Gingerbread

It's been a week since we built our gingerbread house, but I decided to do a post about it. Gingerbread houses are something I've never made before, and it was surprisingly difficult. Although the process was frustrating, the end result was pretty cute!

Christmas Party!

December is here, which means the Christmas festivities have arrived. Yesterday we went to my Grandma Moore's house for the annual Christmas Party. It is always fun, and a bit dangerous (yes, I'll explain that in a minute.) It began with dinner, which is always a delicious part of the evening. Next came the pinata. This is the dangerous part that I mentioned earlier. Whoever invented it did not have a family like mine! We all gather into a small area (well, small, considering there are 20 0r 25 people jammed into it.) The pinata is hung from the ceiling, in the very center of the gathering. Then, the young 'uns are given a small, lethal bat, and are blindfolded. Sound like trouble? Oh, it is. It's the scariest part of the Christmas holidays. No matter how many times the children are told not to run in to get the candy until after the swinging stops, they never listen. I fear for their lives even more than I fear for my own! But, in the end they all have lots of candy, and it must be worth it to them!

After the kids' pinata, the adults get to play the bag game. Each person had a paper bag with a gift in it. My Grandma plays the piano, and when she stops, whichever gift you have is yours. I got a fleece blanket, and Tracy got the "dreaded" gift. The ugly dish. My mom got it a couple years ago, and decided to pass it on this year. We were the lucky ones to get it...

Santa came next. Actually, it was him and Mrs. Claus! They were so happy and so fun. We all got to sit on Santa's lap and tell him what we wanted. I said I wanted a Wii, and Tracy said he wanted Guitar Hero to go with my Wii. That would be wonderful! I got some pink golf balls from him on this visit, so hopefully I'll play next year!

That was the end of the party. It was lots of fun, and always something I look forward to during Christmas time. I'm already looking forward to next year!

Christmas is coming!

Okay, so now that Halloween is over, Tracy has decided it's time for our Christmas tree to go up. Believe me, I was lucky to get him to put it off this long. He's been trying to persuade me for weeks! Tonight was the night I gave in, and up went the tree. We bought ornaments (black, gold, and teal) yesterday, because I knew it was coming. Here are some pictures of the results of our first Christmas tree.

Three Things Tag!

Three names I answer to:
1. Hailey
2. Harb
3. Hay Hay

Three resturants I like:
1. Costa Vida
2. Red Robin
3. ABC Mandarin

I have planned this year:
1. Be a good teacher
2. Make my "person's" present for Christmas...
3. Get married (that was in July)

Three things I really want:
1. Some sort of gaming system, so I can play guitar hero!
2. A house
3. To be a good wife (I hope I am!)

Three pets I have had:
1. Oreo (actually, my sister's dog, but close enough)
2. Cody fish
3. Quillion, Quillzilla, Kitty (different names, all the same cat.)

Three things I did yesterday:
1. Attended my sister's wedding.
2. Attending my sister's reception!
3. Cleaning up the church afterwards.

Three things I ate yesterday:
1. Chicken
2. Pumpkin roll
3. Hamburger

Three fears I have:
1. Spiders!
2. Scary people breaking into my house.
3. Car accidents (for my friends and family...)

Three things I plan on doing today:
1. Put up and decorate my Christmas tree (for the record, it is Novemeber 2nd. Not normal)
2. Entering last weeks assignments
3. Making dinner

Three things I plan on doing tomorrow:
1. Going to school.
2. Grading some projects.
3. Cleaning my house.

Three holidays I love:
1. Halloween
2. Christmas
3. Labor Day (I love Onion Days)

Favorite beverages:
1. Diet Mountain Dew
2. Chocolate milk
3. Juice (all sorts)

Three people I tag:
1. Cami
2. Mary
3. Anyone who wants to do it!

Happy Halloween!

Well, we decided to carve some pumpkins for Halloween. We did it Wednesday night, starting at 8 (we thought we would have plenty of time before bed...) Come to find out, it's not as easy as we thought it would be! Two hours later, we finally finished carving them. Tracy did a scary skull head, and I decided on the vampire (I must admit, my fondness for Edward is what made me choose it...if you don't know what I'm talking about, shame on you :) ). They turned out great, but what a job it was to get them there!

Tracy's is the skull on the left, mine is the vampire on the right.

Is it winter already?

So, Tracy is strangely obsessed with warm coats...as in coats you would need if you were lost in the wilderness, and it were negative 50 degrees outside. Anyway, he ordered this coat from work, and recieved it last week. It's very puffy, and a little large for me! We decided we needed to snap some pictures of it, and here they are, for your viewing pleasure.

Park City

Well, we're back from our little vacation to Park City. It was so fun, and very relaxing! We did lots of things...including getting most of our Christmas shopping done!
We also went to the Olympic park, from the 2002 Winter Olympics. Neither of us had ever been there before, and it was quite fun!


A couple of olympic buffalo?

We're awesome skiiers!

Olympic medals...pretty cool!

Us in our condo