November Shenanigans

Taylor is always studying.  

He had to practice his life saving skills on a few people.  My Mom was an excellent actress.

We had fun going to a wedding with my Mom and Dad.

For a while, Tannin's favorite spot (her hammock) kept falling.

But she's nothing if not flexible.

I mean literally....

I had fun eating lunch with my Mom and Dad.  

Then I went with my Dad to the chiropractor to start some laser treatments on my head.

We now park a block and a half away from work.

It's a pretty steep incline.

It's pretty to walk around....as long as I have a coat and scarf!

Pierre joined the family water bubble.

All those colors!  He moves so fast!

His teal, French mustache.  The reason he's neared Pierre.

Hey there, 'stache-face!

Tannin wanted to say hello....and then tried to eat Pierre's plant (or maybe Pierre...). We hope never to find out.

But at least I was smart enough to put my hand over the tank so she couldn't go for a swim.

Starting to decorate for Thanksgiving!

And we put up our new picture too.

Halloween

For Halloween, Taylor and I we dressed up as Aloha Barbie and Surfer Ken.

For work, all the infusion RNs dressed up as dominoes.

And for the record, there is such a thing as a 9 dotted domino.

Then we went and celebrated DeMarie's birthday.

Reenacting childhood rivalries on the Playstation.

Since the week of Halloween was so hot, our pumpkins didn't last.

You can especially tell the pumpkin on the right is melting.

2 froggies joined the Drake Party

Salt (on the left) and Pepper

Grandma Lynn crocheted us a blanket.

And to stay in shape, Tannin has been doing push ups...

Sorta...

Drake Days

It was a rough week at work, but I got a lot of things done, so I didn't have to worry about work things while at home.

I've been going to more physical therapy for my neck and face.

They keep it dark in the room because many of the patients have migraines.  You lay there with a cold pack on the back of your lower head and neck and lay on a hot pack that goes along your back.  I also had a hot pack around my chin and jaw.

Got a toothache fixed Thursday.

I hate having a numb face for so long afterwards.

After that, we quickly ran over to Murray for a couple pic.

It was a weird day because I was half numb on one side of my face, and Taylor had bad lactose sickness.  But the pics turned out cute!

That night we found a hobo spider on Taylor's pillow as we were going to bed...

Nope!  Didn't sleep well.

And on Friday morning little Bubba (Bubbles!) died.  Sad.  But thus is the life of a fishy...Short.

After work on Friday I went down to SoJo to make a Halloween craft with Michelle, Lorien, Vanella, and DeMarie.

My back hurt so bad all last week, so while in SoJo, I picked up an electric stem from my Dad, and   used it right after  I came home from the craft night.

I put it on right when I got home and laid on the floor with my many pillows under and between my legs.

We did another tour of the SLC Cemetery on Saturday.  We found some new saints.

First female doctor in Utah.

Taylor telling stories.

It looked like fall but felt like summer.

Elijah Abel, first African American to receive the priesthood (and directly from Joseph Smith).  He also served missions, became an Elder, and was a Seventy.  His grave was next to N. Eldon Tanner's.  I'm sure they're good friends now.

Found the marker that commemorates the first saint to die in the valley (3 days after reaching it).

We made some pizza with 2 different fake cheeses we found.

Daiya and SoySation

The expensive cheese (left) we were told was best, but it was actually pretty gross.  Yay for the cheaper "cheese" being our favorite!

Carved us some pumpkins Saturday night.

It was my first time actually following a pattern!

Sunday we sprayed for bugs with Seth's help from far away via phone.

And found (Taylor teased) 4 more hobos.

Got our apartment ready for Halloween.

Ghost lights.  I don't know why this pictures keeps turning sideways....spooky!

Window Celebrations!

Drake Daily

Tannin has a new present to keep her exercising during the cold months.

Climbing wall!  With a window. 

She loves being able to watch us all the time....she's a stalker like her dad.

She went on her last walk of the year through the leaves with us.

Not quite camouflaged.

Taylor was off all last week and was able to shadow a maxillofacial surgeon.  He loved it!

I only had to go into work for 1.5 days....but it was super stressful.  So that wasn't very fun.  I interviewed some RNs and just had a lot of schedule/managing stuff to get done.

We also had Drake family pictures up in the mountains.  We looked hot.  What can we say?

On Saturday then we worked on our Halloween costumes.  

We can't tell you what they are, for surprise purposes, but here are some leaked photos:

Also, when I do my physical therapy exercises for my face, Taylor always makes fun of me...but this one is easy to make fun of:

I'm a Who! (a.k.a, what I would have looked like without braces)...thank you mom and dad!

I need to put a tube in-between my upper lip and teeth for a few minutes every morning and evening.