Cereal lover

Digital layout of Grey, the funniest kid I have ever known. This is a boy who loves his cereal and his cheese quesadillas.

Thanksgiving goes out with a "What the Heck?"

Romy did a paper in School listing what she was thankful for.

For those who don't read "2nd grade" there is a translation underneath. She's adorable, but weird, just how we like her.

A place I am thankful for: The hotel! Home! Nickelcade! Mall! Dollar Tree where everything's one dollar!

I'm thankful for this person: Mom. Dad. Dog. Cat.

Something I can do that I'm thankful for: Not brush my teeth. (yes, you read it right- the little punk.)

Food I'm thankful for: Smoothies. Cookies. Candy. Watermelon.

Something I am thankful for: My Wii Fit. Magazines.

And special thanks for: Family. Lagoo. Beach. Christmas. Valentines.

Thanksgiving part 2

Today we did Thanksgiving2 at the Perkins House. I made another batch of that cherry dish that Matt and the boys couldn't get enough of and we had fun playing with the kids and seeing people we haven't seen in a long time as well as new faces, too.

Dyl and Rori were both being funny and Rori kept trying to tickle her Uncle Matt. She is sure a loving little thing and we have missed her.

Growing up my extended family wasn't very involved in our lives and I vowed to be an auntie who remembered birthdays and who really got to know her nieces and nephews. They are all such a joy to me.

I spent yesterday hitting the black friday sales and got probably 95% of my shopping done, I got everything on my list for this family except one item they were sold out of and it was replaced with something else on that kid's list. I shopped and wrapped all day, but it's done early and I really got some great gifts for our loved ones.

I also picked up a few items for myself for the holidays, including these sweet paper punches, that are huge and awesome. I was a really good girl this year and I think Santa would approve.

They guys are all going to the Grizzlies Hockey game tonight, leaving Grey and Roe and I home to do some baking, but I'm kind of pooped so I think instead we'll so some DVD watching and some resting.

Thanksgiving 2008

We had a great Thanksgiving at the Olson's today. Ham, Turkey lots of rolls and lots of pies were enjoyed by everyone. We brought Boris who loved meeting his cousin dogs, Bobby Jones, Patch and Sadie. The dogs got along great.

After we ate Aaron and Matt watched football while Paige and I scanned the Black Friday ads. Abbie was adorable, as always and stayed busy avoiding the dogs and being as sweet as can be.

A Moment of Silence

Let us all take a moment of silence to say goodbye to our albatross of a washing machine that died in a big way on Sunday. I never really converted to the front loading aspect of it, so when it died, I wasn't all that sad, even though the timing really stunk.

But, like a bad relationship- it was replaced lickety split and we're all happy as can be and barely even remember the old washer and......eh--- this analogy is going nowhere. Abort! Abort!

So, yeah, hello new washer and dryer.

My blog posts lately have just been fascinating.

The baking begins

Typically soon after Thanksgiving I spend a few solid days baking all of my traditional Christmas goodies, but this year I decided to get a head start and I made some treats with Roe and Zane. Forst we made cinnamon almonds-- so easy to make and super yummy, then we made oatmeal butterscotch cookies. I added a little too many oats, but not so many that they were ruined by a long shot.

Perfection is overrated anyway.

Winners and Losers of sorts

Today my prize came from http://www.digiscrap101.com/ aka Kayla's site and just in time. Our printer decided some time ago to commit suicide so it's nice to have a functioning scanner and printer again. Thanks Kayla!!!

I also wanted to share a pic of Matt's poor knee. The photo doesn't do it justice, it's a mess from a spill he took during the Turkey bowl on Saturday. I swear someone always gets hurt at these events, but the same guys show up to play every time we do a Elders VS YM sports event. They all love it.

Sunday sunday....

Stake Conference was today and we're not very good about going to Stake Conference. Okay, we never go. I'd like to take this opportunity to apologize to my parents, my primary teacher and my seminary teachers.......sort of.

But we did some deep cleaning downstairs and Matt installed the extra insulation thingies in the windows of this drafty house that I swear was built by a drunk with ADHD. The same builder's did many of the houses here and when we moved in our house and the house next door both had the same charming feature of sliding glass doors that were totally installed backwards, so you can lock us in, but you can't keep the spookies out. We had to bump new doors higher up on the list than it would have been normally and had our handprint covered french doors put in to replace the tard door that was there before.

