photo... the ornaments were super cheap as well.

And here are the two of us showing off our super cute, super cheap, super fast and east Christmas Craft!

Now all they need is a bright red bow to hang them from on my front door! THANKS MEG FOR THE AWESOME NIGHT!!! I'm always down for a craft/dinner/gab fest night.

Isn't it about time???

Well, now that my Halloween decor is down, I thought I would blog about it. Couldn't have waited any longer could I?
This lil Project was sweet!!! I found a dead tree outside (which is still there by the way... where is HOA?) and cut the branches off and then spray painted them black. Super cheap and way fun idea!!!

Well... I'm in to big of a hurry to change the order of these pics, but a few weeks ago I got to babysit my nephews Gabe and Bridger. It was super fun! While the baby slept Gabe and I got our crafting on. We first filled our tummies with yummy pizzas that we made ourselves.

This is the finished project of our cheese cloth ghosts! So fun and really cheap! Gabe added his own touch with putting scary spiders all over them.

Gabe also wanted to draw a face on our pumpkin instead of carve it. Which was fine by me, a lot less of a mess! By brothers kids are extremely talented! You should have seen the teeth on this pumpkin!

And here is Gabe and I. He is such a great kid! Funny thing about him and I.... we are both horrible in our sleep! All my family, old roommates, companions, and now my husband can all testify to that. Gabe is the same. While I was driving the boys home Gabe and I were chewing some big chinks of bubble gum. Gabe fell asleep and I was so worried that the gum was going to get EVERYWHERE... so I woke him up (while driving) and told him to spit his gum in my hand. He was delirious and started shaking his head and saying, "NO Uh huh NO NO NO" and all the while he was chomping it as fast as he could. When all of the sudden he blew it as hard as he could and I felt it bounce off the back of my seat and knew that it had disappeared!!! I couldn't stop laughing and he went right back to sleep. ha ha ha... and no worries... I found the slobbery blue mess on my floor!