Brad, Lisa, Makenna and Tanner

Sunday, November 28, 2010

November 2010

November has been a great month to spend time with family, remember all we have to be grateful for, and get some sweet deals along the way.
While Brad was taking his finals for the first quarter, my sister, her three girls and I went to the AZ science center courtesy of the Library culture pass. We had such a blast in all the exhibits.


Once the exams were done and and Brad recovered from his Post Traumatic Test Disorder, we were able to get quite a few things done including our Semi-annual car wash. This time we did it style.... we had a coupon for a free full service from AZ Car Wash. Vacuumed, washed, waxed and dried... Sweet! Check out how filthy those wheel were getting...yikes!



For some reason ASU still thinks Brad is an employee and gave him free tickets to the ASU Men's Basketball game, but we aren't complaining. It ended up being really exciting with a 3 pointer with seconds left for ASU to win the game.

For Thanksgiving we had wonderful food at my parents house and Brad made some delicious pumpkin pies. We got to see Harry Potter and did a little Black Friday shopping, but no early morning deal hunting this year.
I know I sure enjoyed Brad's two week break. We had so much fun hanging out with family and friends. Man I'm going to miss having a house husband around to do all the dishes and cleaning when he goes back to school this next week.

Monday, November 1, 2010

Halloween

Here is a little bit of the Halloween celebrating we did this year.

I dressed up as a fifties housewife for an awesome Halloween carnival put on by Brad's aunt Carolyn. She had tons of games , activities, prizes and treats for the kids (and adults :) ) Carolyn knows how to put on a party!

I have recently started some research marketing where I get paid to take surveys and try products. It's pretty pathetic reimbursement, but its fun to try new products that companies are wanting to put on the market. I can't say what the most recent product is but it came by special delivery and had some dry ice in the package. Brad and I love to play with dry ice, so we made some "spooky" Gatorade with it.
One night for dinner this past week I made up some "Mummy" dogs. I got the idea from the Family fun website.