Sweet November

I feel so Behind! November must have been the busiest month in the History of Dane and Amy. Today (which is now a few days ago) is the first day I have had to do something completely for me, plus I am home sick so that always helps. Between preparing for the move, Thanksgiving, a funeral, and many opportunities to have fun with our friends and family- we are spent! Let the update begin.

At the beginning of this month we met up with Bryan & Helga, Bubba & Jess for dinner at the Cheesecake Factory in SLC. You would think that since it has been open a whole year now that the wait time wouldn't be too bad. Needless to say they quoted us a 2 to 2 1/2 hour wait time and due to the overwhelming desire to eat only there we actually waited! We had a blast catching up on each others lives while waiting under the heat lamps and loved seeing everyone, it was a treat.

We also filled our autumn days with a tour at an animation studio that one of Dane's best friends works at and had the chance to see the original Jack from 'Nightmare Before Christmas' and Victor from 'Corpse Bride'. It was exciting to see all of the characters he has created come to life for the next movie they are working on as well. Can't wait to see it in the theaters in 2010!  

   I also decided to stayed up one day until 5am preparing to Digitize over 2500- 35mm film strips of photos from my teen years  through about the time Dane and I  got engaged (and also  my college photography classes). This is something that I had been wanting for quite some time now. They are officially Done, Huzzah!

We also had a great time hanging out with our adorable nephews (Can you tell Harrison dressed himself that day?) while  Laura planned her sweet mom's funeral. What a wonderful lady she was, she truly will be missed. We had a sleepover in Midway that included watching a very exciting U of U football game, the best breakfast ever at the Homestead, and some how got talked into going to 'Twighlight' on opening weekend.  

 

 

 

I haven't read the books and as much as I tried to stay away from the teenage vampire mormon written love story, it sucked me in and I found it to be entertaining enough. 

This past weekend we got together again with Dwight, Woody, Sho, & Megumi for a scrumptious waffle breakfast with the works. Megumi and I miss Dwight making us waffles every so often at the old office so we decided a good ole breakfast was in order. Plus it gave Dwight a good reason to use his sweet new Kitchen Aid- Copy cat.  

 

 

   

Our good friend Jen Mo  came into town and we had lunch with our long lost friend Jeff Shew, it was so nice to see them both and we loved every minute of our sushi lunch at my favorite place, Tsunami. Delish!  

  

This was the first year that we did not participate in Black Friday festivities. There were a few reasons for this, #1 Like my last blog entry simply states, if you don't have extra money to spend, don't spend it. Plus what do we really "need"?  #2 We are moving and do I really want to haul more stuff across the country? #3 Dane and I sat down for an hour or so going through the Ads and for a country that is in a recession forcing hundreds of retails stores to go out of business, I expected bigger discounts and better things on sale.  Not Impressed! Hopefully next year will be better.

Whew, that was a lot. This month I vow to blog more frequently as to avoid the information throw up! I also hope to take a real camera around with me verses the low quality cell phone pics and have something more interesting to blog about :)