Animal Crackers in My Soup.....

How adorable are these circus cookie cutters? They look like so much fun and easy to use. Check them out here. I love Williams-Sonoma. I think I could spend a fortune at that store. I'm really wanting these cute cookie cutters and thinking I should add them to my Christmas list. It's not too early, right? After all, Santa is always watching.

Pumpkin Dessert

Tonight is my card club. This month it's at my house. We're to have made Fall cards (Halloween, birthday, whatever). I'll try and post a picture of mine later. They're fun. I'm always excited for card club nights, but it's also great to have everyone come to my house and be able to make something fun for dessert. I was glad to have this month since I'm going to make my favorite pumpkin dessert. Yummy! Perfect time of year for this kind of treat. The recipe is below. Try it out and let me know what you think.

Pumpkin Dessert

1 lg can Easy Pumpkin mix
1 sm can evaporated milk
2 eggs
Mix together & spread into 9x13" pan.

Melt 1 cube butter
Mix into 1 pkg yellow or white cake mix.
Crumble on top of pan.

Bake 45min-1 hr at 350 degrees.

Serve warm with ice cream! :)

Fare Thee Well Dear Friend

Has anyone else heard this. Mother's cookies has gone bankrupt and closed. What?! No more frosted circus animals? No more yummy cookies? No more different colors for holidays? Those are my favorite. The world must be coming to an end.

Lookie What I Got

Remember how my sister gave me a gift card to Aeropostale. Well, lookie what I got this weekend. I headed over to the Aeropostale in Jordan Landing on Friday to find something fun to get. I found this fabulous white hoodie, only they didn't have it in my size. I had the sales girl call other stores for me, but no one had any. Blast! Just my luck. I went home and checked online, thinking maybe my luck hadn't quite run out yet. Nope, no white ones. But I did find this just as adorable black hoodie. It's got faux fur inside the body and hood. How fun and cozy is that? I called all the stores, and finally found one at Fashion Place. I had them put it on hold until Saturday.

My Friday night wasn't the best I've had, considering everything went wrong. Let just say I forgot to bring my gift card when I went over to pick up the hoodie. Sure was glad they were holding it until Saturday. I finally made the trek again Saturday afternoon and purchased it. Thanks Laura, Greg and kiddies for helping make my purchase. Hooray!! I'm now looking forward to some cold weather so I can sport this baby.

And it Goes On....

I just received another birthday present from a great friend of mine. I love when your birthday is spread out. I think it's fun to get presents on different days, and not all at once. It definitely draws out the excitement and fun.

Has anyone else seen this movie? I love it. It's such a great chick flick. I think I'll be enjoying this one tonight. If you haven't seen it I'd suggest renting it. Fun flick.

Win a Purse!

I'm quite the purse addict. Click here and you can enter to win a free handbag. Hurry and do it now. You may enter more than once if you post it on your blog, or send to friends.

Fantastic Weekend

I had a great "birthday" weekend. Hooray! Friday night I went to Red Lobster. Yummy, I love fishes. Saturday night I went with my mom to Zupas for soup and sandwiches, and then we went back to her house and watched a good chick flick. Sunday we had my family birthday dinner at my parents house. I got some fabulous gifts from everyone.
I got this sandwich maker from my brother and sister in law. I love me some grilled cheese. Mmmm!
These cute shoes I've been wanting since forever, plus a fun Christmas plate I've been wanting since last year from my parents. Yay!!
This adorable stamp set and a $10 gift card to Aeropostale from my sister and her family. How spoiled am I?!

Thank you to everyone that wished me a great birthday. I have such wonderful friends and I feel so loved.

It's My Birthday Today!

I have the cutest kid's in the world this year! As they came in this morning after the bell rang, a bunch of them had got me birthday presents. How sweet! I got a plant, some lotion, chocolate, etc. I feel so loved. It's cute how excited they get to give you things or make little cards or pictures. I treasure some of those cute letters and homemade gifts.

