Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! I am grateful for all of you and you are counted in my blessings!

Count your blessings...

Alright here it is. My thankful list.
1.My husband and daughter and whoever else is to come....;)
2.My testimony and being sealed to my family including Alan who has already passed
3. Siblings and extended family
4.Good health
5.Great Friends..and I mean GREAT
6.George's job and our health insurance
7.Our Jeep
8.Entertainment- Concerts, movies, dinner, bowling...etc
9.Our Internet, Direct TV and Cell phones....what would I do without them?
10.shopping...superficial I know but it does make me all giddy inside :)

I am sure there is so much more I could name. I am grateful for all the blessings in my life. Heavenly Father has given us so much!

Good Times Good Times....

This has been a great week for us. Here is the run down:

Yesterday was fun and sad all wrapped up in the same day. In the morning we went up to suncrest to get some family pictures. I felt like it was impossible to get one shot. Either George wasn't smiling or Tati was yelling. I don't know how big family manage to take family pictures. It was truly exhausting but I feel like we got a few which you will see on our Christmas cards. Which you won't get if you don't email me your address at Tupoufamily@gmail.com. I need every one's please. If you are on my blog...send it!
Then we went to the Utah/ BYU game. I have never been so excited as when Austin ran 80 yards in the beginning. I have been to so many games but never that excited. Personally I like Utah as well. My friends go there and if I finish school EVER, chances are I will end up there. I have always love BYU too. But as we arrived to the game I saw a girl, who I actually recognized from Crossing wearing a horrible shirt that said profanities that equaled screw BYU. I was so mad. I thought it was so trashy. Anyways from then I REALLY REALLY wanted BYU to win. When they lost I was incredibly sad and can only hold on to the hope of next year. Now my voice is gone and my throat is sore.
Also Friday I went to Twilight which was so CHEESY. It has horrible acting and I thought it was a big let down. Basically it is just a lot of eye blinking from one character to another.
Thursday we went to the Carrie Underwood concert which was AWESOME. I dared George to take off his shirt and wave it around which he did for the entire concert. It was hilarious. Carrie, which those of us close to her like to call her, was so great. She really put on a good concert. You get the feeling she is genuinely a good person.
Well that was most of our week. We had fun!

Carrie Underwood here we come!

Tonight we are going to the Carrie Underwood concert. Since this is my second concert some might say I am a pro. But basically, I am just spoiled since my sister treated me to both. We are going to have a blast!!! Thank you Josie for watching our little monster while we are there!

Halloween Baby!

So much fun this Halloween! Here are some pics of all the excitement.

Here Snow White is running wild. She looked so cute.
So much running made the little princess sleepy.

This year was George's first year carving pumkins. (His was the little one. LOL)

I can't resist that smile!
My sister and I went to Witch-a-palooza which was a blast. We decided to make it a yearly deal.
She is like the dark haired Shirley Temple. Now she just needs to learn to act, dance and bring in some money for us. JK

This weekend we are watching my sister's kids in Draper while they are in New York. Tati gets so spoiled with attention by them that she absolutely loves it. The minute we come up the mountain to there house she starts screaming with excitement and kicking her legs and pumping her little fists. She is so lucky to have great cousins who adore her!

Ten Random Thoughts

When Tatiana was born George was so excited carrying her through the hospital halls he asked all the nurses advice for a new father and one nurse replied,"wipe front to back"

Tatiana is obsessed with spanking butts. She will follow me through the whole house spanking me and laughing her head off. Admittedly, she may have gotten that from me since I am known to give a surprise spank from time to time.

Our house has radiant heat in the walls. This is the first time I have ever experienced it and I love it. It heats up way fast and stays after you turn it off.

I have been a crossing guard for a year. This is just random to me. I love it.

I wore a hat almost everyday last week. Thanks to Burlington Coat Factory I bought a bunch of cute ones for all about five bucks a pop.

I have never met George's parents in real life. In fact, I have only met one sister who is the only one who lives in America. Only phone calls and emails. Thank goodness for technology.

George HATED football when we first met. He referred to it as "lazy man's footy". I thought it was nice since I didn't adore football. Then my family brainwashed him and now it is at the top of his obsession list.

One of my hobbies is creating playlists with new music but I never have the patience to actually listen to a full song.

I played soccer my whole life through high school. I played on a traveling competitive teams and for schools. I haven't played in TEN YEARS! sad...

I can't drink out of the same cup as anyone. ANYONE. not George, Tati or anyone. YUCK!

A NEW TODAY

I realized yesterday would be a day that would be remembered in my children's textbooks and their children's. I wanted to remember exactly how I felt when they announced Barack Obama would be the next president of the United States of America. There are two reasons to celebrate Obama as president.
First,I am excited to have Obama as the next president because I think he is a good man. I think he values families and has similar beliefs as I. I think he wants to change America for the better. I think he will initiate changes that have been long over due. I believe he will help the economy, get health care together, and bring our soldiers home. Mostly, I belief that Obama loves America and will do what he thinks is best for our country, which is all we can ask from a president.
Second, I am proud to live in a country that has forgiven it's past. I am proud to have an African American president. Not so long ago, perhaps in my mother's lifetime, I could have never married my husband. Us being two different races would have made togetherness impossible. I was lucky to grow up in an area of California where I never witnessed racism. I thought it only existed in the most southern parts of Alabama or Kentucky or some extreme confederate state. As I grew up and lived in different parts of the country I realized racism is alive and well through out all parts of the world. As my daughter was born I worried about any trials she would go through because of being what I like to call a "mixed plate". I notice the looks I sometimes get when I am with my husband and I hope those looks are gone by the time by daughter can notice them. I am filled with patriotism to have the figure head of the country as a symbol that anything is possible and America is the place dreams come true.
God bless Barack Obama and how he commands this country!
God bless the United States of America!