My Monday randomness

well one of our pumpkins completely rotted and slowly sank down on itself so when someone touched it last night it basically exploded rotten pumpkin guts everywhere. We never got around to carving which the kids were kinda bummed about. I got my first sleep in the morning in 2 weeks, well it was kind a sleep in. I had to get up and help Kirk find his keys and tie but then I got to go back to bed. I'd still be sleeping since the kids don't have school and they are still sleeping but Matt had wrestling practice at 9. And Matthew in a good mood is a beautiful thing! I'm reading the 5 love languages of teenagers and loving it.
thats all, thank you.

Seminary breakfast

So I'm feeding the seminary kids today. It is a class of 45 students.I was going to make moms cinnamon rolls but I spent 6 hours at church last night with Young Women in Excellence. So seminary gets honey nut cherrios, bannanas, pillsbury cinn rolls, oj and hot chocolate. I was a little stressed out but now I realize it was silly, they are teenagers... they love all food at 6:50am! I bought 45 bannanas nbut it looks like 4 were eaten. Good thing I like to freeze them for my protein shakes!!

look this is my fellow bloggers halloween page and there I am!! HAHAHAHA so cute!

My pretty shoes that aren't the most comfortable about halfway through the day

Shoes and happy endings

So i spend a large amount of my time at work on my feet walking through the store. I love all my shoes, but they don't all love me after a couple of hours. So I went to Macys with my very first check to buy some comfortable and yet still cute black shoes. They had them in 1/2 to big and 1/2 too small so i ordered these shoes. After asking 3 or 4 random strangers what they thought of course. I was so excited when they came in yesterday and this morning I was so bummed to be going to work on this beautiful Saturday but I was excited to wear my shoes. So i took them out of the box and put them on and was immediately disappointed, not only were they not comfortable, they were awfully uncomfortable!! I tried walking around and was so bummed, took them off and then noticed I left the cardboard still in them. Once the card board was gone they were fabulous just like I hoped they would be! And they are shiny black like a beautiful piano!

My new adventure

So we have decided to try a new adventure. I am working. We have been feeling very strongly that we need to be out of debt and yet seem to be sinking in it rather than rising. We read the Dave Ramsey book about money and I'm been cutting coupons and trying to not forget them every time I go to the store, which is harder than it sounds. But we just couldn't get ahead of all the kids needs and bills etc. So I began sending out my resume, I sent a lot of them. I was on craigs list a lot since they have job postings. Finally about 2 weeks ago I sudden;y got 2 offers to work part time at preschools. But then I saw a craigs list posting for piano sales at Steinway gallery. So i applied and t make a long story short I talked them into hiring me and they talked me into taking on more hours than I originally was looking for. It has been a lot of work and a lot of fun. I got to sit at a desk and listen to the Five Browns practice for 3 days, I got to laugh and joke with them, I also got my picture with them! I got to meet Franz Mohr this week who had the most wonderful stories about the world famous pianists that he traveled the world with. He is one of the most pure souls I've ever gotten to spend time with. And the crowning glory? This weekend I sold my first piano! A very expensive very wonderful piano! AND I was the top seller of the sale :) out of 7 very experienced salesMEN. It was a wonderful addictive feeling! Now I can breathe a little better and see the hard work paying off and I am grateful. I am most grateful for Kirk and I my kids who really stepped up to the plate this week, got their homework done, did the dinner dishes and got a long! It was a beautiful thing! Kirk gave me a wonderful blessing on Friday and I took notes and will find peace and comfort in during the months to come!

My attempt at pumpkin cake pops

I know better than to assume that I can make something that looks like it does in a catalog! I mean really! And yet when I went off to YW last night armed with this recipe I expected slightly prettier results. And the girls ate so many of the cake balls before we stuck them in the freezer that several felt too sick to even put on the orange candy coating! Note to self, Kristen's recipe was better, 15 minutes in the freezer is NOT enough time! they kept sliding off the sticK Plus the churches freezer is pretty week.
*On a very important side note, they tasted fantastic!*