Lately!

Please tell me that I am not the only person in the world who wants to buy every single thing that she sees on an info-mercial! I swear for the past few days I have seen more of those dumb commercials than anything and I seriously have to talk myself out of calling and ordering things like the Swivel Sweeper G2, the swingy ab machine (cant remember the name) and even the shake weight! haha it's so pathetic but wow they make those commercials look amazing. I know Alexa and Sean love the "As Seen on TV" things too, so at least I'm not completely alone. I'm pretty intrigued though..so if you have bought or used any of those items, let me know and I will cave. I just need an actual person to confirm that they are as amazing as they are promised to be :)

This past week was a good one. Daniel didn't have classes on Thursday and has been promising forever that we would go to the beach, and he followed through with his promise. We went down the street to a beach we hadn't been to before--right by the Santa Monica Pier. It was beautiful. It was the perfect day for the beach..slight breeze but warm sun, no one around, and no birds :) We fell asleep on the sand and before we knew it, we had to leave and Daniel had to get back to studying. But it was a great few hours! 

Other than that, a few other highlights to our week were:

1. Me buying a plane ticket to go HOME for Halloween weekend! I am so so so excited to see the fam again. It's been like 2 months but I had never been away before so it feels like MUCH longer. I can't wait to see my cute nieces on halloween, I miss them tons. I wish Daniel could come with me, but he's excited for the #2 highlight!

2. Daniel applied and was chosen to go to St Louis for a dental convention Halloween weekend. He's excited to learn more and to have this experience to get him more involved so that Ortho school applications look better :) It seems like there will never be a day that he's not"working on a future application". From high school-->mission-->college-->dental school-->orthodontic school-->ahh. One day we will be done with all that :)

3. We are going to Las Vegas next weekend for an orthodontic convention..and I might go caving with Halie, Ryan, and the Stewart family for a day. Then they might come back to Vegas and play with us! Ryan's parents are nice enough to let us stay at their house. We love the Stewarts!

4. We had a date night last night. Daniel got home around 7 and actually didn't shut himself in our room to study all night! It was amazing! Olive Garden and the 1st Harry Potter movie. haha..I've read 4 of those books in the last 2 weeks and am trying to get Daniel to at least watch the movies. I need a job!!

Thats all folks! We'll keep you posted! :)