When I was walking out of Safeways tonight I noticed I had an extra skip in my step. So I stopped to analyze why I was walking with such excitement. With a bit of deductive reasoning I was able to determine the reason for my excitment was the box of mandarins I was carrying. Thinking about my recent purchase caused a flurry of butterflies in my stomach and put a giant smile on my face. Then it hit me...I am in love with mandarins! Isn't this time of year great?!!!

Pushing Daisies

Does anyone else watch this show? If you don't, you should. Thanks to Ashley for posting about the show on her blog several months ago... (Yes, it took us until now to take-up her recommendation.) We rented Season One and finished it in less then a week and are working on Season Two via the internet. Let's see here, what do I love about the show?...hmmmmm.... I love the story line, I love each character's character, I love how each character melds with the other characters, I love the subtle humor, I love the costume design, I love how each show has a fairy tale feeling, I love the creativity of it all, and...I love Chuck's hair!

I'm thinking my hair is past due for a new do and am even thinking about bangs! What'd you think? Yea or nea? I think I have the hair for it, however, I don't think I have the face. I think I already have a young face and bangs could very well knock me down to teenage years. And I'm a bit worried that if I don't like it - that it'll take forever to grow out. Believe me, my hair grows as fast as a grandma snail in molasses. Maybe one of these I'll feel brave enough and just make the cut! Stay tuned...

The Resistence is Over

I received an email today welcoming me to Facebook. Sure, it doesn't seem like such a strange email...except for the fact that I didn't create an account on Facebook. After a bit of investigating (which really wasn't very difficult to do) I was able to solve the mystery. As it turns out my dear hubby created an account for me. I guess this is it - this is me throwing in the towel - giving-up my resistance to the Facebook hype. Is this the part where I become addicted? If you want to move our friendship to the next level, you can be my Facebook friend. Look me up..."Brittany Nichols Wilson".

PS - I'm a bit releaved that it was Wyatt that requested to be married to me and not some random stranger... That would've been awkward. Thanks babe! :)

Daylight Savings

Did anyone else forget that it was Daylight Savings at 2am this morning? I had NO idea until Wyatt and I were walking out the door to church and discovered that our microwave clock was an hour ahead or our bedroom clock and cell phones. With a bit of deductive reasoning we figured out that it was Daylight Savings. Thank goodness for automatic-setting alarm clocks! Even though I'm glad we didn't totally sleep in, I can't help but feel a bit gyped that I didn't know I was going to get an extra hour of sleep. There is something exciting about having that bit of information the night before...

HAP-HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

First off, let me remind everyone that Chipotle is giving away FREE burritos to all those that dress-up like a burrito! You would be CRAZY not to take advantage of this opportunity! Don't leave home without your aluminum foil!

We've been celebrating Halloween all month...especially this week. (Sadly though, aside from our visit to Chipotle, cladded in burrito gear, we don't have anything planned for the actual holiday.) But this is what we've been up to...

Carving Pumpkins!
Wyatt and I did not discuss how each of us were going to carve our pumpkins, so it's pretty fun that the final outcome seems as if there was some premeditation put into it. Wyatt's is the cannibal pumpkin. And mine is the worried pumpkin (which was inspired by these three little characters <:( It's perfect because it looks like my pumpkin is a bit uncomfortable by the whole pumpkin cannibalism. Next up...

Cupcakes!
I'm not really this creative. Thanks to a quick search on Google images, keyword "halloween cupcakes" I came up with these. I made them for the Halloween Party the Young Women's (I'm the secretary) halped put on for the Primary kids. I was in charge of the Cupcake walk... Sadly, as cute as I thought my cupcakes were, they weren't a hit with the little ones. They prefered the cupcakes adorned with Oreos and brightly colored candies...brats. I mean, what?!!!! Just kidding. They just haven't yet aquired a refined appreciation of art. Followed by the cupcake walk we had the...

Trunk-or-Treat!!!! Just to refresh your memory of what we did for last years event, please visit here. It was pretty rad (if I can toot my own horn). The problem, however, is that we set the bar TOO HIGH! So Wyatt and I have been throwing some ideas around the last few months and have been stewing on the one below.
Let me just say, the pictures DON'T do it justice. You really need to see this one in person to get the real idea of it. Everyone LOVED it (can I toot my own horn again?) and told us that we did indeed surpass last years creation. One of the little girls told her parents, "all we brought were these stinky pumpkins!" It made me laugh. Wyatt did take a video that portrayed our work a little better but it's not very exciting footage, so I'll spare you. "What are you going to do next year?", you ask? Move. We're going to move out of the ward...I don't know if we can keep raising the bar.

Hope you all have a Happy Halloween! Especially my sis-in-law Jeanna! It's her birthday! Happy Birthday Jeanna!!!!!! (Sorry I don't have any pictures of you from 1984... I'm sure you're probably releaved that I don't.)

Happy 39 Harold!!!!

Happy Birthday Harold!!!! I wish you lots of birthday cake and presents! P.S. Please take note of your very CUTE sister celebrating your birthday with you.

Happy 29 Schuyler!!!

Happy Birthday Schuyler!!! I hope you're smiling today the same way you are in the above picture. (Please take note of your VERY cute sister in the background).

I decided to take my cousin Janet's idea and post old-school pictures of my family members on their birthdays. Mostly because I decided to take on a project that may have been too big of a bite for me to chew... I volunteered to take all my family's Christmas slides and turn them into digital files. Imagine over 1,000 slides at a rate of one slide per minute... Yikes! Anyway, the picture I posted yesterday, today (and the one I'll post this next Sunday) were mixed in with all the slides. So I decided to showcase them all to see... Hope you enjoy 1984 - the year the Nichols lived in Berlin.