While cleaning I realized I had a bunch of mini loaves of homemade bread that were given to us that would be no good by the end of the week so I made one of Matt's favorite treats- Bread Pudding. I make this a few times a year and Matt eats it at breakfast lunch and dinner until it's gone.

Turkey Bowl 2008

Every Saturday before Thanksgiving the Young Men and the Elders Quorum get together for the annual Turkey Bowl. A few of the women show up and freeze as they cheer on their husband of sons until it gets too stinkin' cold and they bail. I lasted until the last 10 minutes.

I've mentioned before what a great ward we have, today was no exception. The men are such fine examples to the younger guys and they are all so funny and incredible fathers. I am thankful my sons are in this ward with men who they admire and who inspire them. I am thankful they are not only in a home with a wonderful priesthood holder and father, but they are surrounded by men who take their covenants seriously to their families and to their Father in Heaven.

But I'm supposed to be talking about football here,not bragging up our amazing ward. (But it really is an amazing ward. Best I have ever been in in my entire life.)

Parker is sick, but Zane and Matt played their hearts out- well, Matt played his knee out,lol. Zane made 4 of the 5 or 6 touchdowns the Young Men got and really had a fun time. They let some of the cub scouts play as well this year and those little guys were in heaven playing with all the ward jocks.

Thanks, Jared, for always organizing these things and motivating everyone.

Rivalry

This weekend is a big one in Utah.

I'm not talking about the Twilight premiere that we are gladly missing out on-- but it's rivalry week here in Utah. BYU plays Uof U this weekend.

At the kid's school they ask kids to dress up in their team colors and participate in rivalry week activities, the elementary school was hosting a food drive and pitting team UofU against team BYU. We made sure to put a heft donation in the BYU bin,lol.

Matt's work always encourages people to participate in rivalry week activities and even though the mood there has been pretty somber with the current climate if the banking world, they did host their annual Rivalry Week potluck. Go BIG BLUE!!!!!

And Matt- have I told you lately how much I love your freakishly tall self? I think you are perfect and I will love you forever.

Life List

I copied this from http://littlelovables.blogspot.com/



Life list--you simply copy the list and highlight the things you have done and post it on your own blog.



