It’s true, I’ve already caught up on the biggest thing in October, but there were other COOL things that I’ve missed on my blogging vacation. Things like MY BIRTHDAY!
This year my birthday was on conference Sunday. I woke up and I made so Pillsbury cinnamon rolls for Bryant and I to eat. I baked a cake… it seriously was an UGLY cake, so there are no pictures of it. Maybe I’ll make myself an un-birthday cake one of these days to make up for it. It still tasted fine, just was ugly. (I was running a little low on birthday cake inspiration this year… oh well there’s always other birthdays) Bryant and I put out rolls to rise and then I’m sure we did super cool productive stuff… what can I say I have a hard time remembering the everyday items. Mom and Dad got home from St. George, we baked the rolls and headed to Bryant’s parents house to celebrate Canadian Thanksgiving. Yes, it was 8 days early, but we were going to be gone on the normal celebration day, and Jake and Chante’ were in town so Patsy bumped it up. It was a lovely dinner and we played a few rounds of the couch game. Then it was time to open presents. Bryant spoiled me with gift cards to Kohls, Old Navy, Famous Footwear with some flowers and a dress and a SNOW-CONE maker… We haven’t busted it out yet, but then again we haven’t busted out 93% of our new gadgets…Sorry side-track… My parents and grandma gave me money and Bryant’s family gave me a gift card to JCP, and our kitchen towels. It was a fun evening. After wards, we went back to the condo, to unpack my stuff and mom came and touched up the paint in the Master Bedroom (A condo post to come later this week) Once again a lovely birthday.
Curtains opened the day after my birthday. Bryant is running the light board and I am again working in the office and running a spot for the show. It’s a fun show with a fun cast. But now five weeks in, I’m ready for it to be done and on with the next show. However if you haven’t seen it, you should… people love it on their first and second visits…
The day after we arrived home from the honeymoon, we went on a CRAZY shopping spree. We took our gift cards and our wedding money and checked over our registry and went to town getting our condo put together. We got everything unboxed and put in it’s proper place and cleaned in time for our family’s to come over and bring the wedding present to open. Yes, it’s true, after that we had to re-start the process but by the end of that night, our condo was stocked and cleaned and wonderful. We haven’t ordered our thank you cards yet… I know we’re a little behind… so in case you think I’m ungrateful, I’m not. I truly appreciate all the wonderful gifts, the endless support and love and one day I will write it in the form of a thank you card. I told B maybe we should consider combining thank yous with Christmas cards… we’ll see.
We had a wonderful breakfast with Sarah and Matt the following Saturday, before they drove across the county to start their new army life…. A post to my person should also be following this week or next. (Man I have a lot of catching up to do) For now, I will just say as I have before… I love my person that is Sarah. And I think of her constantly and miss her just as often.
On the 21st we had a lovely family dinner at Benihana. Bryan, Whitney, Sara, Chad and myself all had free meal vouchers for our birthdays being in October, so we decided to all go together. Parker went for his first time and thought it was pretty cool, although after seeing our chef and seeing the chef next to us, he would have thought it was cooler with the other dude… Oh well. After family dinner, Bryant and I went grocery shopping for the first time. The checker at Harmon’s was great! No more excuse not to cook dinner at night. Luckily for me, Bryant takes on that responsibility more often than not, since he gets home from work earlier than I do. So far we have stuck with the basics: spaghetti, tacos, bbq chicken, bbq beef sandwiches, chicken helper. Tonight we are trying out a new recipes… again I should say Bryant is trying out a new recipe, but I have total confidence in him.
For family dinner at Sara and Chad’s house, we carved pumpkins. Bryant and I bought a strobe light making our ghost and haunted house super awesome. Maes thought it was scary so we couldn’t keep it on too long, but it was super awesome!
We went and saw Curtains in October and had a GRAND time sitting up close and personal on the front row. We may have been a tad distracting for the people around us, as some of the actors made it known that they knew us, by either pointing, or making special faces… or it could have been when the spots put the spotlight on us. Either way, I had an enjoyable time.
For Halloween, B and I had to work at the theatre. We dressed up in the box office and I just went as Lexie Grey. Bryant had bought me scrubs for Med One’s dress up day… because while it may not have been by greatest costume… who doesn’t want to wear their pajamas to work! After we closed up shop at the theatre, we headed home and carved some more pumpkins, B has those pictures… Parker and Maelie came over so we could at least have two tricker treaters for the plethora of candy that we purchased. After they left, we went and had dinner and Johnny Carinos and then just headed home for the night. Maybe next year I’ll make us cool costumes and we’ll hit up a party or two?
Other awesome moments about October: I’ve started taking voice lessons again. I’m really enjoying myself and Cecily says I’m improving. Maybe 2010 will make three years in a row with an awesome show. I have my eye out on two right now, that I’d like to audition for, so we’ll see how it all plays out. We also bought a keyboard so I can play through my notes a little bit. It’s fun, our office has turned into a office/music room… Again, pictures will come shortly.
Stand-out moments in November so far… We drove down to HCT Orem and saw Little Shop. I feel like every show I see there, people just aren’t sure when to clap… Here’s a hint, when people are done singing a song, you should clap there. We stayed at Mom and Dad’s house, while they took Parker to Disneyland. I love seeing Kami every day, Bryant however did NOT love sleeping with her every night. Not that I super blame him, I slept in the middle of the bed and felt like I was in a restraining sleeping bag because both were cuddled up so close to me. (One reason I don’t like camping, it’s usually cold and I dislike being restrained in a sleeping bag). We went to the Draper temple with Justin and Cecily on Saturday morning, and were asked to be the witness couple. It was cool, since it was the first session B and I had done together. Although our cracky knees may have been distracting to others. We had Sunday family dinner at the condo. We planned to make the most delicious cheesy chicken broccoli bake, it was alright. It took longer to cook which frustrated me, and was nowhere as delicious as when VeeAnn makes it at the theatre. I might have to ask to watch her make it, to see where I went wrong.
There you have it, our first month of marriage. We work like crazy; cook, clean and do homework in our spare time, and play when we can.
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