Happy Thanksgiving!

We hope you all had a very Happy Thanksgiving! We were able to spend the day with some friends who also stayed in town. This seems to be our "tradition" since we've not been able to go "home" for Thanksgiving for the past 3 years. Each year (and we've been with different friends and different bases each year!) we've spent the day with some great friends!

Our meal was delicious and we had enough leftovers that we all got together again on Friday to do it again! :)

Then we went to Walmart at midnight for some crazy Black Friday shopping! I was also able to drag Grant into Boise on Friday for a few other things, even though I did most of my shopping online! It's great because many of the deals were available on Thanksgiving day and I didn't have to leave my house in the wee hours of the morning!! Wanna know my best Black Friday deal?!?....

So excited for delivery!!!

Visitors!

Wes, Katie, & Brianne (Grant's brother and his wife & daughter) came to visit from the 10th through 14th! It was great to be able to spend some time with them and show them a little bit of Idaho. Unfortunately, Wes had the flu on Thursday, so that was a lazy day for all of us.

Friday we headed to base to show them the squadron and watch a few jets take off. Then we headed out toward the Bruneau Canyon Overlook, which we've been to before, but it's pretty neat so we wanted to show Wes & Katie. On the way there, the road crosses through part of the Air Force's bombing range, and we were lucky enough to see two A-10s practice shooting their guns (I'm sure there is a better term for it, haha!). They would fly down super low, shoot their gun, and then fly back up pretty quickly. We could even hear the guns. It was pretty cool!

Saturday, Grant and I had jet photos, so Wes & Katie took a short trip to Sun Valley for the day. We all met back up Saturday afternoon and ordered pizza and hung out for the night. They left early Sunday morning. Hopefully they enjoyed their stay in Idaho. We enjoyed having them! :)

Happy Halloween!

We celebrated Halloween with some friends in Boise. We got all dressed up, headed to dinner, and then went to the Old Idaho Penitentiary. We thought it was going to be more of a haunted house, but we were WRONG. They had some "actors" roaming around pretending to be old prisoners, but basically it was just a museum at dark. Lame. So we left after about 20 minutes...big waste of money. Plus, we were walking around outside and it was freezing!

Hanging chamber above...and then the bodies dropped down into the room in the picture below.

We headed downtown to the bars after that. I was DD, so it's always a good time being the sober one in a group of drunk-o's. The things I do for my husband.... ;) Enjoy the pics! Happy Halloween!!

Illegal? Maybe. ;)

Don't ask...if you know Grant, this is normal.

Co-cheese (Beastie Boys) & Dorothy (Wizard of Oz)...last minute costumes!

We passed out candy on Sunday evening...Wizzo dressed up as a Tiger!!

I love fall decorations!

Happy Birthday Husband!!

Happy Birthday Grant!

Grant was able to get out of work at a decent time, so we headed to Winger's for dinner. We even got there in time for Happy Hour...$1 shots! ;)

We came back and Grant opened up his gift to find his very first Cleveland Browns t-shirt. Go Brownies! :)

Fall Visit to Ohio

I spent the 15th through 25th in Ohio, and it was a great trip! It was so nice to be able to spend time with family and catch up with friends whom I have not seen in almost a year or more! I really enjoyed being able to devote time to "my" friends instead of trying to split the time with Grant's friends, as we usually have to do around the holidays when we are back in Ohio.

Anyway, my flight went smoothly and I landed in Detroit and headed to the car rentals. (First, I grabbed Hungry Howie's pizza for dinner in the airport...yum!!) Basically, I think I got ripped off because they recommended I upgrade to the next level car since the one I had reserved didn't have cruise. Well since I like my cruise and figured I'd be driving longer distances most of the time, I went ahead and upgraded. I ended up with a 2011 Ford Fusion, and I must admit that I really liked it! I've grown up having a negative association of Ford (thanks Dad & Mom...haha!), but I was actually impressed with this car. I finally made it "home" and visited with my mom, brother, and grandma for a bit. By the way, if you want to feel like you've completely wasted a day, take a 3 hour flight across country where you lose 2 hours due to the time change! I didn't eat lunch because my flight was during that time and when I got in Detroit, it was dinner time! Geesh!