1. Started your own blog

2. Slept under the stars

3. Played in a band

4. Visited Hawaii

5. Watched a meteor shower

6. Given more than you can afford to charity

7. Been to Disneyland/world

8. Climbed a mountain (hiking)

9. Held a praying mantis

10. Sang a solo

11. Bungee jumped

12. Visited Paris

13. Watched a lightning storm at sea (from the beach)

14. Taught yourself an art from scratch

15. Adopted a child

16. Had food poisoning

17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty

18. Grown your own vegetables

19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France

20. Slept on an overnight train

21. Had a pillow fight

22. Hitch hiked

23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill

24. Built a snow fort

25. Held a lamb

26. Gone skinny dipping

27. Run a Marathon

28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice

29. Seen a total eclipse

30. Watched a sunrise or sunset

31. Hit a home run

32. Been on a cruise

33. Seen Niagara Falls in person

34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors

35. Seen an Amish community

36. Taught yourself a new language

37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied

38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person

39. Gone rock climbing

40. Seen Michelangelo’s David

41. Sung karaoke

42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt

43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant

44. Visited Africa

45. Walked on a beach by moonlight

46. Been transported in an ambulance

47. Had your portrait painted (well, drawn-- a few times)

48. Gone deep sea fishing

49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person

50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris

51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling

52. Kissed in the rain

53. Played in the mud

54. Gone to a drive-in theater

55. Been in a movie

56. Visited the Great Wall of China

57. Started a business

58. Taken a martial arts class

59. Visited Russia

60. Served at a soup kitchen

61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies

62. Gone whale watching

63. Got flowers for no reason

64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma

65. Gone sky diving

66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp

67. Bounced a check

68. Flown in a helicopter

69. Saved a favorite childhood toy

70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial

71. Eaten Caviar

72. Pieced a quilt

73. Stood in Times Square

74. Toured the Everglades

75. Been fired from a job

76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London

77. Broken a bone

78. Been on a speeding motorcycle

79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person

80. Published a book

81. Visited the Vatican

82. Bought a brand new car

83. Walked in Jerusalem

84. Had your picture in the newspaper

85. Read the entire Bible

86. Visited the White House

87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating

88. Had chickenpox

89. Saved someone’s life

90. Sat on a jury

91. Met someone famous

92. Joined a book club

93. Lost a loved one

94. Had a baby

95. Seen the Alamo in person

96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake

97. Been involved in a law suit

98. Owned a cell phone

99. Been stung by a bee



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regarding number 69-- I decided to elaborate, because I am NOT doing the dishes......When I was in 8th grade a friend gave me her beloved stuffed Hippo, named Hippola. I slept with it every night until I married Matt. That's a lot of years and in those years he went from being a soft clean hippo to this monstrosity I have now that I still keep near my bed. When Parker was 5 or so he got the great idea to take a pair of scissors and hack off Hippola's arms, his tail was lost years ago. When I had Greyson, my mom sewed the arms back on, only to have Zane take scissors to them a year later. Hippola got me through more than a few break ups with rotten boys, he has survived numerous moves, and has traveled with me wherever I have gone. He is matted and handicapped, but I hope to have Hipploa with me for many more years.

2 sane people get haircuts

I went to my sister's today and got a haircut, it still looks pretty much the same but I was having issues with the back. I guess that's what happens when I don't go to my sister, and instead allow the hairdresser with an eye patch, a beer in one hand and a mitten on the other at Great Clips to give me a trim.

It looks much better now. I'm not posting a picture because it only really looks different to me and I'm in my nightgown. Instead I'm posting this charming picture of my beloved Matthew.

Parker also got his hair cut and it looks much nicer as well, but he's going to scowl at me for a few days just to make sure I understand how morally wrong it is for me to not allow him to look like Cousin It.

Romy was no help when she saw his hair and said "Wow! You got a haircut! I hate it!"

Punk.

Ashley, my bug

Digital layout of my Ashbug. Funnest kid ever. I love you to death you cute thing!!!

Utah'd

Today I finally got to getting a Utah driver's license. While I took on Matt's last name when we married, I never got around to doing all the name changing stuff, because who wants to spend the day at the DMV and SS office? I attempted to when we were first married, didn't have the right paperwork, and like a true yellow, gave up and didn't think about it again.

A few weeks ago I was noticing how stressed I get at the realization that if I were to get pulled over, I'd get a hefty ticket for not getting a Utah license, and it's not like I'm going anywhere else so, I needed to just toughen up and get this done. It did not go without it's bumps in the road, one being that my b*ll busting lawyer never made sure I had a certified final copy of my divorce, and my MIL rescued me from having to tack on a day in Provo re-living that nightmare and picked up my papers for me. (Thanks, Mom.) My lawyer was so scary even I was afraid of him, but he was incredible and I left that situation in a good position and having a healthy respect for lawyers that don't actually worship the devil-- the devil worships them. I was lucky to have him.

Anyway- so to make a boring short story long and boring---I have my license, I had to take the written test and I about freaked myself out over that since the guy in line ahead of me failed TWICE and was sent home. How do you fail an open book test twice? And half of the questions, Greyson could get correct. I passed and only missed one question.

So I'm an official Utahan.

Also Boris is getting noisier and happier. He has barked a little every day- it's a scratchy smoker's bark, but it's a bark. Boris is communicating. Boris is happy and last night Boris slept beside my bed all night long and outside of a rather spirited dream he was having(Chasing bunny rabbits), was quiet and happy all night long.

Awesome LDS artist

I forgot to mention another booth we loved yesterday, he's a local artist who wanted to take some of the Book of Mormon heroes and make pictures of them that were a little more contemporary. They are amazing and we loved his work. It almost has a little of a Lord of the Rings look to some of it, but we were really impressed by his designs and love his stuff. The price is not bad either. He even designed a poster for girls. Share this website with family and friends, so he will keep doing what he is doing.

http://mormonheroposters.com/cart/

Boring weekend report

Yesterday we went to a Christmas craft fair, it was fun, but packed. The girls and I find a nice booth from a Utah based company that sold all sorts of yummy jams and syrups, and we bought some stuff there. Matt found a booth that imports sculptures from the Philippines and he was able to order the one thing he wished he had been able to bring back from his mission. I won't say much about it, but we are all really excited to have it in our home. They are made to order, so we probably won't have it by Christmas, but Matt has wanted this sculpture of Moroni for 15+ years.

