a little halloween fun!

Every year at work each department picks a theme for Halloween. This year we picked Clue... it was so easy because it was basically normal clothes with a few props and decorations. We even had the credit union solve a Murder.

In the game there are 3 girls and 3 guys... well luckily Professor Plum was easy to convert to a girl.

and here is our group picture

Dixon did Pacman... and there decorations were really cute! They went all out. I had to throw this in here though because I sewed (without a pattern) the Pacman costume for Jared.

 I hope everyone has a fun and safe Halloween!!!



Giants Baseball!!!

Okay so almost everyone knows that Garrett is the store manager for Fanzz. It's a retail store in the mall that sells sports memorabilia and jerseys and stuff like that. Well throughout the year Garrett's work will randomly send us basketball and Football tickets. Also any time his DM came into town he and Garrett would go to whatever sport was going on while he was here.

Well if you didn't know :)... The Giants are in the Playoffs!!! (yes they lost last night but hopefully they can win one of the next two games to make it into the World Series) Garrett has gotten hooked up with tickets to EVERY home playoff game so far. There is another Fanzz in Oakridge that he has been splitting the tickets with, and due to staffing schedules and my work schedule we haven't been able to make it to all of them. (Plus parking went up to $40... toll... food... and gas... it adds up) We went to the 1st game in the Braves playoff series and Garrett and his Dad (who is a Braves fan) went to Game 2 in the series. Then this past Tuesday we went to home game 1 (game 3 in the series vs the Phillie's) And they won both games I've gone to! The feeling at a playoff game is amazing and the feeling of a win in the playoffs is magical. We've accumulate quite a few rally flags as well.  

The opening ceremonies are amazing at baseball games. Barry Bonds and JT Snow threw out two of the 4 ceremonial opening pitches.

This picture cracks me up... not sure what he was even looking at. I love him and I'm so glad we can do stuff like this together. (Even though it took a lot of staff changes for both our jobs for us both to get the day off)

Did I mention the tickets they have sent us are Club level? I really feel spoiled but the Club Level is amazing. The price of the first tickets were $80 each and the ones from the second series were $115 each.  

 Both games have been sold out so it really is amazing that we got tickets in the first place... let alone free. I keep telling myself to remember how much I love Garrett's work right now for the tickets because from the day after Thanksgiving until the First week in January I hardly remember I have a husband because he works so much... Gotta love the retail life... but hey someones gotta pay for the house we bought right? All in all October has been a great month so far, and I'm hoping it gets even better with the Giants in the World series.

Go Giants!!!

(oh and sorry about the pictures I forgot my camera for the Phillie's game so these are from my cell phone)

Family

Today is Canada's Thanksgiving day, growing up mom ALWAYS had us celebrate it. As we got older it became harder to get everyone together for the normal Thanksgiving let alone two so unfortunately that tradition died off a bit. Since then Rodney has come home and is working with my dad and in the reserves, Lisa moved back from Vegas with her husband and kids, and we've added Jordan and Jessica to the family. We do Sunday night dinners and I absolutely love it. There really aren't that many of us but it's fun to get together. We finally got to start mom's tradition back up and had Thanksgiving dinner last night. So Happy Thanksgiving to all my Canadian family.

Now I mentioned my family isn't that big... I guess maybe that's one of the many reasons I fell in love with Garrett and his huge family. Along with Garrett came: an additional set of parents, 4 Brother-in-laws, 4 Sister-in-laws and 10 nieces and nephews.

One of my nephews had his big day on Saturday and was baptized. Ryan is growing up soooo fast. I have a funny/embarrassing story about the first time I met this little guy, but that's for another time.

Time...

Okay I really need to find time to upload pictures to write on my blog! I think that's my problem. I hate writing about things with no pictures. Last month I had an SCC alumni softball game, Garrett started on an indoor soccer team, and a few people from work got together to go to the corn maze in Dixon. I've done a few crafty things around the house, and Buster is still growing and getting big. Garrett and I went to game one of the October playoffs and he's going to game two tonight with his dad. So as soon as I find time to upload my pictures I will write more about a few of these things. I hope to find some time tonight after I visit with my parents!