red mango - not so much

So I've heard so much about this Red Mango natural frozen yogurt place and do you want to hear my two cents on it? (of course you do):

It's too expensive for what you get.

Kind of yummy, tart, but expensive. This was the smallest portion size I could get and it was a whole extra dollor for those 5 berries topping it off at like $4.50! And that was the small!

I think I'll just stick to my little Yogi Berry place by my house...

how to make something ugly, semi-cute {we hope}

Dave and I salvaged an old (and ugly I might add), dark burgundy, filing cabinet.... where oh where could we put that? So I thought I might spiff it up a little and I have no idea how to. After talking to my best friend (Google), we decided that the best and cheapest way to re-do a metal filing cabinet is to spray paint it. But what color?? I guess that all depends on what I'm going to paint that room (when I get around to it). Any ideas? A girl did a post on apartmenttherapy.com where she added cute, wall paper on the front of the filing drawers here. Am I capable of doing something like that? We'll just have to wait and see...

But in the mean time I would appreciate any input from all you people out there who read this blog post :)

they've arrived!

Yea for wonderful, cute, classic books!

(And my wonderful friend is getting me two more for Christmas and my birthday - thank you Hayley!)

pumpkin cheesecake bites

For those of you who don't like pumpkin pie (or your husbands don't like it....) or even if you're a big fan like moi, you should make these delicious babies. Super easy and super delicious. Dave ate 3! My family ate them up for our pre-Thanksgiving feast last Sunday.

Find the recipe here.

a fetish...

I've realized that I kind of have a dish fetish. I saw these dishes in last year's Christmas issue of Better Homes and Gardens and I loved them! The only problem was that I saw the magazine in like March and the store didn't have them in stock anymore... But I found them this year! And then I found 3 other colors... how could I choose!? So I bought 8 of the red ones (for Christmas) and I'm not sure what to do with the other dishes but I couldn't resist them. The dinner dish below the red bird dish were part of my wedding dishes that I absolutely adore, another part of the fetish...

music to put you in the mood

So I'm usually one of those people that tries not to listen to Christmas music before Thanksgiving but I got overruled at work and we're listening to '100 Days of Christmas' on FM 100.3.... and I'm getting super excited for the holiday season!! The snow this weekend just rolled in the holidays for me especially when we celebrated Thanksgiving early with my family since my parents will be gone to Brazil!

Like I was telling my friend earlier today, Thanksgiving to me is watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and then watching 'Miracle on 34th Street' (the old one if you please) while the turkey is in the oven and other goodies are being made.... sigh. Time for Thanksgiving already!

graham family photos

This weekend Dave and I went up to my parent's house in Heber and my sister Mylissa asked if I would take some pictures of her family. Here are the results...

the whole graham family plus Indie the dog

(yup, named after Indiana Jones)

why, hello blue eyes

the parents of FOUR boys... i don't know how you do it myliss!

a little silliness to help the boys get their wiggles out,

and they had plenty of them (being boys and all...)

cute, cute owen

nate and isaac

the PERFECT Christmas picture!.... if only owen were in there... crap

another cute shot of the parents with the adorable lil jimmy

Thanks Myliss for letting me take pictures of your wonderful family!