used to be a little kid with glasses in a twin size bed

I love fall and winter because of all the exciting holidays.. and for the pretty colors outside, which includes white when snow covers every thing. And today was the first day of snow here! It stopped after a little and then melted very quickly, but still.. it was exciting.

Also kasey chad and i carved pumpkins this past weekend. They were both pretty much pros. I've always just done triangle eye plain pumpkin carving my whole life. I looked for some old pictures and here are two....

This ones from 2007, ben is pretty good at posing.

And this ones from last year (2011), Chad stepped on it before i could get a picture of it....

And here is this years! It goes in order from left to right of chad, kasey, and mine.

And... one of my favorite parts of pumkin carving is baking pumpkin seeds afterwards! I cooked mine a little bit too long this time but they are still pretty good.

Your soul is like a secret that i never could keep.

Today we went to place called Ririe Reservoir.. its in Tex Creek wildlife management area. Its about 20 mins or so from our house. I found it on this website which has a bunch of other places i want to try going to another time. It was pretty cool. And an unexpected cool part was seeing the windmills up close. We can see them from in town and i've always wanted to drive till i got to them. The road that brought us to the reservoir went right next to them. Once we got to the reservoir we went on a little hike towards the beach area and hung out for a little it was fun. I'd want to go back some time and have a fire. So.. here are a Bunch of pictures!......

And lastly.. here is chad and i trying to take a picture.. chad almost always has a little trouble with this. 

Catching tear drops in my hands. Only silence as its ending. Like we never had a chance.

So today i had a little craft day with myself and the final season of one tree hill. One tree hill was a high school drama show i started when i was 14 years old. I finally got around to watching the final season that came out this past April. It was dramatic. I cried. It was good... but anyways, while watching it i made these little things. I had been saving these jars for a little while now and finally thought of something to do with them...

Cause you're beautiful.. drop dead.

A couple things to mention from over the past week:

Kasey stayed with us over the weekend it was fun! I fell in love with a dog named Watson while we were at the animal shelter. 

I had my first etsy sale! I mailed it off yesterday. Going to to post office made me realize that i had to raise the price for shipping on these vase and branches things im trying to sell because they are much to big to fit in any of the cheap flat rate boxes. The only box they'll fit in is called the game board box (which they don't sell in stores so i ordered some for free online, should be at my house in 7 days) and those cost $15.34 to ship. So pretty sad that it'll cost more then what im trying to sell them for. haha. 

Yesterday i made soup from scratch for the first time in my life. It was a chicken enchilada soup, recipe found here, and it was actually pretty good. We added sour cream and cheese on top which was delicious.  Next time i'd make it less thick.. more milk?.. and probably 1/4 less of each of the chunky ingredients. I like soups more brothy then thick. 

And here is a blurry photo i took the other day while chad and i drove to walmart to pick up my new favorite treat, cream cheese frosted cinnamon rolls. This picture just gets me excited because i think about winter and Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas all coming up soon! Also.. i just thought about how odd it is that all those big holidays are grouped together so closely? Strange. 

Probably blunt force trauma.

I forgot that i was going to post the Christmas names for the Parr family Christmas. Every year they draw names for who gets who a present. Chad and i were on skype while the names were drawn and i wrote them all down. Here they are!

Tell me about star wars.

Last week there was a 50% off clearance at forever 21 and i got very excited and ordered 7 things for $25. Today it came in the mail and i was surprised because it was a very little package. Inside there were only 3 shirts. I was very disappointed. They did only charge me for the 3 things but it was still upset. I called them  and they told me sorry and that the other things sold out and that i should have got an email about it. I did not. And it made me upset because there was even a second 50% off sale that i could have ordered other clothes if i had just known that those things were sold out after ordering them. But anyways...

I finally bought white wrapping paper for the background of my etsy pictures and posted two things in my esty store. {http://www.etsy.com/shop/lostkittenhomedecor?ref=si_shop}

Lately kitty knows that when we pick up the keys we are going to open the front door and she gets all excited and meows lots and jumps around the door. She reminds me of a dog a lot. There has been a couple times shes ran out the door and almost runs away from us. We decided to put her on the leash and take her to the park today. She was scared and just rolled around a first but then she started running and chad ran with her across this field that was like the width of a foot ball field. It was soo funny to watch. 

I think this is a really cute one of kitty laying down with a little leaf.

Here's kitty trying to run into the bushes. 

This is when we were leaving. It makes me laugh she looks mean and grumpy. You can also see how she has lots of grass and stuff all over her from rolling around.

And here is me and kitty! It was super sunny but rather cold. Its starting to feel like winter!

Wait till i hit the ground harder, wait to hear your heartbeat fast.

In our apartment we have 3 bedrooms. One room is ours, the other is the cats room, and the third is a craft room. Since we've moved in its been mostly a storage room but last night i started to organize it and make it look like an actual room i want to go into! I put up some pictures and got chad to put up my curtains.