Afterwards we went to IHOP and then had family movie night and watched H*llboy 1&2 with the family. I forgot that the first one was the grosser of the two. Yech. As someone who can't stand to hear the sound of a person stepping on a bug-- there were a lot of critters that got crushed and splattered in that movie.

Matt got a good nap in today, and I spent the time playing mobwars and recruiting people to join my mob. I cannot believe how addicted to that dumb game Matt and I are. He's doing better than I am money wise, but Ihave a bigger mob than he does. I'd kick his rear, but he is in my mob and you cannot turn on your own-- not that I would.

Also, if you go to my friend Kayla's website (digiscrap101) she posted a winner for her Candid and Creative challenge. I lost steam about halfway through although I did take pictures every day for the challenge. However, I was the winner of the challenge and won a new HP printer!!! Our printer bit the dust recently and we have been shopping around for a new one and this solves that problem!

Thanks Kayla and your awesome site at http://www.digiscrap101.com/. I tell you digital scrapping is a fraction of the cost, all of the art, and none of the mess. There are products for all types in digital, they have premade layouts and albums you can just drag and drop your pictures onto, upload them to Costco or wherever, and print up a complete album that took almost no time to make. Or, for the more advanced you can manipulate and create your own embellishments and designs from scratch. It's a great option for the perpetually disorganized like myself,lol.

Shaken, Not Stirred

It opened today. Of course we went. Like you need to ask.

Boris

Continues to improve. This week we saw 2 big leaps in him that I wanted to share. Earlier this week, Boris was jumping around acting funny and I figured he was doing his typical pee dance, but it turns out, he was playing. I'd lunge for him and he'd lunge back. He kept this up for a few minutes before he got a little overwhelmed. I'm going to start introducing a toy with this and see if he will try and play "tug" with the toy. We were all just so happy and thrilled to see him trying to play. It's a big step.

His second big leap was today, when we send him outside to go potty he has pretty much figured out to go, but when he's done her gets himself absolutely hog tied in his tether in a matter of minutes. It's very retarded. Today when I let him out, for the first time, he scratched at the door to be let back in when he was done. He simply went to the bathroom and didn't freak out. He actually communicated to be let back in.


I am really loving watching this dog come out of his shell and feel safe. I was really frustrated and worried for awhile, but he has taken a few huge leaps in progressing towards just being a happy dog.

It's a small world after all

No, I'm not thinking of some profound life lesson that reminds me we are all the same here on this tiny planet-- I have "It's a Small World" running through my head over and over and over again.

Tonight we surprised Romy and took her to Disney on Ice. She pretty much figured out the surprise when I made her wear her Cinderella dress she got at Disneyland, but she was excited. We took her downtown to a fancy dinner at Denny's and then to the show. The place was sold out, and she really loved the first half, all the princesses came and skated, they did a Finding Nemo bit and a really cool "Its a Small World" bit where the song was played about 4 hundred times in a row. She ran out of steam for the second half so we scooted out just as the finale was starting.

It made me want to watch Mulan and it also showed me that Romy has seen almost none of the Disney Movies Parker use to know by heart. She hasn't seen Mulan, Pocahontas, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, The Lion King, or Hercules. I remember scrimping and saving to buy those videos for Parker and then watching them with him over and over again. The days before cable. The days when I had one TV and it was in....gasp.... THE MAIN LIVING ROOM. (Shudder.)

I need to watch those movies with Roe and Grey and I need to get that heaven forsaken song out of my head.

Family

My brother is in town, doing some work for my mom and Ted. My sister, Lisa also moved back to Utah this past week and so it is the first time all 5 of us kids have been together since Sy and Ana moved to Indiana. We all met for Dinner at the Golden Corral tonight along with MeeMaw. (thanks, Mom)

Everyone is going through some massive life changing things right now. Everyone is. Each one of us currently feels the weight of the changes occurring on our individual lives. Each one right now for personal reasons, is waiting for the light to come. We are all holding on and tonight, as I sat and joked with my brother and sisters, as our children danced and played together, as we looked at the faces we have seen through every emotion-- faces we have laughed with, faces we have had pillow fights with, faces we have had terrible fights with, and faces that we have always forgiven, it felt like family. It hasn't felt that way for awhile I think, we all got wrapped up in some individual perfect place we were going and we all kind of realized we were supposed to be paying attention to the journey, not the destination.

