MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Sunset

I have so much I want to write about... the parties, semester ending, christmas, but for now, as it is almost 11:30 p.m., I'll post this sunset I saw coming out of the grocery store the other night. I hurried and grabbed my camera from my purse before it slipped away. Isn't it beautiful?!!

These pictures don't do it justice.

New background... Well obviously!

I just love this background for the holidays! I wish I would have done it a month ago! Oh well. It'll be fun while it lasts.

Thanksgiving

Isn't she a beauty!

Sable setting (another table next to it too)

Beks made her family's Thanksgiving tradition treat... Nut cups! It had Andy's mini mints, asortment of planters nuts, mini recess pieces, and peanut butter m&m's

Making chocolate pudding pie

Beth and Beks shoving some goodies inside the skin. I wouldn't touch it!

Beth, Beks, and I did a 1000 piece puzzle

A Glimpse...

Here's a glimpse of what's to come...

Made My Day!

So this morning I was at work putting away the books at the library. A little girl, tiny and petite, looking about 1 years old, walked up to me and just stared. So I started talking to her with her parents standing behind her. She just kept smiling with her big brown eyes looking up at me. So I asked if I could pick her up. The answer was yes so I picked her up and kept talking to her. She was so cute! It made my day to hold a child so innocent and adorable!

The end

Turkey Turkey Turkey!

I'm excited to make the Thanksgiving arrangements tomorrow in class. Monday we got the colored leaves and wheat ready to be put in the arrangements; that takes half the time. I'm going to buy one of the ones (the better of 2 or 3) I make to put on our table Thursday. It might not fit just because our table isn't very big, but it will still make our house look festive. I'll be taking lots of pictures with everything going on this week so you can expect them in the near future.

Don't forget to watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade! I don't think I'll watch all of it and be glued to the TV like I was as a kid, but it's still fun to peek your head in to see all the floats and performances now and then as you cook. I'll be busy making mashed potatoes and chocolate pudding pie. Mmmmm yum!

I'm also excited because this is the first year, since I moved to Arizona, that I'll have Thanksgiving with the roommates at home, but one went to UT. We invited anyone who didn't have a place to go, to come eat with us. There's 5 people coming; so total there will be 8.

Commenting Allowed

I couldn't figure out why people couldn't comment on the posts so I just deleted the whole blog all together and started over. I copy and pasted everything first so it wouldn't be that big of deal. So now your free to comment to your hearts content!

I LOVE flowers... Can I say it enough?!

We made these in my flower class today. The colors that look like sand is actually oasis; comes in all different colors. You just add a little bit of water to it, mash with your hands until it becomes clumpy, then pack each color layer in your glass. We used carnations, roses, and baby's breath.

Top View

Whole Class

Each student had to make a bud vase.

Which cup is your favorite? And you don't have to say mine either. I'm not looking for kudo's :)

Temple

I went to the Temple today. I loved it! The workers are so very friendly and they make you feel so good. One of the ladies that was helping with initiatorys gave me a sweet comment... made my day. I think Tuesday afternoons are going be my new day to go. It used to be Wednesday afternoons after the the Family History Center, but that's no more. It'll be great because I'll go straight from class over there. Plus it's on my way home too. Works out perfectly! It's low key at those hours so I was in n' out.

A friend called last week and said their in desperate need of help in the youth center at the Temple... especially with the holidays. I didn't have to think twice. I'd love to do that! So while I was there today I filled out a paper to volunteer. It will be fun, but more importantly rewarding, and very special to be able to witness children being sealed to their parents for time and all eternity. Oh how grateful I am to be sealed for time and all eternity to my family.

This is it!

So it begins... my first post... Let's see what do I say. I'd like to thank my friend Julia for the name of my blog. I was trying to think of what people have called me. Hers took first place hands down. She has called me megaroni and cheese for at least a year or so and I think it's just hilarious. I remember she first said it when were in sacrament at church. She knows whatever she says makes me laugh so that's exactly what she was trying to do while it was all quiet. And it worked. It also stuck too. So megaronincheese it is! I was going to do megaroniandcheese, but I think the "n" is cuter and well it is shorter too, but not by much. :)

I don't know how often I'll post cause I do have facebook too. Yes, I'm one of those people. But maybe I'll just add things to this and just have my blog link on my facebook so people have to come here for pictures and what not. That works. I'll see.

The pic is Beth and I last weekend. I wanted to see how my short hair would look curled so here it is. We were headed out to the desert for a bonfire and some dutch oven cookin'. It was sooo yummy, but the weather was chilly. Brrr! You'd think I'd stand by the fire, but no I was too busy mingling. Girls gotta do what a girls gotta do right? Just kiddin'! haha :)