I painted this frame quite some time ago and when we moved it got all chipped up and the gold from the original color started showing so i decided to sand paper it up a little. I usually don't like the ultra scuffed up look but i think it looks kind of good with these two colors. 

we don't waste no precious time

Just a little up date...

The other morning i went to floss my teeth (which is a real unusual thing) but i had lots of time so i thought why not. In the middle of flossing i heard something fall on the floor and looked down and it looked like a little rock. For a second i thought i should really start flossing more if there are rocks hiding in my teeth. But i looked in my mouth and there was a hole in one of the teeth. The little rock was one of my fillings.. so im off to get it refilled Thursday at 2:50pm.

Kitty has begun eating bugs. And she really seems to enjoy it. I can tell when she's found a bug because she starts meowing like crazy then i go over to see whats wrong and there's the bug. So far i've seen her eat two centipedes and almost a spider (i took it away from her before she could finish it) and chad says he's seen her eat a spider as well. She's gross.

Chads been studying for the GRE.. he rented 4 books from the library..

I think i broke our garbage disposal.

And.. im working on having an etsy shop.. perhaps..

hit me where it hurts im coming home to lose.

Yesterday was chad's birthday! He is now 24 years old.

 I was suppose to be working until 10pm yesterday but... i quit my job. By the end of the first day of work i felt depressed. I was cleaning the glass doors to the front of the store and on the other side in the hall of the mall was a custodian sweeping the floors. I was jealous and it made me realize just how much i enjoy custodial work. Working at the children's place wasn't bad.. it just wasn't good. For now on i've decided im applying to custodial jobs only because thats what i want to do!

Anyways.. back to the birthday.. since i wasn't working i was able to decorate with streamers that i had planned for and made a cool cake (i stood in the cake section of the store just standing there staring at the icings trying to figure out what to do for the cake, it took me awhile). but it all seemed to work out. Also since i wasn't working i was able to surprise chad by driving down to rexburg to pick up Kasey to celebrate with us. We went to chick-fil-a.. of course.. and then ate cake and opened presents.  

i set my friends on fire

A long time ago for chad's birthday last year.. or maybe valentines day.. or something.. i bought chad this hot air balloon/lantern. Chad saw them in the movie Tangled and thought it was really cool. Before we dropped off kasey back in Rexburg we all went and tried it out.

It was scary. I told chad and kasey that we needed to go to a very big field because it would be bad if it flew into any trees or roofs. We found a place and then chad got it lit. And it took off.. and kept going, up and up. It want sooo high up it was crazy! Eventually we realized we needed to go follow it, but by the time we got in the car and started following it it started falling very fast and we never found it again. But its biodegradable so it should be ok.

in this last picture the lantern was sooo far away you could hardly see it!

Also.... im employed! My new place of employment is the children's place. It is in the mall which is about 2 minutes away and i think the store is full of adorable things so i applied last week and got a call to come in for an interview today and then an hour later i was hired! Im quite excited. 

How do i get to those.

So this weekend chad's mom, two sisters, and brother came down to Idaho. Kasey is starting school this semester and is living in the dorms. We all went down and helped her move in and chad and i showed her around campus and were her classes are and such. It was fun. Im missing school already. Not the home work or waking up early (although i wake up earlier now then i ever did during school) but going to class and learning and taking notes and stuff.

Chad's family left this morning but kasey is still at our house hanging out. We are going to drive her back to Rexburg later tonight. Tuesday we are already planning on going back to rexburg to go to the cheap theater and probably see kasey (and get some mail from our old apartment).

Besides that.... We got a new couch that i looove! I'll take a picture of it soon. And Percy Walter died, i wont take a picture of that soon. He was probably sick before we got him......

And here are two pictures from when Kasey was moving into her dorm.

all jobs classified

So we did make it to the fair. I thought it was cool. It wasn't quite as impressive as the Alaska fair but it was still good. I didn't buy any fair food sadly, but we played some impossible to win games. BUT, chad won one! He won a gold fish. Out of all the games he really wanted to win a gold fish, which i told him was silly since you can just go buy a gold fish for 15 cents unlike the other prizes like giant purple gorillas and stuff. But surprisingly he did win, which was very cool. He has named the fish Percy Walter.

We bought Percy Walter a cool tank and have been keeping it inside of my bird cage so he doesn't get killed by darcy and kitty. Kitty gets really excited when she sees him and freaks out when i open his fish food. I think she likes the smell. Anyways when i took the tank out of the cage to take pictures of Percy Walter when i looked back at the cage and kitty was inside with the lid shut. It looked very funny, I laughed.

I always said i didn't want a black cat because they are so hard to take pictures of. I was trying to take a cute one of kitty and Percy Walter and this is what i got. haha. A big black blob with a fish.