Halloween
Halloween
Lots of fun on Halloween
Black cats and ghosts, skeletons too
We love Halloween!

Talk about lucky...
I just answered the door, and there was a man there that was holding my drivers license. He had found it out on the street. I hadn't even noticed that it was missing. I just got it in the mail last week, and I hadn't put it in my wallet yet. I must have dropped it walking to the car or something. I sure am glad he returned it!

Can you believe it? Clark and I missed out on the best day of the year. Yes, that's right, we forgot to set our clocks back and so we didn't get an extra hour of sleep last night. In fact, we didn't even realize it until we pulled up to the church at 8:55 (or so we thought) and the parking lot was completely empty. I can't believe I missed my free hour of sleep. What a disappointment.

Today is going much better than yesterday. I applied to some jobs, did a little workout, and best of all, when I woke up there was tons of snow on the ground, so I am listening to the Peter Breinholt Christmas CD right now. Yup. Life is pretty good. This morning Izzy was completely scared to go outside because of all the snow. I finally had to push her out the door, because I was afraid she would have an accident. Once she got outside, she figured out that snow is not so bad, and she started playing and having tons of fun in the snow. Izzy is definately a snow dog!

Why is it that other states are not smart enough to figure out how to use a grid system for their streets? It is just common sense. I hate using mapquest to figure out how to get anywhere. And then there are the times, like today, when mapquest is wrong, and you get stuck in the middle of nowhere.

Clark took part one of four of the CPA exam yesterday. What a beastly test. I am glad he is done with that section, it is by far the longest of the four. The study book alone is at least 600 pages. The other sections should be much easier and faster to study for than this one. The nice thing is that because he took the test, he didn't have to go in to work, so he got home at 2 pm! We went out and got our colorado licenses, and we got colorado plates for the trailblazer. Did you know that Colorado has about a million different plates to choose from (you just have to pay extra for the special ones). Surprisingly enough, lots of people choose the special plates. Its kind of funny. Cheapskates that we are, Clark and I just got the "free" plate (if paying 300 for registration can be condsidered free).
After that we took Izz on a walk. We ran into a lady walking her boxer, and she showed us a part on the trail that takes you to a little creek that is about 1 ft deep. Izzy and the other dog played and played and played! They were both completely muddy but they had so much fun! I think Izzy misses all her playmates in Utah.
I need to get going. There is something wrong with our garage door. It likes to beep really loud. Drives me crazy. I don't know if it means that batteries somewhere are getting low, but it usually stops beeping if I open and close the door. I have no idea why. I need to look and see if the previous owner left the user guide anywhere. I'm off.

Goin' for a walk

As you can see, all the snow has melted, and the weather is wonderful. This is the walking path behind our house.

Pull up a chair! This chair kind of freaks me out. It is on a dirt path that is just off the paved walkway. You can't really see it, but there is a child's shoe on the ground below the chair. I kept expecting some hobo man and his shoeless child to jump out and scare me.

I really like the way this picture above turned out.

Sit! Stay!

I have just been playing around on photoshop. What do you think? I think that I like the last one best. Although, the middle one is pretty cool too. I put it as my desktop background because it looked better than the blue one at a full screen size.

Let it snow!

The Greatest Show on Earth

Last night Clark and I went to the Barnum and Bailey Circus of your Dreams! We had so much fun. It has been a long time since either one of us had been to the circus. There were horses and elephants, and crazy cool acrobats. I really liked the acrobats, but I don't know if I can call them my favorite act, because I loved all of the acts. There was even a strong man! He was so manly strong that he had a Jeep drive over his stomach, and he also took a cannon ball to the gut (Granted he had this steel thingy covering his stomach, but that is still a lot of force. He didn't even fall over when the cannon ball hit him). I am still trying to figure out just how real all of that was.

In other news, for our latest home-improvement project Clark and I went to Home Depot on Friday and bought some new blinds. The blinds that came with the house were the accordion style that you have to raise in order to see out the window. They were not in the best of shape. One of them had a huge coffee stain on it, and another one was falling out of the window. We replaced them with white faux wood blinds. Like all projects it took us longer than planned, but once we figured it out with the first window we sailed through the other three.

I am still job hunting. I think I have realized that I am being overly picky in my job choice, and it is because my income is no longer necessary in order to pay the bills. Instead, working is something that I want to do to fill my time, which means that I want to find a job that I enjoy. The school library job that I applied for never got back to me, and I have no phone number to contact them at, so I just assume that I did not get the job.
Yesterday I applied for two jobs. One is as a receptionist, this is about all I know about the job because I applied online and they did not supply much information. The other job I applied for is called a Aerial Photographer. From what I understand, I would be flying around and taking pictures from the plane using a really powerful camera. I have no idea what the hours are, or how much flying I would be doing. So I applied for the job and if they get back to me I will be able to ask them some of my questions and find out if it is a job I would enjoy, but doesn't it sound like and awesome job? I think it does.

Anyways, this post is much longer than I anticipated, so I will get going. Have a nice day!