Charades & Caramel Apples

Last night the Barnes came into town and everyone went to my parents house for a little Halloween party. We had yummy green chile/taco soup, played Halloween charades, got caught up on each other's lives, and ate way too many caramel apples. It was a fun night!

My grandma acting out a headless horseman. Haha!

My grandpa being a Zombie. He is the best at this game! JK

My mom made homemade caramel apples. Dipped in caramel, white chocolate and then rolled in cinnamon sugar. They taste just as good as the ones at Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory. Sooooo Yummy!

My cousins Tanner, Ashley & Mitch

Shawn & Me

Me & Ash pigging out on the apples

New Favorite Show

Shawn and I have recently discovered hulu.com. Thanks to my good friend Katie. If you haven't checked it out you need to. It's incredible. You can watch full episodes of your favorite shows with only brief advertisement interruptions. Anyways, we have found the best show ever. . . "Modern Family". It is hilarious. I'm not lying when I say that it's better than "The Office". It is only in its first season so hurry and start watching it! It's on Wednesday nights on ABC 9/8c and is only 30 min. You will not be disappointed. I promise. If you are disappointed, well, I don't know why I know you anyways. (:

Watch it and let me know what you think!

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Dinner at the Westra's

I know I post often about these kids. . . but I can't help it. They are so dang cute! My uncle Todd and his wife Sharolyn had us over for Sunday dinner yesterday. Shawn and I had been looking forward to it for a while. When we walked in the door Emily & Charity greeted us with hugs and LOTS of cute little stories.

We had to get their snake out. HER name is Camo. She is about 3 1/2 feet long. Emily & Charity had fun chasing Gramma Joy around the house with her. Gramma hates snakes apparently. I never knew that about her!

Shawn with Dallin Charity & Emily. Emily is the one holding the snake. She is only 3! She has the cutest little raspy voice.

Ashley with baby Justin. He has gotten SO big. He is still the cutest baby boy around!

Charity had fun doing Shawns hair. When she grows up she is going to be a "Hair doer/malastic person" (malastic sounds like elastic, like a hair elastic, get it? ). I was unaware but according to Charity I'm not a grown up and I am younger than Ashley because I'm shorter. I had to just laugh and tell her that she would probably be taller than me soon too. Oh and she was surprised to find out that I can drive. . . and that I have a drivers license. Too cute

This is a little video of Dallin performing for us. I don't know if it will come up. It's making me frustrated.

We had a very fun Sunday with the Westras. When we are with their kids we always leave wanting kids sooner than later. We should probably stop seeing them. . . jk (:

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Fall

Fall is my favorite season. It is so gorgeous. The colors, snow topped mountains, the cooler weather . . . LOVE IT. I would be happy with having 7 months of fall. Shawn's favorite season is summer. LAME.

I took this picture of Shawn's boys playing last weekend. It was the best day for soccer. It wasn't windy at all, it was pleasantly warm and most importantly they won. I don't think you can see in this picture just how pretty the fall colors are here in Utah. Just take my word for it.

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Girls Night Out

Every year Gardener Village does a "Witches Night Out". HUNDREDS and hundreds of women come out all dressed up in their witch costumes. Lots of dancing & shopping. Around the whole Village they have these cute little fake witches all done up doing different things. This year I went with my mom, Mick, Stacey & Preslie.

My mom and me with a witch

me, my mom, stacey, mick & preslie

cute witch flying on her broomstick

Birthday Celebrations

I'm adding on to my earlier post. . . (my birthday lasts for a long time)
Friday the 9th we celebrated my birthday with Shawn's family. Stacey made 3 different kinds of soup and we had them in bread bowls. I LOVE her famous clam chowder. It is so good. I suck at making clam chowder, just ask Shawn. We had fun just hanging out. Our good friends Rey & Emily came over for dinner & hung out with us too. Everyone spoiled me(:

Uncle Shawn & Preslie

The Blymiller Fam

Pays & Me

Ray & Em

I LOVE birthdays . . . especially mine. Every year I think to myself "hmmm maybe this year will be the year where I grow up and realize that the world doesn't stop for my birthday". Uh maybe next year? I haven't grown up. . . obviously. I am now 23. yay! I feel like I have been waiting my whole life to turn 23. It's still young but just old enough not to be considered really young. Its a nice odd number. . . I love being 23 (:

My Birthday week started on Sunday. . . I like to call it my "Sunday Birthday". My mom always makes us whatever we want for our sunday birthday. . . and our favorite dessert. Its always a nice relaxing day. I always look forward to it. My gma and gpa came to spend the evening with us too. This year I asked for roast with carrots, mashed potatoes and gravy, and ceasar's salad. YUMMY my mom is the best cook!


My family at the dinner table. . .

I love my husband, he is hot!

Spenc & my Gpa

Shawn was throwing Maggie up. . . like you do with little kids. My Gma was not loving it. She told him he better not do that to her grandkids in the future. . . I had to correct her that it would be her GREAT grandkids! hehe

Time to open presents!

My parents got me a great corning set. I have no idea why its called corning. hmmm but i'm super excited. I didn't get anything like this for our wedding and I have been wanting it for a while. I'm excited to try it out!

My mom makes my ice cream cake. It is SO good. She had 3 layers. Mint hotfudge, chocolate mixed with cinnamon (my fav) crushed oreos and cake batter. Oh it was so good, and is still good. I have had a slice every day since sunday!

Now for my REAL birthday. I had the day off from work, and Shawn stayed home from school. He surprised me with a couple's massage in the morning. It was so nice! Then we went home and got ready for the day. . . and then went shopping. I didn't find anything at the mall. . . but don't worry. Nordstrom Rack did not fail me. Wow I can't believe how much I love that store. I was informed today about a Nordstrom credit card. I won't even let myself think about that. I can just imagine how horribly amazing that would be. . . . .

After shopping we went to see "Whip it". It was pretty cute. We went to Sushi after. It was sooo yummy! I love sushi!!!

Maggie & Me. She didn't get me a present. . .

Trip to the Zoo

Shawn and I have been talking about going to the zoo. We thought it would be a lot more fun if we took Shawn's nephews. It was so much fun. The boys were troopers. We didn't have more than 2 hours to spend so we were running trying to see everything. It was a great day to go to the zoo because it was nice and warm, a little too warm for me, and there are 5 baby animals at the Hogel Zoo right now. They were so cute. I have lots of pictures. . . sorry!

Shawn with Payson and Talan. . . mapping out the place

The boys waving to some weird cat-like animal

I thought this was the picture of the baby giraffe, but I guess not. She was very cute. . . but getting realy big!

Shawn, P Dawg and T Ray

It is hard to see but below the glare there is a baby snow leopard

We were all very excited to see the baby elephant. It was so cute. Talan was more interested in how big the elephants poop was. haha

The whole time Pays kept asking when we were going to go see the new baby tiger. He was so excited to finally see it. I think he was a little bummed that the tiger was just laying there.

Crazy Faces!!! After seeing everything we decided to take a nice little break on the train. It was way too short. . .

Shawn & Payson

cute boys

After the Zoo we had to rush to Shawn's game that he had to coach. Luckily there was a playground right by the field. I was actually really surprised at how they sat and watched the whole first half! They sat right by Shawn the whole half. . . and then went to the park the 2nd half. All the parents were giving Shawn and me a hard time about adopting kids, or saying we looked like parents. For now we are just good with being Fun Uncle Shawn & Aunt Ang (:
We love you Pays & Tal!

Kevin is coming home soon!

I finally got Kev to tell me his release date. I have asked him in every email every week for the last couple of months. He claimed he didn't know, and that we would know before him because my mom and dad would be sent his itinerary. I kept telling him that I had friends who already had their brother's release dates that were all the way in March. I tried telling him that missionaries shouldn't lie. . .I told him I was going to call his mission president. . . I tried everything!

