Random Updates

Well, I haven't been all that good at keeping up with this...surprise! But a few things I've been meaning to post lately, with intentions of putting up pictures, but that just makes it take even longer for me to get around to it. So sorry, no pictures. 

Last Sunday (November 23) was our 4th anniversary and I feel it is my civic duty to make everyone else jealous of me :) It's no secret we aren't exactly drowning in money, so we couldn't do anything super special or fancy and since it fell on a Sunday this year anyways and Joel works on Saturdays, we really didn't do anything. But Joel is in charge of creating and printing the program at church, and being the graphic designer that he is always puts a picture of a temple inside and a church related picture on the outside, could be a photograph or painting, whatever. For our anniversary though he put the Portland temple on the inside and out (two different pictures), which is the temple we were married in. Honestly, at first I wasn't sure if he did it on purpose or not, or if it was just a picture he hadn't used yet. But since he changes the inside picture all the time and not everyone knows where all these temples are he puts a little line on the bottom of the back page that says which temple it is. So on our anniversary he put "Inside: Portland Temple - Happy Anniversary Kristyn!" How sweet is that?!

Along with our anniversary will always come Thanksgiving! And I am proud to say that I actually made a real Thanksgiving dinner! I'll admit my usual escape is ground turkey and mashed potatoes, Thanksgiving in a bowl if you will, but no more. It went relatively well too all things considered. The turkey was small and so it finished a little sooner than I thought it, but we had no idea how to carve it, so by the time we were done with that we had to put it back in the oven to warm back up! It was also in carving that we found the giblets, I swear we looked all over for those things and couldn't find them! I guess that's why they wrap them in paper. The biggest catastrophe was the gravy, I thought I was going to be able to make gravy with the drippings from the turkey, but that just was not working. Luckily I had a back up, but I misread the directions and thought it was a 1:1 ratio, when really it was a 1:4 (1 part mix, 4 parts water), so I ended up making twice as much gravy as I had intended, but almost ended up making 4 times as much! All in all it was great, I still can't figure out how people can get everything to all be ready and hot at the same time... I suppose years of practice. Maybe we'll have Thanksgiving twice a year at our house, I have some catching up to do I think.

And finally, I'm sure we all knew it would have to happen some day... I was getting ready this morning and gave Jonas my comb to play with while he was hanging out with me. He left the room and I hear scratching on the hallway wall. I holler at him to please stop, we don't need to comb the wall. He doesn't. So I go out there to find he is not combing the walls, he is coloring them. Needless to say, he was in big trouble and he knew it. I was actually quite impressed at how well he behaved afterwards. Usually when he gets put in time out I put him into his crib because I didn't think he was old enough to understand to stay in one place. But I told him to sit on the chair in his room and not move, and he didn't. We've now been talking all day about how we do not color on walls and we only color on paper... And now I have to paint my hallway. The crayons that he used were the ones that just smear everywhere and the paint in the hall is the cheap crappy paint that comes with the house and just washes off if you try and clean it. So for those of you who have seen our house, the hall will be the same color green as the kitchen. We decided purple (our living room is purple) down the hall would be too much purple after that big living room and I'm not taking the time to paint beige. Boring! And anything else starts to get to be too many crazy colors. So that's what I'm off to do now, except I think I need a ladder...