**Look What I Did**

I attempted this year to add a little baking to the holidays and anyone who knows me knows that I am not the best baker because I hold zero patience when it comes to waiting, this my friends is why I stick to cooking cause that is easy. So it took me four attempts to get these caramels just right but I was determined and I did and they are fantastic. I will be making more of them soon. I also made fudge and that was really easy I was surprised because I thought that would be a lot harder. I took these lovely treats to a family party and they were a hit so that is always a good sign.

*A Little Update*

It has been awhile since you last heard from me (if anyone is even reading this) So I thought that I would let you all know what is going on.

Jeff started a new job a little over a month ago and we could not be more excited that he has a job. We made it through the 4 months of no job and it is good to be back on board. He is working a night audit job at Marriot and he has also taken on helping coach the sophomore basketball team at Murray. He is way excited about that he loves it. He is very busy with all of that and school and so we rarely get to see each other but we know that this is just a right now thing and soon he will be done with school and hopefully get a different job at that time that he loves.

As for me I am just doing work and school and keeping myself busy while I dont have a husband around. There is not a whole lot going on with me.

A couple weekends ago Jeff surprised me with a night downtown at the Marriot and so we had a little date night. We went to dinner at Ruby River (Love It!!) and then we walked around Gateway for a little while until our movie started. We saw Blind Side and WE LOVED IT!!!

We also went to see the Festival of Trees with some friends and it was great because I like to see all of the different types of decorating and the crazy things that people think of. The best part was hearing Mariannes comments, she cracks me up!!

Last weekend we went to a christmas party and Bert and Ambers beautiful new house. It was a lot of fun we did white elephant gifts, ate yummy food and played some really fun games.

My most recent activity was the christmas concert and I do have pictures but I am writing this at work so I dont have my camera with me. We went with Chandee and Hyrum and it was such a great concert the music was great and the dancing was a little funny but I really liked it a lot. I heard from others that the Sunday concert was by far the best because of the great gifts that were given to the performers and just the emotion that you felt there. That would have been great to see but Saturday was great.

Now it is time for Christmas and I am being honest I am so not ready. I think that this year has just gone by so fast that my mind does not realize that it is Christmas so I just bought my decorations last night, which is sad because normally I am on top of it and ready to decorate right when Thanksgiving is over. I have realized that I am not going to get everything done and I need to just be in the moment for this Holiday and not worry or stress about things that I can not change. This whole post might be all over the place but I have a lot of things on my mind and so it is hard to put it all together. So I hope you can understand it at least a little.