Ryan Would LOVE This!

Picture Collage

We need to submit 15 copies of a picture collage of our family for our adoption profile. When perspective birth mothers go into the agency and we fit the match they are looking for the agency gives them a family picture, a letter we have written to the birth parents, and also a picture collage. So, here is what I have done so far...

I think I am done with it but, if you were looking to place a child for adoption what kinds of pictures would appeal to you? Do these work? Thanks for you input... (hint, hint)

I am planning on changing some of the font colors to make them easier to read but, do you see anything else?

Oh, it is not supposed to have any identifying information, that is why it only has our first names on it.

Good Friends & Christmas Traditions

You know the kind of friends that no matter how much time passes between seeing them it is like no time has passed at all? Well, I have many of those kinds of friends and one I got to see this past weekend. Britt, was one of my great friends in High School and even though we have not seen each other much since then we had a great time catching up. It is fun to see how much life has changed since High School.

Britt, you are amazing, I love you, and lets not wait another 100 years pass till we do this again!

Oh, by the way...if you are planning on going to see "Everybodies Fine" let me save you the most depressing 2 hours of your life and say "SAVE YOUR MONEY!"

Thanksgiving weekend we put up our Christmas Village. This is one of our favorite Christmas traditions we have. It is something we look forward to each year. Since we didn't get a real tree this year (in our efforts to save every little bit for our adoption fund) we decided to decorate the big tree with our keep sake ornaments. Another tradition Ryan and I have it that we get a Christmas ornament from every where we visit. NYC, St. Thomas, Jackson Hole, and Disneyland. There are many more up there but those are just a few. This is something we started when we first got married and the ornaments are growing! :)

Each year we add to the village and last year Ryan's mom gave us this one. It is a tree farm...we love it. It adds a lot of character to the village.

We were looking at houses at Kohl's the other day and they had a little shop that we have to add this year. They were all sold out when we were there but we are keeping our eye out. It is called "RYAN'S BIKE SHOP"! It was really cute and kind of has value given that this was the year Ryan rode in a ton of century rides.

30 ROCK...ROCKS!!!

If you know me at all you know the love I have for The Office BUT, now you should know this about me...I LOVE 30 ROCK!!! The Office is hilarious in a real "I know someone just like that" sense or a "who does that" sense but, man 30 ROCK out does its self. This past Thursday's episode had me crying I was laughing so hard. You know one of those really great laughs that has you tired afterwards, the kind where you just can't stop once you've started! That was how great this episode was!

If you have not been introduced to this show do yourself a favor and tune in!!!

Thanks to Ben and Chrissi for letting us borrow that first season which was the start to our beautiful relationship with characters like Liz Lemmon and Tracy Jordon!

Man, they make me laugh!

BLOG STALKING!

So, I haven;t done this in a long time but I thought I would give it a go....
CONCLUSION: I really enjoyed it! Many of your friends and family have really cute blogs. I know this is a bit creepy but i was board and just did it!

I also messed around with Photo shop earlier today and here are the results: Nothing mind blowing--I just changed the look of the whole picture as I was experimenting with changing the layers of the photo!

THE ORIGINAL

Anyone out there with mad Photo shop skills? I want to learn...TEACH ME!

Oh, by the way, thanks for commenting when I asked for it...at least I know people are out there.

More New Moon...

So, here is the fam and a couple of young women in my ward. They are the skinny ones...NO OFFENSE FAMILY MEMBERS! :) We just need to accept who we are! :) LOVE YOU ALL!

For some reason none of us wore matching socks! :)

This is Heather & Becky...they are HILARIOUS!

We got VAMPIRE teeth as door prizes!

And I am on my way to see it again tonight with Ryan...he is a good sport! Gotta love him!

Cougar Town

I hate to admit to being a cougar but...HELLO!

I saw NEW MOON last night and it is AWESOME! It kind of blew Twilight out of the water. But, my goodness every time that Jacob Black came on screen without a shirt on which was 3/4 of the movie i had to remember to breath! Sorry Ry! :) He is "kind of Beautiful!" Anyway, I will post more New Moon pictures later but I had to get this off his, i mean, my chest! :)

Edward needs to step it up a bit in the movies or I may just be switching teams!

Go Team Jacob!

Are You Out There?

I am pretty sure no one reads our blog anymore...well, at least that's what my comments tell me. So, if there is a reader that exists leave a comment and let me know that you are out there! Share the Love!

It is the SIMPLE things that make me happy!

Like a clean house and a FULL pantry!

And YES, I do line up all my canned foods and label my flour from my sugar! I know OCD! But, that is how I like it :)

This Is It!

We saw this last night and I loved it! Yeah, he is weird but AMAZING!!! He really was an artist. His death was really too bad. It is only in theaters for a couple more day so if you haven't seen it..GO! :)