So Thankful!!

Since Thanksgiving is on the 27th of the month, I thought it was a good idea to give you 27 things that I am thankful for. This was a lot of fun.

I am thankful for...

1. Troy

2. my parents

3. the gospel

4. my new car

5. Marquel

6. electricity

7. indoor plumbing

8. my education

9. my home

10. that I have a job

11. being in the mountain

12. Family

13. the moisture we are finally recieving

14. my health

15. my kids health

16. sunshine

17. my friends

18. money

19. someone else cooking thanksgiving dinner

20. Sports

21. sippy cups

22. hair straightners

23. air condition homes

24. my shoes

25. good books

26. the armed forces

27. our freedom
Wow! That was surprisingly easy. I was kinda on a roll and could have kept going, but I said 27 so I am stopping. Take a second and try this for yourself!

I tag:
Annette
Stephanie
Valorie
Kris
Haylee
Becky

Tagged 7 Things Now it's your turn

Seven things I can do:
scrapbook
counted cross-stitch
listen
play volleyball
text
shoot clay pigeons
blog

Seven things I can't do:
a cartwheel
math (other than add and subtract-multiply and divide!)
speak another language (English is hard enough)
sleep in
draw --only stick people
wear a hat
do a back bend

Seven things that attracted me to Troy:
His voice! I totally fell in love with his voice while talking to him on the phone
his willingness to give
his sense of adventure
his big heart
his blue eyes
his love for the outdoors
his laugh

Seven things I say often:
oh wow
what ever
just kidding
darn it
just a minute
I'm comming
hurry

Seven people I admire:
husband
mother-in-law
dad
mom
Suzy Hodson
Andrea
Patty

Seven favorite foods/drinks
Diet Pepsi
Twix
steak
spaghetti
salad
Onion Rings
Dutch oven potatoes

Seven people I tag:
Emily
Kim
Tara
Carrie
Haylee
Mindee
Valorie

Announcement!!

I just have to get this out! For all of you that know my brother Craig. He just became engaged this past weekend! I am so excited for him.:) We have always wondered if he was ever going to tie the not, and now he is! So you want to know the details? Well, if you do, then please continue reading...
Craig has been dating this girl oh, for about a year or so. Her name is Erin, she is so darn cute with 2 little boys that may I just add are attached to Craig's Hip. (So cute) anyway, Craig called me last week, and told me that he had talked to her parents are was going to ask her to marry him. Naturally I was very excited for him. And then yesterday he called me from Denver to tell me that she said yes!! Whahoo:)
Their brief engagement story: For Erin's birthday Craig bought her two tickets to the Denver Football game! She is a huge Denver fan, and he got tickets in a sweet! Craig has a friend that is a owner of the Bronco's so he was able to snag a great weekend. They were able to go to dinner the night before with some of the Bronco team members, and then see the game on Sunday. This same friend of Craig's also owns a jewely store, so while there Erin was able to pick out the ring of her choice! Now that is what I call lucky!! All in all he said it was a great time and to not forget that she said YES!!!

Congrats Craig and Erin!! I am so darn excited for the two of you!:)

Seat Warmers

So you may be wondering; why is there a picture of my car seat here as a blog entry!! Well, it's because I just want to give a SHOUT OUT to Seat warmers!! This is the first time I have ever had seat warmers in a car, and can I just tell you that I really really love them!! I just can't say enough about the happiness they bring to me and to my behind every morning on my way to school! Every morning when I get into my car I just flip the switch and in a matter of 60 seconds, I have a warm behind! It is wonderful!

Oh, and Annette, if I was good at writing Ode's I would have wrote one of those to my delightful seat warmers!!! I absolulity LOVE them!!

Disaster Up-Date

Life is good!! I have finally got my kitchen put back together again. My garbage disposal is working really good, and really grinding food. I am really loving that.

But to top off my week, Saturday night the dishwasher came. We have been waiting for about 2 weeks for the darn thing... And now it is finally here!! Yea!:) We bought it from Home Dept. and they were suppost to install the thing, so I figured that saturday night I would walk into a well put together kitchen, but that was not the case!! I walked into a kitchen where my husband was underneath the sink, wiring the plumbing for the new dishwasher. Mind you my husband is a Land Survey by profession, not a plumber!! He told me that the crew that came to install the dishwasher said that they would not do it, dropped off the product, and left. (Oh, they did haul away the old one thought) So that left Troy to install. By 9:00 p.m. Satuday night we had the dishwasher installed. So we thought that we ought to run a trial load, to see if there would be any leaking! So away we went... Not 10 minutes into the cycle, our new dishwasher starated beeping at us and telling us that there was a drainage problem.. Man we thought, we are not finished with this process. (I do believe Troy really wanted to scream, but he kept his cool :D) We stopped the dishwasher and proceeded to check into this new problem. Within 15 minutes we had the garbage disposal taken apart, and found the problem. We need to punch a small hole so the dishwasher could drain... Any way to make a long story just a little shorter, this was not the end of our kitchen flooding problem. Sunday morning I cooked breakfast and then began cleaning up. Do the dishes and loading my new dishwasher, when all of a sudden I was standing in water!! Not again I yelled at Troy, and yes, it was again... Our sink was leaking!!! A A U G H ! ! ! ! ! This problem was another small fix, if you are wondering we didn't need to buy anything to fix this. Just had to tighten the disposal. So there you have the dishwasher--disposal update. And to wrap it all up I could have just said!!

