What Happened to November?!?!?!

Here it is the 29th of November and I think that I have posted here twice this month. That really sucks. The trip was great. We didn't loose any of our luggage, we weren't delayed anywhere, everything seemed to go smoothly.

We got into St Louis about 1am Saturday and met up with Kris. We went to the Gateway Arch and went inside of it. The capsule to ride in to the top was so tiny, you were leaned over sitting inside of it with four other people. It was not very comfortable at all. The trip up was only 4 min so that was a good thing I wouldn't had wanted it to be any longer. We also went on a Mississippi River Boat Dinner Cruise. This is definitally a tourist thing to do but since we were tourists it was fun and the food was great. We also went by the St Louis Temple. It is a little bit bigger than Fresno's but not by much. There was a Candy and Soda Pop shop that we had heard about while searching what to do in St Louis so we went there and it was in the hood. The buildings around it were all rundown and falling down. When we pulled up to the Shop there were two cop cars out front getting their dinners. By the inside of the store you wouldn't have been able to tell that it was like that. I am gload that we were able to meet up with Kris and Mandy. Ben has been wanting to see him for a long time. I think since we got married so we finally found the oppurtunity to go. Here are some pics from St Louis.

This Arch is 630 ft. It is dagum tall. Up at the very top is the windows that you can look out of and see on the Kansas side and see Missouri the Kansas side we heard is the hood so we didn't venture over to there.


Here is all of us. Kris with his girlfriend Mandy.

The Riverboat Tom Sawyer is the one that we went on.


The St Louis Temple. There was a Security officer in the Parking lot probabaly thinking "Crazy Mormons" since we were driving around there on a Sunday. He should be used to it though, members are probably taking pictures there all the time for engagments and weddings, Family photos and those Crazy Tourists.

Well that was St Louis in a nut shell. I'll write about Nauvoo and Kansas City later. Type at you all later!

Anna

Ta Ta for now

So, we are off the see the wizard, the wonderful wizard of OZ! Not quite but close enough. I just looked at the weather for the midwest and it is supposed to snow! The beginning of the week will be fine but after Wed it is giong to be cold. I have never seen snow on Thanksgiving. That's what I get for being a Califorina Girl. Hopefully we won't get frozen out. I have to go and get some thermals now. (Yes, I am a wuss job, and I don't know how to spell wuss hopefully that is right).

Just wanted to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving and hope that all your travels to family and friends are safe.

Anna

Life Happens

So.... yeah, I thought that blogging would be a whole lot easier, but life seems to get into the way. Even though you would say I do spend quite a bit of time on the computer it would be easy for me to just sit and type someting out, but I don't I just doodle around the internet and get away from the things that I should be doing, like cleaning or packing or even the Christmas presents that need to be finished. Well, I do have a few weeks for the Christmas presents but I like to get things done and out of the way. Life is good though, I really can't complain.

Tonight we had Family Home Evening at Mary and RW's and it was okay. We had one person that was really hurting the atmosphere, being a peanut gallery while the lesson was being given, trying to be the center of attention, it just wasn't fair to the lesson giver. It was a start to us trying to have Family Home Evenings, hopefully they will get better. We are going to rotate where they are at and do this once a month.

So, I need a pair of pants. I went to Old Navy in hopes of finding a pair. It was a terrible disaster. I have decided that I need to be shorter and skinnier. I don't know how to get to the shorter part and the skinnier part doesn't look to easy either. I guess those chocolate Chip cookies I made today won't help the situation too. While we are on the subject of Chocolate chip cookies I think we had found a secret to making fluffy cookies. Let the butter soften naturally. If you put it in the microwave it breaks down the components of the butter and makes the cookie flat. We have had the best cookies lately since we have started doing this. It has been awesome. I just use the recipie on the tollhouse bag, nothing special.

Hope everyone is doing well. I will type at you all later!

Anna