The Butler Scoop: November 2008

I guess I have avoided this long enough... Thanks for thinking of me Steph, Allyson and Ali!

Question and One Word Answer:
1. Where is your cell phone? car
2. Where is your significant other? george'sroom!
3. Your hair color? dishwater:(
4. Your mother? tenderhearted
5. Your father? stubborn
6. Your favorite thing? myfam
7. Your dream last night? bizzarro!
8. Your dream/goal? oregon/mayberry
9. The room you’re in? loft
10. Your hobby? kids
11. Your fear? tragedy
12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? oregon
13. Where were you last night? grocerystore
14. What you’re not? highmaintenance
15. One of your wish-list items? artclasses
16. Where you grew up? utah
17. The last thing you did? baked
18. What are you wearing? sundaycomfyclothes
19. Your TV? off 20. Your pet? winstonbeagle
21. Your computer? relic
22. Your mood? tightlywound
23. Missing someone? sis
24. Your car? volvo-always
25. Something you’re not wearing? bracelet
26. Favorite store? anybakery
27. Your summer? nostalgic
28. Love someone? mr. butler
29. Your favorite color? blue
30. When is the last time you laughed? tonight
31. Last time you cried? ?notacrier
Tag
1. I hum. All the time.
2. I laugh out loud at Seinfeld re-runs, still.
3. I sleep with a blankie and one leg out.
4. I make my microwave times be multiples of or divisible by 4, always.
5. I still pretend my hair is long when it's wrapped in a towel.
6. I dream of pancakes at least once a week, always have.

Tagged

What is the best thing you cooked last week?
Gingerbread cake! Not a cook, I'm a baker!

If time, money and babysitting were no object, where would you go?
Christmas shopping in NYC for sure! I've always wanted to see the lighting of the Tree in Rockefeller Square!

When was the last time you cried?
Teary eyed at the Primary Program today. Not really a crier... Rich cries enough for both of us!

List five things you were doing 10 years ago (1998):
1. Enjoying being a Newlywed!
2. Chasing after Barks and Win as puppies!
3. Fixing up and enjoying our little Sugarhouse home and garden!
4. Opening Porcupine Pub & Grille
5. Finding out we were expecting George!

List five things you were doing five years ago (2003):
1. Settling into our Oregon neighborhood
2. Running the Hood to Coast Relay
3. VP of George's Preschool (Multnomah Playschool)
4. New Member Committee Chair for Junior League of Portland
5. Enjoying every little, fabulous thing Oregon had to offer us!

List five things you were doing one year ago:
1. Settling into our Nevada neighborhood
2. Mourning the loss of Barks
3. Driving three times a day to Bartlett Elementary! Scarred for life.
4. Homework!
5. Driving back and forth to SLC, because we finally could!

List seven hobbies:
1. Gardening, when it's not 115 degrees!
2. Baking...oh soo fat!
3. Reading, if there's time
4. Writing, there's never time!
5. Sewing, poorly.
6. Painting, one day again soon.
7. Cleaning, i love it so much! ;)

Name five favorite foods:
1. My Pop's Pork Chops with Fried Potatoes!
2. Cheap Chocolate Ice cream
3. Oatmeal with blueberries or bananas or both!
4. My Pop's Spareribs with Yorkshire Pudding
5. My Mom's homemade English Toffee

Name (favorite) five places you've been:
1. CannonBeach, Oregon
2. Naples, Florida
3. San Jose Del Cabo, Mexico
4. NYC
5. Anywhere in the Pacific Northwest!

Five favorite memories:
1. My second date with Rich to a U of U play (the night I knew I would marry him one day!)
2. Rich and my mallrat days @ ol' Cottonwood Mall!
3. Pulling little George all around Sugarhouse in his wagon!
4. Pulling George and little Lu around our Sherwood neighborhood in the wagon, collecting wild blueberries for smoothies!
5. Pulling George, Lu and little Ru and (in the Bjorn) around our Brentwood neighborhood in the wagon, to visit the local farmer's market for strawberries and peaches, which were eaten by little mouths on the ride home!

Halloween, in these here parts, falls on Nevada Day. For Halloween-Nevada Day, the kids dressed in western wear for school and had a rootin-tootin good time celebrating this great state and our favorite spooky holid

ay!

It has been a whirlwind of activities! Harvest Festival, Pumpkin Run, Scout Bicycle Derby, Trunk or Treat, School Halloween Parties, Friend Halloween Parties and finally, the Big Day of Trick or Treating! It was just over 70 degrees and we were able to Trick or Treat 2 neighborhoods in short sleeves and flip flops. You cannot ask for anything better!
Lulu was an Angel, which isn't much of a stretch for her! Noodle really hung in there this year and actually lasted for more that five houses. She had two pieces of candy and threw up later that night. How can this sweet,

non-candy lovin' girl be mine?

Ruby was planning on being an Angel Baby, but on Wednesday saw a Dora the Explorer balloon dressed as a black cat at the grocery store and declared... "I'm going to be a kitty cat like Dora!" So, we returned the Angel and pulled together a quick black cat. Viola! A happy baby! Rubes and ABBEE looked so stinkin'cute! Notice how Ruby carries her treat bag like a "purse".

George broke my heart this year! He has never been something scary before. To me, being something scary means you're growing up. I remember George wanting to be Spiderman when he was 5. It just seemed too soon, so I persuaded him to be a spider instead. But this year there was no getting around it, he was a very scary Wear Wolf! Then, the ultimate heartbreak! George decided not to use the pumpkin trick or treat bag we gave him for his first Halloween, (the one with GEORGE embroidered on it) he wanted to use ... his pillowcase!