The Day Dawn is Breaking

...into my sleep that is. I have started Breaking Dawn and again I am losing sleep to these crazy books. Sunday night I dreamed I was being chased by vampires and other creatures in Scotland Yard. Okay, so I had played the game Scotland Yard with my brothers and sister-in-law on Sunday night. For those of you who have never played this game or heard about it here is the description from wikipedia. "Scotland Yard is a board game in which a team of players, as "police", cooperate to track down a player controlling a "criminal" around a board representing the streets of London. It is named after Scotland Yard, the headquarters of London's Metropolitan Police Service. Scotland Yard is an asymmetric board game, with the detective players cooperatively solving a variant of the pursuit-evasion problem." It is very fun. I was the criminal (known as Mr. X) during this round. We finished at midnight and because I had taken a nap earlier I couldn't fall asleep at bedtime. I decided to read and see if it would help me fall asleep. After about 15 minutes my eyes were drooping and I was tired. I woke up at 2:30am with my heart racing. I was trying to escape the creatures who were trying to turn me into a vampire and I was also running from the police who were trying to track me down in Scotland Yard. Sometimes my imagination gets the best of me. This was one of those nights.

Neverending Story

I am almost finished with Eclipse (book three of the Twilight series for those who don't know). It is driving me absolutely crazy. I want to skip to the last few pages of the book just to find out what happens but I promised myself that I would read it straight through. It seems like I am never going to get to the end. I had to take a little break because my eyes were starting to blur. I am determined to finish it tonight and start book four. Then I won't have to worry about people at work ruining the outcome for me anymore. I have had to scream to get people to stop talking about the books and I have even had to resort to the old plug your ears and sing the National Anthem or some other random song trick. I think everyone finally knows that I am only on the third book and to stop talking if I am in the room. I am probably the only person in my part of the building who has not read the books. I know that is not true though because one of my co-workers on my team borrowed my copy of New Moon (book two) and just finished so now she is on book three.

I just may reach my goal of having all the books read before the movie comes out.

Monday

Today was a typical Monday. Everything that could go wrong went wrong. It was not a fun day. I wish we would have had the day off. Columbus Day not a holiday come on. The post office is closed, the bank is closed and several of the offices I had to call were closed. Of course it would have just delayed the problems we had until tomorrow but it would have been nice to have a longer weekend.

However, now I am home and it is Monday night and three of my favorite shows are on tonight. Plus I lost another pound which brings my total to 13. I am a little more than half way towards my first weight loss goal. It's very exciting. Pretty soon I will have to go shopping for a new pair of jeans. My jeans that I am wearing now are starting to look really baggy which is exciting for me since about a year ago they were tight. I hope to be in a different size by my trip to Disneyland.

My Birthday Trip

Today I booked my birthday trip to Disneyland. I am so excited. My sister and I are going to California the first weekend in December and I will be celebrating my 35th birthday while we are there. I will be celebrating two weeks early because I didn't want to go during the week of Christmas which is when my real birthday is. I have always wanted to celebrate a birthday in Disneyland and decided this would be a great year. 35 seems like a great number even though I am not looking forward to turning 35. Celebrating in my favorite place will make it a little easier. So in 58 days we will be back in the Happiest Place on Earth!

My Scrapbooking Area

Tonight I accomplished a goal that I have had for over two months. I finally cleaned up my scrapbook table so that I can get back to my scrapbooks. I haven't created a page in over 6 months. I haven't had the creative spirit in me and it was because my creating space was such a disaster area. I have made a goal to get my scrapbooks caught up by Christmas. It will take some work but I know I can do it. Now that my space is cleaned up I can feel the creative spirit coming back. If it wasn't so late I would start working tonight.

Just one more step to having everything completely organized. My rooms are looking a lot better and I can actually find things in seconds rather than an hour later after digging through my storage boxes. I am even starting to feel less stress which is great. It's amazing how just a little organization can make such a huge impact.

New Moon

I am having a harder time with the second book in the Twilight series. I In fact I started September 4th and I am just barely half way through. I had to put it away last night because it actually frightened me a little. I shouldn't read in the middle of the night. I start hearing things and begin to think I am going to be attacked or that I am being watched. It is freaky. So New Moon only gets to be read during daylight right now. I know I am just a big chicken, it's only a book but my mind takes things so literally and I have to remind myself that it is just a book or just a movie. I don't watch horror movies or even some suspense movies because I have nightmares for weeks after. It's kind of sad really. I don't really enjoy Halloween for that reason either. I like the idea of dressing up and the holiday itself but I hate Haunted Houses and the horror movies. The funny thing is that I am fascinated with witches. I went to Massachusetts a few years ago and made my friends drive all over to find the Salem Witch Museum. We finally found it and the museum was only open for 1 more hour. I was so sad. It was a pretty creepy place though so maybe we were glad we didn't get to see it all.

The Wedding

Yesterday my younger brother Trent got married. The day was wonderful. It looked like it was going to rain but when we got to the temple in the afternoon the skies cleared up and we had a beautiful afternoon. They were married around 4:00 and then we had pictures taken and went straight to the Joseph Smith Memorial Building for a big dinner reception for friends and family. They did not want to do a regular Utah reception just a nice dinner for close friends and family and it turned out beautiful. The dinner was fabulous and the entertainment even better. Anne is from England and her father was able to come over from England for the wedding. He was the emcee of the party. He is very entertaining. However, the best part was the best man's speech. The best man was my youngest brother Brandon. He gave a funny and also touching speech about Trent and Anne. Trent and Brandon have become very close friends over the past few years and it was nice to see just how much they really care about each other. It is strange to think of Trent being married but I am very happy for him and I am excited to have another sister-in-law.

Having some fun!

My three handsome brothers and handsome nephew Ethan trying to find his pockets. The photographer told them to put their hands in their pockets.

Don't smile!

The happy couple.

The fun wedding cake. Trent surprised Anne with this cake. They were not going to have a cake. She had told him about this cupcake tower that she saw at a friends wedding when they first got engaged but then they decided not to have a cake since they were serving dessert with the dinner. Not only that but Trent wanted a cake like my brother Jared had at his wedding. This was a compromise. His cake is the top and her cake is the bottom tower. SURPRISE!