{Goldfish and Life}

Goldfish may or may not be my most favorite food. Actually let's be honest, I love these little suckers.



They are so delicious.

The other day the Husband and I went out to Costco to get some of our food staples (tortilla chips, frozen chicken breasts, etc...) and we came back with WAY more than we had planned on. Costco is dangerous that way. But one of the lovely things that we got were goldfish!!!!! We were walking along and Husband said something to the effect of, "Oh dear...Love, don't look over there....please" [in a very sweet joking but somewhat serious way haha..] Of course I looked and with a squeal of delight "GOLDFISH! Thanks, Love...." and into the cart they went. He just laughed and rolled his eyes and put a box of fruit snacks in the cart. We are such kids :)

He spoils me rotten! I can't even imagine what's going to happen when we have lil' girl kiddos running around the house with their Daddy wrapped around their little fingers.... We're going to be in trouble! At least I know when to say no to his spoilings....usually :)

Random - Sean and I rarely call each other by our names --RARELY. I only call him Sean when we are in a crowd or when he's on the other side of the produce section in the grocery store and I don't want to yell out "BABY!" or "LOVE!" or "SUCKER!" or "HUSBAND!" or any other overly lovey dovey obnoxious nicknames.

We have been officially dating/engaged/married for about 2 and a half years now. That's a long time. We are still stary-eyed-giggly-over-the-top-butterflies-in-the-stomach-short-of-breath in love. I love that guy so much.



I love this picture of us...no, mostly of him. His face is adorable. I'm the luckiest. I love him.

I also love goldfish :)

{Halloween throughout the years}

These are most of my halloween costumes throughout the years.....

Then here's the gap of when I was a teenager and was too cool to dress up / I had a band competition/game during Halloween night

Our Venitian Angel

When Heidi and I were in Venice this last May, we made a discovery.

Venice is famous for many things, one of which is their masks.

At first, we were looking at the small tourusty masks designed to be Christmas tree ornaments or other small, plastiky things. However, we had a hard time finding any masks that looked legit (ie not made in China out of plastic) that were so small.

Then we saw this mask, which changed everything:

We saw the mask above at a shop near the Realto Bridge and fell in love - and knew she should be the angel for our Christmas tree! Then we saw the price tag and were quite discouraged - she was well over 100 euro.

So, we spent much of the remainder of that day (our only full day in Venice) scouring the streets (and stores) for a beautiful mask that could take her place atop our Christmas tree. After taking samples from dozens of gelato shops, resting in the shade along a watery canal, and watching kids play musical chairs, we finally found this mask:

Which we promptly purchased and had wrapped for the trip back to the states. Isn't she beautiful? Not the beaming angel of the other mask, but quite beautiful in her own right!

This is she atop our Christmas tree (we decorated Thanksgiving night - I'm sure Heidi will be writing a post about that one of these days):

And as a funny closing note, there was a little tag attached to her with a message in 5 languages, and the English translation read:

Welcomes in our world,

where the respect of

the traditions and the

development of the

creativity, offer you an

origional product, that will

move up.

Oh, I miss poor translations... Here's what it should say in English, assuming they wanted it to be a translation of the Italian text:

Welcome to our world,

where the respect of traditions

and the development of creativity

offer you an original and unique product

that is sure to excite you.

Hope your Thanksgiving was great!

{Halloween..}

Yeah... I know this is late, and I know most of you have seen pictures already....but too bad. Here's a blog post about Halloween!

Sean and I dressed up as Mario and Peach for Halloween!!

DI is our favorite store.... Hahaaa. We got all the stuff we needed for our costumes there. I bought some little girl princess dresses/tutus and tacked em together to get my dress and sean's was just a pair of lady's overalls and a red sweatshirt lol.

Notice Mario's gloves.... yes, those were mine from my marching band days :

More pictures...

  

These are of Sean pretending to jump on a mushroom lol. 

The following pictures are from the Derrick's Halloween Party... it was awesome! We found Luigi at the party, too!!

 They also had a doughnut eating contest....Sad/Happy to say, I won lol. I don't know if it's a good or bad thing that I can successfully stuff a powdered doughnut down my throat faster than the next person... oh well!

Yay for friends!

  

I love this girl - a lot.

 We also went to our ward party.... but forgot to take our camera! but some of our sweet friends let us snap a few with theirs. But we haven't gone over to get them off of their memory card yet....oops. 

Here are some that I stole from facebook! 

I love Halloween......I love dressing up. 

The blizzard that wasn't

I'm sure most of our readers are well aware of the terrible blizzard that was to strike Provo two nights ago, but let me write my take on it.

Back in 2005, Hurricane Rita (the 4th biggest hurricane ever observed in the Gulf) swept its way towards Houston. Many of Houstons 5 million+ residents were told to leave their homes and as a result, the northbound freeways were absolutely clogged.

My cousin's family who lived in the south end of Houston spent the better part of a FULL DAY driving up to my parent's home (in North Houston) - a drive that usually takes around 40 minutes. Many were stranded on the freeway, having run out of gas during their very slow flight.

And the full extent of hurricane damage in the Houston area?



The blizzard that was to hit Provo was rather like Houston's experience with Hurricane Rita.

After receiving 10 text messages and 2 seperate emails from BYU's emergency alert system, BYU closed campus half-way through the day on Tuesday and declared that it would remain closed on Wednesday as well, due to the pending blizzard. On Tuesday evening, some snow "dusted" the quad of our apartment complex. Heidi and I assumed that the blizzard was just coming a little late and that it would hit in full force during the night.

When we awoke, this was the damage we saw:

Thank you, BYU, for sending me 10 text messages and 2 emails warning me of that pending calamity.

I am actually, truly grateful that that dusting was the full extent of the snow fall, at least at this point. Heidi and I both firmly dislike the stuff (any form of freezing or near-freezing H2O falling from the sky), so the longer it takes to build up 4 inches of snow/ice on the ground plus 2 inches of slush on the roads, I'm a happier person.

Happy Thanksgiving!