The inside of my new dishwasher!!! I Love it!!!

Disposal repair.............................................$110.00

Dishwasher replacement................................$649.00

Troy's repair costs..............................................$43.00

Mitchell Family Kitchen finally put back together again....UH--Priceless

Em--

Hey Em-

Did you find who you have been looking for!!!? lol

Halloween?

This year for halloween Marquel choose to be Hannah Montana. Now that will not be such a surprise to those of you who know her. But for those of you that don't... Well Marquel loves Hannah!! We watch her all the time. (I know that I have all of the episodes memorize, and I believe that she does too.) Alright, now that you know the costume, let me recap our eventfull night... Troy and I had been in Orem watching the 3A Volleyball State Tournament, and then ventured home to get Marquel ready for the big night. Our plans: Go to Manti, and experience the new and improved. (If thats what you call it) "Trunk or Treat" down Manti's main street. Now the cool thing about this type of "trunk of treat" is that they shut down all of about 3 blocks of Manti's main street and allow all the kiddies to visit the many trunks and gather as much candy as possible. It was a lot of fun, and much easier on me "the mom" for not having to drive "Hannah" all over town. But the candy part, well, it just was not that impressive.

All in all we had a lot of fun, my mom and dad came with and walked the street, and I got to see quite a few people that I haven't seen in a long time. (You have got to love small town gatherings!!)
Oh, yes,and one more thing, you are probably wondering why I put a ? after the word Halloween, and I am sure the suspense is just killing you. So is the answer.... My mother-in-law puts her christmas tree up the first part of October, so I thought I would test you... Is it Halloween or Christmas? hahaha Happy Halloween all, and well, I guess Merry Christmas too?

Just a little photo session in front of the Christmas tree

Now some may be wondering did we get Hannah to come to our house for Christmas..

Can you spell D I S A S T E R ? ? ?

So I need to tell you all about the crazy week that the Mitchell's had. It all began Saturday morning when Troy and I got up and started looking around the house for something to eat for breakfast... Troy wanted eggs and hashbrowns, and I wanted pancakes. What-ev, Troy won and I began cooking the hashbrowns. (Real, from potatoes that I pealed and then shredded) After we ate breakfast I began to do the dishes. Well, I started up the garbage disposal, and to my surprise it didn't work. The disposal was just churning and churning.. So I had Troy check out the dang thing. Well, there was a big crack in the machine, and was no longer able to work. So off to Home Depot to get a new one. Well, an hour later and $100.00 less in our bank account we had a new disposal... Troy installed it, and we took if for a trial run... It ran without a niche.. So things are good at the Mitchell house right...? WRONG!! I started a load of dishes on Monday night, and off to work I went on Tuesday. I got home from work on tuesday, and thought that I should unload the dishwasher, so I could run my new dishes threw so we could use them. Excitement right? WRONG again. I opened the dishwasher and saw that the bottom was clear full of water, and beginning to leak all over the floor. Once again I called Troy over and we attempted to fix the darn thing. An hour later and not a lot of luck going our way we were back on our way to Home Depot to buy a dish washer. So an hour later and this time $700.00 less in our bank account we are new owners of a LG dishwasher. Now I only wish the darn thing would get here!!

Under our sink.. Anything missing???

The broken machine!!

Waiting for the new equipment!!

So in a totall of 4 days we are the proud owners of a new garbage disposal and dish washer.. Sure hope we don't have any other applience go out ;)

Where is my new dishwasher!!

So while waiting for my dishwasher I am having to do dishes the old fashion way... By HAND!! I have a new appreciation for dishwashers!! I just want mine to hurry and get here!!

6 Years..

Can you belive it? On October 27th Troy and I celebrated our 6th anniversary!! This year we decieded to make it a weekend event. So on Saturday night we made reservations at a really nice steak house. On Sunday we just hung out with each other and then on monday we exchanged gifts. Troy got the usual. Levi's and a shirt (Troy gets levi's for every occassion.. He goes threw them so darn fast) and this year Troy surprised me with new dishes. I think he did a great job picking them out!! I love them!

We had a great weekend, and I just want him to know how much I love him, and how happy he makes me.

Thanks for making me the happiest girl in the world! I love you!

My new dishes!! I love them!