It matters how you get there.

Ends don't justify means.

I have a good family and I am glad we can be real with one another and that it is okay to laugh even when you're kind of drowning. It is the love of family that keeps you from going under.

At least that's how I feel tonight until one of you siblings ticks me off. I'm kidding. You know in this family you don't actually have to DO anything to tick one of us off.

cards

Here are some really bad pictures of the cards I did for a swap.The photos are terrible but I'm tired.

This one looks orange here, but it's a cranberry red.

The ghost snowflakes are sprayed with Glimmer mist from http://www.mytatteredangels.com/

Thank you, Brian Regan

For those who don't know- we are big Brian Regan fans-- Matt and I took Parker to his show last year and we listen to his comedy CD at least every couple of weeks. All of the 7 kids know most of his sets by heart- he;s great because he is hilarious and he is clean. No swearing and dirty jokes and his shows sell out super fast everywhere in Utah. He has a "donut store" bit that is such a riot:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1Yzb3WhnQo

Every so often I surprise the kids with donuts for breakfast, and today was that day. Greyson saw them and excitedly came to our door, so excited he was out of breath...."Dad!!! Dad!!!! Guess what!!! The donuts...they're.....they're like in the joke....the sprinkles......" Matt gave me a puzzled look and I started to laugh.

"Do they have sprink smidges?" "

"Yeah!! It's so funny! I'm gonna go tell everyone-- and ALL the donuts are like that!"

Matt: "It's a Sprink Smidge for crazies like YOU!"

Grey" For LUNATICS like you!!!" and he ran off giggling.

All the kids are now walking around saying "It's a sprink smidge for lunatics like you!!!"

Why yes, it is my third post in one day

And????

Matt called from work at 4:30--he had his suspicions that he was being attacked by the death virus. It has been confirmed...Matt has the plague. All 4 kids went to school today and did okay but the boys were too wiped out to go to scouts, I could no longer put off a few errands and dragged myself to the Target today and picked up the kids and I am pooped.

Tonight when the girls came over, we did pizza and looked at blogs on Mom and Dad's bed. This was the reaction Kate had when she read Z's latest blog post:

Greyson also delivered his official, formal Christmas list.

Grandma Layout

Did this one of my Grandma and Grandpa on their wedding day.

Feeling better

I'm recovering, all of the kids made it to school today and I am determined to get back among the living today. While in bed I was able to finish another layout for my cousin's project. I hope the other cousins send in pictures and it turns out to be complete. I don't see my cousins much but I do love them all a great deal. This layout is of Sunnie and her family.

No school tomorrow for Grey and Roe, so I think I will take them to a movie. They want to see Journey to the Center of the Earth and the older boys have given us flack about that- so tomorrow is a good day for that.

2 more victims

Parker threw up this morning and I was taken hostage last night. Everything hurts.

Oh goody....

Another one bites the dust.

Zane just threw up all over his room.

On another note, after hearing the vet report, Matt has a new love for the dog and was loving on him all evening. That and finally starting to kick some butt in Facebook's Mob Wars.

Boris went to the vet

I took Boris to the vet this morning, not an easy task with a 1 year old and two sick and whiney children to boot as a head cold is trying to take over your body. Good thing I totally forgot his leash. (ergh.)

We learned a lot. I was told quite a bit more about what puppy mills are like and how Boris probably had no interaction with humans unless he was being placed in a pen to breed. He probably has never seen grass and the outdoors until he was rescued and they based this on some of the clear tell-tell signs he was in a full on horrible Dateline news story type puppy mill.

As Mom and Z noticed, he has no teeth, it was probably done at a young age and therefore he knows how to eat dry food without them.

He has a tattoo in his ear,so apparently his name before we had him was "#70".

He was, in fact, neutered by the rescue people. We thought maybe they weren't being honest because he didn't look neutered, but they said when a dog is neutered late in life- they have a saggy you know what.

