Catch up - Anything that's not the kids & the new house

Besides house hunting, moving and settling into a new home, we have spent our time going to Grizzlies games (Hockey for those of you not into the sports scene), Bees (Baseball), and Salt Lake Real (Soccer), and The Blaze (indoor Football). Much to the girls dismay we informed them we could not go to each and every game, although baseball was not among the list of favorites. Surprisingly enough we all seemed to enjoy hockey the most.

While we were unable to afford tickets to all of the Grizzlies, Blaze and Real games that the girls wanted (well except for Allison, she's a home body), we did splurge this summer and bought season passes to Lagoon. Can I say that I am glad that Lagoon has closed for the season? Hahaha. We did have a good time going to Lagoon this year together. It was nice to know that we didn't have to stay alllll day long because we had just spend $35 x 5 for a one day pass and that we could come back anytime we wanted. Lindsay was even brave enough to try the Colossus for the first time. She has yet to try it a second time because she's afraid of hurting her neck again, like she did the first time. Apparently we need to work on building stronger neck muscles. Her favorite ride so far is the White Roller Coaster (yuck, my least favorite). Katie really enjoyed the kid swings and of couse....the merry go round. Allison didn't seem to ever really have a favorite, she was just along for the ride.

Allison and I have been going to plays at the Hale Theater every other month or so with my parent's and Koren and Dan. We have both enjoyed the plays very much. So much so for Allison that she has found a love of all things theater and would love to get on stage. Considering her label from a very early age of a "Drama Queen", she seems to have a talent for it, what few chances she's had to perform so far (ie. elementary school producctions). She has her big debut in "It's a Wonderful Life" in December. Well maybe it's not a big debut, as she is a towns person, without a speaking part, but based on the response she received from the try outs, she only needs to obtain her 8th grade status and she may be looking at speaking parts.

Todd has been settling into his fairly new job rather well(he's been there just over 2 years now, still seems new to us). He enjoys having the freedoms he has there, such as not being chastized for being late when traffic is bad, leaving early if he needs to, rewarded when he works hard and having every day off known to man. He has been busy recently creating the training manuals and guidelines that the company had yet to bother to create.

As for me, not too terribly much is going on other than being a wife, mother, getting ready for the Holidays and looking forward to meeting my new niece in a month and a half.