Hotel Rwanda

Do you ever find yourself worrying, stressing, and obsessing over things that seem so important to you only to have something happen that put's your mundane worries into perspective? That's exactly what happened to me. I have been stressing about something completely out of my control and finding myself sad and angry when it isn't happening the way I want it to. I was feeling extra sorry for myself this past weekend when I watched Hotel Rwanda. I had no idea what the movie was about and was just one I picked up from the library. What an amazing movie it was! I think things like this happen for a reason, we are given event's and situation's in our lives that help to put thing's in perspective. This movie made me remember how lucky I am to have the life that I have. How lucky am I to have a wonderful family, a nice place to live, and all the other wonderful things that I take for granted!

This movie was SO good and I encourage anyone who hasn't seen it yet to watch it! It isn't very gruesome (the idea's of what happened are gruesome, but the movie doesn't have much blood and gore in it) at all, and is a time in history that everyone should know about (I had no clue that this had even happened!). This movie makes me realize how little I know about the world we live in today, and makes me want to learn more. What a great reminder this was to me, especially during this season, of what things are really important in life!

The Stage of Cheese

So we have officially entered the stage of cheese (or geese in Ayden's case). Ayden now say's geese whenever he see's a camera and pull's out an extra cheesy face. I suppose it's better than what the last 2 1/2 years have been, trying EXTRA hard to avoid the camera at all costs. It's pretty cute (for now :)) though, and I'm glad to get some easy shots of him! He sure has become spunky as of late and I'm really loving his funny personality. He sure can make us laugh! Can't wait to hear all the crazy things this kid has to say once he start's talking more!

*Don't know why the picture quality is so bad, their quality goes way down when I upload them on here! Sorry!

Some pretty cheesy faces!

Bad Luck Cluff's

So, many of you already know but Brian was in a motorcycle accident Thursday. He ended with a HUGE gash in his arm and got 25 stitches and 21 staples. He was pretty banged up all over and even had a broken toe! Poor guy! I know a lot of you don't like gross bloody pictures, but for those interested you can go here to read more about his accident and see some pics (I gave plenty of room before the pics if you just want to read about it).

http://briansgrossbloodyarm.blogspot.com/

So if that wasn't enough, we were going about our day today when I walked by our kitchen to see a TON of water! Our kitchen and laundry room had totally flooded and was about ankle deep with water! We realized it was coming from our washing machine and quickly shut it off and started throwing every towel and blanket we own down to try and soak it up (which didn't do much). We called the front office and they had someone come over with a wet/dry shop vac. (one of the REALLY good things about living in apartments!). But they weren't able to come for about a half an hour. In which time we were frantically trying to get rid of as much water as we could. It was a pretty stressful, messy situation but eventually we got it all cleaned up. Afterwards we checked out our washing machine (I was so scared it was broken and I'd have to use the quarter machines again!), and the knob that say's the load size was stuck between medium and large and we think it just couldn't sense when to stop adding water. So it seem's to be working fine now, which is good because I have about 10 loads of blankets and towels I need to do now!

So let's hope for a little bit of a calmer next week!

Halloween

I'm finally posting some Halloween pics! We spent Halloween with my family in Tucson. It was a lot of fun and Ayden enjoyed spending time with his cousin Sydney. Those 2 are so funny when they get together, both are so shy but always seem to end up having a blast and my family's poor ear drums will never be the same!

The whole weekend was pretty much a huge battle to keep Ayden away from the boys XBox area. This is where we could alway's find him, he wanted to be just like his daddy!

Ayden was Superman for Halloween! It wasn't very easy to get him to look at the camera!

Except for about 2 seconds where he randomly put his hands on his cheeks and said cheese! Don't know where that came from and have yet to see it since!

Here is my adorable nephew Easton as a skunk! He is SO cute and was so good while we were there (even though his mommy would probably disagree), I thought he was such a quiet, sweet little baby!

My beautiful niece Sydney as Belle, she is SO into Disney princesses and was so cute in her costume! She doesn't like all the scary stuff about Halloween, but getting to be Belle for a night was probably well worth all that!

Recipe Swap Blog

We have started a recipe swap blog! It's for all of us to share our favorite recipes that we have tried and love! There are already some REALLY good one's on there! The blog is for everyone who wants to participate, but want to keep it to just family and friends so that we know where the recipe's are coming from. If you are interested in participating let me know and I'll e-mail you all the information! Everyone has the username and password so you can just sign in whenever you want and post your recipe! Just remember to try and keep it to fairly simple recipes (something that everyone can do!), and we would like everyone to try to include a picture (just snap one the next time you make it). Anyway's it's been fun so far trying out new recipes and I hope some more of you want to join!

Go here to check out the blog!

Eclipse For Sale

Hey everyone! At our local library they have a little store that sells used books for really cheap. The other day I found a slightly used hardback Eclipse there for only $5! I wasn't sure if I had the hardback or not so I grabbed it because it was such a good deal. However, I DO have it in hardback so I was planning on selling it to Bookman's. I just wanted to see if anyone out there wants to buy it first. $5 dollars is about as cheap as you could find it for and it's only slightly used. So if anyone is interested let me know! Oh, and if anyone is in need of a vacuum let me know!

zoo fun

Yesterday there was a special day at the zoo where if you showed them your Fry's card you could get in free. I was so excited to go and spent all week trying to get Ayden hyped up for it! When we got there he could care less about the animals (they were too far away and most of them were asleep), but they had some really fun play area's that Ayden had a blast in. We also went on his first Merry-go-Round ride. It was so funny, when I first put him on he was so annoyed and tried to climb off, but as soon as it started moving he got this big smile on his face! He'd say wee and wow and just laugh his head off! It was so funny that I had to take him for a second ride! It was such a fun day, and just something different to do! I didn't get many pictures cause he was being a turkey about looking at the camera but I got this one which I thought was cute! Anyway's, it was such a fun trip and I'm so glad I decided to brave the heat and do it!