A couple tags

I have a couple different tags I've been meaning to do lately and haven't gotten around to so I thought I would take care of both on them on one post today.

Eight T.V. Shows I Love to Watch:
1. The Office
2. That's really the only show I make time to watch.
3. I don't really have anything else I love to watch on tv.
4. Sometimes we watch America's Funniest Home Videos. Eden calls it the 'Silly Show'
5. Oh, I do like to watch reruns of the Cosby Show. And Friends
6. I usually watch 'Max and Ruby' with Eden, although I wouldn't say I love it.
7. I sometimes watch football and basketball with Andy, although I wouldn't say I love it either.
8. I just remembered, I love to watch General Conference.

Eight Favorite Places to Eat:
1. My parent's house/Andy's parent's house
2. Olive Garden
3. Newman's Pasta
4. Morelia
5. Sweet Tomatoes
6. Cold Stone
7. Disneyland :)
8. Anywhere I don't have to cook!

Eight Things that Happened Yesterday:
1. I went to the library
2. I drank some yummy hot chocolate
3. I made yummy pasta for dinner with Andy's favorite biscuits
4. I started a new book
5. I got to wake up to my Eden alarm clock which goes off later than my regular alarm clock
6. Andy and I read trivia questions to each other
7. I pet the cat
8. I ate 2 Little Debbie oatmeal cream cookies

Eight Things I Look Forward To:
1. Weekends
2. Eden being potty trained
3. Christmas
4. Living in Utah
5. Bedtimes
6. Vacations
7. Monthly book club
8. Thanksgiving

Eight Things I Love About the Fall:
1. All the pretty colors of foliage
2. Cool air
3. The urge I get to buy school supplies
4. I have an increased desire to bake.
5. Sweaters
6. Turning on our fireplace
7. Snuggling up with a good book
8. Soup and fresh bread

Eight Things on My Wish List:
1. More time to scrapbook and sew
2. A non-primary calling
3. A baby
4. A new wardrobe
5. A finished basement
6. A piano
7. A nice tropical vacation
8. I want to live in Sleeping Beauty's castle in Disneyland

For my other tag, I was to open my fourth picture folder and post the 4th picture in that folder. Here it is: This is Eden and "Grendpeppy" Bruce at the Betty Ford Memorial Gardens, which is next to the Gerald Ford birthsite in Omaha. We took it this past July.

I tag anyone who feels like doing either of these things.

Cookie, Cookie, Cookie starts with C

Last week we had an evening where we were all home and had nowhere to go. We decided cookie dough sounded really yummy and if there was leftover, we could make some cookies. Eden had a new cute apron Grammy made for her and I had a new cute apron Grammy made to match Eden's and Andy had a fairly new apron Grammy made for him to BBQ in so we donned our aprons and broke out the mixer (and the camera).

Eden loves to stand on a stool and help me do things in the kitchen. This is usually not helpful to me, but she loves it. She helped me scoop out all the dry ingredients and insisted on licking her finger to taste them all (it turns out she's not a fan of baking soda). She wanted her turn to crack an egg into the bowl (or as she says, "Bang it on the table and squish it in the bowl- which is exactly what she did). Then Andy and I picked egg shell out of the batter.

After that she got bored and decided to do her second favorite thing in the kitchen- wipe things off. She wiped off the counters and the floor and the table and me and the cat...

Once we were ready to pour the chocolate chips in, she was interested again. It was time to snitch cookie dough! She pulls it right off the mixer. You may notice the two packages of cookies in the background of this picture. Those cookies aren't homemade. It's totally different.

The dough turned out great. Oh, the cookies did too. Even with all our dough tasting we ended up with about 50 cookies. And sadly, they're about all gone. Good things never last...

Halloween Night

It's been a little while since we posted, but we're back online again and I have a few posts to do in the next few days. To begin with: Halloween. Eden wanted to dress up like Olivia, a pig from one of her favorite books. She didn't go for the pig snout and ears but she still looks adorable. I thought it turned out really well. Thanks again, Grammy, for making her cute dress. It was a big hit. For those of you who have read the Olivia books, you can kind of get an idea what Eden's personality is like. And she does know at least 40 Very Loud Songs.

We weren't sure how Eden would take to trick or treating so we talked about it for a few days in advance so we could prepare her. She was so excited when Halloween actually came she spent all day asking when she could go trick or treating. She ran up to every house we visited and held out her bag for candy and always said 'Thank you'. Then she would run up to us and tell us she wanted to go to another house. We were out for about an hour and she raked in the candy. She didn't want to take her dress off last night and she was disappointed when we told her we couldn't go again today. By the way, does anyone know how to get a two year old off a sugar high? She's been buzzing all day.

On another note, we finally got some furniture for our living room. We actually got it about a month ago but I just took the pictures. Here's our sofa and part of the love seat. We don't have pictures hanging up yet or a coffee table, but for those of you who wanted to see them, here they are. They aren't quite as pink as they look in the pictures. We're really happy to have them.