4H

Okay, so I realize that's it's been over 2 months since I've lasted put up a post here and that all it I did was a cryptic post about how I have a 4H group so here's my explanation.

Back in September a friend of ours, Megan, got a job as the 4H coordinator for an Elementary School in Orem. She knew that I did theatre in high school so she asked me if I wanted to be the group leader for a club. I thought it sounded pretty fun so I said sure.

So I found myself in charge of 13 kids between 4th and 6th grade. We had good times as we learned about Upstage Left and Down Center Stage. I (kind of) taught them how to project their voices. We even did a few improv games. Then came the time to decide what we were going to do for our Parent Showcase. Well it made sense to have them put on a play but the tough part was figuring out what play. It could only be about 10 minutes because all of the other clubs were doing something for their parents too. So I decided to bring out the Shakespeare in me and write a play. It's called the 3 Wolves. It's the stories of the 3 Little Pigs mixed with Little Red Riding Hood and the Boy Who Cried Wolf. We'll see how it goes since 2 of the kids have moved, another told the other kids that I was "stupid" and quit coming and another just stopped showing up. I've combined as many parts as I could but if on Dec. 2nd a kid doesn't show up I just might have to make an appearance on stage... let's hope they all show!

So that's my story. It's been a lot of fun but a little stressful as well so I don't think that I'll be able to do it again next semester.

Baby Blanket

Our good friends the Tidwells just had their little girl - Ada Elaine. I couldn't make it to the baby shower last month, but I still wanted to get them something. Last night when I delivered the blanket I got to meet her. She's beautiful!

I found the pattern for this blanket on another blog, but it was really easy to make. I worked on it while Will and I watched a movie last night. You just get a yard of both flannels. Wash and dry the fabric, square the pieces and sew them right sides together, turn it right sides out and sew a 1/4th an inch seam around the whole blanket. It was easy and I think the final project turned out looking great!

Curry and Homemade Naan

This post is really just shameless bragging about my husband. I work from 12 to 5 on Fridays, so I don't get home until 6:15ish. The last two Fridays I've come home to delicious homemade meals. Last week he made homemade chicken curry and garlic naan (delicious indian flatbread) Pictured above. I don't know what I did to deserve him, but what a treat! And this past Friday he made homemade meatballs to go with our spaghetti. Like I said, he's amazing! Thanks Will!

Halloween

Will and I had a great Halloweeen this year. We started our celebration on Friday night. Will carved his pumpkin and we watched Arsenic and Old Lace ( I don't watch scary movies). Arsenic and Old Lace is one of my favorite old movies - I recommend it to anyone who hasn't watched it yet! Will was an extra dead body in the BYU production his freshman year, but had never seen the movie. He carved a pretty sweet pumpkim - a startrek com. I loved his idea! And think his pumpkin turned out great. (Notice the number of knifes it took to carve that pumpkin!)




Then on Saturday we had a ton of friends over for the Passey Pumpkin Potluck! Everyone brought delicious food - not all of it pumpkin, but still delicious! We make mac and cheese and served it out of a hollowed out pumpkin as pumpkin brains. We also make a peperoni
pizza and a barbecue chicken pizza, along with a pumpkin cheese cake - a little disappointing - it tasted so much like pumpkin pie. Our friends brought yummy treats: chocolate cups, pumpkin whoopies, cinnamon bread, soup, and lots of other treats. Below you can see pictures. Will and I dressed as Newies. My friends Sloane and Miranda were Peter Pan and Tigerlily. Carson and Jordan were Mulder and Sculley from X-files - yep their the friends we keep borrowing Bob's X-files DVDs for - they're really into them right now! :) Another favorite costume was Merrill as Quail Man from Doug. It was a really nice night we had fun hanging out with friends!

Monday In San Francisco

It's finally time to wrap up the trip to the Bay Area. I guess since Allie and Lee made a post on theirs that I just didn't think to finish ours.

We were flying out Monday night so we decided that we needed one last adventure before we left. Instead of going back into the city we took off in the other direction to see the Jelly Belly Factory.If you get the chance to see the factory I highly recommend it. We got to see the whole process from start to finish. You walk along the catwalks and look down at the workers as the are "expertly adding just the right amount of sugar to the polish machines" and you get to taste the little beans at each stage of the process.


At the end you get to go to the store and have a few more samples and purchase insane amounts of BellyFlops (ones that are too big or too small or stuck together). Zach was perfect throughout the entire tour. Near the end he just fell asleep, loud machine noises can do that to you I guess.


Later that evening we went to the airport and flew home. Completely exhausted for the week ahead of us but we had an absolute blast! Thanks again Allie, Lee and Zach!