Nashina's birthday

Mike and I were about to sit down and watch one of the movies that I had picked out from the library when Nashina Jageilski called. Nahina and Nate lived underneath us in Rigby. I felt really bad for them because she and Nate used to comment that they could hear us chasing each other around. At first we were kind of embarrassed about that but now we just smile. (Yes, at the time we were newly, newly weds). I love Nate and Nashina!!! They have come close friends to us and we feel lucky when we are able to do things with them. Anyways, she invited us over to celebrate her birthday. Here are some pictures of our evening.









Isn't that such a cute cake? Nashina's sister Noel made that cake for her. She didn't stay for dessert since they had just come back from Texas Roadhouse and they were stuffed to their gill.

Pumpkin Carving

We went over to our friend Caryn and Ty's house to carve pumpkins.




I had Caryn retake the picture because I wanted to see Mike's face. He was sad because he thought that I didn't want him kissing me at all.




Our final product...


What it looks like in the dark


I made apple pie for dessert. I'm really proud of it. This was the second time that I've ever made apple pie. The first time was just the other day. I tried his mom's recipe because it's the best I've ever had. It turned out great. This fall has been fun for me because I learned how to make peach pie and peach cobbler. I'm not sure what I'm going to learn to make next.

After apple pie we watched a movie that Caryn had picked out from the library. Unfortunately I'm not quite sure what the title was but it was something like Sara Landon's Super Powers. It was kind of cheesy but I admit there were parts that spooked me out. It was mainly the music. I think overall it was a good show due to it being enjoyable. Mike can't say the same since he fell asleep.

I'm really glad that we have Caryn and Ty for friends. They have been really good to us and we have become close over the years.

DR. SLAUGHTERS

Mike and I went to Dr. Slaughters. We had a great time. It was discount night so we decided why not.? We were standing in line and there were gools that would stare and try to intimidate their victims. I told Mike that if I wasn't married to him that I would be tempted to kiss him to see how he would react. You've got to understand that he would get up close and personal. He was so close that it was uncomfortable. Mike dared me to go ahead... The next time he got in my bubble I decided to touch him in near his nose under his eyes. He still didn't do anything but continued to stare. I thought that it was kind of funny and couldn't help but to laugh. Everyone in the place was laughing.

We happened to see my little sister Michelle there and we had a great time scaring her. She was ahead of us and hadn't noticed us. When she was in reach, Mike came up from behind her and grabbed her covering her eyes. She totally freaked out.

Dr. Slaughters itself wasn't as scary as I had expected. It was still fun and was glad that Mike and I were able to go out and doing something together.

The celebration

We were all excited for Saturday. The reason why everyone came together for this weekend was coming to pass. The day started out by receiving a phone call from my good friend Amelia saying that our old roommate came down from Lyman, Wyoming to visit. Ashlee was my roommate my first year in college in 2002. It's been at least 4 years since I've seen or heard from her. She just came back from her mission about 1 month ago. She came down with another good friend Laurel. Laurel was never my roommate but we did quite a bit together.



Right after the girls left, Mike, Wyatt, and I went to a movie at Edwards. (Edwards increased their prices...that will be the last time we go to the movies for some time). It was Wyatt's birthday treat. We saw the city of Ember. I thought it was good, not quite a waste of money, but it could have been better.

We had a wonderful birthday party for Wyatt and our niece Maya. Maya turned 4 and it was such a joy to watch her. During this time, we relaxed or did some last minute things before going over to Jodi and Troy's new home.

At Jodi and Troy's we ate dinner, took pictures, and watched some cute skits about Grandpa and Grandma. This get together was to celebrate Grandma and Grandpa's 60th wedding anniversary. For their gift, all of their kids and grandkids made some scrapbooks pages and then they were all compiled together. This was a great hit. Grandma and Grandpa kept saying how wonderful it was and they became a little teary eyed.

The WEENY Roast

Mike's family came up for the weekend to celebrate their grandparent's 60th wedding anniversary. We went over to his grandparent's house to have a weenie roast. Yes, it was a costume party. Earlier in the day, Mike and I spent hours deciding what we were going to do.

There were a lot of creative costumes. I love how the women dressed up as men and the men dressed up as old women. I wish I would have gotten better pictures. Wyatt entertained doing the dunken donuts contest. I'm not quite sure who won but we all had an enjoyable time.



One thing I forgot to mention...During the afternoon, we had a wonderful hay ride given by Grandpa. We went all around the farm with tour guide Wyatt.

After the weeny roast, Greg put together an adventure for the kids. We were able to go for yet another SMOOTH hay ride. This time we were nervous since the lights on El Bumpo (the truck) lights weren't working. This didn't stop Grandpa. He was all ready to go. Mike and Bryant came to the rescue. Luckily, Bryant had his police flashlight and Mike was willing to shine it in front of the truck. The kids were able to get their treasure and make it back alive.

Feeling proud

I'm feeling kind of proud of our food storage. It's taken a long time to get it to this point with a lot of planning, budgeting, and organizing.

Oh no! I lost my phone!

I decided that I would go for a bike ride on a Saturday when Mike was at work. I went on the intention of only being gone for maybe 10-20 minutes. Well I started out going over towards Shopko, Home Depot, and Family Dollar area that is off of Holmes. Then I took 25th St. all the way down to Hitt. I made a few stops on the way to either wait for traffic or to adjust my clothing in a secluded area (like taking off my sweatshirt). i cut through Big Lots parking lot and then went over to the mall. Afterward, I took the back roads home. Right when I was about to put my bike away I noticed that my phone was not with me. Being frantic, I looked all through the house. Finally I got smart and asked the neighbor if I could use his phone to call my own phone. Unfortunately, I found out that it was not inside the house. I retraced my tracks. I didn't realize the long bike ride I went on until I rode it two -three time in search of my 4 year old phone. After not having any luck on bike; I went in my car. When Mike came home, he came with me and still we didn't have any luck. Mike described my bike ride like someone on a cartoon tracing their tracks on a map with little footsteps.

I was about ready to go to Verizon to get another phone when Mike comes back from work saying that my mother had called to say that the police department had called saying they believe they had my phone. I should have been grateful for this citizen for turning it in but instead I felt anger towards this person. First of all, I sent text messages stating that if the phone is found that they need to call Mike's number. My phone is programmed to show the text messages before anything else can be done. Obviously someone got inside to get my mother's number. Second, someone couldn't have turned it in the day it was found. It had to be turned in several days later. But, now that the whole situation is over, I'm grateful to have my phone back. I love my phone although it is quite old. I'll most likely still be using it until the day it completely dies.