Christmas Music

Every year growing up (that I can remember and that I was at home to remember), my parents and sisters and I would always set up allll of the Christmas decorations the day after Thanksgiving. My mom has quite the collection of nativities that are mostly packed in their own box for each piece that go in a specific place in the house. We also have a ton of ornaments. My mom had the great idea to start getting an ornament from our vacations to help us remember them as we decorated the tree each year. My absolute favorite one is a sumo angel complete with sumo wrestler "garb" (aka a thong) and wings. He is probably going to be the most fought-after item with my sisters after my parents die. My dad would always get the assignment of setting up the tree, which at one point in time was an artificial 12-foot tree. My mom bought a pre-lit tree a few years ago to help alleviate some of the holiday stress with stringing the tree with lights. Some of my favorite holiday memories envolve a certain parent grumbling and growling about the lights and getting poked with the tree. I can't blame them. My sisters and I would usually chuckle a little as it went on and then go set up some nativities far, far away in the house.

Anyway, the point of the story is to say that the first, and I mean the absolute first, Christmas music my mom would always put on was Barry Mannilow's Christmas CD. I don't love Barry Mannilow, nor his Christmas CD, but it doesn't seem like Christmas without it. Last year I bought Ella Fitzgerald's "Ella Wishes You a Swingin' Christmas" and I LOVE, love, love it. She has such a fabulous voice reminiscent of times past. What's on your Chrismas music list? We always listen to Handel's Messiah along with a few choice Weezer Christmas songs that are surprisingly fabulous. I hope everyone is enjoying the start of the Holiday season and that we can all remember the true reason of the season being Christ and His glorious birth thus saving us all.

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving everybody.

34 down, 39 to go

I have been busily working in the sewing sweatshop trying to prepare for the Bijou Market that will be going on November 19th & 20th. I had 74 onesies to begin with and am working hard to get all of them done. I figure the more that I have, the more likely I am to meet someone's "needs" and hopefully the more likely I am to sell some of them. I have also been working on some baby shoes, which are way more adorable in person than they appear in picture, but they take at least 2.5 hours to complete 1 pair. Couple that with the stomach flu that hit me HARD two days ago, the horrible sick feeling I've felt for the past few days and it's been a little rough these past few days.

We are thoroughly enjoying the leaves that are changing in our neighborhood. One of the more main streets right by our house is flanked by the biggest, most beautiful trees. I love the fall for the leaves, especially for the sound of them crunching underneath my feet. Unfortunately, it also means that winter is on its way and soon it will be covered in snow..... Sad.

A Temple in Lisbon, Portugal

John and I so enjoyed General Conference this morning and afternoon. We sat down to listen to this morning's session in the comfort of our own home (I actually think we were eating Twinkies at the time) and heard President Monson announce that a temple will be built in Portugal. We both were SHOCKED and I immediately started bawling. John also joined in with the tear fest and we rejoiced at this announcement. For those of us in the states, it is really exciting to hear of a temple being constructed and making things closer for us. For those who live outside of the states, a temple even in their COUNTRY is a huge, huge deal. The Portuguese people are our favorites on the earth and we really came to love them as we served our missions there. We are so excited for what it means, the declaration that it is that Portugal will have a temple, that will probably only be populated by Portuguese, that the members are ready to have a temple to stand on its own for them, that Heavenly Father trusts them with the sacred responsibility of a temple. We feel so blessed to have served there and to have come to know such amazing and wonderful people. We are already planning on going to the dedication (whenever that will be....) with Laura and look forward to seeing the Church growing even more in Portugal.

New Hair

Since some of you (aka my parents) have been asking to see a photo of my new hair cut, here's the best I can do in self-portraitry. I have really enjoyed having short hair again, this time not looking like a boy with a horrible hair cut like my last adventure in super short hair. It's nice to spend 5 minutes doing my hair, which is the amount of time I used to spend putting it into a pony tail......

Giveaway on C Jane's Blog

Dear Everyone Who Reads Our Blog: (which may in fact be very few of you out in internet land)

I wanted to let everyone know about a giveaway that C Jane is hosting for one of my onesies. Here's the Link: http://www.cjaneanswers.com/2010/09/evers-onesie.html I'd love for anyone who wants to enter or tell any of your friends about it. Who doesn't need a onesie?

Thanks.

We are doing well other than being incredibly busy. We just enjoyed a brief visit from John's oldest sister and are missing all of our family members terribly, even those that live close by, but especially those that don't.

Updated Store

Hey everybody. We hope everybody had a great summer. Ours is winding down as school begins again on Monday. We have enjoyed a trip to Texas (someday we might actually post pictures from our trip) and working a lot. I have been very busy making new onesies for my Etsy shop as well as for the Provo Hump Day Market. It has be a lot of fun and I've really enjoyed getting to know some new people. If you haven't checked it out yet, you should join us this Wednesday from 6-9ish for the vendors and then there's an outdoor movie. Here's a picture of my new favorite onesie. Check out my store for other new things as well.