thanksgiving

This Thanksgiving I have so much to be grateful for.... first, my wonderful, sweet, gentle, loving husband. This what he does every morning when I have to go to work. He gets up early with me and if it snows, he brushes off the car, if there is frost or ice he scrapes it, or he just warms it up for me and drives me to work. That's just one of example of the many many ways I am grateful for him.

Good friends to play games with, make french fries with, and share Thanksgiving with.

Family. My parents who raised me right and taught me to know the truthfulness of the gospel. My sisters who are such great examples to anyone who knows them and that I look up to more than they will ever know. And my brothers, who I love and miss so much, they teach me to love completely, and have such sweet spirits.

In-laws. Because without them I wouldn't have Kyle, just the way he is. Our families shape who we are and who we become, the traditions we love and the values we keep and I am grateful for Kyle's family and for their love.

happy thanksgiving!

winter wonderland

i just have to start out by saying how incredibly grateful i was to get to enjoy fall in Rexburg this year! it was beautiful, the weather, the trees, the smells, all of it was perfect, i do wish, however, that kyle and i could have spent more time out enjoying it, but nonetheless i still loved it. this morning as Kyle was about to go scrape the frost off my car that has been a pretty regular occurrence lately (such an amazing man and husband), called to me to come outside... in that instant i knew... snow.  so beautiful, big, chunky, crisp, white flakes falling from heaven. ugh! i LOVE it SOOO MUCH! snow literately makes me ecstatic... especially when when there is a big snowfall overnight and you go outside and everything is quiet and white and perfect and sparkly and clean looking, its amazing. well that was at about 8 a.m. before i left for work and i didn't think it would keep up or stick, but it is still going strong now at 4 p.m. and covering the grass! it's very wet and slushy, but i am still super excited for the sparkly peaceful quietness that snow brings. aaand i can't wait to take more pretty snowy pictures! :)

root beer and soup

friday, our friends Kate and Braiden came over and brought root beer! we supplied the ice-cream and had delicious root beer floats and played dicecapades, which happens to be way more fun when you play with real life people, besides Kyle and i that is.  things i learned during our night of fun... i don't know much of anything about the real world, but i know who Linus on Charlie Brown is, Kyle knows that Flava Flav wears a clock around his neck, Braiden doesn't know his alphabet, but can do anything, as long as the opposite is required, and Kate can't do real life push ups, but can draw a hecka good t-shirt with her eyes closed.

then on sunday i made soup and i think it turned out good, i'm not for certain though because i was feeling pretty nauseated all day and let Kyle finish mine.  I felt better later though, when i ate some chocolate, but who wouldn't feel better after having 5 snack size candy bars? normally i wouldn't, but last night, it cured me.

good hygiene

dear employees of the other place where i work,
i want to take a moment and applaud the large majority of you for your good hygiene, part of that is keeping your nails trimmed and clean, good job.  here is the problem i have with your attempt at that good hygiene... when you insist on grooming yourself (clipping nails) at work, then so kindly leaving a nice neat little pile of your long overdue, dirty nail clippings on the desk for the next innocent, miserable employee.  i quite literally almost chucked when i saw the pile left for me.  it's a nice thought, but please be kind and groom at home.
sincerely,
-mrs. gillespie

that is how my day started.  then i was trying to get people to take a 20 minute long post election survey, when i finally got this man to take it... he had basically no opinions one way or the other, but it was a survey so i was chugging through it.  then, about half way through this 20 minute survey, after 30 minutes of coaxing him through trying not to lose my patients, he begins to fall asleep and I'm pretty sure he was snoring, prbably a narcoleptic, i couldn't revive him, he was gone gone totally gone. then i got scolded for taking too long of a break... i work at the most dreaded job in rexburg! i'm pretty sure i deserve a 30 minute break from hell, thank you!

I once had a man tell me to go to hell. Why, thank you sir, but I am already there :)