Liam

 Today this little dude turns 2 years old. I canna belif eet!

I'm so excited to snuggle this little guy and his brothers in a 2 weeks. Happy day!

HAPPY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY SWEET LIAM!

This Auntie loves you...

...like a lot!

I voted...

...did you?

I almost didn't vote, not because I didn't want to (because believe me...I did) but because I didn't think I would be able to.

Here's the thing. I was a registered voter back in 2000 when I voted after I got home from my mission. I was registered under my maiden name, and at my parents address where I was living.

Fast forward 12 years later I didn't realize I had to re-register with my information updated until after registration had closed. I was so bummed!!

I read FAQ's online about it and they all said if you have changed your address, name, etc, then you needed to register again.

This was the one election where I really felt that my heart was in it, and really wanted to have my vote count. Obviously I didn't vote last election with Obama...

However, last night as we were watching the news they had said that if you have changed your address since your last registration...you can go to your polling place and cast a provisional ballot, and still vote.

YAY!!! I was sooo happy!

I waited in line at the Elementary School for our precinct and luckily got to bypass the majority of the people there and do the whole provisional ballot. The whole thing took me no longer than 40 minutes. So happy!

So, who did I vote for?

Mitt Romney all the way! And Mia Love for Congress. (she came and spoke to us xango-ites last week - she's fabulous!)

So anxious to see what happens....

 

I VOTED!!!! YEAH BABY!

 

Halloween 2012

This year at work we put together a Haunted House. Like a really cool, creepy haunted house.

There is this big meeting room in our corporate offices here that was designated to be the location for said haunted house. The Call Center get 1/3 of that room to decorate, and boy did we go all out!

We decided the theme of our area was going to be "spooky graveyard" with zombies, ghosts, etc, etc. Man we had fun putting it all together and seeing our vision come to life.

We had a blast being the actors in this. SOOO fun! And man alive it was so much fun to scare our employees.

There was one guy who was FREAKED out! I mean to the point where he walked through the first part and then turned around and left and kept saying, "I'm done, I'm done!" But we got him to go back through and finish it all. Three times doing just our section of it he dropped to his knees screaming and laughing. It was soo funny!! I was the last person people saw before they entered the next one run by other departments in the company. I was behind a life size Mausoleum jumping out and screaming at people. Oh gosh it was SO FUN!

I know...I've got a warped sense of humor...but I LOVE scaring people!

Here's an idea of what our place looked like in pictures. Below is a link to a video i posted on youtube where I did a walk through of the place.

Walking out the door, heading to work to do my zombie make-up.

 ZOMBIE-FIED!!!

 Other Zombie Co-workers. I did all their makeup except for the bottom right (right above)

 Me, Bekki, Sadie

Sofia, Me, Bekki doing our Zombie thing...

 The Mausoleum that Austin Gunn's family made. Sooo cool! This is how it looks when the lights were off and then on as we were cleaning up.

 

 These pictures don't do it justice. Just imagine all the lights off except a few behind a couple of grave stones, strobe lights, black lights, and scary halloween sound effects.

 That black turned over table in the corner with the black thing over it was where we had a ghost pop out and scare people as they came in. Also, I didn't get a picture of the spot where we had a person in a body bag. Gosh, it was so fun!

 Came home and Ryan took this picture of me. I love it!

Here's the link of the video I did. This was for our Senior Manager who used to work here. He was anxious to know what we all dressed up as for halloween.

Babies

It's been a busy, busy but awesome week. 

First of all I am happy to announce that I have two new nieces...yes two! Remember this post here? Well, those sisters gave birth last week. 

They were both induced Friday at UVRMC. I waited all day with them at the hospital in anticipation of the impending arrival of these two lovely babies. 

Tara Colleen Dean, was born Friday October 26th at 8:16pm and weighed 8lbs 2oz, 21"
Proud parents are Erin & Dave Dean

Kiana (Megan is still debating on the middle name) Curran was born Saturday October 27th at 3:10am and weighed 8lbs. 10oz (I guess her weight right!) and 20". 
Proud parents are Megan Curran, and Steve Menifee

Both babies are healthy, both mommy's are healthy. Everyone is happy! 

I'll post more pictures as I edit the hospital picture I took, and when I do their first photo shoot.

Aren't they adorable?

Twin Cousins born just hours apart.

I love them!

Bubsy

Oh how I love this girl, my niece Elizabeth - Bubsy as we like to call her.  At the moment she is my only niece (until Erin and Megan have their babies this week).

I can't get enough of her! 

Fall

I love fall.

Yep, absolutely love it!

plans

There are nights where Ryan and I just sit and talk all night long. Last night was that night. However, Ryan was mostly doing the talking...but it was good. I like listening to him talk. He doesn't always talk a lot but when he does I cherish it.

He talked for hours (literally) about what our future plans our, our goals. It's funny because it's something we should have talked about a long time ago. Not that we haven't discussed our goals before, but never in so much detail as we did last night.

It was good.

Ryan is a good man and has a good heart in the right place.

He we talked about how we don't want our lives to go in the direction where we always want the latest and greatest thing, or how we have to have a huge house just because we want it - but that we'd get what suits our needs. We talked about how we don't want to have to be a slave to work and work, and work just so we can have a lavish lifestyle - but hardly spend time with the family because we're always working. Definitely don't want that. Sure, it would be nice to have nice things....

Family is first to us, and that's how we want to raise our kids. Hopefully we can teach them the value of money, but also not let it consume their lives in a way that they accrue so much debt, or again, work like crazy just to pay for their "toys", etc.

We'll keep working on our plan, and see how it all folds out.