The huanting

I hate being scared. I get scared VERY easily too. I don't understand why anyone would want to pay to be scared...however I did just that a few days ago. Some friends of ours were going to a haunted house up in Salt Lake. Brandon really likes haunted houses and scary movies so he really wanted to go. I did not, but he convinced me to go. He said we would be going to Nightmare on 13th, which was voted one of the best haunted houses in the country. That means that it's pretty scary though! They wouldn't give an award to a lame haunted house! So we made the trek up to Salt Lake....

I didn't even want to get out of the car. I was already scared. I was so nervous that I felt like I was going to throw up.


This was the first thing we saw....he is just supposed to walk around and creep people out. Well, he earned his paycheck that night because I cried when he came near me. He didn't even sneak up or anything, just that fact that he got so close to me scared the life out of me.

Once we got inside, I just held onto Brandon as if my life depended on it. It wasn't too bad inside, I didn't cry at all! It was based off scary movies like The Exorcist, It, Friday the 13th, The Ring, The Grudge, etc. I was scared quite a few times, but I liked that there were other people in front of us so that they got scared first and I knew what was coming! All in all, I survived and I will never go it again!

Birthday Time!

So we both recently celebrated our 24th birthdays (Bran on Sep. 11 and mine on Sep. 27). We didn't really do anything spectacular for our birthdays, but they were relaxing (at least for me). I used to be really excited for my birthday, but as I get older, it seems like birthdays are more frequent! And besides, when you're old, no one else really cares about your birthday like when you were a kid.Before our birthday's, we decided not to get each other anything because there are other things that our money needs to go towards. My Mom got Brandon this really cool fruit basket from Edible Arrangements that was perfect! He can be such a health nut, so this was awesome. I forgot to take pictures of it before we started eating it, so there are some bare spots in our fruit bouquet.

For my birthday however, Brandon broke the rule of not buying anything and got me a new plant! It's an Anthurium, but I think that is the general type of plant, I think there is a specific name for this plant, I'm just not sure what it is! So here are some pictures of me with the new plant...I love how it has pink blooms!

And here I am with my 3 children. If you'll recall from our February post, we had 3 plants then too, but one of them died a few months ago:( So this is my replacement "child".

Also, my Mom sent me a few things for my birthday and this was one of them. It was a tin full of Mrs. Field's cookies! They were super yummy! I kept it at school and when I was feeling stressed, I had cookies to rescue me! (Disclaimer: I normally do not condone emotional eating.)