So many Santa's so little time....

A whole new level of hardcore...

There's this movie that just came out. I don't know if you've heard of it. It's called New Moon? Hhhmm. I don't think it's very popular. Oh well, I decided to go ALL OUT for it anyway!!! Talk about being crazy. My husband thinks I am. I'm ok with that! So first, before I say anything else, I need to give my sweet, talented friend Brooke a huge SHOUT OUT! This girl is A-MA-ZING! She helped me with about 75% of this "project" and didn't get any of the credit so with that said... THANK YOU Brooke! You're the bomb!!!

Ok, so back to New Moon.... I hosted bunko this month and thought it would only be appropriate to have a party centered around the movie premier. We had a blast. (Well, I did at least!) I did a La Push type setting with "real" drift wood that Brooke and I went and loaded by ourselves from the river. We had a fog machine and a sa-weet moon with a wolf in the back ground. I hung up blue vinyl to give it an ocean-y feel and then to top it off , the New Moon soundtrack was playing in the background. Home-made pizza was served with a tossed salad and Bri made some awesome wolf cupcakes! I also made "puppy-chow" since Jacob is sometimes considered a "dog"! The top two winners won Twilight themed necklaces from Nordstrom's and the third place was the New Moon board game. Everyone left with the new Twilight scented lotion from Bath and Body that was decorated with a Moon. We also had Jacob covered water bottles and IBC root beer!

After we played our bunko game, we headed over to the theater to catch the midnight showing. We were there for about 2 1/2 hours before it started but had a great time talking and laughing before hand!
All in all, it was a great night! I'm just so glad it's over! ;) Thanks again to everyone who helped... especially Suz, Brooke and Ben! You guys rock!! Oh and hello. My sister Lou came all the way down from Salt Lake to see the movie with me and the bunko gals! Thanks Lauren!! It was so fun having you here!

P.S. I seriously loved the movie. I have always, for the most part been Team Jacob but now I know I made the right choice! ;) But seriously, I cannot wait to see it again!

It was dang good! Fantastic! Um, Edward who?

Now, just how many more days until Eclipse exactly???

To see some more pictures of this awesome night, click here http://allthingsthrifty.com/!

Who doesn't love free stuff??

All right girlies, if you haven't checked out this site yet you need to head over there pronto! The girls at All Things Thrifty are having an awesome give away and you need to check it out. There are some fabulous Christmas decorations, pillows, and home decor. Hurry over and get entered to win!

However, I call dibs on the turquoise mirror! :)

K, go here!

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This was the first Halloween where everything

actually went pretty smoothly!

We started the festivities off on Thursday

with Benson's school party!

I was able to be a room-mom and help out!

We played Halloween games, made "mud pies" with worms!

They also got to do some trick or treating and then

sang us some sweet Halloween songs!

Friday, we went to the Ulrich's annual Pumpkin Carving Party!

(I totally forgot my camera for both of these events)

Ben carved a sweet pirate pumpkin and the Transformer sign.

They had tons of {DELICIOUS} food

and as always it was a great time!

Saturday, we were really lazy and didn't do a whole lot.

I made pumpkin spice scones and

then we had "Dinner in a Pumpkin" with our neighbors the {P's}!

We headed out early and the kids had a blast trick or treating!

Benson was a pirate and Hiley was a witch!

They both looked totally cute!

I need to give my mom a HUGE shout out for

making Benson's awesome costume

and Hiley's cute cape!

Thanks mom! One day, I will learn how to sew!

Hope everyone else had a safe and Happy Halloween! :)

Ugg...

Oh, how I love you boots.

Maybe one day we will meet but until then, know that I am thinking of you!

Saturday,

Maren, Mel and I went to lunch at Maggiono's and then did some

window shopping at Fashion Show Mall.

Melanie is a manager at Nordstrom's

so we went and checked out the New Moon Line

that B.P. is going to be selling!

I was in {L.O.V.E.} with the life-size Jacob cut out! So hot!!! ;)

Ben decided to join in on the L.V. fun so we picked him up

and went to Town Square where we hit up H&M!

Later that night we went to the UNLV/Utah game!

That was so fun! Ben was in heaven

especially since we got to tail-gate before hand!

We got to meet up with Spencer and Heidi too!

("Speidi"- everyone loved that!!)

Afterwards, we had dinner at The Cheesecake Factory

and then headed over to the Drop Bar at GVR.

Good times!

Vegas Baybeee

So this past weekend I got to go to Vegas!

It was so fun!

You know those friends, that even though you literally haven't

seen each other for years but when you do see them,

its like you're [RIGHT] back to where you left off?

(Does that make any sense?)

Well, that's these girls!

I have been friends with Maren since about the 4th grade.

(Mel and I since the 8th grade.)

They have {A LOT} of dirt on me! ;-)

We grew up in Las Vegas together and have managed to stay

pretty close throughout all this time.

Anyway, this was Friday night. First, we went to dinner at

Dos Caminos where our good friend (and server) Rachel

got us some fabulous hook-ups

and treated us like celebs! So fun and seriously so DELICIOUS!!

Next, we headed over to TAO which is a club in

The Venetian and also got VIP treatment!

(In Vegas, it's ALL about who you know!)

Kim Kardashian was there celebrating her birthday so that was fun,

you know hanging with the famous and all!

We were outta there {pretty} quick though.

Way too many people and I was pretty sure I was going to

end up with the Swine Flu! Haha!

(Seriously though, if you want to really feel your age, just head on over to one of those places.)