This last weekend I was sitting with the parents while watching Shawn's younger team and I started talking to Kioko about Kev not telling me his release date. She turned to her husband Carl and said that he knew how to find out his release date by calling this church missionary travel number. So pretty much I told him I was going to call this number that I found and he must have been online at the same time because he responded and we emailed back a couple of times. Our conversation looked exactly like this:

Kevin: The date is the 30th of december ok ill be home the 31st

Angela:hahaha are you serious??? what the crap. why didn't you just tell me! and why are you missing 3 christmases? i'm leaving the church.

Kevin:I told you that when i had like a year left, i was gonna have to have 3 x mases here. o well es lo que hay.


Anyways, Kevin left Dec 19 (before Christmas) and is coming home Dec 30 (after Christmas). 3 total Christmases missed. So lame. I will get over it. Seriously tho . . . that is so messed up to do don't you think? I'm over it

It was almost 2 yrs ago that Kevin opened
his mission call to Concepcion, Chile

Kevin with his best friend Bryce
who is in Mexico. He just hit his 1 year mark!

Kev with my parents at the MTC
He looks so happy huh

Long story short I'm way excited about Kev coming home. 2 yrs is a long time, but I know he is where he is supposed to be!

10 Places I Want To Go Before I Die

I got this idea from my friend's blog, so I decided to copy her (: Shawn and I would love to travel. . . who wouldn't? With Shawn's busy school schedule and our lack of cash flow (our lack of saving. . .) traveling at this point in our lives is pretty impractical. We can dream right? I hope to take Shawn on a cruise after he graduates in December. I have been on a couple and I LOVE them. Other than that we have both been to Hawaii, traveled up and down the western US (thanks to our parents taking us on road trips growing up) and that's about it!

10 Places I want to travel to before I die. . . or before I get too old to be able to travel :)

1. Africa

I have always wanted to go to Africa. An African Safari would be so amazing. . . there are also cruises to Africa. That would be fun too.

Of course while I'm in Africa I will pick up my black baby. . .Shawn and I REALLY REALLY want to adopt, especially from Africa. There are so many kids there that need to be adopted. I want to just save every single one of them. Realistically hopefully we can save a few.

FYI, every 15 seconds another child becomes and orphan in Africa. Every Year 2,102,400 more children become orphans. 143,000,000 Orphans in the world today spend an average of 10 years in an orphanage. Around 250,000 children are adopted annually BUT . . . every YEAR 14,050,000 children still grow up as orphans and age out of the system.

Just something for every single one of you to think about . . .

2. Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

Rio is where Shawn served his mission. He loved it! He makes it sound so beautiful. He tells me they have the best beaches in the world. That's all I need to know! Shawn and I are planning on going to Rio for the 2014 World Cup. Seeing AMAZING soccer while in a beautiful city sounds awesome. I hope it all works out! 2014 is coming up fast!!!

3. Venice, Italy

It looks so romantic doesn't it?

4. New Zealand

The picture says it all. . .

5. Bora Bora

I don't know anyone who has ever been to Bora Bora. It looks like my kind of vacation!!! I love the ocean. It looks completely relaxing and who wouldn't want to go to a Bora Bora? Lets face it. . . it's fun to say

6. The Vatican, Rome

Ever since we saw the 2nd Da Vinci Code we have talked about going here. It has so much history and such beautiful architecture.

7. NYC

Neither of us have been there, how sad is that! I love big cities. So much to do, so much to see! The shopping sounds great too (:

8. London, England

Shopping, European Soccer, Historic Sites . . . love it

9. Machu Picchu, Peru

Again I don't know anyone who has ever been there. It's one of the seven wonders of the world. So so so breathtaking

10. Around the World Cruise

I love cruises, I love the world, and I love traveling. Sounds Perfect!