Meet Rusty

This is our new kitten we got on Saturday. Todd really wanted a kitten so I gave in. He is super cute, playful and affectionate. Nothing says I love you from a kitten like the first time he purrs for you. He is totally into everythig, likes to talk and explore. But he does sleep through the night.. nothing better than that!

Tis the Season of being Thankful

This year has had it's ups and downs. Nevertheless, I am and have always been thankful for more than I can even think of. There are so many things that we take forgranted on a daily basis. Since today is Vetrans Day, I wanted to take a moment and thank all the brave men and women who gave their lives for me to be able to live the way I do. Freedom is such a natural, normal day to day lifestyle for us, we totally forget that we have a strong back bone of Soldiers who are giving their lives so we can live and do as we please. Thank you Vetrans! I am proud to be an American!!

My favorite things about October:

*Wedding Anniversary
*pumpkin carving
*decorating the house all spooky like
*costume shopping
*dressing up
*haunted houses
*going to parties
*checking out the trick-or-treaters costumes
*fall weather/ colors
* CANDY!!

I hope you have a fun and safe month! Happy Halloween!

Something new about me:

So I am an official Scentsy girl. I just got my stuff yesterday and am really excited about all the new scents and warmers. Holla if you want to have a party or something! here is my Scentsy website: http://www.scentsy.com/brittneyellison

L.P. Awesomeness

Lake Powell was such a blast! If you have never been, you have to go! I think this is the first time that all of my siblings has gone on a vacation with any of our parents in well.. since they got divorced. My mom was so happy for all of us to be there and she and her husband Randy played awesome hosts. We had so much fun riding the water weenie.. thank goodness for the awesome helmets mom bought or we might have been concussed.. dangerous playtime but it was dang funny. We got to ride their 2 wave runners, boat and just relaxed on floatie chairs in the water. We had one crazy day that I named Bird Tuesday. It was around 9 am and everyone kept talking about this hawk, by the time I realized what they were talking about that it wasn’t in the sky, there was a boat that was stopped by this floating thing in the water. Apparently this Hawk nosedived into the water and couldn’t get out. The other boaters got the bird on land over by our house boat. about 45 minutes it had gotten enough energy back and dry enough it took off on top of a cliff that over looked us. Later that day Me, mom and Todd were floating across from our house boat into a cove like thing, and I saw something else floating in the water. ( the wind had been pretty bad and we had seen a lot of candy wrappers and water bottles fly off the boat that day) so we start swimming towards the object, mom got there first and identified that it was a baby bird. she scooped it onto her lap and paddled back to the house boat. She said that it was barely staying afloat when she got to it, but after letting it too dry off and re-gain some energy it flew away. Crazy birds, you can't swim! Well except birds like ducks, which we saw a ton of too! We played a little experiment. We put some bread in the water by the house boat with loud music on. The ducks didn't want anything to do with the food. Well they wanted it but stayed about 25-50 feet away from the house boat. We turn off the music and they came right up to the boat to get the food. It was pretty funny.
A week with no TV and only family and water sports to entertain you.. minus sunburns It was spectacular! (speaking of sun burns.. I have a white hand on my thigh. no idea why I have a handprint.. whether it be sunscreen or just sitting in one position for a long time.. but it’s pretty hilarious!)
Thanks Mom and Randy! We all had a blast! Pictures to come soon, I forgot my camera so mom took pics for us!

It's Official:

Todd and I are totally and completely moved into the new house! (pictures to come soon) HIP HIP HORRAY!! We are still spending every spare moment since Saturday night trying to organize and unpack. The most daunting thing yet is the master closet that fits both of our clothes! That’s right, both of ours. Now that we have so much room to hang our stuff, we have run out of hangers. The other exciting adventure lately has been the laundry room. not only is it full of clothes that need to be washed, the dryer hose has no outlet.. well so it would appear. Todd's brother Clay pointed out to us that there is a working vent, the builders just must have just dry walled over it. so now we have a makeshift hole Todd cut out with a little saw and we have to go buy the collar that fits on to the actual hose.. I swear, this better be the last 'fix it' we have to do until we get back from Lake Powell.





Which reminds me, 2 days!! We are super excited. We definitely need a long va-cay after the last hellish 3 months. It should be a great time. Brian, Brittony, Kaleb, Trevin, BreAnn, her new guy Curtis, Jaxon, Sydnee, Brandon, Melissa, Me, Todd, Mom, Randy, step brother Gary and his family are all coming along, half of whom are leaving on Monday. We are going to celebrate Miss Sydnee's 4th birthday on the boat! she is really excited, hope she likes her Princess Ariel Barbie, she has been talking about it for a month now!

House Update, why not?!?

So Todd and I finished the flooring on Sunday. We went to the home depot yesterday, bought some base molding to go around the cabinets, rented a nail gun and wend to town. We only had 4 hours to do around 200 sq feet of molding, but we sure got it on the wall and Todd made it back to the HD with seconds to spare! While we were doing that, my wonderful mother come over and help clean the house. She scoured and caulked the heck out of the house, it looks great! We have to go back and paint and caulk the base boards tonight, and put the powder room toilet back but then hopefully we will be done! We get our Refrigerator tomorrow and we are so excited to start moving Friday!!