I have been looking at KSL classifieds a lot lately, because I am ready to get another dog. I wanted to get a little dog this time and hopefully a dog that can be good friends with Forest. I saw an ad for a puppy here in Tremonton. The picture was so cute! And the price was very good. I wanted to go check it out, but I changed my mind, because it wasn't going to be a small dog. It would grow to be around the same size as Forest. Alissa had seen the picture and she was excited for me to get a dog. She was pretty disappointed when she found out I had decided not to get it. She really wanted to get her own dog and after seeing the pictures, she really wanted to go get one of these puppies. Now that she has a job, she can do fun stuff like that. I arranged for her to go and see the puppies. They were all so cute! She ended up getting the runt of the group. We love him so much! But now, I have to wait to get my puppy. But that's okay. This puppy is so cute! And so fun!
Roger planned an amazing party for me for my 40th birthday. He did a really good job at keeping it a surprise. Apparently he has been planning this party since June or July. I really had no idea. Everybody thought for sure I had to know, but I really didn't have any idea. I'm pretty oblivious to a lot of stuff around me, so it's pretty easy to surprise me. Lol.
On Saturday, we left the kids at Linda's house to have her watch them, so we could celebrate my birthday. I really had no idea what to expect. Also, Linda asked me to make her some cupcakes for a wedding she was helping out with this weekend, so I dropped those off at her house.
Roger and I went to a hotel! Yea! I was so excited that we were having an overnight party for me. Woot woot! We chillaxed in the hotel room for a couple of hours. It was nice. We watched some funny Fail Army videos and enjoyed the yummy chocolates.
Roger told me that he wanted to walk around the neighborhood I grew up in with me. That is totally something I would have loved to do with him, so I was excited. He parked in the church parking lot, then said that he needed to go to the bathroom before we start our walk. He said, lets check to see if any doors are open. That's when I realized that there was probably a surprise party waiting inside for me. I was so excited! It was so fun to walk in and have everybody yell "Surprise!" and "Happy Birthday!" I've always dreamed of that happening.
There was lots of pizza and ice cream. The cupcakes Linda needed for a wedding, were actually for me. The only bummer with that, was that they wanted black sprinkles on them and the only black sprinkles I could find were the sugar sprinkles and I think those are yucky. As I was putting them on the cupcakes, I was thinking about the poor wedding party who would be eating these cupcakes that could have been so much better if they had only chose different sprinkles.
The party was totally me. It was next to my childhood home, in the church I went to while growing up. The church I had my wedding reception in. There was basketball, Karaoke, friends and family, and lots of ice cream.
October 21st. I'm 40! That's crazy! I used Snapchat so I could look super cute in my birthday pictures. Lol.
We went to Walmart. I bought some fun Halloween decorations and we had fun in the Halloween costume isle.
Alissa ordered herself some elf ears for Halloween. This is the first year that she has money, so she's having fun looking for a costume. An elf is just one of her ideas. She also ordered a choker that makes it look like her throat has been cut.
October 16th - This is the Harry Potter Sorting Hat. I just thought I should take pictures before I send it, in case something bad happens to it and I need to prove it was good before I sent it.
October 17th - Brinley's cool Tic Toc video and a Snapchat video that I did.
Somebody on Etsy requested for me to make a hat to look like the character in this book. I really like how it turned out. I almost forgot to make the hat, though. I finished and took it outside for pictures. When I was getting ready to package it, I realized my mistake. So, I quickly whipped up the hat. I only got a few pictures of the owl with the hat, before I packaged it and sent it out.
Brinley wanted brownies for her birthday, instead of cake. I wasn't smart and I put the candles in the hot brownies. The candles started melting into the brownies. That was a bummer.
Brinley is funny. Look how creepy she is in these two pictures. She did a good job looking really scary.
I did another vendor event today. I van't remember the name of it. It didn't go very well. I had been hesitant to do this event in the first place. The person running it, contacted me after I did Tremont Fest. I checked out the location that it was going to be held and decided that maybe I shouldn't do it, since it seems like a place that not many people will come to. It said that it was going to be held at an RV park in Perry, Utah. It seemed really out in the middle of nowhere. I decided not to do it, but the person asked me a second time. I debated for awhile, then the week before, I decided to just do it.
The way it was described was not how it ended up. She made it sound like she was a part of the RV park and this was for the RV park grand reopening. But, she wasn't a part of the RV park. She lived in a house across the street from the park. She had everybody set up their booths in her backyard. It was a horrible location. She had told us there would be bounce houses, a rock climbing wall, swimming, and all sorts of fun. There was fun, but it was all over at the RV park. Not anywhere near where we were set up. Very few people came. A few of the vendors, backed out at the last minute. One vendor, saw where it was, and left before they could set up. Then, when she called them, they told her that they had a family emergency. Another vendor set things up, then took it all down, shortly after it started and it was clear that nobody was going to be coming to this. They told her that they had a family emergency. The person in charge went somewhere for a half an hour or so. While she was gone 3 vendors cleaned up and got the heck out of there. Then, slowly, as the day went on, everybody cleaned up and left. The event was to go from 11:00am to 7:00pm. At 4:30pm, we were the only vendor left, besides the person who organized it. I felt bad leaving and the few people who had actually come to the event, were at my booth painting. I made $38.00. I wouldn't be surprised if I am the only vendor who made money. It was bad.
My cousin Terri was so nice and came to help me out. She brought a canopy. It was so helpful. Her kids were bored out of their minds, but I really appreciated having her there. It was so fun to talk with her. She is really good at business, so I was picking her brain for advice and ideas. Alissa was the only one of our family that came with me. She spent most of the day curled up in a chair and reading her book. It was really a long boring day, since there was hardly any business.
Roger and I went hiking. It was so much fun! I love hanging out with Roger and hiking felt really good. After the hike we went to a weird Italian place and got some really yummy custard and Italian ice. I can't remember what it was called, but it was yummy.
The first part of the hike was really hard. The trail we took was called the Crimson Trail. We heard that there are two different places to start the hike. One way is harder than the other. We choose the one, we thought would be the easiest. We could tell on our way down, that we had taken the easier trail, but it was still really hard. It was a mile of uphill. It was rough, but worth it.
