Famous Forbush's

I know I have already done a post from the pumking carving contest at my grams and gramps, but I had to share this extra tid bit with you. We were for the 3rd time, in the newspaper! Check this out! That's right peeps, the Forbush Family are a bunch of seriously talented pumpking carvers! :-)

Back to School

For the last three weeks of October I spent my days in a classroom. I had to wake up at 5:30am and drive to West Valley everyday. This is all very similar to being back in school. For those of who don't know, I was hired by Verizon for the Customer Service position in the Riverdale store. Each new hire has to go through three weeks of training. When I first heard I was going to have to go to training I was told I might have to go to Denver for the three weeks. We ended up having enough people here in Salt Lake to have the training in our West Valley Training Center. Besides the waking up early, training wasn't bad at all. Actually, it was a lot of fun. Usually there are about fifteen people in each class, but ours only had six. We really enjoyed our small group. We got to know each other really well over the three weeks. I became really good friends with one of the girls in my class. Her name is Ashley too. :-) She works in our Jordan Landing location, so unfortunatley we aren't very close to each other, but we still keep in touch. On top of having fun training friends we had an awesome trainer. She made the long three weeks not seem so long. She made things fun for us and I feel like I learned a lot from her. Last Friday was our last day. It was bitter sweet leaving. We all had a good time together, but we were excited to be back in our stores to start our new journeys. Yesterday was my first day back in the store. I won't lie, I was a little intimidated, but I know each day will get easier and easier. Verizon is a great company to work for. I'm excited to see where this new career takes me.

Happy Halloween!

We usually have a Halloween party to go to on Halloween, but this year our friends decided not to throw their party. So, Brittney and I decided that we would plan something fun. We planned what food we wanted to have and them give each of them fun HallOwEEn names. (see pictures below) The boys made homemade rootbeer that was very delicious. We decorated with candles and carved pumkins and of course we dressed up! Brittney wrote a cute little poem to pull it all together. It was just me, Landon, Britt, Tom, and Debbie. Heather, Steve and Jack stopped by four a little while. Jack was a stinkin' cute Curious George. After stuffing our faces with all the witches tOe nAiLs and ZoMbie vOmiT we watched scary movies. We had a very fun Halloween! We may just have to do it all again next year. :-)

Pumpkin Carving

Every year my Grandma and Grandpa Forbush have a pumpkin carving contest with my dad's side of the family. They have been doing it since I was one. My Grandma Forbush has started a lot of fun traditions for our family. This one, imparticular, has been a favorite of all of us. When we first get there we all pick out our pumpkins that Grandma and Grandpa have provided for us. Then we grab our carving utensils and get started! We usually spend about two hours perfecting our pumpkin master pieces then we head inside for some of Grandma's bEEf stEw. She's so cute because she will always have fun finger foods that are perfect for Halloween. She'll make piGs-in-A-blanKet that look like fingers, cottage cheese with drips of red dye, or gummy worm jello. After we all get done eating we head back upstairs to do the prizes! Grandma brings out her big bin full of prizes and has each of us show her our pumpkin so she can give us the appropriate prize. She'll give you a prize that matches what she thinks your pumpkin is expressing. Like she'll say, "You're pumpkin is the nuttiest" and give us a nutrageous. We're not done yet! My Grandma and Grandpa lived in the same house since before I was born. They had a flat roof that was a perfect width across to fit all of our pumpkins across. Grandpa would put all our pumpkins up there with a light inside each of them and we'd all watch each of our pumpkins cOmE tO lifE. They would leave them out for the whole week before Halloween. It's made us a very popular family. We have been in the newspaper three times! Well, unfortunatley my grandparents moved about three years ago into a house that has a slanted roof. It's too slanted to put any pumpkins on it. Instead of putting them on the roof they have shelves that they put in front of there house to set all of our pumpkins on. They still light up each of them. It's not quite the same, but we'll take what we can get. :-) Thanks Grandma and Grandpa Forbush for making such a fun Halloween tradition for us!

Landon's pumpkin:front Mine:Back

Carving fun with Dad

Some Of Our Fav Shows

We have the great luxury of having DVR. It has made our TV experience a lot more enjoyable. We don't have to watch any commercials and never have to worry about missing any episodes of our favorite shows. It's magical.

That 70's Show

is watched the most because there are

always reruns on.

Fringe

We started watching this mostly

because I think Joshua Jackson

is wonderful eye candy. It's

now turned into one of our favs.

Grey's Anatomy

Mcdreamy and Meredith-who doesn't love it?

Flip This House

We've actually learned a lot from this show

Private Practice

Not as good as Grey's, but still good

October Road

I hope this one comes back

American Idol

What are we on? Season 98? LOL Love it!

The Secret Life of the American Teenager

Reality.

Strike!

A few days ago a bunch of us from Verizon got together and went bowling at Fat Cats. One of my co-workers, Josh, are getting married so we all went out to celebrate with him and his fiance'. We went to the new Fat Cats in Ogden. Landon and I hadn't had the chance to see all the new fun things to do there in Ogden until that night. They have surfing, rock climbing, sky diving and lots more! Fat Cats was huge and they had all the disco lights and black lights on. We split up into three teams and played for about 2 hours. It was a ton of fun! It wasn't my most successful night of bowling, but it was still fun. :-) It's so nice to work with people who you can be friends with and do fun things like this. We've been playing volleyball with a group of friends from work for the past few months. We go to Barnes Park about once a week and play for a few hours. It's a really good time. We are thankful for all these new friendships we have built :-) Thanks Verizon!

Mia and Moosey's House

Thursday was both Landon and my day off. We were going to have my friend Carlye take some pics for us, but the weather wasn't looking so great. So, instead we made a trip to Lowe's and picked up stuff to build a dog house. We have been looking for a dog house for a while now and haven't found one that was cheap enough or built like we want. So, the building began! Landon did most of the beginning work while I kept the dogs company. We almost finished it. We still need to put insulation on the sides, put siding on, and nail the shingles on. We were worried that it wouldn't be big enough for the two large pups, but after both Landon and I were able to sit inside it we figured it was big enough. :-)