Halloween Party

This weekend we had our first Halloween Party! I have been craving caramel apples and my roomate wanted to make black pea soup and put it in bread bowls that look like pumpkins. We put both of our fabulous ideas together and made a party out of it! We made the best looking caramel apples you have ever seen. When I say that, I am being slightly sarcastic. My friend Ryne couldn't get the caramel to stick very well so he decided to put chocolate on the top of it. Hopefully it tasted good - even if it didn't look that great. We ended the night by watching an older movie that starred Don Knotts. My roomate and I were cracking up the entire time. I guess we have the same cheesy sense of humor. :)

Oh hey, I forgot to tell my big news! I interviewed with Thanksgiving Point for an internship and they offered me the position in the interview! I'm attributing this success to my fabulous MCOM class that taught me good interviewing skills. :)

This is a pictures of our caramel apples. They didn't look great but sure tasted good! The bread bowls were also pretty exciting. I felt truly festive.

Adventures in Saint George

This picture is when some girls and I went down to Saint George for the Huntsman World Senior Games! We went down there to help out with the health testing, particularly the eye testing. This was a very fun adventure partly because old people are hilarious and the girls I went down with were great! We were in Saint George for two days and stayed in a huge mansion owned by a Japanese family. The family was super nice and kept on feeding us even when we were not hungry. My most memorable stories come from the athletes who were still going strong even at 90 years old. My favorite were the two little old ladies who came to my station. One of them was 90 years old and doing a 5k the next day. I told her I was impressed she was still going strong and she looked at me very seriously and said "she was sitting on her butt now and would probably be sitting on her butt after the race." Ha, ha, she gave me a few laughs. Another favorite was the older lady who was also probably 90 years old as well and had her hair in pigtails. She was blind as a bat but insisted she wanted to take the eye exam without her glasses. I'm not entirely sure what she was trying to prove because she couldn't see any of the letters and essentially failed the test. She was one of the more feisty ones. That about sums up all the funny stories besides the cute old men who kept on winking at me or the people who would curse because they could not read the letters. Needless to say, our trip was really fun and left me with some great memories!

We found an old telephone booth and got so excited and just had to take a picture in it. The picture on the right is the fantastic house we stayed in. It had Harry Potter rooms which also made it quite epic.

This is a fantastic fan in the fantastic house. We were feeling particularly picture happy and decided to express our excitement in cheerleader fashion.

Making New Friends

The story this week is really great. Today in MCOM, Shayne gave us a weekend assignment. We were assigned to meet a stranger and offer to buy something for them. Sounds awkward right? I'm not entirely sure the purpose of this assignment besides just testing our ability to make an awkward situation non-awkward. The last piece of advice Shayne gave us was to find the hottest guy/girl on campus and offer to buy them dinner in order to complete the assignment. Match made in Heaven right? Now, that actually would be a great story if it worked out. Well, I for sure did not meet my soul mate but I did make his night. We were in line at Wal-Mart and I decided it would be a great idea to ask the cashier if I could buy him something. It worked out perfectly. He asked me where I was going to school which of course was a perfect segway for the assignment. I told him about the assignment and then asked if I could buy me something. He stared blankly at me for a couple of seconds and then said, "seriously?"... wait you are legitly serious?." I told him, yes I was legitly serious. So I bought him a mountain dew and made his night as well as the lady behind me who seemed to find the situation quite amusing. Well, that's all I got for my fantastic story this week. I would have included a picture but felt that taking a picture of the cashier and I would have seemed slightly creepy so...no picture this time! I am deeply sorry but felt the story made up for the lack of visual imagery in this blog.

Conferenc con't

So this fun event happened Conference weekend too! The girls decided they needed to take a bath so they started filling up the bath all by themselves. We decided since they were being so proactive about being clean to just let them run with it. This is the aftermath and they are still so happy.

Conference

Well, lets talk about Conference weekend shall we? This was my chair for Conference and Ashlyn felt the need to share it with me. I guess I had a little room to spare. I decided this was a moment that could not be lost so we took a picture. It took quite a bit of effort to get her to smile. Ryan was making crazy faces at her so that would be why she is not looking at the camera. I guess Ashlyn is the star of the weekend cause I have a lot of pictures of her. Funny story. We made cookies and she was obsessed with the cookie dough so she walked around with the whisk in her hand and licked it all clean. She then threw it on the ground and held out her hand for more. Being the wonderful, responsible aunt that I am, I of course gave her another whisk to chew more cookie dough! My secret is to use food to make my nieces love me. So far it is working quite well.

Kids are Cute

I wish I could say that I was related to one of these cute kids but I'm not. I was on Facebook the other day just browsing my news feed and this photo came up. I thought it was so hilarious I downloaded it and well, now I'm blogging about it. This week had been fairly intense with school, work, and some personal issues, and sometimes its fun to just forget about all the stressful things in life and laugh. I just watched Conference and one of the most exciting news was that they are building a new Temple in Provo, UT! I try to go to the temple once a week so it was so exciting to hear that they are building another one. The Provo temple is usually extremely busy and you have to schedule a couple hours to go there so the news of another temple is very welcome. So I just realized that this picture is probably not the best image to have while talking about the temple but I'll keep it anyways. Well, that's about all I have so talk to you later!