Tag...your it!!

Its the game of blog tag!!! I was tagged by my cousin Melissa, who was tagged by her cousin.

For those of you that I tag, here are the instructions. Copy the post, paste into a new post, and fill in your answers. Then you get to tag people!!!

I am... a mother and love being one
I know... EVERYTHING, LOL
I want... a massage
I have... a beautiful family
I wish... Obama to be our next president
I hate... McCain/Palin
I miss... My Dad & Grandpa
I fear... Spiders and bees
I feel... exhausted today
I hear... thoughts running like crazy in my head
I smell... crackers
I crave... sleep
I search...to be a better person
I wonder... what people that are voting for McCain are thinking
I regret... nothing.
I love... my wonderful family and friends
I care... too much about people
I always...worry about stupid things
I am going...trick or treating tonight
I believe...that love is love not matter what sex you love

I tag - anyone who will do this!!!!!!!!

Yes we can!!!

OK I wont Say much about my political stance...but as most of you know I'm pretty democratic!
A friend of mine posted this on myspace and I wanted to share it with you all. Don't forget to vote on November 4th. It is a privilege, please take the opportunity to CHANGE the nation.

Stephanie Tagged me

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8 favorite TV Shows

1. CSI
2. NCIS
3. Sportscenter
4. Sunday football
5. BullS#$%(penn and teller's show)
6. Law & Order
7. Law & Order CI
8. Law & Order SVU

8 favorite Restaurants

1. Souper Salad
2. Cafe Rio
3. Chicken Express
4. Spaghetti Factory
5. Sampan
6. Tepanyaki's
7. Sweet Tomatoes
8. Arby's

8 things that happened yesterday

1. The coffee ended up all over the counter instead of the pot
2. I was late to work
3. I blogged
4. Talked to my Mom
5. We watched the world series and monday night football
6. ate pizza
7. Spent a few hours with my precious baby
8. crazy day at work

8 things to look forward to

1. Halloween
2. Thanksgiving
3. Christmas
4. what Taylor will learn today
5. Lunch with Grandma
6. Mom coming home
7. Going to the Broncos Game!!!!!!!!!!!!!
8. getting a dog

8 Things I Love about Fall

1. The leaves
2. The Smell
3. The Colors
4. Almost Christmas time
5. levis and hoodies
6. Halloween
7. Cooking Thanksgiving dinner for my side of the family
8. the meat that comes home from hunting trips

8 things in my wish list

1. Have my entire house clean for more than a few hours
2. a new wardrobe
3. Going back to school
4. a personal chef
5. TIVO/DVR
6. To lose some weight
7. To travel the world
8. To Keep in touch with all people that mean the most to me!

8 people I tag

1. Work friends: Jenna, Kristin
2. Family: Alex,Leslie
3. High School Friends: Amanda Turko, Nikki
4. Tausha
5. Mindy Johanson
6. Summer
7. Ashley F
8. Brooke B

Our 2nd Annual Pumpkin Carving

So for the last two Halloweens we have invited our friends over to carve the big orange gourds at our place. This year was much more fun than last. Taylor and her friend Drea were into it a little more than last year!! Not one kid cried this year!

We had 16 people in the house, not all carved pumpkins some were watching the MLB playoffs(mostly the guys). Becky made dinner for everyone, her chili was delicious. It is such a great feeling having such good close friends that you want to share fun moments like this!

Taylor was putting the guts back in the pumpkins at this point.

Take it out of mom's and give it to Aunt Becky

Of course Shalyse was the last one there and the last one to finish, but her bat pumpkin was incredible.

Marissa the lil raiders fan working hard on her raiders pumpkin

the baby girls cleaning up together. It was pretty dang cute

Sandee was a speed carver. She was in and out in no time

For some reason becky and I had pretty small pumpkins but ours took forever!!

our cute simple pumpkins, just like our family!!

Witches at Gardner Village

So after the Pumpkin Patch(see previous blog). We decided to stop by Gardner Village. When I was younger this was a yearly tradition, but it was called the Scarecrow Festival. It has changed drastically since then, but it was still fun to walk through the shops and see all the witches they had set up.

This witch was going for the hoola-hooping world record! She moved, she was really cute.

Taylor wasn't really sure what to think of the witches at first. Infact she was actually terrified when we first arrived but soon figured out they were not real.

This witch was trying to catch her dinner

The flying witch

"We wanna catcher not a belly scratcher" There was a pitcher but I guess she wasnt very cute cause I didnt take her picture.

My little Diva...she kicked off her shoes and started trying on any shoes she could reach, even if they didnt match. She is such a girlie-girl...what am I gonna do when she is older? Thank god I have friends and family that will help!!

Pumpkin Patch

Fall is by far my second favorite season!! The scents, the activities, the beautiful leaves and most of all HALLOWEEN!!
Since Taylor is getting older and leaning by exploration I decided that I wanted to go to an actual pumpkin patch to pick out our family's pumpkins this year. I was so happy I made that decision.

We went on a Tuesday afternoon with Susan and that was nice because there was no body else there. We had the whole patch to our selves!! There was no rushing no pushing people out of the way to get the pumpkin you want ;) We took our time and enjoyed it. I found this cute lil place called Maybe's Pumpkin Patch in South Jordan. If you want the address let me know. They had so many different types of pumpkins, ones that I didn't even knew existed, lol. They provided wagons and even a tiny wheelbarrow that Taylor loved to pull around, unless she was sitting beside it in the big wagon.

This pumpkin patch had all kinds of cute little picture perfect areas in their yard as well. They had straw and corn stalks for you to purchase as well as take the opportunity to take adorable Autumn pictures.

SINGLES WARD

So...there we were watching Monday Night Football(having a beer of course), and the doorbell rings. No one we are close with knocks on the door with out walking in shortly after. I guess everyone knows we are too lazy to get off our butts and welcome you in, lol. I was curious who would be here. I looked to see who it was and noticed I did not recognize who the two guys were standing outside the door. So I opened it, waiting for them to try to sell my something(Im such a sucker when it comes to those kinds of things). They asked for Cody Smith, I was thrown off guard so I asked who was here to see him and the taller guys replies "I'm John* with the local singles ward and this is Dave*" Of course I chuckle and told Cody who is at the door to see him. He comes around the corner with a confused smile on his face. Greets the two guys and right behind him is our beautiful baby girl. John* says "doesn't look like you are so single anymore." He was semi laughing as well. He then told us that someone had forwarded Cody's church records to their ward and they wanted to stop by and welcome him to come to church. We were all laughing. I kind of expected them to act like missionaries and try to push the lds card onto us but they were on their way as quick as they came. Then Dave* says as he is walking away "ya know you wont have to worry about us coming over any more, but sounds like someone wants you back at church so I'm sure you will see a missionary or two come by." We laughed cause we know it is like clock work that the missionaries stop by...except I havent seen any since the sister missionary started a yelling fight with me(that is a whole other story).
Living in Utah you expect to see missionaries at your door, but members of the single ward, that is just so amusing!!!
*names have been changed for privacy