Tonight I'm going to dinner with some great friends. I'm so grateful that my friends have been so supportive for me at this time. Some days are still hard for me of course, and it's great to know I have such wonderful, caring friends that are there in my times of need!!

Who Would've Thought

As some of you know I'm not the "sewing" kind of gal. Growing up I dabbled in cross stitch, crocheting and those hook rug things, but that's about as far as my expertise would stretch. There are many projects that I never finished because I would get too impatient that it wasn't done or I just found it too boring. I commend those of you that do enjoy sewing, etc. My sister and mom are huge fans of quilts and such. They have their own sewing machines and find it relaxing and enjoyable to work on things. I however am not one of those people.

About a month ago I went with my mom to the fabric store. Let me just add that this was a great feat in itself, I dread going to such places. Walking around with my mom I was admiring the cute holiday fabrics. They had the most adorable Halloween panel thingy. My mom was saying how you could quilt it, put backing on it, and it could be a wall hanging that could be finished in short amount of time. This was definitely not one of those intricate, piecing, laboring, fancy schmancy quilts that would take me decades and then some to complete. Who knows what got into me, but I found an interest in it, and bought it. I spent 2 weeks of my time while I was off track working with the help of my mom to sew it all together. It's now hanging in the hallway of my house. It's quite my accomplishment.

My sister has found it quite entertaining that I made a quilt, considering I've been quite vocal about how much I hate to sew, and it's boring, blah blah. I bought myself another panel thing to quilt, this one being a Christmas one that will hang on my inside closet door at the top of the stairs. Who would've thought I'd like doing such things. But don't think I'm going to become an addict now, my sewing experience will be coming to an end after this Christmas one. I don't think I'd have the patience or interest to do too much of this stuff. I'll have to take a picture when I get home from work today and post a picture of my Halloween quilt.

It's All About the 8

I found this on Natalie's blog. Fun stuff.

8 Favorite TV Shows
1. Lost
2. The Office
3. Dancing with the Stars
4. Priviledged
5. Rachael Ray
6. 90210
7. CSI
8. Gilmore Girls
9. International House Hunters
10. Hidden Potential

8 Favorite Restaurants
1. Cafe Rio
2. Training Table
3. Chilis
4. Red Lobster
5. P.F. Changs
6. Pei Wei
7. McGraths Fish House
8. Rumbi
9. Kneaders
10. Zupas

8 Things That Happened Yesterday
1. Alarm went off WAY too early
2. Texts with some favorite people
3. Went to work
4. Realized how much I love my class compared to others
5. Dad came to hang up my Halloween on the wall (hooray, I'll have to post pictures)
6. Ashlie and Garrett came to visit (of course Laura came too....)
7. Went to Chik-fil-a with Ashlie and Garrett (not sure how to spell that)
8. Watched Dancing with the Stars. Love it!
9. Went to Barnes and Noble with Laura
10. Went to sleep by 11pm. Hooray!

8 Things to Look Forward to
1. My birthday in one more week!
2. Going to St. George this weekend
3. Not going to school on Friday because of before mentioned #2
4. Going off track in December
5. UEA holiday in another weekish
6. Hopefully getting recessed lights above my couch soon
7. Oh crap, I'm running out of things
8. Yup, definitely ran out

8 Things I Love About Fall
1. Cooler weather
2. Perfect for jackets, but not too freezing yet
3. Cuddling up with blankies
4. I can get away with drinking hot chocolate without being made fun of
5. It's almost time for my birthday
6. Opening the windows in the evening to cool off the house
7. Leaves changing colors
8. Oh, and did I mention my birthday

8 Things on My Wish List
1. Making healthy dinner at night, even though it's just for me
2. Working out
3. Organize my craft room
4. No more scary spiders surprising me first thing in the morning
5. Find a new cell phone
6. Meet more people in my neighborhood
7. Wake up on time in the morning, so I'm not in such a rush
8. Make my cards for card club before the last minute

8 People I Tag
1. Liz
2. Angie
3. Arianne
4. Kim
5. Julie
6. Brekke
7. Erin
8. And everyone else who wants to. Go for it!