Don't hate...

So I'm totally not the biggest fan of Halloween.

Here's why:

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1. It's orange and black. Bleh.

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2. There is always all sorts of stress about finding a costume that is better than anyone else's, which usually results in people being sad that their costumes kind of suck.

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3. The candy is expensive and is way way cheaper on November 1st.

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4. I live in a complex, not in a neighborhood, so I hate passing out candy. And by that I mean that I close our screen door and try to look as uninviting as possible.

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5. Kids aren't resourceful with costumes anymore. When we were little we never had store-bought costumes, we would come home from school, dig through the costume boxes, then throw something on and call it a two-headed monster. (A picture of me and Kev as the two-headed monster will make it's debut soon!)

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6. Oh yeah, and I wish kids were as white trash as we were. We never had buckets to put our candy in, we would use pillow cases. Probably the ones that were on our pillows earlier that day, and they might have been put back when we were done.

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7. I hate it when anyone over the age of 12 trick-or-treats. Buy your own candy and stop being greedy.

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8. For some reason, people that are generally sensible when it comes to fashion feel that Halloween is a perfect opportunity to bust out the uggos in forms of vests, over-sized orange t-shirts with sleeves rolled up, decorative pins, and animal ears. Basically, Halloween equals an excuse to be unattractive.

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On the other hand, here are two reasons I like Halloween:

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1. We are watching this tonight. Totally the scariest movie ever.

2. The Annual PCC. Erica described it best here.

Anyhoo, Happy Halloween everyone. But better yet, happy November starting tomorrow!

I LOVE NOVEMBER!!!

Sneak Peek...

Since I am almost convinced that our house will never be REALLY finished, I have decided to give a sneak peek of its debut.

Meet the newest member of our household:

Mr. Comfortable Recliner of the Universe.

Recliner you ask? It looks like a normal little chair...does it really recline?

Yes, it sure does. Allow Philip to demonstrate:

It reclines and it is incredible. Probably our favorite purchase ever. And now you've met the corner that we lovingly refer to as our reading nook.

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In other news (or pictures), I have very adorable nieces and nephews. Here are my two favorite pictures that I took at the park last week when we hung out during Priesthood Session. Anyone that is a professional photographer cannot judge these based on quality, just look at the cute factor.

I want to marry these kids' blue blue eyes.

And last but not least, a big fat THANK YOU to everyone with your congrats and warm wishes! I am really excited to start school, and if anyone wants a really slow and really cheap cleaning during the next year and a half...let me know.

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I will start school at Rio Salado in February. The hygiene campus is in Downtown Phoenix right next to a homeless shelter, awesome right? It is year round, which I'm actually really excited about, because that means that I will graduate in 15 short months! Hooray for May of 2009!

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And since it is super full time, I won't be working at all, which makes two of two in our family that are not working and just going to school. Soooo, if anyone would like to give us thousands of dollars to live on for the next couple years, that would be awesome!

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So life is basically great, and so is this weather.

Wouldn't you agree?

AAAAHHHHHHHH!

Guess who got accepted to

Hygiene school?!!

I DID!!! We celebrated with large amounts of meat.

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And my internet finally decided to work, so I finally uploaded the accompanying pictures of this momentous occasion.

Happy Birthday Rissa!

Today was my oldest niece, Marissa's 9th birthday, so we had a little celebration tonight. Aly made chocolate mousse for birthday cake, which was absolutely lovely.

I gave her a little journal that I made, and she seemed to really like it which made me happy, and greasy apparently. Then Noelle told me that she wants one for her birthday too, but instead of "Journal" being written on it, she wants "Secret Diary" written on hers. I love those girls. And Rissa modeled her new outfit, which I love. I am especially in love with her leggings, which bless her lucky little chicken legs, will always be baggy. Then we decided to take lots and lots of pictures of us being Uggos.

Sara had to leave a little earlier than I did, so Noelle jumped in her spot.

It was a fun sexy time for us.

And since I haven't posted in ages, here are pictures of last weekend with Lizzie loving on the crow at Michael's. Oh, and in case you're wondering, Oakley eats bean burritos. A boy after my own heart. So other than that...I have had NOTHING exciting in the least bit going on. My house still isn't finished, I not expecting to hear back from school for another couple weeks, I haven't made any exciting purchases, and I watch a lot of TV. So if anyone wants to talk to me about my TV friends, feel free. Oh, but I am really really excited for conference this weekend. This will be our first conference with the dvr, which means we can start it a few minutes late and just fast forward through the choir numbers. Awesome, huh?

Just kidding, I don't REALLY want to do that...