The next day I went shopping with Mom, of course! :) And then I got to meet my niece Brianne!! Love her. :)

Sunday I had plans to go to Cedar Point for Halloweekends!!! I was so excited for this since it had been a couple of years since I had been to CP. I met up with Christine and her friend there, and my brother and his friends also came along. It was fun to spend time with my brother and catch up with Christine also. We rode some fantastic rides and took some excellent pictures, as well.

Over the next few days, I visited with friends. I drove to Sandusky to see my favorite J-Bil and her boyfriend Jeremy (now Fiance!! Congrats!!) and see their new house that they are doing a great job "fixing-up." Jeremy cooked us an excellent dinner, and then we made our way to Tofts for ice cream...yummm!!

I drove down to Columbus to have dinner with Jenny and Laura, my friends from undergrad at Miami. We went to Champps restaurant and caught up on life. I don't think I'd seen either of them since Jenny's wedding in July 2009!

I had lunch with Wanda and Karli (Grant's mom and sister) and Brianne too! It was great to see Brianne again, and catch up with Wanda and Karli some more. Thursday evening, I met Lindsey for dinner at Chipotle and then we went shopping at Kohl's, which was fun of course!



Saturday was my cousin Beth's wedding! It was a fall themed wedding held at a park. Fall in Ohio is so nice! The trees were gorgeous, as was the Bride! It was fun to see some of my family I hadn't seen in a year and a half too!

Sunday I packed up most of my stuff since I had an early flight back to Idaho the next day. I was supposed to go over to my dad's to visit with him and my step-mom, but she ended up being sick, so we thought it was best I didn't catch it too! Come to find out, my dad took her to the hospital that night, and she was admitted for pneumonia. She stayed for over a week and it was pretty scary at times, but she fought through it and is doing much better now.



Monday morning I headed back to the airport and made it back to Boise with a pretty smooth trip! Seems strange to say, but I'll be back in Ohio for Christmas in just a couple of months!

Headed East

I'm currently on my flight to Salt Lake City. Everything is going well and I made it to the airport on time! I think I have about 45 minutes at SLC before my flight leaves for Detroit, so I'll have to hurry once I'm there most likely. My flight to Detroit is going to be loooong, ugh. Hopefully they play a good movie!

When I was boarding I saw a sign for Internet on board, so I was really excited I could check my email and make this post. HA. Of course you have to pay for it! Really Delta? My already high ticket price and extra 25 bucks I paid you so I could check a bag wasn't enough to let you give me free wi-fi?! Nevermind that you don't even give out free peanuts or those delicious biscoff cookies anymore. I'm surprised you don't charge for water. So anyway, my post will have to wait to be published until I get Internet access.

We are starting our descent to Salt Lake, so it's time to "stow my portable electronics." See you back in the Midwest!

EDITED TO ADD: Okay, so Delta redeems itself a bit...they did have free peanuts and Biscoff cookies! Yum! AND, I got to watch The Grown-Ups (an Adam Sandler movie). SO funny! :)

Dreams

I was reading through an old journal I kept during undergrad and found this post about a dream I had. It's hilarious, so I had to share.

February 4, 2005
So I had these dreams last night. In the first, I had this boyfriend whose name was Gavin (or something like that lol) and we were at this school. Well he was working on a project and was on the roof leaning in a window and something electrocuted him. I knew something bad happened, but no one else paid any attention. So I started to run out of the school and my cell phone rang. It was him calling me and he said "help me, i'm on the roof!" and he told me to hurry. He could barely say it, but I knew I had to hurry. So I ran around trying to get on the roof...and it seemed like every time I tried to get on, something happened that I couldn't. It was like no one would help me or listen to me and I kept screaming that I had to get to him. I kept yelling his name to try to find him. Finally I found a way...I had to climb up these bookcases really close to where I was originally standing (go figure...). I got up there and he was laying there. (Here is where it gets weird(er)..lol) I got there and picked up a package of Swiss Cake Rolls and one of them was fried. It wasn't like he turned into it, b/c I found him there. But all of a sudden I had the swiss cake rolls in my hand and that was it. LOL.


A swiss cake roll, really?! So funny.