December

Is life busy or what? I Can't believe December is already here and it's crazy the amount of things that are already on my calendar (well on the calendar I should keep and will have to start keeping) I thought this year would be a simple holiday season with being far from family and all. It hasn't felt like winter or christmas time with 80 degree weather until I hit the black friday sales early Friday morning. I go every year. This year I left my house at 4am to drive 45 minutes to Kona (now that is dedication) and once I was in the first store I thought "Now I KNOW it's Christmas". funny how hundreds of crazy people pushing their way through the store feels "like Christmas". I have almost ALL of my shopping done now thanks to that 5 hour morning shopping spree.

I am LOVING Macaroni Grill. I am working about 3 evenings a week and so Matt was able to quit his Alamo job driving the shuttle. It allows him more time with the kids and actually days off! He is loving his job at Hualalai resort and we feel so blessed that our 3 job schedules all work together so that one of us is with the kids. We all went to the beach yesterday for the first time in almost a month. Before we got in our swimming suits and all wet we tried to get a family picture but didn't have huge success. We got one that will work okay to send in Christmas cards...Yes I think I will attempt it this year. I haven't been on the ball enough to send cards the past couple of years but.... I think I can I think I can. Send me your address in a comment or in an e-mail (mattandkeri@Juno.com) and maybe I'll surprise you with a Christmas Card. :o) (even if you haven't moved in the past 15 years I will still need your address because I don't have any saved)

Give Thanks

i am thankful for...(in random order)

ice cream

my kids

my amazing Matt

popcorn

the gospel of Jesus Christ

the temple

paint

family

computers

my kids teachers'

macaroni grill

primary kids

netflix

the beach

sunshine

that our house is under contract (hurray)

turkey

pie

my mom is coming in January

have I mentioned our amazing kids?

chocolate milk

cookies

the pool

blogs

each of you

and lots more stuff

Happy Thanksgiving!

Pasta or Candy

I've been studying the menu for Macaroni Grill trying to learn all of the dishes. There are a lot of pasta's I'm unfamiliar with so I found this pasta quiz online. I didn't do so hot! I got 10 out of 24 correct. I did however do awesome on the candy bar quiz...what does that say? I got 15 out of 20. Give them both a try and let me know how you do.

Mac Grill

I had my first day of training for Macaroni Grill. Can you say yum yum!! I am so excited to be part of the opening team. It seems like we have a great management team and good balance of workers (old people, young people, middle age like me people). I have training every day next week so that will be a little insane! Then we practice on our friends and family next weekend and open November 24th! I can hardly wait!

Missed photo opportunities.

We had a fun Halloween but I missed out on all photo opportunities. We started the festivities early with the ward trunk or treat on Wednesday. This included a chili cook-off, kids activities, pumpkin carving contest etc. I was busy helping with the kid stuff that I totally forgot to take any pictures. This was also mom's last night with us and I am bummed I didn't get a picture of her with the kids in their costumes. Friday they changed into their costumes at school and the entire school had a costume parade. When I took my camera out of the bag to take pictures the batteries were dead! Of course I forgot to charge the batteries for trick or treating that night too. I did get a picture of Olivia before we left for the trunk or treat so I will upload that once we set up our other computer. She was "super girl", Dawson was a baseball player, Adam a tennis player, and Isaac was a wizard. They were easy, low key costumes and the kids were happy with them! Today I picked up a couple costumes on clearance for next year. Gotta love %75 off.

In other news we moved this weekend! It was a fairly easy move since we only have so much "stuff" I was surprised at how much we have actually accumulated in the 5 months we've been here. It doesn't take long. mostly just yard sale stuff (boogie boards, bikes, movies, books, etc) We are enjoying our new home and are busy getting settled in. We got approval from the landlord to do some painting so that makes me happy. I hadn't noticed how "pink" the interior was. It's a "wanna be tan" pink but it's definitely more pink than tan.

Matt is loving his new job! He spends time in some rather INSANE homes. multi-million dollar homes. They take good care of him too. He eats lunch everyday in the company cafeteria. That makes me happy because he gets fed well at work that lets me off the hook a little bit with good dinners (Just kidding, like Matt has ever cared what I cook for dinner). He use to always just want a peanut butter sandwich for lunch but he is enjoying the real food he's getting.

I've been using our laptop since being in our new place and I can actually see all of your blog backgrounds! They are awesome! The pages show up funny on my other computer, just plain. I hadn't even seen my own blog background so I was relieved that I like it. Ha ha.