He has some mild eye problems, basically the world he sees is as though it were through frosted glass. He will probably go blind, but not for some time.

He is underweight. He has gained 2 lbs since we got him 2 weeks ago, he needs to gain about 4 more.

He is not 4 years old as the mill people told the rescue folk he is between 8-10 years old and so he is a senior citizen by dog standards and probably only has about 4-5 years in him left. He will get to live out his golden years in an atmosphere of love and care and safety, thankfully.

He has been "debarked" most likely. It requires surgery to verify but all signs point to this and seeing that he has every other sign of being just one of hundreds of breeding dogs-- he probably was. This procedure entails opening the dog's mouth and crushing the vocal chords. He cannot growl, he cannot bark. He is 100% defenseless in every way, he can't even scare anyone away.

He can be leash taught and I got some new tips on that and house training. We put him in the crate last night and he didn't like it but he did calm down and sleep in it. They said since he did sleep in it, he will probably take to it. We need to shower him with love when he leaves in the morning, but in a few weeks he will not be scared to go in, because he will know he gets to come out. He didn't go potty in the crate last night which is a step in the right direction for Boris who will poop and then fall asleep on his poop. He has stopped eating it completely. The vet says that means he knows and expects us to give him food now and it is a good sign that he can be socialized.

Because he is old it will take longer. He has all the lack of knowledge a baby does and all the dimwittedness a senior citizen has, but he is already showing big signs of being able to be normal. He will probably always be flinchy except around a few family members.

His temperament was one of the best they had seen in a puppy mill dog, most are super defensive and they were surprised he was so friendly, he wasn't just tolerant, he was friendly and they said that takes a really long time in a mill dog.

He is otherwise healthy and fine. I got an additive to put in his food to help with his dry skin and hair.

Anyway-- so we learned a lot about Boris, I almost cried when they described the many things they could see he had been through. What is wrong with some people? I am not giant pet lover, but for pete's sake- how do people who actually abuse animals sleep at night? How do they not know they are the scum of the Earth?

I LOVE the place I took him, it was just the vet at Petsmart but they were so kind and nice and full of advice and support. I needed to hear that Boris IS trainable and that I was making progress.

Dylan has been playing with Boris and it's funny. He sticks out his one finger, and Bobo will lick it and Dylan will laugh and laugh and laugh as the dog wags it's tail. Then he does it again. So stinking cute, I need to snap a picture of it.

Weekend Getaway

Matt and I stayed Saturday night and a Bed and Breakfast- the Castle Creek Inn, it was a nice place, more commercial than the place we usually stay, but we wanted to try something new. We stayed in the Rapunzel Suite and it was really romantic and just nice to get away and talk about us and reconnect as a couple. No talk of kid issues, ex issues, or money issues, just Matt and Chris talk.

We spent time downtown looking at the old buildings and houses and doing some window shopping. I'd never been to trolley Square before and unfortunately- a lot of it is under construction right now so there wasn't much to see. We still had a good relaxing after noon doing one of the things we love to do.

We had a nice dinner at Chilis and talked about what we remembered from our first date at the Chilis in American Fork. We revisited the topic of "quirks" that we had discussed on that first date. That first date we talked about the difference between quirks and dealbreakers. Quirks are the eccentricities we live with in another person and we accept those things about them as part of who they are as a unique person. It was funny to have Matt list what he sees now as quirks in me, and to have me tell him all the quirks I see in him. One of the things that has always worked with us is that we have pretty similar dealbreakers and a pretty high appreciation for one another's quirks. He puts up with my "food OCD" and I can do a perfect impression of Matt's morning mirror routine. We talked religion, politics, and about the future. It was nice to have so much alone time with my best friend and sweetheart. I love Matt so much and he really is my best friend in the world. It doesn't hurt that he is incredibly gorgeous.

The weather was wonderful all weekend until Sunday- and that was when we went home anyway.

It was a nice place to stay, but we won't stay there again, as I didn't care for the area it was located in. The courtyard was beautiful with a creek and the autumn leaves and I had one of the best weekends I have had in a really long time. Thanks, Matt for being so amazing. I will adore you until the day I die and long after that, forever and ever-- I love you.