A Visit from Pam

So today, I got to stay home all day-- it felt quite strange to not go to school and well I felt a bit bored. I am coming down from a high of frenzy since the past 2 weeks of school have been beyond crazy. I turned almost everything in yesterday and now have one more presentation and I am finally free to relax and begin Thanksgiving vacay!!! But my vacation from school today was not planned, my car broke down on the off ramp of I-15. Luckily some kind man helped push me to a nearby parking lot. It couldn't have been a better parking lot, because I was able to get my car fixed at the car place right there. I did have to sit in a Scone Cutter for 2 hours while I tried to get ahold of Brody. Because of this, I missed all the buses to Provo and decided to just stay home for the day. Luckily, a lot of my classes were canceled today and my presentation is tomorrow so I was ok to miss school. but anyway that is my long introduction to my actual blog post.

My dear friend Pamela came out from PA to visit this past week. She named herself my shadow for the week that she was here. I felt bad that I had school and other things to do, but I think we still managed to spend some quality time together.

We were able to go to dinner for her bday at this trendy sushi place in Salt Lake. She got a sushi roll called the volcano. The plate even had fire underneath the roll, it was pretty cool. I'd post a picture, but you can't see the fire.

I think I look bald in this picture. We went out with Pam's old roomies, Paige and Mindy

Afterward, we went back to my house to share a special cake that I made especially for Pam. She loved it.
It was fun having her around! She'll be missed!

Halloween

This year I was determined to do a little more for Halloween (last year I was sick right before and never got around to doing much). Sadly, I was still quite busy the week before Halloween so I didn't get to devote much time to planning, but I was still able to attend a few parties, make a fun treat and get slightly dressed up. Brody's mom was throwing a family halloween party and she asked us all to dress up as celebrities. Brody wouldn't help very much, but we finally decided that he would be Donald Trump and that I would be his wife Melania (sp?). We found a nice wig at Walmart for him so he could replicate the Trump hair style. I basically just dressed cute and Brody's mom let me borrow a huge ring (to make me look a bit more like a billionaire's wife)

Brody with his cute, little brother Cache

I also made a nice creepy treat. Severed fingers (as seen below)


It was quite fun and I was pleased with how they turned out. We went to Brody's mom's party, a party thrown by Brody's good friend from high school and another get-together where we made caramel apples. Over all it was a fun holiday weekend. (and I'm excited that it didn't take me a whole month to blog about it)